Opening Two Minutes Analysis By Sean

The Opening two minutes of the film "Green Street Hooligans" adheres to the conventions for a hybrid genre of an action film and sports film.

A feature of this film that adheres to the action genre of the film is the setting of the film. The opening of the film is based at a tube station on the London Underground. This is a public place, where many fight scenes take place in similar films. Also, one part of the opening scene shows the  football fans fighting in front of innocent members of the public, which startles and scares them. The use of swearing and insulting by the football fans also shows verbal violence as well as anger.

A feature of the film that adheres to the sports genre of the film is the topic of talk by the fans. I can identify that they are football fans because they talk about football clubs, such as Tottenham and West Ham. However they talk about football by relating it to the stereotypical football fans that are hooligans.

Another feature of the film that adheres to the action genre of the film is the age and gender of the characters who are fighting each other. They are men between the age of  20 and 30 which is the common age and gender for violent characters to be represented.  

A film that has a similar opening is "Football Factory." This is because it shares the same hybrid genre of sport and action. It is also very similar as the film is based around football talk and hooliganism in football, just like Green Street Hooligans is.