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detectives Police Murder corruption criminals seductive females Guns (often with silencers) Fake love

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Cleverly used to show conversations between people and see everyones expressions at once.

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To add danger and excitment

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Used in EVERY Noir film. Smoke is very mysterious and adds a personality to characters as seen in the three images above:

- To the far left there is a femme fatale smoking, she appears sophisticated and mature.

- In the centre the man appears mysterious and as though there is something about this character that the audience doesn't know yet.

- To the far right a femme fatale is blowing smoke at a man, she appears to be in charge, brave and rude.

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Cinematography settings include: *vertical bars from blinds - creating mystery, watching somebody or being watched without knowing. *dark streets *Neon lights

Typical Settings:

*Apartment Blocks Dark alley ways

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expressed through:

* Low-key lighting * Juxtaposition * Skewed camera angles * Circle cigarette smoke

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Most Film Noir films made in and before the 1950's were black and white, this was for three main reasons:

1. Because technology wasn't as good as it is nowadays

2. Colour films were expensive

3. To create shadows and give the idea that the film will be dark and mysterious

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She also usually smokes to appear more sophisticated.

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They wear heavy make up and are generally very attractive and seductive

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This is Matt Fox's steal-o-matic about Film Noir. It shows all the classic elements of film noir, which include crime, victimized protagonists, femme fatales, shadows, seedy locations, evil criminals, and depressing and hopeless endings. It features clips from such classics as The Maltese Falcon, The Big Sleep, Touch of Evil, Se7en, Pulp Fiction, LA Confidential, Chinatown, Blood Simple, Sin City, and more.

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The Two Archetypal characters that must be present for a movie to be considered Film Noir

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The Two Archetypal characters that must be present for a movie to be considered Film Noir

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This was deux hommes dans Manhatten

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Deux hommes dans Manhattan- Jean-Pierre Melville (1959)- The Jazz Scene

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This was 'The Blind Date' in 1959

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This was 'The Trap' in 1959

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Due to film Noir being different in different countries and having different sub sections.  Wikipedia states that the last classic American Noir film was in 1959 and was called 'Odds against tomorrow'.

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Boisterous gangster kingpin Bull Weed rehabilitates his former lawyer from his alcoholic haze, but complications arise when he falls for Weed's girlfriend.

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It is difficult to really know which was the first Film Noir film; however, the earliest that I can find is from 1927, 'underworld'

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These videos are created for referential purposes to the original work and are not profitable in any way. No copyright infringement intended. http://mubi.com/lists/masters-of-the-silent-era-feature-films http://mubi.com/lists/masters-of-the-silent-era-references

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The femme fatale; a typically blonde woman whose name spelled trouble. These women with guns were empowering, deceptive, and just plain mean. They always seemed to manage to trap the hard-boiled detective into falling in love with them, just to come in at the last second and turn his world upside-down.

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A brief montage of a few of the femme fatales of film noir

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Film Noir Characters: The Hard-Boiled Detective Anti-Hero

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Film Noir Characters: The Hard-Boiled Detective Anti-Hero

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The main character is often not much of a hero, but rather an anti-hero. This detective is often trapped into doing bad stuff, and he is left to get himself out of trouble and find a life for himself again. He is depressed, spends a lot of time walking through dark cities at night in a fedora, and always seems to lose.

The story often was told from the perspective of the hard-boiled detective, and it was not at all uncommon to begin the film with a scene from the end of the plot, and then flash back to the beginning of the whole story for him to tell it as the narrator.

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The movies that comprised the film noir genre of American movies in the 1940's were almost entirely based on novels by writers such as; Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and James M. Cain, as they were easily adapted to the screen, making for dramatic crime stories that greatly appealed to the American population at that time.