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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Big Sleep had a impact on the The Big Lebowski due to the name of the film. I also believe that the plots of the story have the same feel to them. The films both are kind of loose being everywhere; however, as the story ends the plot comes together as a whole and completes good.
I have watched a lot of movies with the “Detective Hero” and the Femme Fatale, yet never knew that it was common during the WWII. Before this class I did not know what film noir genre is. In every movie there has to be a hero. In film noir movies it was usually a tall, slender, laid-back detective. The detective was always well-dressed and he could talk to any social class person. He spoke proper English to the street slang. “The Femme Fatale” is the soft, yet hard woman that can take on tough things. During WWII women had no choice but to be alone and raise the children. Raising children especially boys the mother has to be tough. I feel like women still have this role that they carry in today’s society. Women have been taught to be independent, strong, and use sex to get what we want. Even in the movies still today women use sex to destroy the heroes in the movie. Every time I see a movie the greatest villain is played by a woman. Women use every manipulation of sex to destroy the hero. For example, the movie Batman and Michelle Pfeiffer played catwoman. She was using her sexual wiles to destroy Batman and Robin.
The
Big Sleep had a impact on the The Big Lebowski due to the name of the film. I also believe that the plots of the story have the same feel to them. The films both are kind of loose being everywhere; however, as the story ends the plot comes together as a whole and completes good.
I have watched a lot of movies with the “Detective Hero” and the Femme Fatale, yet never knew that it was common during the WWII. Before this class I did not know what film noir genre is. In every movie there has to be a hero. In film noir movies it was usually a tall, slender, laid-back detective. The detective was always well-dressed and he could talk to any social class person. He spoke proper English to the street slang. “The Femme Fatale” is the soft, yet hard woman that can take on tough things. During WWII women had no choice but to be alone and raise the children. Raising children especially boys the mother has to be tough. I feel like women still have this role that they carry in today’s society. Women have been taught to be independent, strong, and use sex to get what we want. Even in the movies still today women use sex to destroy the heroes in the movie. Every time I see a movie the greatest villain is played by a woman. Women use every manipulation of sex to destroy the hero. For example, the movie Batman and Michelle Pfeiffer played catwoman. She was using her sexual wiles to destroy Batman and Robin.