Double Indemnity (1944 Billy Wilder) 1) Give a brief description of the narrative‚ what are the cause and effect links‚ which propel the narrative? Walter Neff is a successful insurance salesman for Pacific All Risk returning who sits down at his desk and tells a story into a Dictaphone to Keyes. A story about how Walter meets Phyllis during a house call to renew an automobile insurance policy for her husband. A flirtation occurs not until Phyllis wonders how she could take out a policy on her husband’s
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movie Out of the Past directed by Jacques Tourneur fits within the traditions of film noir because it has some similar themes associated with it‚ such as doomed love. Robert Mitchum plays the doomed‚ double-crossed ‚ ex-private eye as Jeff Markham. The femme fatale is played by Jane Greer as Kathie Moffat‚ who is trying to escape her future. Kirk Douglas as Whit Sterling plays the ruthless gangster czar in the film. The formal cinematic elements in the movie are used to vividly describe the movie
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The Lady From Shanghai is one of the great classical film noir‚ which was directed by Orson Welles in 1948 and he adapted it from the novel called If I Die Before I Wake by Sherwood King in 1938. The theme of this movie is about conspiracy and murder‚ it tells a story of the intrigues between several characters and finally to the terrible collective madness and death. Even though this film only takes 87 minutes‚ every scene composition and camera movement‚ including the movie lines is unforgettable
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Theater 120C: Final Paper In The Maltese Falcon (1941)‚ Humphrey Bogart plays Sam Spade‚ a private eye detective who is lured into the chase for a bird statue by a mysterious and deceitful woman named Ruth. His objectives are to find the Maltese Falcon‚ and discover the murderer of two crimes: the death of his former partner‚ Miles Archer‚ and another man named Thursby. He also wishes to prove his innocence for the murder of his partner because the police have him as the prime suspect. Sam approaches
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own ideas based on Ernest Becker’s book‚ The Denial of Death. Many of the ideas presented in Klassen’s essay can be applied to the movie‚ The Big Lebowski‚ along with the 40s film noir style. The Big Lebowski has such a large cult following for a couple different reasons. The first of which being that the more you watch the film‚ the more things you may notice that you didn’t notice before‚ whether it be quotable and witty lines that you didn’t catch the first
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in relation to the film. Somebody ’s going to pay because he forgot to kill me‚ this was the tagline featured on the poster for Fritz Lang ’s dark film noir classic The Big Heat which establishes the films undercurrents of violence and revenge. The plot places the films lone uncompromising homicide detective Dave Bannion‚ played by Glen Ford‚ in direct opposition to a society corrupt at almost every level‚ ranging from the mob to the police department itself. The films themes of corruption
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Gangster film Genre Reading number one-Developed around the sinister actions of criminals‚ gangsters‚ particularly bank robbers and underworld figures who operate outside of the law stealing and murdering their way through life. Crime stories in this genre usually highlight the rise and fall of one of these leading individuals. And the personal power struggle between these gangster and officials of the law. Gangster films are usually set in large crowded cities‚ to provide a view of the secrets
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Quay Brothers As a student with very limited knowledge of Film Noir and the Quay Brothers‚ the retrospective curated by the MoMA offers an extensive insight and knowledge in to the what seemed like at first inaccessible world of filmmaking that was so foreign to me. The Quay Brothers retrospective was very immersion into the fantasy world crafted by the imaginative identical twins. The exhibit relies on variety of mediums that transports the audience into a parallel universe of mystery and subtle
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In many of Alfred Hitchcock’s films‚ we are able to see how specific periods influence his work. In the case of postwar era‚ Hitchcock is able to evoke the aftermath of World War II issues and themes through the sub-text of films like I Confess (Warner Brothers‚ 1953) and The Trouble with Harry (Paramount‚ 1955). Though each film is completely different from the other‚ stylistically‚ genre-wise‚ tone-wise‚ scenery-wise; they both revolve around death‚ albeit approached from an entirely different
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Touch of Evil (1958) is an American film noir crime thriller‚ directed by Orson Welles. It may sound like a typical cop movie‚ but Welles for the time period pushed the limits of filmmaking. He takes us out of the 1950s “Ozzie and Harriet” world and puts us right smack into a world that is shockingly dark and twisted. Welles‚ like other Hollywood directors of the 1940s and 50s‚ started to experiment with different camera techniques to represent a character’s point-of-view. In its most effective structure
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