crime

In every crime film we expect to see a cop that is at the top of his game or a villain who is feared and incharge of anything illegal. The main character is generally one of the two but this isnt always the case however as sometimes the film's protagonist in neither of them like in 'Lucky number slevin' where the main character is a victim who is trying to get his own back on the crime bosses that killed his family. It is always the case that there is cops in crime films, but they are not always good, pure cops but corrupt cops and there is generally two types of corrupt cop,the first type who are only out to benefit themselves e.g. blackmailing the villains or giving them info for money, adn the second type which are working for the villains and have become a mole in the police force, like in 'The departed'. Whenever a crime film is about the villains there is rivalry gangs, it can be relatively small gangs battling over a bit of turf or their neighbourhood like in 'get rich or die tryin' or two opposing mafia families fighting for control of the whole city like in 'The godfather'. When it is a case of rival gangs we can expect to see alot of violence and some interrogation, although it is not only the bad guys that interrogate people as we saw in the departed when leonardo di'caprio is trying to get a job, it wasnt a gory violent interrogation but it was loud and aggressive, with the cop smashing his hands on the table and insults di'caprio's family.. Scenes like this are very powerful as it makes us question our views on policeman and that view is also questioned throughout the departed and other crime films when the cops are insulting eachother and using bad language. The cops portrayed in these films are totally different to the way we think our local 'bobby' would act, Using scenes like this is also effective at making the bad guys look somewhat good, which is advantageous if the main character is a villain we are supposed to like. The key element to the downfall of the villains in a lot of crime films is the rat, the rat can be the boss sometimes but it is most common for the rat to be a physically infearior weasel of a bloke compared to his peers and is generally hated by the gang and maybe bullied in a sense by the 'tough guys' or the muscle of the gang.