2. • Director – Ridley Scott
• Producer - Ridley Scott
• Distributer – universal pictures
• Release date –November 2nd , 2007
• Budget - $100,000,000
• Box office takings - $265,495,454
American Gangster is about Denzel Washington
character who builds up a drugs empire in new
York by smuggling drugs form Vietnam during
the Vietnam war. The character played by
Russell Crowe is a clean cop who helps take
down corrupt police. After putting together a
team of clean police to try and crack down on
the operation.
3. • Director – martin Scorsese
• Producer – Irwin Winkler
• Distributer – Warner bros
• Release date – September 19, 1990
• Budget - $25 million
• Box office takings - $46,836,394
Goodfellas is about a street wise kid who
wanted to be a gangster so he works himself up
the gangster hierarchy. After robbing an airport
they start killing everybody who is involved. At
the end Pesci’s character get killed of by the
mob, De Niro get arrested and Lotta tells the
police about everything and gets into the
witness protection program.
4. • Director – Francis Ford Coppola
• Producer – Albert S Ruddy
• Distributer – Paramount pictures
• Release date – March 15th , 1972
• Budget - $6.5 million
• Box office takings - $268,500,000
The film follows the life of a New York mafia family.
Because the don doesn’t give protection for exchange
for drug money to Virgil Sollozzo, this brings an
attempt on Don corleone’s life which almost gets him
killed. After this the dons son Michael who isn’t in
the family starts a mob war against Sollozzo.
5. Why I like this genre
Stars – The big named star such as Al Pacino and Robert de Nero attract
me to watch these films because these are good actors and you know that
films with them in are going to be good.
Story – I think that the story in crime film
are a big reason why I like this genre
because the script and screenplay are well
written they turn out being great films.
6. How I found out about these
films
Word of mouth- With good and successful films people will talking about
the film and suggest that you watch it.
Film trailer & advertising - With film adverts all over the TV ,internet and
social networking , when you see them and you want to watch them.
