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- 2. CONVENTIONS OF FILM NOIR CHARACTER ROLES THEMES ICONOGRAPHY & MISE EN SCENE VISUAL STYLE
- 3. CHARACTER ROLES MALE PROTAGONIST FEMME FATALE CORRUPT COPS GANGSTERS/THUGS DETECTIVES
- 4. MALE PROTAGONIST THE MALE PROTAGONIST IS OFTEN HARD HEARTED LONELY/ALIENATED CYNICAL PHYSICALLY STRONG THE MALE PROTAGONIST OFTEN MEETS AN ENTICING, BEAUTIFUL FEMME FATALE THAT LURES HIM INTO A DANGEROUS SITUATION. THE ENVIRONMENTS THEY USUALLY WORK AND LIVE IN ARE DARK AND SCARY CITIES, OFTEN SUPPRESSED BY DEHUMANIZING SURROUNDINGS. THEY OFTEN HAVE A PARTICULARLY STRONG GIFT WITH REGARDS TO VERBAL WIT, DESPITE NOT BEING THE MOST INTELLECTUAL OF PEOPLE.
- 5. FEMME FATALE THE FEMME FATALE IS AN ATTRACTIVE, SEDUCTIVE WOMAN THAT ULTIMATELY CAUSES THE DOWNFALL OF A MAN THAT BECOMES INVOLVED WITH HER. SHE OFTEN USES HER SEXUAL APPEAL AND DESIRES TO MANIPULATE THE PROTAGONIST INTO SUCCUMBING TO HER – HENCE CAUSING THE PROTAGONIST TO BECOME A SCAPEGOAT – A PERSON WHO IS IS BLAMED FOR THE WRONGDOINGS, MISTAKES AND FAULTS OF OTHERS.
- 6. CORRUPT COPS FILM NOIR OFTEN FEATURES A CHARACTER WITHIN A POSITION OF AUTHORITY. THEIR STATUS AND ROLE IS ABUSED FOR THEIR OWN PERSONAL PROFIT. THIS IS REMINISCENT OF THE SOCIAL SITUATIONS AS CORRUPTION WAS ‘ON THE RISE’ IN THE 1950s.
- 7. THEMES EXTORTION GREED MONEY JEALOUSY PARANOIA DEPRESSION DARKNESS POWER UNCERTAIN ROMANCE LONE INTROVERTED HERO CORRUPTION LITTLE HOPE SEX FATALISM BLEAK VISION OF THE WORLD ALIENATION/LONLINES S CRIME
- 8. ICONOGRAPHY & MISE EN SCENE THE CITY DANGEROUS HOSTILE LONELY BLEAK ISOLATING PLACE RAIN DRENCHED STREETS NEON SIGNS GUNS CIGARETTES ALCOHOL/ALCOHOLICS
- 9. VISUAL STYLE USE OF FILTETRS – LOW KEY CHIAROSCURO LIGHTING NIGHT SCENES OBSCURED VISION RAIN TILT OR CANTED CAMERA ANGLES CUTS FAVOURED OVER TRANSITIONS SILHOUETTE SHADOWS SMOKE/FOG