Film noir

1. The article says for the story concept, the film noir presents dark themes such as desolation, detachment, iniquity, pessimism, etc. The story is complex and perplexing. In the filmmaking technicality, the directors employ strong shadow lighting techniques (often use one single source of light to create strong shadow, deep focus and unusual extreme camera angles. The sound also intensely gripping to form suspense. 2. They are a predatory character that uses a seduction and manipulation to…

Mildred Pierce Considered to be one of the film noir typed; where the protagonist is male, and the antagonist is female. Wally liked Mildred, but she did not like him, she considered him as friend. However, one day Wally saw Mildred, and she seemed in trouble. They sit and drank in the restaurant or the bar. Then, Mildred asked Wally to go to the beach house, which was not normal. When they arrived to the beach house, there were some features of noir mise-en-scene. First, there was some kind of…

beginning of the film noir current. For nine years, USA has been the leading country in the production of this genre. In 1949, a famous American producer, David O. Selznick, the creator of Gone With the Wind (Victor Fleming, USA, 1939), and his British counterpart, Alexander Korda combined their strengths, producing the first British film-noir, which is so significant in the history of cinema. The Third Man (Carol Reed, UK, 1949) is a milestone in the development of film-noir. It was produced…

Scott’s 1982 neo-noir film Blade Runner a well-deserved second on its neo-noir ‘best list’. In order to support this opinion this critique will analyse Blade Runner’s production design, iconographic and symbolic image conventions, whilst also undertaking a mise-en-scene analysis of the films image-based neo-noir conventions and associated codes to conclude that Blade Runner does deserve to be on Watchmojo’s ‘best list’. Blade Runner (1982) directed by Ridley Scott is a neo-noir film adapted…

Ridley Scott’s 1982 film Blade Runner is an endlessly fascinating film to dissect. The film while not popular upon it’s initial release has grown a huge following over the years and has captured the minds of filmmakers, students and scholars alike. Even Sir Ridley Scott himself couldn’t stay away from his film as over the last thirty years he has tinkered with and fine tuned his film into what is now known as “The Final Cut”. The 1982 theatrical cut of the film and the subsequent 2007 release of…

to Walker (3), the concepts of film noir that makes it especially fascinating are its “distinctive and exciting visual style, an unusual narrative complexity and a generally more critical and subversive view of American ideology than the norm”. Film noir utilizes the Hard-boiled tradition and German expressionist features to portray a film that is both complex and fascinating. In combination of the Expressionism, Fatalism and Realism that the film portrays, film noir conveys a dark world and a…

globe was under a massive amount of strain and distress. At this point in American history, films were a essential part in keeping society’s spirits up. Americans were going to the cinemas more than ever to get away from the depression that was surrounding them. The world was in some of the darkest times they had ever been in. This brought a whole new look into how we perceived film, and how we used film to express what we were feeling. The world had a new view on life during the 1940’s. This…

Blood Simple is the first movie directed by the Coen brothers. A more contemporary noir, with a knowing awareness of the origins of the genre, blood simple saw film noir get down and dirty again, and not just in the bedroom (Wood. 2014). The use of violence and crime in this neo noir film utterly correlates with the classic noir. Majority of the Coen brother’ films feature a crime that seldom goes right. Blood Simple features a jealous Saloon owner, Marty who hires a divorce detective, Visser to…

Within the film Chinatown, symbols place the largest role in the aesthetics of the film. One the most prominent symbols is a broken, damaged, or imperfect lens. Gittes uses two watches to help aid him when he was tailing Mr. Mulwray. The idea behind it was that Mulwray would run it over and stop the time so Mulwray can determine when he left. The broken lens symbol was also shown when Gittes was investigating the farm involved in the government scandal, where one lens in sunglasses was broken.…

Tarantino’s 1994 film, “Pulp Fiction,” is another film that applies classic crime fiction norms to a more believable and realistic world. This movie is a play on its title, which refers to sleazy, gritty, violent fiction that was originally printed on low-quality paper created out of wood pulp. The film features multiple segments focusing on three main characters: Vincent Vega, Butch Coolidge, and Jules Winnfield, who are all connected by a mobster named Marcellus Wallace. This film is a…