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    The document discusses ideas for a British gangster film, including themes of violence, death, and dark comedy. It proposes an opening sequence where a man is shot in an alley and flashes back on his life as a gangster before dying. While the gangster genre originated in America, the film would adapt conventions to a more British setting using English slang. The gangster film genre first emerged in the early 1900s but became highly popular in the 1930s in America, with British gangster films not appearing until the 1960s after the genre's success in the US.

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    The document discusses ideas for a British gangster film, including themes of violence, death, and dark comedy. It proposes an opening sequence where a man is shot in an alley and flashes back on his life as a gangster before dying. While the gangster genre originated in America, the film would adapt conventions to a more British setting using English slang. The gangster film genre first emerged in the early 1900s but became highly popular in the 1930s in America, with British gangster films not appearing until the 1960s after the genre's success in the US.

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    British Gangster Films

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    The document discusses ideas for a British gangster film, including themes of violence, death, and dark comedy. It proposes an opening sequence where a man is shot in an alley and flashes back on his life as a gangster before dying. While the gangster genre originated in America, the film would adapt conventions to a more British setting using English slang. The gangster film genre first emerged in the early 1900s but became highly popular in the 1930s in America, with British gangster films not appearing until the 1960s after the genre's success in the US.

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    British Gangster Film

    By Mantas Cesnulevicius
    Themes and Ideas
    The themes behind a gangster film are violence, guns, lots of swearing,
    death, and dark comedy. One idea I have for our film is to have a
    man wounded by bullets dropping dead in a dark alley. Then I
    thought we could have some kind of voice over with the man saying
    something like he knew this was going to happen, and a flashback
    showing his gangster life before. Even though the gangster genre
    originated in America, I thought that we should use the same
    conventions but adapt them to a more British setting and style. For
    example, English cockney and British slang.
    Timeline of the Gangster genre
    The first ever significant Gangster film was made in 1912 called The
    Musketeers of Pig Alley, however, the gangster films truly came in
    during the 1930’s and they started to attract people to the theatres.
    However, British gangster films only appeared in 1960’s after the
    gangster genre became really popular in the USA.
    5 Opening sequences

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