Boat Trip

Donnie Brasco

Scarface (the original)

goodfellas

untouchables

corky romano!!!!!!!!!

batman begins/dark knight

the departed

the long good friday
Once upon a time in america
Goodfellas

I've never heard of any of these films

New Jack City

american gangster

My Blue Heaven

Road to Perdition

The plot, taking place during the Great Depression, follows a mob enforcer and his son as they seek vengeance against a mobster who murdered the rest of their family.

but it might not fit with the theme of your paper.

we watched the long good friday two weeks ago in class.
the world needs more bob hoskins.

-k.

Casino
Bugsy
Married to the Mob
Harvey Keitel's filmography

bugsy malone
Miller's crossing

everybody should just do scarface (1983)

or theres American Gangster, about Frank Lucas a real-life gangster from Harlem who smuggled heroin into the United States on American service planes returning from the Vietnam War.

You could also look at blow which is also about drug trafficing.

Not sure if that helps though.

I love Road to Perdition

Lansky

Casino

bullets over broadway

for anyone that's curious these are the other topics



2. Glenn Man suggests that “I believe in America” (I don’t believe in its system of
justice) opens the progressive critique of American society in The Godfather Trilogy.
Discuss this theme in all or one of the films (Be careful NOT to fall into the trap of
simply re-explaining narrative events).

3. Using ONE film as your example text, discuss the representation of ethnicity in the
American gangster film.

4. Using either Brat or The Long Good Friday as your example film, discuss the
construction of ‘national identity’ in your chosen film and how that is reflected in the
main character, their motivation and their actions.
5. Using either Tom Reagan (Miller’s Crossing) or Leon (The Professional) as your main focus, discuss how the specific film/character reinforces the stereotype of the lone gangster (individualistic, ambitious, cruel) or how the film/character critiques the stereotype.
6. Modern American gangster films focus more on individual identity only in sofar as it exists with the collective identity of the Mafia as a coherent group/entity. With reference to ONE film discuss the notion of Mafia as a collective identity in American film.


I'm leaning towards doing the sadism topic on the departed but i'm not sure yet...the focus of the class has been predominately the italian american mafia realm of gangster films...even though the last section is more international but kind of a critical look at how these american stereotypes of the mob have been interpreted/influenced international films

-k.

gangsta booty 3

miller's crossing

Superfly

Analyze This
Analyze That
Carlito's Way
A Bronx Tale

Gah I want to watch Casino but it's like 3 hours...i should probably go get some coffee

-k.

wikipedia says :

* 44 Inch Chest

A

* Aaghaaz
* Aaranya Kaandam
* Ab Tak Chhappan
* The Accidental Gangster and the Mistaken Courtesan
* The Adventures of Pluto Nash
* Ajami (film)
* Algiers (film)
* Alias Flequillo
* All Through the Night (film)
* American Gangster (film)

B

* Bangkok Dangerous (2008 film)
* Le bar du téléphone
* Barrabas (film)
* The Beast of the City
* Billy Bathgate
* A Bittersweet Life
* Blessed Event
* Blood and Bone
* Bonnie and Clyde (film)
* Boogie (2009 film)
* The Boondock Saints
* The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day
* Borsalino (film)
* Breathful
* Brother (1997 film)
* Brother 2
* The Brotherhood (1968 film)
* Bullet in the Head
* Bimmer (film)
* The Business (film)

C

* Circus (2000 film)
* Città violenta
* Classe tous risques
* The Cotton Club (film)

D

* Day of Atonement (film)
* Dead Man Running
* Desperado (film)
* Le deuxième souffle (1966 film)
* Dillinger (1945 film)
* Dillinger (1973 film)
* Dillinger (1991 film)
* Don: The Chase Begins Again
* Le Doulos
* Duel of Fists


E

* Eastern Promises
* Everybody Loves Sunshine

F

* Friend (2001 film)

G

* Gang War
* Gangs of New York
* Gangster (film)
* Gangster No. 1
* The General (1998 film)
* Get Carter
* The Godfather Part III
* Goodfellas

H

* Hare Ram
* Harsh Times
* The Hole in the Wall
* La horde

I

* In Too Deep (film)
* The Irishman (film)
* Is Raat Ki Subah Nahin

J

* Jagadam
* Jerusalema

K

* Killer (1998 film)
* Killer Bitch
* Killing Pablo (film)
* Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye
* The Krays (film)

L

* The Lady in Red (1979 film)
* The Last Days of Frankie the Fly
* Layer Cake (film)
* Little Thieves, Big Thieves
* Loaded (2008 film)
* Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
* The Long Good Friday
* Love That Brute

M

* El Mariachi
* Menace II Society
* Mesrine (1984 film)
* Miracle on 1st Street
* My Wife Is a Gangster 3

N

* Nayagan
* Never Love a Stranger
* New Jack City
* Nicotina
* No Country for Old Men (film)
* No Orchids for Miss Blandish

O

* Once Upon a Time in America


O cont.

