Conveying it as being tradition, and the police where deceived as being bribe-able just like society. This gives a new ‘measurement’ of crime as being ok, for instance the probation law in the 1920’s was there to put a ban on alcohol where the consumer i. e. me and maybe you wanted to drink, but the government wouldn’t allow this, so it was a big opening for crime to be put into action, but this ban really wasn’t successful, so it was lifted because of people drinking illegally and the money lost from taxation of this.
The main conventions are always there but, technology changes and so does society, but the foundation is always there for instance in the early 20’s gangsters would be robbing Banks hijacking Trains. But today you see gangsters using supply and demands as an issue of their regime. Drugs, today the gangster move is about drugs. I mean comparing ‘Once Upon A Time In America’ to ‘Good Fellas’ both played by ‘Robert De Nero’ one of the all time greats of gangsters, by looking at the different areas they with hold, ‘Once Upon A Time In America’ was based around the early 20’s and ‘Good Fellas’ based around the late 70’s.
‘Once Upon A Time In America’ started off and finished as crime by gangsters being function-zed around robbery’s. While ‘Good Fellas’ wouldn’t be to complexes to be compared by itself, it starts off from the same principle but then ‘Henry Hill’ introduces the element of drugs, where you can tell there is two clear cut barriers between crime. Henry Hill was never influenced but his pears but told to go the other way, but now drugs have revolutionized gangster films and gangster culture.
Gangsters in gangster films, have often been cradled by their wife or girlfriend who embeds the audience affection for him, ‘Good Fellas’ again is a good re-presentation of gangsters, but takes a different interpretation of 70’s gangster era, in this film it was very acceptable for the gangster to be living larger then life having 3 women which has been referred to another gangster film ‘new jack city’ which is a very recent film made in the 90’s ‘every man needs 3 women, a wife a mistress and a hoe’
Films sometimes try to take genre into a different wave length, for instance ‘The God Father’ reworked this genre by using the flamboyant use of colour, and magical camera angle movement, which was enjoyed by musical fans but hated by none. It gave a sensational side to gangsters and gangster films, not just the early documentary type of filming.
Another example of this is Quinton Tarentino also reworked the gangster genre in ‘Dusk Till Down’ when starting off as a violent gangster film with George Clooney, and then reforming this into a horror film, as I have said gangster genre has been taken though many experimental aspects, which might be accepted by ‘Tarentino’ film lovers which can be said is a totally different genre altogether.
But people go to watch a film to see the same principle. I mean going to watch a Disney animated film people don’t accept to see a sad ending where the rabbit is shot and killed, and his fear is sold, so ganger films most of the time do have the said base structure.
