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AS-Level Film Studies Unit FS1: Making Meaning Brief 1:Written Analysis: Narrative and Genre For my written analysis I have decided to analyse the first 10 minutes of Goodfellas, starting from the scene in the car up to point where Henry Hill's mother says the line "You look like a gangster". The film starts with three well-dressed men driving in an expensive car. This only really signifies a gangster movie to an audience familiar to the genre. After a while they hear a "bumping" noise. At this point the audience is wondering why the men are looking worried. They pull over and it turns out to be a bloodied man lying in the boot. When Tommy furiously stabs the man, the audience realises that Tommy is the aggressive character that is typical to this genre. This is an example of narrative creating meaning and opinions of characters from the start. Similarly the way that...

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