Film Noir
Film Noir 1
1) Is Film Noir in your head already? - The narrator means the storyline still exists in the society we live in. The point trying to be made in this sentence is that there are films with similar story lines to Film Noir ideas.
2)The women in Film Noir wear revealing clothes. They are seductive and are extremely powerful, who target weak men who fall in love easily.
3)The heroes in the film are vulnerable men who drink too much, smoke a lot and don't have much money. They feel trapped.
4)Film Noir does not finish with a happy ending.
5)They were popular in the 1940s because it was just after the war and the film represent a fallen world.
Film Noir 2
1) Pulp Fiction is about tough detectives who got into hot water, that is how it got its name "Hard boiled"
2) "Hard boiled" - showing very little emotion.
3) The famous writers of this style of writing are: Gerald Drayson Adams, Eric Ambler, Dashiel Hammett, Maxwell Anderson, Edward & Edna Anhalt, Ernest Hemingway and Jules Furthmen.
4) Dashiel Hammett's ideas are from his own experience of being a detective and to show how the system is corrupt and so he wrote stories to show the lives of cheap detectives/crooks.
5) A hard boiled character is a person who doesn't express their emotions a lot, a tough person.
6) A voice-over is good in a Film Noir because it helps the audience understand what goes on in the characters mind. The characters in Film Noir talk pessimistically.
1) Is Film Noir in your head already? - The narrator means the storyline still exists in the society we live in. The point trying to be made in this sentence is that there are films with similar story lines to Film Noir ideas.
2)The women in Film Noir wear revealing clothes. They are seductive and are extremely powerful, who target weak men who fall in love easily.
3)The heroes in the film are vulnerable men who drink too much, smoke a lot and don't have much money. They feel trapped.
4)Film Noir does not finish with a happy ending.
5)They were popular in the 1940s because it was just after the war and the film represent a fallen world.
Film Noir 2
1) Pulp Fiction is about tough detectives who got into hot water, that is how it got its name "Hard boiled"
2) "Hard boiled" - showing very little emotion.
3) The famous writers of this style of writing are: Gerald Drayson Adams, Eric Ambler, Dashiel Hammett, Maxwell Anderson, Edward & Edna Anhalt, Ernest Hemingway and Jules Furthmen.
4) Dashiel Hammett's ideas are from his own experience of being a detective and to show how the system is corrupt and so he wrote stories to show the lives of cheap detectives/crooks.
5) A hard boiled character is a person who doesn't express their emotions a lot, a tough person.
6) A voice-over is good in a Film Noir because it helps the audience understand what goes on in the characters mind. The characters in Film Noir talk pessimistically.
Classic and Student film noir Openings
Ernest Hemingway's The Killers- The opening of this Film Noir looks mysterious and may involve crime The female characters in this film seem powerful but the men look weak and are controlled by the women "For the treachery of a girls lips." The storyline- is about a gambler "His luck-his love-his life" A person who puts love before other things. The lady is a dame with a past and the man is a hero with no future. The characters in the film talk pessimistically. Sunset Blvd- The opening of this Film Noir looks like a mystical movie. The characters in Sunset Blvd are about wealthy people. The storyline is based on a writer and how he falls in love with a girl at a Hollywood party who was in love with another man, until she met the writer and a woman named Normert Desman, a strange woman who left her mark on everyone. The film is narrated by the main character, the writer. 3 student film noir openings
Films: The Phone call, Desirable and Kiss of a Killer. I found that the opening of Desirable captured the look of Film Noir most successfully. It starts with papers flying around that a person has gone missing, this is similar to other successful film noir movies as they are all death related. I think that The Phone Call portrayed the female power and highlights the dame with a past as played in most film noirs. The film that uses the Noir storyline most effectively was the Phone Call because it has a focus on the power of women over men and its story is similar to The narrating in Desirable was the most powerful as the character narrating the movie was talking like all other men do in Film Noirs, spiritlessly. |
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