between 1945 and 1955. It follows the Sicilian family headed by Vito Corleone who is played by Marlon Brando; Corleone is also the godfather or head of the Corleone Crime Family. Coppola’s film is not the first big screen version of a gangster film: Scarface (1933)‚ The Public Enemy (1931)‚ and Little Caesar (1931) are all pre-production code gangster films‚ but American Movie Classics’ Tim Dirks believes The Godfather “reinvented the gangster genre” (Dirks). Still‚ The Godfather’s has many similarities
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Kafauver hearings‚ with the exception of Scarface (1932)‚ the majority of gangster films featured mobsters that were removed from any Mafia and did not tend to contain Italian characters. After the hearings‚ the genra has become narrower; mainly associating with Italian Mafiosos. Hollywood represents gangsters a dressed in tailored suits‚ violent‚ and traditional Italian. Before the enforcement of the Motion Picture Production Code in 1934‚ movies like Scarface were scrutinized for their excessive
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eventually join a gang where he was mentored by Johnny Torrio who built the Chicago Outfit. Capone was introduced to Frankie Yale by Torrio and would be hired by Yale to work as a bartender at the Harvard Inn on Coney Island. There he earned the name “Scarface” after being slashed by the brother of a woman he made an indecent remark upon. He would go on to be called “Snorky” by his friends which is slang for elegant. Al Capone would eventually marry Mae Coughlin
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recruited members More than 200 people were lynched by the klan 1920 People started to pay money to see sporting event Athletes became famous‚ treated as celebrities CHAPTER 20 From Business Culture to the Great Depression: The Twenties‚ 1920–1932 The trial and execution of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti represented what them of twenties America? What did Calvin Coolidge believe was the chief business of the American people? The backbone of economic growth during the 1920s
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Dome Scandal {1921}-A Harding Scandal- Gov`t Oil leasing National Origins(Immigration) Act sets 2% quotas for immigration; KKK membership reaches 5 million Scopes Trial –Evolution‚ Tennessee Model T Ford drops to cost $290 (3 months wages) “Scarface” Al Capone begins 6 years of gang warfare Nellie Tayloe Ross elected Governor of Wyoming‚ First woman governor of a U.S. State US troops occupy Nicaragua Lindbergh’s first solo flight across the Atlantic; Sacco and Vanzetti executed; Babe
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How has the "American Dream" been translated into popular film? Refer to at least four films. The American Dream is an often mentioned and well-known term used to describe the ideology of the United States of America. Despite the common usage of the term it is not always completely understood and so requires‚ at least‚ a brief introduction and definition. P Mueller in his writing Star Trek and the American Dream claims that " to some the American dream is just "from rags to riches"‚ to others
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Did you know in the 1920’s two hundred and twenty seven gangsters were killed in the space of four years in Chicago(Chamernik‚ Mike). The period of Prohibition was very important part of America’s history . During Prohibition there was the mafia and their notorious characters such as Al Capone and the young Federal Bureau of Investigation. In the 1920’s during the period of prohibition a new kind of Gangsters came about which specialized in illegally transportation and selling of alcohol. Prohibition
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Media genres are a reflection of society. Film noir is a movie that conveys a mood of pessimism‚ fatalism‚ menace and cynical characters. French critics used it to describe American thriller or detective films in the 1940s. The term literally means ‘Black Film’ and features extremely negative themes. Fedora hats‚ trench coats and nighttime make up some of the distinguishing features of film noir. Film Noir of this era is associated with low-key black and white visual styles that have roots in
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Glen Debello LA 182 OL2: Genres in Film Denah Johnston 01 Aug 2014 Genre Cycle via Film Noir Film Noir was an American movement that defined its own style of characters‚ settings and plots. This could have only been brought on by the tumultuous post World War II society. Directors were able to establish a counterpart to the leading man with a seductive and cynical femme fatale. Dark‚ smoky atmospheres that barely showed the characters as they were committing or organizing a violent crime. Film Noir
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Pete Nguyen Mr. Wicker English 3‚ 4 5/24/13 Title: Scarface‚ The Great Gatsby and the American Dream Author(s): Marilyn Roberts Source: Roberts‚ Marilyn. "Scarface‚ The Great Gatsby and the American Dream." Literature/Film Quarterly 34.1 (2006): 71-78. Rpt. in Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. Vol. 210. Detroit: Gale‚ 2009. Literature Resource Center. Web. 28 May 2013. In Marilyn Roberts’ criticism of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby she compares the main character Jay Gatsby to
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