Four Brothers

Four Brothers: 

The next film that I chose to look at was Four Brothers and this is a film that again quite different. This film is about more organized crime but more about it in a rough neighborhood then an actual crime family. 

This film starts with there being snow on the production logo and then the snow carrying on the the actual opening of the film. There is loud rock music playing and we see a car driving through the snow looking out of the windscreen and see the dice in the mirror which kind of reflect the type of film that this film focuses in. The film then shows an older woman getting out of her car and going into the shop that her car pulled up outside of. The scene then jumps to show the woman from a high angle shot to show that she is in power and dominating as she tells off a little boy for stealing. 

There is then a conversation where the woman threatens to call the police and the shop keeper picks up the phone to do so but the boy asks for redemption. The boy then leaves and the woman and shop keeper talk about the boy when the woman says that all the boy needed was “an older brother” which is again a way to set up the plot line of the film. 

The camera then shows to masked men outside the shop who look threatening and are carrying guns to warn the audience that there is about to be trouble. The gun men then enter the shop and they shoot the shop keeper then the older woman is hiding and the camera switches to the outside of the shop and a flash goes off for what the audience assumes is the gun men shooting the older woman. The gun men then run off.

After the gun men have left the audience is shown another kind of car again one that is traveling through the snow and a different song is played a more jazzy kind of song perhaps to show a laid back attitude. The setting has also changed from night to day. 

At this point the titles have begun to role and they are in the same script as the title of the film. There is shots of the location or setting of the film and there is again a lot of snow around and more broken down and derelict buildings. 

The camera then changes to show that the man driving in to the town is going to a funeral where he is met by two other mysterious characters and there is a view of the woman who was killed and also all the different characters who went to the funeral.

The five minutes in ends with a view of a house and everyone who is still dressed in their funeral clothes. 

What I have noticed is that in the crime genre there tends usually not to be a title sequence within the first five minutes but because this film is a mix of crime and action it differs to the rest of the genre. 

Hopefully screen shots and credits to follow.....