
Instantly, Green Street Hooligans puts a different spin on the British Film Drama which does not follow the typical conventions and instead has the main charcter as an American University drop out who originally went to Harvard, an extremely prestigious college in the USA. The trailer opens with a long, static, follow shot of a plane taking off from an airport suggesting that a character has traveled a great distance, which is then reinforced by the next medium shot of the main character "Matt Buckner" walking through a terminal with luggage. The trailer uses a non diegetic, monlogue given by Elijah Wood ,which tells us he is the main character and explains what he is doing so far away from

Although the production companies are not metioned in this trailer they do show Universals name as it is a much larger well known company that people associate good films with. Oddlot Entertainment on the other hand is not as well known. They also only show the Universal Studios logo for 3 seconds in order to keep the trailer as breef as possible.
The dialogue between the two British characters shows the prejudice of lower, working class footbal supporters toward foreign people when the man in the coat says " I can't take a Yank to football". The slang used and the way they talk presents them as being less educated becuase of the area they are from and you see a lot of this stereotyping in British Film Dramas. However, the trailer goes against this convention slightly by showing one of the men with a large stack of cash ,which suggests he is a successful business man and quite intelligent.

Additionally, this next mid shot shows how close and bonded together these football supporters are walking shoulder to shoulder down a street with Matt in the foreground next to hsi family friend, followed by other friends in the background. This is fitting because at this point some dialogue from another scene is played where Matt friends calls him "practically family" which is synchronous with their behaviuor in the shot.
Again this tralier shows how the film is following the British Film Drama convention of viloence for violence sake and this can be backed up by what one of the charcters says to Matt about taking his anger about other things out on the other football suporters. As the fighting starts some non diegetic music starts to play that has a very agressive guitar playing along with the punches he throws. Sound effects are also used to fade the voice of his friend out as he tells him to think of someone he hates representing them as irrational and unjustifiably violent.


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