dose one or two go with noir or not

　
I feel that the THE GIRL WHO KISSED BARNABY JONES is a really good example of noir because it had a really good description of the femme fatale who in this story was Cherie. And a good description of the protagonists who was Tate. Cherie, to many was a beautiful actress who had fell off ,from the acting business. She didn’t seem like a killer to her victim Tate but she was. She called him at 3:00 in the morning asking him for a favor. Then when he gets to were she is, she makes it seem as if sexes was all she wanted but like a femme fatale Cherie had more then that on her mind. She manipulated him with sex and then told him that he had to help her dispose of a man she had just shot. She stated “if I wanted a fucking ambulance I’d called one myself. You’re going to help me cover this up.” the men that was shot was still a live but because Cherie had no love for any one but her self she was over come by darkness. Tate was overcome by his lust for sex and with out question went blindly to were Cherie told him. After getting off the phone with Cherie he stated “I have a grate boner with Cherie’s name on it, and if she asked me to shovel shit I’d ask her how fast…” Tate didn’t realize that any thing was wrong until after he was there at the house with her. This story had me going because the characters were like the one’s in film noir but more in depth, more modern, and more lose with the way they did things. The Kinship seemed be the most difficult to classify as noir. It seemed to have nothing to do with the way noir set things up. The men named Tomas had told more of his life’s story then the plot to hurt a man. telling us about his life and the way his family line stuck to gather for years was not the same as way noir usually presents the story of one event.

Messy Mistakes

The protagonists in film noir are normally driven by their past or by human weakness to repeat former mistakes. The two stories’ the Kidnapper bell and the City of commerce both portrayed similarity in their roles. The protagonists in Kidnapper bell was over came by his weakness for a woman he been dating and wanted to have sex with. He had been entrapped by his desires and mistakes of cheating on his wife to the point that When the woman had killed a person she asked him to come with her to the murder seen to help her come up with a plan but she never really told him any thing. And she needed his help. He was easily led away to a dark and unhealthy reality, which seemed to be a never ending stream of death. The protagonists in the city of commerce had been over came by his weakness for gambling. He was led away from time, the time he was suppose to get home and to a meeting, when some thugs captured and beat him then made him play poker for his life. He also had a wife at home whom he cheated on with for the sweet game of poker. The two men were also alike in the ending of the story. it seemed to be more of an alternate egos. The man from kidnapper bell ended up having a clean bell in his pocket as if all along it was him who had set the whole thing up himself and the man from commerce went off and was going to stated a new life of playing poker. living the way he wanted to. And leaving behind his wife and a job he had wanted for for some time. Just like in film noir description of a protagonist these two men had been over taking by their weaknesses and both paid a price in the end.

woman to woman

The method is a story with both suspense and anticipation with both proud and to the story teller justices. Holly reviles her relationship with a man named Richard aka (Anthony) who was plotting to kill a former actress named Maria McKy whom had fried him after they had broken up. He was using holly to do the job, hoping that his charms and good sex’s would be enough. I would diffidently recommend this story to a friend or any one for that matter especially a woman, because one way or anther a woman has experienced a man trying to manipulative her with sex and charms hoping that she would go by his way. Or he uses his good looks to move her in to having sex with him. All while haveing no real intention of being with her at all. As holly tell us the story with zeal and fire, she gives the low down on the situation she had gotten her self in to. In the end she felt he needed to pay for what he intended on using her for with his life. She then put her self in a cold and heartless position to which his life slipped away before her very own eyes. This story was a really good one to me. Morocco junction on the other hand didn’t rally keep me my attention because the story wasn’t really basted on the femme or the protagonist the women tell the story was more like detective. the plot was boring to me and has a been there done that type of feel. I wouldn’t recommend this story to no one.

the fast and the dangerous

The elements of a femme fatale were vastly seen in “Midnight in Silicon Valley”. The wife of Mr. Chen reminded me a lot of Phyllis in “Double Indemnity” who was a perfect refection of the femme fatale in classic noir. Although Mrs. Chen’s motive seemed more pure than those of Phyllis, the evil she struck upon her husband was devilish and disagreeable.  Mrs. Chen had a reason for her evil where as Phyllis just did it for the money, Mrs. Chen did it for revenge. Mr. Chen had been cheating on his wife with mutable women one being a young teenage girl. Mr. Chen was almost a slime ball for what he was doing where is Mr. Nirdlinger was just a man of innocents in the book “Double Indemnity”. Dangerous Days on the other hand highlighted the characteristics of the detective figure Cravitz as did Keys in “Double Indemnity”. The book started off with a friend of Cravitz, Calzone, fearing for his life because he accidentally shot and killed a young black boy. Because of all the racial tension  Calzone was getting death threats. Cravitz offered him a hideout which soon was found. Athena later had Calzone murdered. Cravitz got down to the bottom of the case and put Athena in jail. I feel that Dangerous Days had more of the classic noir film elements because it had both the characters of the femme fatal and the detective figure. Athena was the femme fatale luring young men into her dark trap and Cravitz being the detective solving the case.

THE DIFFERENCE OF TIME

Noir and Neo-noir in most descriptions the same with very little differences. Most visual elements the same only with the neo-noir films color was incorporated. The films still had the characters of the femme fatal and the protagonist with very little differences in the personalities of the characters. The time frames between the two genres is the most visible difference in the two. Noir films form in the 40s to the 50s and reflected the things that appeared in that time. The Cold War had a major effect in the violence that appeared on film. There was a lot of grime in the streets of the film, a since of loneliness and urgency. Heather Fireman states that noir streets were that of ; Murky shadows, smoke, and rain running down windows obscure to our view of the noir world and make it clear this is a world of ambiguous morality. Neo-noir form in the twentieth century during a new time an error. The same visual affects were shown the films as well as a new type of protagonist, one that is passive, alienated, and without ambition. The other with traits that produce mischief and soap, but also destruction and chaos, vandalism and anarchy. The males play a different role in these two genres. Other than the time frame of the films and slight character change the genres are simply identical. Neo-noir a genre formed in the twentieth century taking on the personality of its time, and classic noir pulling form the war craved streets of its time.

white horns

In film noir movies the femme fatale always appear in a light color to hide the fact that she had a dark side to her and to show a kind of purity to the audiences. In double indemnity Phyllis was never seen in any thing black except the black hat she wore when she came in Norton’s office. “Double Indemnity absolved the femme noire from wearing black, even though the western had long freed the villain from the obligatory black hat. Her emancipation, however, has more to do with ambiguity than equality. To appear less mono-linear and capable of non-lethal moods, she frequently wears white. Thus Phyllis is first seen draped in a white towel in Double Indemnity”. (Dick, Bernard F.) so even when Phyllis is first the elusion of her purity was camouflaged by the covering of a white towel. Like the femme fatale’s role of deception the colors or shades of the film deceived as well. Though the movie was black and white the colors played a big part. Phyllis the woman of many hidden evil agendas dress in the pure colors of lighter shades, while the woman Lola pure at heart dressed in dark colors the entire film. The article played a big role in expositing this minor detail in the film and book. Like in the book when Walter saw Phyllis for the second time the book describes her wearing a all white pants suit, where there after Walter helped her button up the blouse after they kiss.