The Big Sleep Film Noir Techniques

Film noir is a genre based on moods of fate, evil, and undesirable outcomes. In the film The Big Sleep exemplifies film noir from the visual using the black and dark atmosphere. The genre film noir has a dark downbeat sort of feel to the theme. Film noir is very dramatic and in the movie when a character dies the movie has the orchestra play a dark, gloomy, grim type of music. The lighting in film noir is also used in the movie. During the car rides the lightening is clear showing what audience should be focusing in on. The shadows in the movie are shown on the characters faces as they take and light one of their smokes. The plot elements also show the film noir genre is in the movie. The plot focusses around drugs, murder, and gossip.

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