Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Film Noir

Film Noir, or black film takes a interesting leap in the film genre in the early 40's and 50's. Westerns and Screwball comedies dominated hollywood and even they were just barely making by the the hayes code in effect. Now enter a world where the most brutal of crimes are done on just a whim, this is the world of the Film Noir, a world where even an insurance salesman can be twisted into murdering a person all for a deadly lady a Femme Fatale, a woman who is both seductive and deadly, willing to do anything(or anyone) to accomplish her goals. Now some of you may agree with me that the dialogue in some of these movies both the phrases and the speed of which they are said may seem a little ridiculous but in the end I feel they help in both adding a hard-boil dialogue to the movie and even  the time periods phrases and culture. And rest assured the boys at Family Guy didn't miss a beat with that concept.