Watching the opening it looks like a typical noir film, it has the simple camera shots and shows close ups of the ring and the picture of the potential villain. The bits i like most from this opening is the close ups that zoom out to the environment also introducing a villain straight away but have the confusion of not knowing whats going on , and its slowly revealed to you.
Touch of evil
The whole of the opening scene was done really in one big long shot didn't seem to be any edits apart from at the end when the explosion happened. If i was to use any part of this scene i would use the conitious shot that reveals the setting and the characters in one easy hit.
Girls in prison
The start of this opening scene starts with a girl singing a song from around that area and then you get the typical storyline of guns police and a suspicious guy with a girl. watching through the clip it has the simple shots that a typical noir would have, i think simple shots but with quirky angles would looked good and I'm going to use them in my production.
POSTERS
All of theses posters have the same things in common which are typical of the film noir genre:
They have all got a picture of the main femme fatal or love interest as well as they all are done in a realistic but cartoon illustrations with the last names of the characters who are important being bigger. the Characters on the posters are usually portrayed as being bad or good depending on the angle the facial expression and the position they are placed in, bad would be in a dark light and the eyes and facial expression would be slightly sinister, and good guy would be in a lighter light looking more Innocent. the bright colours and the interesting composition would attract audiences to go watch the film, because its eye catching and appeals to the target audience.
Humphrey Bogart plays the famous detective character . He finds himself in the employ of the sick and dying General Sternwood, who asks him to keep an eye on his daughter Carmen who has fallen in with a bad group of people. Too bad he is distracted by her beautiful older sister Mrs. Vivian Rutledge, played by the amazing Lauren Bacall. Things begin to get out of control as people start dying all around Marlowe and he gets involved with powerful criminals, an underground pornography ring, and several nasty cases of blackmail.
The Killers
It starts where two hit men invade a small town and kill Ole Anderson (aka The Swede) who puts up no resistance. We learn that the Swede (played by Burt Lancaster) used to be a member of a gang of thieves whom he was pushed into betraying by femme fatale Kitty Collins Colfax (played by Ava Gardner).The Swede is fully aware of his transgressions and knows that he cannot escape his fate and so he greets his punishment like a man instead of trying to escape from it. We then follow an investigator and a police detective as they struggle to track down his killers and bring them to justice.
Out of the Past
At the start of the film, we find Bailey as the operator of a small town gas station but one day, he is forced to meet with a gambler named Whit Sterling. On the way to the meeting, he confesses his past to his girlfriend. It turns out that he was once a private eye who was hired by Sterling to find his mistress Kathie after she shot him and stole $40,000 from him. Bailey managed to track her down to Acapulco. Who he falls in love with. But one murder and terrible discovery later, he decided to leave her. Now, his past has caught up with him as he travels to meet the man that he betrayed. The only problem is that when he confronts Sterling, Kathie is there
Pickup on South Street
On a crowded subway in New York City, a small time pickpocket named Skip McCoy steals a wallet. Unbeknownst to him is the fact that the woman he robbed was carrying a microfilm of stolen top-secret government information that was destined for a group of Communists. With the incredibly vital information in the hands of a common thief, both the police and the Communists start to track him down. Too bad Mr. McCoy doesn’t care about the welfare of his country or his civic duty. To him, it is an opportunity to make a bundle from the highest bidder. As he slips away from the police and the Communists, it is up to Candy, the woman he robbed, to find him and get the microfilm back
The Big Heat
It all starts with the death of a police sergeant. The detective assigned to the case, Dave Bannion, thinks that foul play may be involved. Bannion has reason to believe that a powerful gang of criminals has infiltrated the police force and bumped the sergeant off. But the department’s higher ups force the case closed and one of the only witnesses willing to provide information is murdered. Enraged, he insults the suspected mob boss only to have his wife killed with a car bomb as a result. This puts him on a war path of furious vengeance as he swears to take the culprits down. Using every method at his disposal and the help of the gangster’s girlfriend Debbie, he cuts a path of violence and anger through all the obstacles in his way.
Conclusion
All of these films have a common convetion of having a dectetive or some kind of higher auothroty such as police as well as involving gangsters and love intrestes.
Definition-a movie that is marked by a mood of pessimism, fatalism, menace, and cynical characters; "film noir was applied by French critics to describe American thriller or detective films in the 1940s"
Conventions:
-Low-key lighting
Bleak urban setting
Corrupt
Cynical characters
Black+White
Set in 1940s - 1950s
