Introduction Draft:
For my research investigation I have decided to discus what
extent the films ‘The Warriors’ and ‘A Bronx Tale’ present different extremes of representations of gang culture. My aims
of my investigation will be to discover how the films glamorises violence and
make realistic/unrealistic situations on
locations. By applying the uses and gratifications theory I will identify why
they make gangster films aesthetically pleasing to an audience i shall also be looking at the representation of the gang culture.
Both films are set in different time period's A Bronx Tale is set in the 1960's where as The Warriors is set in the future. I will be discussing the social and political issues within the films to show the different extremes. A Bronx Tale is set 1960's and is about American/ Italian culture narrated by Calogero (Lillo Brancato) showing how he is stuck in the middle of parting with his fathers up bringing and get an underpaid job and part with crime to receive riches and respect to follow his hero Sunny. This film shows the confrontations and social issues that went on in the 60's including racial and political whereas the film The Warriors is set in the future and the crime ratings has developed and taken over parts of America this film lies in the fantasy genre. This film shows how area's in the states are broken up into gangs and no one will pass each others land. This is Cyrus the leader of a most powerful gang in New York want's all the gangs to join as one to defeat the law and police and live the life as a gang eat gang world. Both films are shot in different time periods which clearly shows the extreme's from the 60's and a local gang to the future with gathering gang leader to get 60'000 'soldiers' to defeat the laws. A Bronx Tale follows a childhood of Calogero in his town admiring his hero to which befriends him to join him breaking laws and crimes , A Bronx Tale is more realistic to the matter of gang culture in the time but because The Warriors was just set in the 'future' we have no time period or social issues to back up the representation of the gang culture in that day and age but we can compare and contrast the difference in the exaggerations of numbers, crimes, positioning. How has the gang genre became something so little to so high? What do the character socially stand for? The Warriors lies under a hybrid genre as although it has elements of gangster conventions it also plays with fantasy this film also plays with hyperbole making the issues appear worse then they are and exaggerated on the issues which appear in the film. A Bronx Tale shows a calmer way of the gangster genre this may be because we don't know when The Warriors is set but a time difference is defiantly shown through mise-en-scene and low and high key lighting. We can see a clear differentiation in the realistic situation that happen in both film what is real and what is fantasy.
Both films are set in different time period's A Bronx Tale is set in the 1960's where as The Warriors is set in the future. I will be discussing the social and political issues within the films to show the different extremes. A Bronx Tale is set 1960's and is about American/ Italian culture narrated by Calogero (Lillo Brancato) showing how he is stuck in the middle of parting with his fathers up bringing and get an underpaid job and part with crime to receive riches and respect to follow his hero Sunny. This film shows the confrontations and social issues that went on in the 60's including racial and political whereas the film The Warriors is set in the future and the crime ratings has developed and taken over parts of America this film lies in the fantasy genre. This film shows how area's in the states are broken up into gangs and no one will pass each others land. This is Cyrus the leader of a most powerful gang in New York want's all the gangs to join as one to defeat the law and police and live the life as a gang eat gang world. Both films are shot in different time periods which clearly shows the extreme's from the 60's and a local gang to the future with gathering gang leader to get 60'000 'soldiers' to defeat the laws. A Bronx Tale follows a childhood of Calogero in his town admiring his hero to which befriends him to join him breaking laws and crimes , A Bronx Tale is more realistic to the matter of gang culture in the time but because The Warriors was just set in the 'future' we have no time period or social issues to back up the representation of the gang culture in that day and age but we can compare and contrast the difference in the exaggerations of numbers, crimes, positioning. How has the gang genre became something so little to so high? What do the character socially stand for? The Warriors lies under a hybrid genre as although it has elements of gangster conventions it also plays with fantasy this film also plays with hyperbole making the issues appear worse then they are and exaggerated on the issues which appear in the film. A Bronx Tale shows a calmer way of the gangster genre this may be because we don't know when The Warriors is set but a time difference is defiantly shown through mise-en-scene and low and high key lighting. We can see a clear differentiation in the realistic situation that happen in both film what is real and what is fantasy.
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