For me , I'm thinking about something black and white movie or people. Yup it's correct , noir is associated in low key black and white.It was all about the low key lighting , it is just like my previous post :)
Film noir is not a genre, but rather the mood, style, point-of-view, or tone of a film. It is also helpful to realize that 'film noir' usually refers to a distinct historical period of film history.
Noir literally means black in French. It is probably known worldwide though for being a style of movie or theater. The term film noir refers to a setting or style that is less than happy. It often has a dark theme and or setting.
Film genre characteristic of the years between with 20's and late 40's.
Dark, gritty crime fiction: usually a heist, murder, or other such crime.
Film noir films mostly shot in gloomy grays, blacks and whites) thematically showed the dark and inhumane side of human nature with cynicism and doomed love, and they emphasized the brutal, unhealthy, seamy, shadowy, dark and sadistic sides of the human experience.
Some of the most prominent directors of film noir included Orson Welles, John Huston, Billy Wilder, Edgar Ulmer, Douglas Sirk, Robert Siodmak, Fritz Lang, Otto Preminger, Henry Hathaway and Howard Hawks.
Greatest Early and Classic Film Noir:
I Am A Fugitive From A Chain Gang 1932
The Letter 1940
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