Antoine Fuqua [the director] brought the whole gangster element to it, and we developed it and improvised a lot… Nine times out of nine the script is not there, to my liking.
Sanae Takaichi is being pursued by the yakuza, Japan's gangster element.
In my earlier novels, it was less of an issue because I know The Godfather readers are coming to it in part because of the gangster element of the story, and they're expecting to see violent scenes, so it was more of an ethical question for me in the novel.
Britain asserted that the island was "completely dominated by a gangster-type element," referring to Mr. Gumbs and the chosen leader of the rebellion, James Ronald Webster.
If you give your film the look of a gangster movie and the characters of a gangster movie, your audience may well be most enthralled by those gangster elements.
This first episode sets up all the familiar elements of a gangster narrative.
Like much of his work, it weaves together strikingly disparate elements: he calls it a "gangster samurai hip-hop eastern western".
It almost defies belief that a gangster comedy, and one with so many familiar elements and faces, should work so well.
"Gun" has all the elements you'd expect from a gangster picture: murder, deception, lust, violence, and dark, moody cinematography to match the conspiratorial tone.
Chrysler's PT Cruiser, new this year, combines elements of a woody wagon with a gangster car.
