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In Reply to: Does anyone like film noir? posted by edta on April 05, 2000 at 08:42:38:
do you mean black and white films. I only know what noir means with my limited french.Anyway, if so, then I have had my share of a few free good Bogart movies in an American centre in a foreign underdeveloped country and a lot of Charlie Chaplins as a kid the latter giving me a headache because the print quality was bad.
I saw the Maltese Falcon, Night of the Iguana, .... and so so many others in black and white some of which you may have seen in colour.
Probably not a nostalgia driven answer though.
Well, kuma pretty much explained it further down the thread:"Although the 'film noir (dark film in French) started in the late 30's in France, the genre in the US film did not blossom till 40s.
Usualy with moody/high contrast cinematography with lots of downbeat/corny characters such as Sam Spade in the Maltese Falcon often parodied in urban settings."In my reply down there, I mentioned some other things about it. Yes, black and white seems important, here. Night time too. The antihero (loser). The big try for money, or whatever it is the character thinks will have every thing coming up roses. A sense of desperation and futility. Squalidness searching for a way out. The underbelly of the American Dream. Gosh, surprising anyone would want to watch isn't it?
Is it a fascination with evil and the darkside, which we can encounter safely? Whatever it is, a lot of us enjoy it.
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