Synopsis’

public enemies - Synopsis

• The difficult 1930s is a time of robbers who knock over banks and other rich targets with alarming frequency. Of them, none is more notorious than John Dillinger, whose gang plies its trade with cunning efficiency against big businesses while leaving ordinary citizens alone. As Dillinger becomes a folk hero, FBI head J. Edger Hoover is determined to stop his ilk by assigning ace agent Melvin Purvis to hunt down Dillinger. As Purvis struggles with the manhunt's realities, Dillinger himself faces an ominous future with the loss of friends, dwindling options and a changing world of organized crime with no room for him.

Goodfellas - synopsis

• Henry Hill is a small time gangster, who takes part in a robbery with Jimmy Conway and Tommy De Vito, two other gangsters who have set their sights a bit higher. His two partners kill off everyone else involved in the robbery, and slowly start to climb up through the hierarchy of the Mob. Henry, however, is badly affected by his partners success, but will he stoop low enough to bring about the downfall of Jimmy and Tommy?

Reservoir Dogs - Synopsis

• They were six strangers, assembled to pull off the perfect crime: Mr. White, a professional criminal; Mr. Orange, a young newcomer; Mr. Blonde, a trigger-happy killer; Mr. Pink, a paranoid neurotic; Mr. Brown; and Mr. Blue. Hired by mob boss Joe Cabot and given fake names so no one could identify the others, they thought there was no way their heist could have failed. But after a police ambush, killing Mr. Brown and seriously injuring Mr. Orange, the criminals return to their rendezvous point (a warehouse), and realize that one of them had to have been a police informant. But who?

Law Abiding Citizen - synopsis• Clyde Shelton's family is brutally murdered. The ones responsible

are caught. However, because of improper procedure, the D.A., Nick Rice only has circumstantial evidence. So he decides to get one of them to testify against the other. When Shelton learns of this, he is not happy. Ten years later, the one who was convicted is being executed but something goes wrong; his execution goes awry and he suffers. They learn that someone tampered with the machine. And the other one is found dead, killed in a gruesome manner. Rice suspects Shelton, so he has him picked up. At first, Shelton agrees to a plea agreement with Rice but changes his mind. It appears that Shelton is not done, it appears he blames the whole system and is declaring war on it going after everyone involved with his family's case. So Rice has to stop him but Shelton is way ahead of him.

Similarities • Murder ( in 4/4 films it involves murder in the synopsis. Some sort of

murder or the prospect of a murder is mentioned in each of these synopsis’) The reason murder appears in a lot of these synopsis’ is because it fulfills the expectation that the audience have and their mindset that a crime film isn’t a crime film without murder.

• Trust issues and Paranoia ( in Reservior dogs and Goodfellas they start to stop trusting people because of police and so called peers)

• Robbery ( in ¾ films Public enemies his only motivation is to get money, and it’s the same in the vast majority of crime films synopsis’)

• Law enforcers VS criminals ( In law abiding citizen, the protagonist is on a mission to cause mass pain how ever the law enforcer (Rice) is on a mission to stop him)