* One Evening After the War
* The Outside Man

P

* Pattiyal
* Pépé le Moko
* Point Blank (film)
* Pokiri (2006 film)
* Le Premier Cercle
* A Prophet
* Public Enemies (2009 film)
* Pudhupettai
* Pusher (film)
* Pusher II
* Pusher III
* Pusher trilogy

Q

* Queen of the South (movie)

R

* Reservoir Dogs
* Revolver (film)
* Rififi
* Robin and the 7 Hoods
* RocknRolla
* Rollin' with the Nines

S

* Sarkar (film)
* Scam (film)
* Scarface (1983 film)
* Sexy Beast
* Shottas
* The Show Must Go On (film)
* Sin City (film)
* Sisters (2001 film)
* Smokin' Aces
* Snatch (film)
* Sucker Free City
* Super Fly (film)
* Super Fly T.N.T.

T

* Taaqat (1995 film)
* Teng Nong kon maha hia
* Thalapathi
* Thoonga Nagaram
* Touchez pas au grisbi
* Traffic (film)
* Tribu (2007 film)

V

* Veronica Guerin (film)

W

* War (film)
* While the City Sleeps (1928 film)
* The Winter's Tale (film)

out of those, i'd particularly recommend rififi

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also, a lot of those just feature gangsters peripherally, so it's not a great list

fuck, i'm shocked that i've seen like 80% of those

Beauty and The Beast

rififi is the bomb! - best heist ever
So is get carter, the original and point blank!

rififi is the bomb! - best heist ever
So is get carter, the original and point blank!

Ong Bak

Boondock Saints involves mobs (Italian and Russian), but isn't really a "mafia movie"

ooooh rififi sounds cool...
could you see the sadism topic being applicable to the film?

-k.

re the sadism/comuppance thing, rififi is really more of a heist thing than a mafia culture movie...you gotta quote the mr blonde "stuck in the middle with you" sequence from reservoir dogs in regards to that though

yakuza might be another one you could do it's got national identity and maybe a bit o sadism. I think it was called yakuza at least - it starred bob mitchum

goodfellas is probably the single best example in regards to the theme of your paper topic

robert mitchum was the best!

The year of the dragon was pretty good

Boondock Saints!

favorite movie. :)

a prophet(the french film) and gomorrah(the italian film) are pretty great gangster flicks too

guess it kind of boils down to wether you define it as gangster in the scorsese sense of italian-american/ mafia organized crime or organized crime in general, though


also, i recommend the danish pusher trilogy

some like it hot might do for a little sadism - of sorts

See I was thinking about goodfellas but I was thinking does Ray Liotta really get his comuppance?

Yeah there is his cruelty and the audience still relates to him and roots for him but he doesnt really see him penalized in the traditional sense (ie getting whacked or going to jail)

he kind of gets away with it. he sells out all his friends and doesnt have to go to jail.

i mean there is the retribution for his acts...in the end his ego/ambition leads to his downfall and he gets caught and he loses it all but he still kind of gets away

sure having to live an inconspicuous life in some midwest town is probably boring and his own sort of prison but idk...

maybe its the whole post-godfather/this is based on a true story thing that was kind of going on in the 90s that was supposed to show that these guys arent glamorous...theyre all just animals. looking out for themselves. they are not respectable or role models...theyre just criminals

adjfkdfajd...did i sort of just start to write a paper?...i dont think i did

also a concern - im kind of nervous to do one of the films that we've watched in class/everyone has seen because its that fear that everyone will do the same movie so if my paper sucks it will be more noticeable...

-k.

Gangbanging vol. 12, I watched it for like 2 minutes and I was waiting for some cool gangster violence but all I saw was weiners everywhere... Man,

we watch gomorrah tomorrow...i'm really excited even though i hear the film is very brutal

-k.

Lobster Mobster: Swim with the fishes.

get carter might be what your after. Everyone gets their comeuppance. Just make sure you get the michael caine one and not the sly one. I think there was a blaxploitation version called the hit too