Steve McQueen's character in Bullitt, Lt. Frank Bullitt, was specially assigned by a would-be Senator to protect a character witness. But as the movie unfolds, Frank Bullitt soon finds himself tangled in a web of deceit and the blood of his partners on his hands. A similar misfortune had befallen James Stewart's character detective John "Scottie" Ferguson in the movie Vertigo. He was a retired police detective suffering from acrophobia who is hired as a private investigator to follow the wife of an acquaintance to uncover the mystery of her peculiar behavior. This sense of hopelessness is essentially the main driving force behind these successful film noir movies because of the way that it incorporates spine tingling suspense and relative emotions to its …show more content…
Perhaps because the role of a private dectective or gun man-prominent film noir characters-were given to males. Blame it on the era in which these films/movies were made. We didn't have many females back then who were contending with males on multiple fronts. Front lines of WW I/WW II and Executive officers or CEOs of major fortune 500 companies were just a few examples of prominent spots occupied by men. Although women did have cruical roles in all of the above, from a film noir stand point, they were deemed, "femme fatale," and used their sex appeal and minds to achieve their goals of fame, fortune, and power. More often than not, though, film noir viewers are more than likely to continue seeing males as the main character of many a "black film" to