| Posted by: Monotreme at March 26, 2008, 3:14 pm | | Topic: Defining Film Noir . . . Forum: JoBlo | | Ahh... I love this genre. Off the top of my head I can't really think of many foreign films-noir except for The Third Man; it is an understandably American genre, originating from the cinematographers of German expressionism who fled the Nazis and were integrated into Hollywood, bringing their visual style along with them. Watch Murnau's "The Last Laugh", for example: Keep the entire movie the way it is without altering a single shot but change the main character from a hotel porter to an aging hard-boiled detective, facing the scorn of those surrounding him and losing his sanity as he attempts to tackle one last impossible case, and it becomes a film-noir. The detective element is crucial, I think, even if the aesthetic can be found in many other films both before and during the classic-noir period. I've also noticed that a very large amount of films-noir take place in Los Angeles. Anyone else noticed this common element? Neo-noir is a different matter, seing as many examples of the genre take either noir aesthetics and apply them to a non-noir environment (The Man who Wasn't There), or take non-noir aesthetics and apply them to a very noirish core (Fargo). |
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