The storie that I think is the best example of noir in the gold coast series is The Girl Who Kissed Barnaby Jones because the main charecter in the storie Cherie is the apitamiy of the femme fatal. She uses her sexappeal and her femanine wiles to persuaied Tate into helping her get rid of a 350 pound body. But sometimes all things dont go as planned, for instance Tate thinks Cherie is calling him because of a conflict in tomorrow's scheddule. Tate plannned on getting off work and going to Koreatown, not miles out of his way to the Palisades, where he thought he would run into tons of traffic, on the 101 and especialy on the 405. But it was smooth sailing all the way to the palisades. Another one of the reasons I think this storie is an example of noir is, it takes place in a major city. LA as a matter of fact. This storie also takes place at night so you get that kind of dark evil feeling, not just because it takes place at night but because you are heading into the unknown at three in the morning. Usually at three in the morning in the middle of LA there is a bit of mist in the air, that also adds to the dark evil feeling.
When Tate arrrives at the house where Cherie invites him things start to go better than he could ever imagine. Cherie just puts the offer of sex right out there for him. He didn't have to put any work into it at all, When things seem to good to be true they usually are, just like in this sittuation. Now Cherie has Tate right where she wants him, and only then does she reviel the true reason she invited him over. Not for the sex, but to be an accomplise in murder, in the true femme fatal fashion.
Saturday, March 26, 2011
Thursday, March 17, 2011
CONTRAST NOIR
Some of the main contrasts between contemporary Neo Noir, and works associated with classic film noir of the 1940s and 1950s is, the most obvious would be all neo noir films are done in color, Most films back in the classical period of film noir were shot in blask and white, and almost always is a low budget B movie.
In the classical era of film noir was very conservative, there were no sex scenes, no foul languge, and no drugs. But classical noir does have its dark side. The French word for "black" is Noir. Most scenes in film noir are shot at night, or in a dark corner of a bar some where in LA, or in a wet dark alley somewhere in the middle of a city.
The films and novels of the Neo Noir era differ fron the classical period of Noir because, the films and novels of the classical period were mostly "WHITE WASHED"! White washed was a term people used to describe an all white cast, or only the white majority is the only race that truly enjoys the works of film noir. That all changed during the Neo Noir movement, The films started casting Hispanics, and African Americans for the first time. In alot of the Neo Noir works there is alot of cuseing, and slang used in the dialouge.
These are just a few of the diffrences between noir and neo noir.
In the classical era of film noir was very conservative, there were no sex scenes, no foul languge, and no drugs. But classical noir does have its dark side. The French word for "black" is Noir. Most scenes in film noir are shot at night, or in a dark corner of a bar some where in LA, or in a wet dark alley somewhere in the middle of a city.
The films and novels of the Neo Noir era differ fron the classical period of Noir because, the films and novels of the classical period were mostly "WHITE WASHED"! White washed was a term people used to describe an all white cast, or only the white majority is the only race that truly enjoys the works of film noir. That all changed during the Neo Noir movement, The films started casting Hispanics, and African Americans for the first time. In alot of the Neo Noir works there is alot of cuseing, and slang used in the dialouge.
These are just a few of the diffrences between noir and neo noir.
Sunday, March 6, 2011
critical noir
I read a couple diffrent reviews, but the one a liked the best was by Roger Ebert. Ebert's review was insightful, and interesting. Ebert's summery of the film was great, detailed and to the point. In the review Ebert whent above and beyond telling his readers details about the film that they would not know by just watching the film or reading the novel. Such as Wilder the director hired Chandler to write the screen play. When Chandler showed up the first day he was wasted on booze, and smoked a smelly pipe, I wonder what was in that pipe. Chandler knew nothing about putting together a screen play, But he sure could put a nasty spin on the dialouge. That is one of the reasons why the film was one of the greatest examples of film noir in the last century. Another fact that Ebert points out to his readers that is very insightful and just darn right intresting is Double Indemnity origanl final scene was Walter was sitting in a gas chamber in a prison somewhere in California, about to be uthanized. But in the theatrical version the gas chamber scene was cut. Which I think Wilder should of left in the film.
This article gave me a better insight into the whole film noir era, and what elements tuley makes a great noir film.
This article gave me a better insight into the whole film noir era, and what elements tuley makes a great noir film.
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