2. Ingredients
• 1- Dark shadowy contrasting images in black and white.
Usually at night in urban settings
• 2- Hard boiled, cynical, delusional, these characters
are usually likable
• 3- A male protagonist- usually facing a moral delima
or some kind of threat. He is usually a brooding
sardonic disillusioned, scared and insecure, alienated
from society
• He is a loner in an urban landscape (Helps
individual style) shot through his eyes a world
dominated by corruption where there is a fine line
between right and wrong
3. Ingredients
• 4- Femme Fatal (deadly woman)
• Gorgeous, unloving, predatory, manipulative and
desperate. Typically stronger
• Alluring, sassy, who is dangerous, who suffers for
independence
• 5- Often a Crime or Detective story: influence of
hard boiled authors on the narrative style
• 6- Use of voice over narration
• 7- Flashbacks- a wavering past and present.
Inextricably linked
4. Ingredients
• 8- Crisp, witty dialogue with
great one liners
• “when you’re slapped you’ll
take it and like it”
• 9- Angst American style (dread
and doom) gloomy neurotic
feeling of anxiety/depression
5. Ingredients
• 10- Healthy dose of paranoia and
insecurity, betrayal, or being
trapped
• 11- No happy ending, a happy ending
turns a Noir into a film gris or a
melodrama in Noir style
• 12- Distorting camera angles,
expressionate. Distorted closeups
and chiaroscuro lighting that fills
the frame with shafts of light and
shadow to create a world of
claustrophobia and fear
6. Ingredients
• 10- Healthy dose of paranoia and
insecurity, betrayal, or being
trapped
• 11- No happy ending, a happy ending
turns a Noir into a film gris or a
melodrama in Noir style
• 12- Distorting camera angles,
expressionate. Distorted closeups
and chiaroscuro lighting that fills
the frame with shafts of light and
shadow to create a world of
claustrophobia and fear
