KL Gangster

Video above is the official trailer of KL Gangster. KL Gangster, a movie production in year 2011 and the director of Syamsul Yusof. KL Gangster is a movie about few gangs of gangster fighting each other to show the power of themselves. Besides that, there also shows the caring of the main character, Malek towards his family members. He advice his younger brother which also involve in gangster not to mix around with gangsters anymore because he felt guilty as he had joined gangster before and were betrayed by a leader of the gangster and makes him sit for prison for five years. 

In the movie of KL Gangster, they use different shots that can influence the meaning which audience will interpret. One of the popular shots is panorama shots. panorama shot define as an unbroken view of an entire surrounding area. Most of the people use it to shoot the view of the place area or a mental vision of a series of events. In Hollywood films, there is always panorama shot at the beginning of the movie. Besides that, in the middle of movie also use panorama shots to jump into another scene and story. In the Hollywood movie of The Fast and The Furious: Tokyo Drift, a racing movie in year 2006 and director of Justin Lin. They use panorama shots to shoot the view in Tokyo, Japan. From the movie of KL Gangster, there are also a few scenes were using panorama shots to shoot the view of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia such as Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre. 

KL Gangster – Panorama shot

Other than that, according to the movie of Red, The Fast and The Furious: Tokyo Drift and KL Gangster, there are explosion in the movie. This is also a Hollywood influence from the Hollywood films. Usually the purposes of explosion were taking revenge, showing their status and power or the careless mistakes in the kitchen or other working places. In the movies that just mentioned, they were all exploring vehicles because of the enemy taking revenge on them.

KL Gangster – Explosion

Red – Explosion

The Fast and The Furious: Tokyo Drift – Explosion

Furthermore, there are a lot of movies using high angle to shoot movie. In the movie of KL Gangster, The Fast and The Furious: Tokyo Drift and Red, they used high angle shots as well. There are high angle shots when they show the car drifting from a point to another point in the movie of The Fast and The Furious: Tokyo Drift. Then, there is also a high angle shot shows that a person looking at the helicopter that on the sky in the movie of Red. Moreover, there is also a high angle shot showing a group of people fighting in a place in the movie of KL Gangster.

KL Gangster – High angle

Red – High angle

The Fast and The Furious: Tokyo Drift – High angle

Other than that, in the movie of KL Gangster, they also use a technique of hitting car which is a car hit on another car and causes hurt or breaking the glass. Comparing with the older movie – Red, there is also the same technique of a car hitting another car and causes hurt. This is also an influence from the Hollywood films. Nowadays, audience will frequently see the same or similar scene in the movies.

KL Gangster – Hitting car

Red – Hitting car

Then, in the movie of KL Gangster, there are a shot shoot from the low angle. Shooting from low angle can let the audience see the results of the image and view taller. In the movie of KL Gangster, low angle scene shows in a scene that showing an apartment. Same thing goes to the Hollywood film, Live Free or Die Hard, a film in year 2007 and the director of Len Wiseman. In this film, there is a scene showing a person fell down from a high apartment. This is also a scene taken from low angle to shows the audience what is happening at the high place.

KL Gangster – Low angle

Live Free or Die Hard – Low angle

In an addition, there is also another popular scene that exist in a lot of Hollywood movies. It is a run and chase scene. Most of the films will take part of this on the road which has cars or people. Besides that, most of the films have this scene is because to avoid something to protect own selves or to escape something to attack them. Therefore, run and chase scene will exist. In the movie of KL Gangster, there is a scene shows that a gang of people chasing a person on a road. Then, there is also a scene in the movie of Live Free or Die Hard showing a few police chasing a person on the road as well.

KL Gangster – Run and chase shot

Live Free or Die Hard – Run and chase shot

Lastly, Hollywood films have influence the other countries’ films nowadays compare to the past films. Other than that, films nowadays have already followed the steps of Hollywood films for example shooting in a club and showing sexy ladies. But in the past, there is no such scene. By following the Hollywood culture, there are a lot of scenes shooting in clubs and showing sexy ladies. This shows that how Hollywood has influence the films nowadays. In the past, the films are boring because they have only a few simple shots. But now, there are a lot of different shots and effect that can be made and edit. Hollywood has influence other countries’ production by playing with different style of shots and angles.