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.