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The Big Sleep, written in 1939, is known as most famous hard-boiled novel by Raymond Chandler. In recent decades, unsurprisingly, this novel has been made into two movies. The first one which produced in 1946, by Howard Hawks, is the better one. Actually, there are still a lot of differences between the film and the novel.…
* Genre also echoed when police pursue Vincent & Irene through back alleys-near night club…
The film goes against classical Hollywood genre by its use of hybrid genre. Throughout the film we get scenes that make reference to film noir and thriller genres, but towards the end it mainly goes towards western, as Travis prepares for battle to the confrontation scene. This goes against the classical Hollywood genre as films usually only have one or two genres at the most, but this film even shows some comedic qualities at times.…
Film noir is about lies told by the criminal. Film noir is referred to black film. According to Christopher Wehnern, Noir films were lit differently, filmed differently, and told much different kinds of stories than what the French had last seen before the war, the mood and theme of these films were very dark, and narratives were cold, gloomy, and caliginous. Double Indemnity was written by James M. Cain in 1936, Edmund Wilson states, that Double Indemnity gives us an X-ray view of guilt, of duplicity, and of the obsessive, loveless love that devastates everything it touches.…
The genre film noir is very similar to the gothic style in some aspects, one being a sense of dark mystery. The title “Shallow Grave” is definitely film noir with its dark meaning of hidden vices just below the surface. The questions they ask also gives the audience a glimpse of their personality. David asks “Do you freebase” and other technical questions which suggest that he is into the more technical and inhuman aspect of things. Alex asks a…