Trailer Analysis – Snatch (British Crime) Snatch (2000) is a hybrid British crime film crossed with comedy using generic iconography from the 1960s including Spaghetti Westerns, Crime Capers and further on to the 1980s by using Gritty Gangland and Heist films. There are a few postmodern elements in the trailer of ‘Snatch’ including high art editing and they also challenge narrative themes and representations a lot.

Character types The protagonists in the film are Turkish and Tommy and also Mickey who are seen as Anti heroes and their particular antagonists in the film are Cousin Avi who are is your average American gangster leader and then there is also Brick Top who is the British gangster leader of the film and these characters play the main antagonists of the film.

Structure of the trailers narrative Beginning: In the start of the trailer we immediately get the idea that the film is going to be in relation to a diamond which was stolen by the American gang members. We also discover that Turkish is in deep with a relation that included match fixing and unlicensed boxing. Middle: There is a problem that is encountered by both sets of gangs and we learn this through such lines as ‘where is the stone?’ and ‘You are going down in the fourth’ which related to the rigged boxing that Turkish is involved with. End: Characters are all introduced with graphical imagery and freeze framing on the key points i.e. the name of the characters. They are all displayed in a spaghetti western type way.

Camera and Mise-en-Scene Scenes of someone on the floor looking up at more superior characters give us an uneasy feeling of the antagonists being much stronger characters in the films narrative. Low key lighting is a very postmodern technique which is used quite frequently in the film and the films trailer. Costume is used very well to help us understand the class of characters in the trailer and some of them also challenge meta-narratives and challenge a lot of nowadays stereotypes. Certain scenes make us aware of the type of world they live in i.e. Turkish and the unlicensed boxing world.

Editing techniques Freeze framing is very postmodern as it isn’t true to real life and also the slow motion scenes where ‘Mickey’ is flying backwards after being hit which is also very postmodern all of the things that you wouldn’t see in real life all relate to postmodern theory. Still frames are also very postmodern techniques that are used throughout the end of the trailer introducing all of the characters one by one.

Sound The trailer includes a lot of voiceovers from ‘Turkish’ with the stereotypical cockney accent and who is the main anti-hero is the trailer and the film. There is also some very fast paced music in there at times which builds a lot of tension and suspense. There is also a remix of an old 70s song called ‘Apache’. There is also a lot of diegetic sounds with the dialogue from certain characters to help get the point of the narrative across. And non diegetic consists of a rewind sound that is very fast and is helped a lot with editing to speed it up.