Femme fatale

always been scared of women”, but the fact that Cary Grant’s character associates female sexuality with male peril does not necessarily mean that the film itself follows this misogynistic view. In other words, just because Devlin considers Alicia a femme fatale, that does not mean that Notorious is directing us toward the same opinion. Julie Grossman agrees with this idea, stating that women in film noir are not portrayed just as one-dimensional “bad girls” characters, like most critics believe…

essay is to compare the film Sin City with the classic style of film noir to see if there are any differences or similarities between them. The analysis focuses on four concepts that I believe are the most classic film-noir associations. Lighting, Femme fatale, a dark world and the protagonist. Already in the first scene a couple of things are established. The first scene is part of a side story that we only get to see in the beginning and again at the end of the film, and it frames the whole…

Delicatessen is black-comedy set in around the 1950’s. The French film was written and produced by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro in 1991. This film show cases a range of themes from comedy, romance and horror. The use of different camera angles such as chanted or Dutch. Jean-Pierre Jeunets use of multi narratives to slow the viewer to full understand each character important to the story told in throughout the film. The film opens to a fog consumed rundown apartment building, on the ground…

Robert Ebert states, “One difference between Film Noir and more straightforward crime pictures is that noir is more open to human flaws and likes to embed them in twisty plot lines.” The Movie Psycho which was made in 1960 directed by Alfred Hitchcock definitely has the plot twist element of Film Noir . The film, being the Film Noir genre, uses lots of different Film Noir elements to complete the feeling. Throughout the movie the viewer sees the traits of classic Film Noir, in the movie Psycho.…

Throughout the years Greek Mythology has influenced art and literature. It was created to teach people using stories about their gods. For example, the myth of the Sirens from The Odyssey teaches us to use logic to resist temptation and move forward with our lives. Ulysses, Latin for Odysseus, and his men are sailing back to their home Ithaca, when the stumble upon Sirens. They must stay strong and resist temptation so they can continue their journey. In the painting, Ulysses and The Sirens,…

Noir injected a bleakness into American cinema, a desolate quality that distinguishes it from the optimistic Hollywood productions of the 1930s, with their flat lighting, tidy narratives, and satisfying conclusions. In Hollywood Genres, Thomas Schatz attributes this bleakness to social condition in World War II America: “This changing visual world . . . reflected the progressively darkening cultural attitudes during and after the war. Hollywood’s noir films documented the growing…

Noir is a French term meaning “black”; thus, noir genre is a type of genre that surrounds the idea of dark, ominous, violent, crime-centered, moody atmosphere. The genre, which is also called as noir fiction, is pioneered by an American writer named James M. Cain and originated in America. Film Noir is a practice of noir genre which plots are centered on crime dramas around 1940s and 1950s time frame, during which it was believed to be first practiced. At its peak, film noir polished many…

The “ravishing” yet “fatal” cries of the ever mysterious Sirens are described by Margaret Atwood and Homer in strikingly conflicting ways. Homer’s description of the Sirens portrays them as mystical, yet fatal creatures, while Atwood insightfully depicts the same Sirens as bored yet deceitful human-like seductresses. Homer and Atwood make use of intense tones, powerful points of view, and bold diction to show the contrast in the two portrayals. With great intensity in their tones, Homer and…

the femme fatale because of their legendary seductiveness. Their songs are considered irresistible and their voices are like no other (Galbraith 2013). This dangerous character is known as a direct attack on traditional womanhood. In the article, No Place for a Woman, it explains that the femme fatale refuses to play the role of a traditional female character (2008). She will not be a devoted wife or loving mother, and she finds marriage to be confining, loveless, and dull. The classic femme…

Chapter -4 Conclusion This study was set out to explore Estella Havisham as a Gothic Femme Fatale, set against the backdrop of Victorian era. Albeit a few studies have showed up in the course of the most recent decade or so, on female characters of Victorian fiction, but, minority has completely alluded to the relationship to some of them as gothic women. Along these lines, this research paper investigates about the part of breaking down the "underhanded" representations of 'Estella Havisham'…