Jay Adler
Detective Sam Hill
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Rule #1: Choose a Dame with a Past and a Hero with No Future. The noir protagonist is inevitably some hapless schmuck who is doomed, suckered to death or ignominy by lust, greed or some darker subterranean self-destructive urge. And inevitably the catalyst for this fall is a dame. Usually blonde. Always gorgeous.
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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 motivations. The 1940s and 1950s are generally...
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Jun 6, 2014 · Learn the 'Rules' of Film Noir & How to Light It. Tap into your dark side. The conventions of film noir (literally, black film, referring both to the lighting schema and the general weltanshauung of the pictures themselves) are inextricably tied in with American cinema to this day.
Jun 6, 2013 · 2009 matthew sweet explores his rules of the 1940's and 50's of american film noir. see america through a strangers eyes. a bbc documentary.
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The Rules of Film Noir: Directed by Elaine Donnelly Pieper. With Matthew Sweet, Sheri Chinen Biesen, Neil Brand, Sarah Churchwell. Documentary that shows the characteristic traits of film noir and their historical context.
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First, film noir needs the right cast of characters, including an investigator with “relative integrity” like Sam Spade or Philip Marlowe, a criminal (“usually a murderer”), one “bad, beautiful” woman, and another “good, bland” woman.
Film noir (/ n w ɑːr /; French: [film nwaʁ]) is a cinematic term used primarily to describe stylized Hollywood crime dramas, particularly those that emphasize cynical attitudes and motivations. The 1940s and 1950s are generally regarded as the "classic period" of American film noir.
