ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the balance of various genres in three films that take on a similar subject and then examine two classic comedies: Bringing up Baby, His Girl Friday and two contemporary dramas: Gangs of New York and The Departed breaking down the percentages of scenes in each relegated to specific genres. Bringing up Baby is a story of David Huxley, a paleontologist who needs one last bone to complete the museum's brontosaurus skeleton. His Girl Friday focuses on its new overriding genre-romantic comedy. In Gangs of New York, the story centers on the struggle for control of the Five Points area of New York City in the 1860s between two gangs, the Native Americans and the Dead Rabbits. The Departed examines the struggle of the Irish mob for domination of territory in Boston. The chapter analyzes the balance of two contemporary films in the drama genre.
