Film Noir - Why I Love It

Originally Film Noir was a film movement in the 1940s to 50s that showcased a darker side to cinema. From the sets that were constantly drenched with rain to the performances that always had there roots stuck firmly into their character stereotypes, Film Noir was certainly the movement that swayed hollywood from the happy, jolly, "everything is just spiffing" tale too its more dark and sinister, almost manic depressive, side.

Modern Film Noir however has turned into something even darker than before. It ranges from films like The Dark Knight (Batman 2) which are very much Hollywood's take on being inventive and out there to Sin-City which really is. The genre seems to have warped from films that were largely based in L.A. And relied on stock characters to pull along complicated and sometimes incomprehensible plots to an umbrella genre that now describes any film that is in black and white and/or doesn’t end up with a happy ending.

 

I hope to incorporate the ideas into my Film. For example like Sin-City's The Orange Bastard, I could make the feel of the film more Gray and take out most of the colour so only the vivid remain. I could also make it more aggressive and angry like in most of the scenes in any Christopher Nolan Film as I feel it adds more dimensions to the films, can help to build more of a relationship with the characters and plus anger always connotes madness.