Film Noir is defined by Wikipedia as:
"Film noir is a cinematic term used primarily to describe stylish Hollywood crime dramas, particularly those that emphasize moral ambiguity and sexual motivation. Hollywood's classic film noir period is generally regarded as stretching 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, while 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.
The term film noir (French for "black film"), first applied to Hollywood movies by French critic Nino Frank in 1946, was unknown to most American film industry professionals of the era. Cinema historians and critics defined the canon of film noir in retrospect; many of those involved in the making of the classic noirs later professed to be unaware of having created a distinctive type of film."
It usually involves low-key lightning which creates a sharp contrast of light/dark effect (known by its cinematic Italian name "chiaroscuro"). Also during the 50s Noir was in first person narration form.
But above all these, the darkness of the shadows, the tale-telling style and the crime-detective genre of it is just the old version of the modern time. All of the shadows of the characters and the bullshit of the modern time, the evil force haunting the good and the good investigating the evil. Its all boringly the same. Yet its name tag defined as classic and stylish and distictive but what are all these empty deep mediums telling of something new ?
"Film noir is a cinematic term used primarily to describe stylish Hollywood crime dramas, particularly those that emphasize moral ambiguity and sexual motivation. Hollywood's classic film noir period is generally regarded as stretching 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, while 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.
The term film noir (French for "black film"), first applied to Hollywood movies by French critic Nino Frank in 1946, was unknown to most American film industry professionals of the era. Cinema historians and critics defined the canon of film noir in retrospect; many of those involved in the making of the classic noirs later professed to be unaware of having created a distinctive type of film."
It usually involves low-key lightning which creates a sharp contrast of light/dark effect (known by its cinematic Italian name "chiaroscuro"). Also during the 50s Noir was in first person narration form.
But above all these, the darkness of the shadows, the tale-telling style and the crime-detective genre of it is just the old version of the modern time. All of the shadows of the characters and the bullshit of the modern time, the evil force haunting the good and the good investigating the evil. Its all boringly the same. Yet its name tag defined as classic and stylish and distictive but what are all these empty deep mediums telling of something new ?
