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1、Gangster moive is gangsters in urban America.Functions:1.As a myth,the gangster film serves the function of resolving on an imaginative level certain human and social contradiction.it could give the audience an imagination.2.Also,the basic enonomic law is the most important for a film.GenreHow can w

2、e know its a gungster film?In this film,we can see so many scene of planning,assassination,chasing,gunplaying.Tense atmosphereWe can see the vivid characteristic of the gangster film.Genre The Godfather conforms to the key generic conventions of the gangster film:The tragic narrative The pursuit of

3、the American dream The morality tale（道德寓言）message The documentary style（纪录片的形式）However,what makes The Godfather a significant contribution to the genre,and to cinema as a whole,is the originality of its approach.The tragic narrative:Frodo and Michaels storyThe pursuit of the American dream:Don Vito

4、CorleoneThe morality tale（道德寓言道德寓言）message:They are never purely evilThe documentary style（纪录片的形式纪录片的形式）:The whole life of the Don Corleone and Michael Genre The character and performance CharactersDon Vito Corleone:the Godfather,a complicated ganster.Sonny Corleone:Dons eldest son,hotheaded,violent

5、 and reckless（鲁莽的鲁莽的）,a combination that leads him into a death trap set by a rival family.Fredo Corlenone:Dons second son,inept and weak-willed,given minor chores.Characters Michael Corleone:Dons youngest son,Ivy League educated,who is torn between family devotion and doubts about his inheritance o

6、f violence and power.Connie Rizzi:Vitos daughter.At the beginning of the movie she marries Carlo Rizzi,who turns out to be an abusive terror.Carlo Rizzi:Connies abusive husband,who betrays the Corleone family,tipping off Sonnys killers,and is killed by Michael for his transgression（犯罪）.Kay Adams:Mic

7、haels second wife.Marlon Brando as Don Vito Corleone self-controlled:Don Vito Corleone Insists not involved in the drug business ,because he deeply knows it is different from gambling and wenching,its a temptation for people to descend completely.Al Pacino Secent of a Woman Al Pacino as Michael Corl

8、eone Courageous andsagacious:Michael arranges a meeting with Sollozzo and the corrupt police chief McCluskey_the murders of his father,and kills them both.Cold-blooded:When Don Vito Corleone dies,Michael vows to regain control.He orchestrates the murders of the heads of the five families,kills Tessi

9、o for being a traitor,and Carlo for his part in Sonnys murder.Michaels time has come:with this consolidation of power,he now stands alone and hardened as the new Godfather.The Revolution in Characterization in The Godfather ClassicGangsterCharacterthe GangsterCharacter inThe Godfatherwithout culture

10、,manners,leisureboth closely attached to the Sicilyculturelonely,melancholythe loneliness is alleviated by closenessviolent,lose controlself_control lednever satisfiedlook for a day to get out of illegal organization and crimedo not need lovelove familiespoessions are central to their beingreject os

11、tentation,defined by responsibilities Method Acting Marlon Brandos performance as Don Corleone is a classic example of Method Acting in action.It is an exemplary Method Acting performance and contributes to the Dons aura of gravity and understated power.He met with real members of the Mafia in order

12、 to find out their distinctive speech patterns and modeled Don Corlelones gravelly voice on a recording of one of them.He deliberately lost weight to play the part of the 46 year old Don in the first scene He mumbled to himself as an old man like Don Corleone might.Method Acting Brando expresses nat

13、uraly the Dons smallest and most natural actions（stroking a cat,scratching his face,feeding the fish,peeling fruit）;he captures the hesitations,pauses,mumblings,and unfinished lines that are the hallmarks of an old mans speech.Brandos Don Corlenone is a living,breathing,fully believable Godfather.Na

14、rrative System narrative systemThe godfather series may be considered as tragic narrative.but the Godfather 1972 can be seen in a new light that it is a three-act linear structure narrative systemThe Godfather is generally considered to be the greatest gangster movie of all the time.The using of the

15、 classic three-act linear structure makes the filmbe a vivid depiction of gangster and mafia.Act-I Set-up The hook:the film opens with mafia boss Don Corleone sitting in his office receiving visitors and supplicants at his daughters wedding day.Inciting Incident:Don corleone rejects Sollozzos suggetion to drug trafficking Turning point 1:Don is s