Film Noir
Film Noir is usually about Crime. Crime is an element in nearly all noir films; in addition to that greed and jealousy are frequently the criminal motivation. And will usually involve some sort of authorities rouge or genuine. In other common plots the main theme is based around heists, con games, or in murderous conspiracies often involving adultery. False suspicions and accusations of crime are frequent elements in film noir, as are betrayals and double-crosses. Amnesia is far more common in film noir than in real life, and cigarette smoking is very common and practically every film noir will have scenes of smoking cigarettes. Film noirs tend to revolve around heroes who are often mentally unstable or perhaps corrupt in some way. The characteristic heroes of noir are filled with bitterness. Certain characters appear in many film noirs—hardboiled detectives, femme’s fatales, corrupt policemen, jealous husbands, and down-and-out writers. Film noir is often set in an urban location or a built up city like, Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, and Chicago, in particular generally the city is presented in noir as a maze. Bars, lounges, nightclubs, and casino’s are frequently the place of action. In popular noir it is always night and it always rains. In film noir the male’s roles are often played by strong masculine men who seem to be corrupt in some way or another and seem to always have a weakness generally towards women. The men in film noir seem to always be smoking and brooding about something, usually the men aren’t the reason for there predicaments but they are responsible for making their problems worse. Film noir is often based around a problem caused by either women crime or money.
The film sin city is a very unusual style of film noir but still has its fair share of powerful characters who demonstrate the usual characteristics of film noir characters the character I have chosen from this film is Marv. Marv is a strong character who has many mental problems he is a troubled character and has to take pills to control his mental state. He is evolved in a world where crime is the route of everything, his part in the movie is all to do with the death of a prostitute that showed him compassion however she is murdered in the night while he is sleeping next to her, so marvel takes it upon himself to find the killer and take revenge on him
Dwight a hero who is also a character from sin city, fits the bill of a traditional film noir male he is a tall strong man who has some sort of criminal backing, he is also somewhat mentally unstable his sequence in the film starts when he finds the girl he likes being abused by another man (adultery) and takes it upon himself to punish this man and tracks him down using the help of an old female friend who is the traditional style of a femme fatale, this sinister woman helps him get his vengeance and justice is served but with a film noir twist to it, Dwight becomes mentally troubled by the corpse and becomes even more mentally unstable.
Harley Evans