Homework 3 - Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels  

Narrative:
the narrative structure shows the film that has a couple of flashback on beginning, middle and end for example when there was a flashback of Bacon and his friend walking into the pub and a man on fire comes out running and screaming that what makes this film non-linear, however film shows another flashback and is very hardly any special effects and just a couple which makes it neither like City of God. Also what I have found that in the scene when a gang goes to the house of another gang to get the money and weed and then a women appears from no where and it start to shooting at them, the director of the film has put them in the slow motion effect in which added humor to that scene. I think that it is the dark humor that is sued through the film that keeps the audience maintained.

Genre
The codes and conventions for this film that make the genre clear for example money is always on the frist place without money film want make any sense because usually the characters either want money and be wealthy or owe someone very important money. The another example that you will always find in gangster genre is drugs/cocain. In Scarface or City Of God the main drugs used was cocaine which is usually the common drug used in gangster films. The another conventions is guns and knifes have been in gangster films from the old days till nowadays, and they are very common thing in film that you will find in this genre. One thing that I thought was cleaver about this film is the way they added a stereotype in this type of film considering its not your typical gangster film, and that is when we saw Rory Breaker and his Hench Men wearing long black coats and this made it clear that this person is also either important or powerful. 

Representation

The representation of women is small and there is no any female character in the film, which actually says more about the representation as to if they were to have a lead female character in the film . I feel that women are stereo-typically as they are weaker, sex object. The men are seen as dominant and stronger and also powerful - which is how they are portrayed in this film very well, the men within this film have been represented as very violent and we do not see a variety of characters as each of them has a part in violence, which is another stereotype, The males in Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels are potrayted in different way one of the males characters is weaker and one of the is stronger and stronger characters can have a full power on weaker one.


Target Audience

The certificate of the film is 18+ and it is target audience that the film is aimed at adults over the age of 18.

However considering the genre of the film and storyline and also the actors involved it has a specific adult audience. What I have found is this film that a film includes drugs and gang related issues which could suggest an audience specific social class. The violence and abusive language that is involved in the film, such as the scene where a guy was murdered upside down when a guy by throwing a knife at his head that the target audience that the film would be aimed at 18 or over.

Violence: 
The violence in the film makes it more interested to watch due to the characters that are committing it. The film is about four men that find themselves in big debt to an East End hard man and his enforces after a card game or poker. The four men discuss various illegal schemes to obtain the money and stole from thieves next door who themselves have drug growing operation,where they grow the cannabis plants. When everything takes a turn and when they trying to go through with their plan, Eddy and his friends realise that they are out of their depth and desperately look for a way out before they find themselves in trouble. In my opinion all gangster films have the same type of theme because always they are there elements that all gangster genre films has to have without will be nothing. This film has some similarities with the film City Of God and also with the film Scarface. Themes wise however it is used differently than the other films. The example that I have found in other films is an example of power, in Scarface Tony wants to be wealthy and powerful and in City Of God Lil ze the Antagonist of the film wants to be powerful and have a City of God under his control.