What is Film Noir – Private Detectives, Corrupt Cops, and Femme Fatales

Noir is one of my favorite genres and also my favorite style :)

2 seconds in and y’all are playing Bohren and Der Club of Gore. This is already legit

Seems like a downer style. SF/

Why is there no mention of le samourai or pierre jean Melville
Aren't his films considered noir?

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"Aaranya kaandam" is the Greatest Neo-Noir film That came out of my coutnry. It's my all time Favourite 🇮🇳

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The Third Man is my favorite, still. There are a lot of movies in this style (or genre) that I like, including the neo-noirs. I think it speaks to me because of the grit, the harshness, and the mystique. For some reason, I do not see them as having sad endings, but more realistic.

I think of film noir as style/aesthetic and/or setting, not genre.

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I love film noir, even though I still have plenty of movies to see. I love the "pessimistic" mood that you mentioned at the beginning. Also, for those black and white films, I love the dramatic lighting and scenes. Sometimes the rainy moments are just captivating to listen to besides watch. I'll have to watch the rest of this tomorrow! :D

Noir is a Dark Gray Experience in Cinema that Reflect the Reality and Dreams of our Life's.

It's interesting because I liked noir before I knew what it was. I remember as a kid I watched Blade Runner and while I didn't get the story I loved the visual style.
Then over the years I found myself drawn to films that had a similar kind of visual style and thematical elements.

I would describe Film Noir as a style that became recognized, and then crystalized into a genre. Classic noir films weren't really aiming to be genre films, they just followed certain trends that were popular at the time. More recent films like Chinatown and Sin City definitely aim for a specific genre.

It's also interesting how many elements we typically associate with noir weren't really common in classic noir films in the first place, like a jazz saxophone for background music.

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I'm easing my near future Call of Cthulhu campaign into a noir scenario this weekend and was kind of panicking about that. So this is truly perfect timing!

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It’s both genre and a style, and neither. It’s in the grey in-between, with no neat conclusion. It’s about as meta you can get in the film space.

Noir is a genre. Each genre runs on a particular emotion: Drama - empathy, Thriller - tension, Horror - fear, Action - mechanical aesthetics.

So each Noir i think is based on loneliness and despair. Therefore its a genre? Cus style is only a visual wrap, it doesn't affect the film's core emotion/meaning.

I can't buy any colour film as being noir.

Regarding Noir films, an interesting subject to explore would be the nuances between the archetypes of the femme fatale and the spider woman.

Road to Perdition is the newest one I can think of.

One fun thing to mention is the jazz score stereotype, which is actually a more modern thing that came from TV and then became a stereotype with parodies. The old noir movies used to have standard classical music like any other movie of the time.

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It’s Important to remember that Film Noir wouldn’t be a genre if German Expressionism never existed. Film Noir takes all it’s lighting fundamentals directly from German Expressionism. There’s a very rich history between the two that go beyond lighting, staging, set design, style etc…

Edit - I just got to the section where you mentioned German Expressionism! This makes me so happy.

Film Noir: The good guys aren't all that good; the bad guys are really bad; and everybody gets what they deserve in the end -- except for the innocent, who suffer.

I've been researching noir since a very long time. But it still seems very complicated to me. But my opinion is, it's both a style and a genre. But it's always up to a director, which kind of approach he likes to proceed.

i do not think the night of the hunter is a film noir. its aesthetic owes itself to the American silent film tradition at least as much as the film noir tradition, and it has many central points that are just not film noir. For instance, the main characters are kids, whereas film noir pretty much doesn't involve children at all.

I always roll my eyes about your clip selections. Couldn't you show some clips as examples for your theories that are not out of place or embarrassing, like the ridiculed Blade Runner voice-over, Branagh's Poirot, or modern neo-noir instead of classics from the '40s and '50s? Otherwise good commentary.

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No mention of the music in noir films.

I think Film Noir is a sub-genre, that can stand on it's own or be incorporated into other prime genres.

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Thank you for this excellent video. I’ll be using it in my film class next semester.

I loved how this video explained everything about Film Noir in a simple, interesting way. Thanks Studiobinder for making such informative videos about filmmaking. As an aspiring writer-director, your videos help me a lot.

Love noir films and pulp books

How precise and succinct the theory and arguments are presented! Very well executed and really accurate with the image selection, references and dialog quotations. It does make justice in showing the density of film noir. Many thanks

It's never been a question. It is a genre AND a style. I would always get upset when someone said it was an era of film making. It is a definable genre and style, it is beautiful and it has a philosophy to those honest enough to embrace it. To me, that is the core of noir. It may be cynical, it may be fatalistic, but it is always HONEST. I guess that is the truth about the human experience. I am more than willing to accept that.

Noir is giving the audience just enough light for them to start worrying about everything else that's still in shadow.

Genre.

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Listening to all the genre and stylistic tropes of film noir analysed here, turns out The Exorcist is a perfect example. Talking about femme fatale!

i think noir is a sub-genre of crime film, just like there robbery movie (Bonnie and Clyde) or Romantic crime (Badland) and there is also sub-sub genre in noir called neo noir (the last seduction/romeo is bleeding) which separate itself from the original B/W 40s-50s Noir some other borrowed the elements but they're not true noir film. By the way, i prefer the usual old man narrator than this young man, he pronounces Ossessione wrong! it's italian word not french lol