Noir Film Analysis

Working out conflicts face to face can and cannot make a difference in resolving the problem.“These face-to-face interactions build trust, understanding, and a real sense of a shared mission, and this has made all the difference in the world.” This direct quote from Forbes.com explains how this specific way can improve how the world communicates to each other. Many people will disagree with the previous statement, but it is just one of the basic elements of the social system. Admittedly, not everyone believes in face to face interaction. People can choose whichever side they want to, but people can solve their problems by talking to somebody.

The 1946 film The Killers is a renowned film noir based off of Ernest Hemingway’s short story of the same title, focusing on the detailed backstory and investigation for the motive of the murder of Pete Lund/Ole Anderson, commonly known and referred to as “The Swede.” A film noir is a term made originally to describe American mystery and thriller movies produced in the time period from 1944-1954, primarily marked by moods of menace, pessimism, and fatalism. Although the film does not focus on the war itself at all, it still puts forth interesting new ways in how gender relations can be stereotypical as well as divergent proceeding the Second World War.

Film noir movies, a genre disassociated with the war was made in the 1940’s. This genre reflected how Hollywood felt during the challenges of the war and post-war. It had somber dark plots, untrustworthy femme fatales and cynical heroes. The movies were set in low key lights and seedy, smoky rooms. In the films, the women were seen as “glamorous and dangerous” who wanted power and wealth, where as the men were depicted as weak and were not able to be a hero. The minor characters were traumatized by violence and sex. In Woman in a Window and Scarlet Street, the lead male is traumatized by a beautiful woman. The film, Mildred Pierce, follows a housewife from a restaurant worker to one that owns several restaurants.

Film Noir was extremely trendy during the 1940’s. People were captivated by the way it expresses a mood of disillusionment and indistinctness between good and evil. Film Noir have key elements; crime, mystery, an anti-hero, femme fatale, and chiaroscuro lighting and camera angles. The Maltese Falcon is an example of film noir because of the usage of camera angles, lighting and ominous settings, as well as sinister characters as Samuel Spade, the anti-hero on a quest for meaning, who encounters the death of his partner but does not show any signs of remorse but instead for his greed for riches.

Mo' Better Blues is a 1990 music drama film. Mo' Better Blues follows a jazz musician named Bleek Gilliam (Denzel Washington) who is obsessed with his art, but because he begins a path that separates him from the person closest to him. Another band member encountered a problem in another quintet named Shadow Henderson (Wesley Snipes), which led to everyone in the band. Their manager Giant (Spike Lee) is Bleek's best friend because he is a child, but as a manager, he is absolutely horrible, deep gambling debt. In addition, Blake (Bleek) balance the two women indigo (Joie Lee) between the love of life, another name is Clark (Cynda Williams) is a lady of the upcoming singer The His film has a strong message about causality, a bit about fate

The film, the Untouchables, was directed by Brian De Palma. It was set in the prohibition era, which was right at the start of the 1920’s. Prohibition can be described as a law that made selling and manufacturing alcohol illegal. By putting this law into effect, it actually increased the amount of crime and violence throughout cities in the US. This was ultimately due to the rise in organized crime, also known as gangs. In the movie specifically, it was centered around the rise of the Mafia in Chicago. By looking at the production of the movie, we can see how during prohibition, the Mafia controls everything and the violence ultimately it leads to.

When looking at Norma Desmond the last thing that comes to mind is the monstrous figure of Dr. Caligari, but their movies have more in common than what we think. In this essay, I will compare and contrast two scenes: one from Sunset Boulevard and another from The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, to show how German Expressionism helped to shape the aesthetic of Film Noir. While both of them rely on making a distorted reality that keeps us restless, Sunset Boulevard lacks the twisted visual style that characterizes The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.

The film noir Casablanca by Michael Curtiz will always remain an American classic. Director Michael Curtiz shows WWII on the homefront, using the setting to transfer the viewpoint. Famous and popular actors Humphrey Bogart, Paul Henreid and actress Ingrid Bergman engage in a love triangle that leads the film to its purpose and theme. Whether the genre be a film noir or a wartime romantic drama, Casablanca illustrates lenient criticism through a hometown war rebellion setting and a true love’s hardships. With the use of low-key lighting, urban settings and unconventional camera angles, Michael Curtiz helps to illustrate Casablanca’s noir style.

Robert Altman’s The Long Goodbye and Roman Polanski’s Chinatown are both good examples of neo-noir. They both carry elements of classical film noir with them, such as the “hard boiled detective” archetype, the “femme fatale” archetype, and they both deal with the gritty side of human nature. But while they both have some overlapping noir tropes that can be seen in classical noirs, these films are actually incredibly different from one another. They both act as examples for John Cawelti’s Modes of Generic Transformation. They both share one mode, but then have different modes in addition, making them noir-like in essence, but still incredibly different films.

The story begins with our protagonist, eleven-year-old noir film fanatic Alex, she discovers that her neighbor has gone missing. Clues lead Alex to locate her neighbor, and to rescue him Alex and her acquaintance nine-year-old Tubs must the urban area of their town. The story resolves with Alex locating her neighbor within the home of a

I have to say right from the word go that this is classic film noir in true Hollywood style, and as detective films go might just be the best acted, best scripted and best directed whodunnit you will ever have the privilege of watching. Bogart plays private eye Phillip Marlowe, hired by a dying old man with two beautiful, but uncontrollable daughters.

If I were to write my essay over film, I would like to explore what inspired the Film Noir period’s cynicism. The Film Noir period was a film movement in the 40’s and 50’s best characterized by its cynical plotlines and overall dark themes. I believe that it is the product of societal traumatization from the Great Depression and would like to investigate what circumstances led to such a pessimistic movement. An example of a criterion for writing my essay over film is to include the historical, social, and cultural context of the film(s) that are being analyzed. Another example of a criterion that differs from the other criteria

Horror films are movies that aim to elicit a strong physiological reaction in the viewer, such as raised heartbeat and fear. Three horror films by the names of Psycho, Scream and The Messengers will be analysed and compared to an episode of the popular children’s show Shaun the Sheep. Five elements will be addressed in this analysis, those being camera techniques, Mise-en-scene, Editing, Lighting and Sound.

What is Film Noir? Film Noir literally means “Black Film” in French, the French coined this after World War 2 when they were finally able to view American films again after the war and they found that these films were quite different than what they used to be. These films had a completely different atmosphere, a different emotion that was displayed. Film Noir had a very distrustful air about its nature, lacking integrity. Every scene was cloaked in darkness and the plot had a looming sense of despair (TheBook). The war left America in dark times and Film Noir was one of the ways from them to express it.

Alfred Hitchcock’s attention to detail in his films is one of the many things that makes him one of the most recognized film auteurs of all time. He was very particular what about he wanted seen on screen and how he wanted to get those shots. From camera movements to the things found in the mise-en-scène, Hitchcock was very precise about every little thing that is seen in his on screen worlds. He would strategically place objects throughout the mise-en-scène and have characters wear certain clothing. By doing this, Hitchcock is able to let the audience know things about the characters and the plot without it having to be said on camera. Hitchcock once said that “If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on” (Tiffin). That’s why there’s no surprise that when Hitchcock finally made his first color film, he began to use color as another way of communicating with his audience.