“Unscrupulous boxing promoters, violent bookmakers, a
Russian gangster, incompetent amateur robbers, and supposedly Jewish jewellers
fight to track down a priceless stolen diamond.”
Snatch is a British comedy released in 23rd
August 2000 and directed by Guy Ritchie and the themes that run throughout the
film are violence, revenge, greed, money, authority, superiority, power and
humour. The film is set and based in London and contains different stories
between the characters, but all link to one towards the end of the film. Starring
in this film was Benicio del Toro, Dennis Farina, Alan Ford, Jason Flemyng,
Brad Pitt. The film budget of this film was $10 million and box office was
$83.6 million.
The cinematography was a major feature that made the film
outstanding, engaging and appealing to the audience and this was done by Time
Maurice-Jones. Another feature this film has is an ensemble cast and that means
a made up of cast member in which the actors have an equal amount of importance
and screen time in a dramatic production. This is what made the film unique and
enjoyable as it tied the film together. I think the target audience of this film
was for ages 18-26 as it is rated for 18, therefore not appropriate to a
teenage audience as there is bad language and violence.
Focusing on cinematography, there was a lot close up shots,
which is effective to an audience as they was eye grabbing and overwhelming in
a sense to see. Watching the film, I discovered that this film had a cyclical
structure and the diamond item causing this cycle. At the beginning of the
film, the characters have their own caption as their personal introduction,
which helped the audience understand who’s who. Also, focusing on the scene of
the two gangsters robbing a man, there was the ‘CCTV footage’ camera angle used
to film this scene, made it more realistic and as if we were watching the
footage with the gangsters. Furthermore, mis-en-scene was used highly as a
feature to this film; using props like a gun made the film more effective and empathised
the theme of violence throughout the film. Also the use of the diamond showed
the audience the importance of it and that it was ‘every man for themselves’
for it.
Saira, it seems as though you enjoyed the film, do you think that you have used CCCEO? If so how? have you discussed the Narrative? Any of the characters or their situations? Please take another attempt at this.
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