To plan for our thriller we decided to look at a few case studies to familiarise ourselves with the thriller genre and how the genre is established in films. Here is my case study on the gangster thriller 'Once Upon a Time in America'.
Indicating effective independent research into the auteur style of Sergio Leoni and into aspects of the classic period of film noir.
Your analysis is intelligent, articulate and succinct, but your ideas could have been further developed with more references to film noir sub genre films; the use of enigma and the transition from the killing of Eve to the beating up of Fat Mo in the following sequence. In this way Sergio Leone strongly establishes the thriller credentials of the film.
Indicating effective independent research into the auteur style of Sergio Leoni and into aspects of the classic period of film noir.
ReplyDeleteYour analysis is intelligent, articulate and succinct, but your ideas could have been further developed with more references to film noir sub genre films; the use of enigma and the transition from the killing of Eve to the beating up of Fat Mo in the following sequence. In this way Sergio Leone strongly establishes the thriller credentials of the film.
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