1. Sunset Boulervard
the opening scene of this film has a voiceover the whole way through, slowly beginnig to explain what is going on, i would like to include this in my film as i think it works well, because although there is still a sense of mystery, the audience are not completely left in the dark wondering what is going on.
2. A Touch Of Evil
I really like this opening scene, the thing i like the most is the shot used. there is just one shot used throughout the opening scene, this is a tracking shot. I really like how it seemed to concentrate on the car, then moved to the people walking, and while it was showing them, you could see lots of other things going on in the background. i also really like the music used in this scene as it seemed very convential of the 1940's and felt it fit the setting and the scene very well.
3. The Third Man
The opening scene in this film is different to the other films i have looked at because it just shows credits which is mega boring, i would not use it in my movie because i do not want to bore the audience to death before the movie starts.
Friday, January 27, 2012
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1. Sunset Boulevard
The story, set in '50s Hollywood, focuses on Norma Desmond, a silent-screen goddess whose pathetic belief in her own indestructibility has turned her into a demented recluse. The crumbling Sunset Boulevard mansion where she lives with only her butler, Max who was once her director and husband has become her self-contained world. Norma dreams of a comeback to pictures and she begins a relationship with Joe Gillis, a small-time writer who becomes her lover, that will soon end with murder and total madness.
2. The Maltese Falcon
The story concerns a San Francisco private detective's dealings with three unscrupulous adventurers who compete to obtain a fabulous jewel-encrusted statuette of a falcon.
3. Touch of Evil
Mexican Narcotics officer Ramon Miguel 'Mike' Vargas has to interrupt his honeymoon on the Mexican-US border when an American building contractor is killed after someone places a bomb in his car. He's killed on the US side of the border but it's clear that the bomb was planted on the Mexican side. As a result, Vargas delays his return to Mexico City where he has been mounting a case against the Grandi family crime and narcotics syndicate.
4. The Third Man
An American pulp writer arrives in post-WWII Vienna only to find that the friend who waited for him is killed under mysterious circumstances. The ensuing mystery entangles him in his friend's involvement in the black market, with the multinational police, and with his Czech girlfriend.
5. Notorious
Following the conviction of her German father for treason against the U.S., Alicia Huberman takes to drink and men. She is approached by a government agent who asks her to spy on a group of her father's Nazi friends operating out of Rio de Janeiro. A romance develops between Alicia and Devlin, but she starts to get too involved in her work.
The story, set in '50s Hollywood, focuses on Norma Desmond, a silent-screen goddess whose pathetic belief in her own indestructibility has turned her into a demented recluse. The crumbling Sunset Boulevard mansion where she lives with only her butler, Max who was once her director and husband has become her self-contained world. Norma dreams of a comeback to pictures and she begins a relationship with Joe Gillis, a small-time writer who becomes her lover, that will soon end with murder and total madness.
2. The Maltese Falcon
The story concerns a San Francisco private detective's dealings with three unscrupulous adventurers who compete to obtain a fabulous jewel-encrusted statuette of a falcon.
3. Touch of Evil
Mexican Narcotics officer Ramon Miguel 'Mike' Vargas has to interrupt his honeymoon on the Mexican-US border when an American building contractor is killed after someone places a bomb in his car. He's killed on the US side of the border but it's clear that the bomb was planted on the Mexican side. As a result, Vargas delays his return to Mexico City where he has been mounting a case against the Grandi family crime and narcotics syndicate.
4. The Third Man
An American pulp writer arrives in post-WWII Vienna only to find that the friend who waited for him is killed under mysterious circumstances. The ensuing mystery entangles him in his friend's involvement in the black market, with the multinational police, and with his Czech girlfriend.
5. Notorious
Following the conviction of her German father for treason against the U.S., Alicia Huberman takes to drink and men. She is approached by a government agent who asks her to spy on a group of her father's Nazi friends operating out of Rio de Janeiro. A romance develops between Alicia and Devlin, but she starts to get too involved in her work.
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"Film noir is a cinematic term used primarily to describe stylish Hollywood crime dramas, particularly those that emphasize cynical attitudes and sexual motivations. Hollywood's classic film noir period is generally regarded as extending from the early 1940s to the late 1950s. Film noir of this era is associated with a low-key black-and-white visual style that has roots in German Expressionist cinematography. Many of the prototypical stories and much of the attitude of classic noir derive from the hardboiled school of crime fiction that emerged in the United States during the Depression.!" -wikipedia.
List of Conventions for Film Noir:
- Femme Fatale
- Black and White
- Cynical Characters
- American
- Detective
- Odd Camera Angles
- Hero/Villain
- Mystery
- Low Lighting
- Relevant Costumes (Suits)
- Font
- Period Music
- Crime/Murder/Drugs
- Wealth
- Corruption
List of Conventions for Film Noir:
- Femme Fatale
- Black and White
- Cynical Characters
- American
- Detective
- Odd Camera Angles
- Hero/Villain
- Mystery
- Low Lighting
- Relevant Costumes (Suits)
- Font
- Period Music
- Crime/Murder/Drugs
- Wealth
- Corruption
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