Typical Gangster Plot

Typical Crime and Gangster films are established around their sinister actions of criminals, usually they are seen breaking the law through violent and ruthless behaviour murdering their way through life so they are able to achieve their goals. this specific genre often highlight the life of a crime figure or their victims.Often they glorify the rise and fall of a specific criminals typically gangs, bank robbers, murderers and lawbreakers experiencing personal power struggles or conflict with law and order figures, a competitive colleague, or a rival gang etc. Typical roles in this genre consist of crime reporters or real life gangsters to create headline-grabbing situations. The usual settings are locations such as large crowded cities which provide a view of the secret world for a criminal gangster. Streets with neon signs and dark nightclubs also tend to be stereotypical along with fast cars, stacks of money, contraband, big houses or seeding living conditions. 

  Stereotypical gangsters tend to be street smart, immoral, materialistic, megalomaniacal, and self-destructive. A significant gangster plot characteristic is rivalry with other criminals in gangster warfare. Crime plots typically include questions, for example how the criminal will be apprehended by police, special agents or lawful authorities, or mysteries such as who stole the valued object or who slaughtered the victim and how. They rise to power with a tough cruel facade yet show an ambitious desire for success and recognition, although underneath they can express sensitivity and gentleness. The background of a gangster is usually poor immigrant families meaning gangster characters often fall prey to crime in the pursuit of wealth, status, and material possessions such as clothes and cars as their normal avenues to the top are unavailable to them. Although they are doomed to failure and inevitable to a violent death, criminals can sometimes be portrayed as the victims of circumstance, as the stories are told from their point of view.