The document provides synopses for four films: Public Enemies, Goodfellas, Reservoir Dogs, and Law Abiding Citizen. Public Enemies is about the FBI hunt for notorious bank robber John Dillinger during the 1930s. Goodfellas follows small-time gangster Henry Hill as he rises through the ranks of the mob alongside Jimmy Conway and Tommy DeVito. Reservoir Dogs details the aftermath of a botched heist planned by six criminals with fake names hired by a mob boss. Law Abiding Citizen tells the story of Clyde Shelton who seeks revenge on the system after his family is murdered and the perpetrators receive lenient sentences. The document also notes some common themes across the syn

1. Synopsis’

2. 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.

3. 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?

4. 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?

5. 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.

6. 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)