Popüler Suç Filmlerinin İdeolojisi: Kabadayı Filmi Örneği

As one of the important phenomena concerning society, crime has become quite an instrumental theme especially for the post-1990 popular movies. Today, the theme of a great number of movies is crime and phenomena, events or persons that are related to crime like violence, punishment, criminal, victim, etc. It is not so different for Turkish cinema as well. Many producers who desired to achieve the box office of Eskiya (Yavuz Turgul, 1996) considered crime as a great material to sell. Movies that came to theatres after 2000 and managed to hit the list of most successful box office titles blend crime with different genres like comedy as in Cakallarla Dans, Kolpacino, Maskeli Besler, Organize Isler, Ali Baba ve 7 Cuceler, Sen Kimsin?, Yahsi Bati and Muro; like drama as in New York’ta Bes Minare or Av Mevsimi and with politics as in Kurtlar Vadisi. This can be considered as a great sign that the audience and producers are highly fond of the concept of crime. The movie Kabadayi from the same list has a story that was built up based on the perspectives of crime and criminals similarly to Eskiya. But the most important thing we have to see in Kabadayi is that various realities of life like religion, family, government and society are being reproduced over crime and criminals. In parallel with this idea, the purpose of this study is to determine which ideologies are falling under this story and discourse framework, and how do they become effective. For that purpose, the movie Kabadayi has been chosen as a sample and analyzed in terms of ideological method. As a result, beyond crime and punishment, various ideologies on religion, family, government and society is being reproduced through the story and discourse elements in the movie.