The American Gangster Film: Opinion prompt referencing

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Comparative Analysis of On the Waterfornt ' and The Big Combo

The Allied Artist Productions movie The Big Combo is better than the 1954 Academy award best picture On the Waterfront in terms of the important elements of the genre which was first seen on the first gangster film , The Musketeers of Pig Alley . This is possible due to the fact that The Big Combo uses more elements to signify that the movie particularly involves scenes that are only present in a gangster genre On

the other hand , Kazan 's On the Waterfront is partly drama and gangster film

The Big Combo

The 1946 film The Big Combo is an Allied Artists Productions which was mostly filmed at Allied Artists ' studio facilities . The film generates various elements of a gangster genre . The conventional elements of any particular genre are as follows : iconography , setting , characters narrative , style , themes and audience response . In The Musketeers of Pig Alley , certain elements of a genre has been shown . For example , the setting of the story is the Lower East Side which is consisted of narrow streets and underworld alleyways filled with garbage cans . The setting intoduces a unique gangster film setting which is obviously present in the real world . In connection with the elements originally depicted in the first gangster film , The Big Combo exposes itself in the traditional elements of a gangster type of film . Mr . Brown and Diamond , as the protagonist and antagonist respectively , are the major characters...