| Posted by: Monotreme at March 26, 2008, 3:45 pm | | Topic: Defining Film Noir . . . Forum: JoBlo | | Agreed about the broader description of the noir genre as being about men unsatisfied with their life and trying too hard to change things around for them. Another element I feel is men getting mixed up with things way beyond their level of control or comprehension and eventually soccuming. For example, Neff getting mixed up with the seminal femme fatale in Double Indemnity; Gillis getting mixed up with Desmond in Sunset Blvd.; simple breadwinner Sam Spade getting mixed up in a crime conspiracy far beyond his abilities in The Maltese Falcon; and examples from neo-noir such as Spade-like simple man Gittes getting mixed up in a massive crime conspiracy in Chinatown, or Lundegaard getting mixed up in a desperate con\kidnapping that goes horribly wrong and just keeps getting worse in Fargo. I also definitely think that the broader definition of what makes a film noir helps define most of the more modern neo-noir films; for instance, I definitely believe that The Big Lebowski is a type of neo-noir in that it features a simple man who gets mixed up in something far beyond his normal mental and emotional capacity (which is doing nothing more exciting than bowling, smoking joints and drinking the occasional white russian) and which ends in tragic results (Donnie). |
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