Gangster Films

I haven't watched many gangster films so I'll just try to remember as many as I can

The Departed. It's a gangster movie right?

Breathless

And that's about it.

Genre Podcast

Anime

Japanese anime gives an interesting look into japanese culture. Japan, being on the other side of the world, has developed separately from the rest of the world. Much of it looks weird to a western audience, but that's just how things are over there. Anime is by no means a clear window into their society. Like any cartoon, anime is often a distortion of real life. As western cartoons like disney draw from fairytales, anime draws from japanese stories with archetypal characters. Archetypal characters, I think, are a mainstay of anime. To a western audience, this may seem derived and unoriginal. But that's a japanese thing that can not be explained through western logic.

Sci fi
Star wars is a highly debated movie. Some say that Star Wars is not even a sci fi. It's true that the movie has more in common with fantasy. In Star Wars, you have a kind of magic, the force, a wizard, kenobi, the hero's journey, and a lot of other elements. Also, much of the technology the people deploy in the movie go unexplained, which is uncommon in other sci fi movies.

Disney
Yeah, Disney.

Musicals

I've never really watched or payed much attention to musicals. I feel like a lot of musicals would work better as broadway productions and not be translated on to the screen. I feel many musicals lack the subtlety of other genres.