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Protagonist
"The protagonist of anti-hero is usually brought down by the femme fatale and his own greed.Strangely the audience still like these dislikable characters"
Conventions of a Protagonist
Drinks/smokes,On the edge,Weakwilled,Desperate,No morals,Easily seduced,Lives in the world of crime(Often a P.I or a Policemen.

Film noir is a cinematic term used primanily to describe stylish hollywood crime drama's. Hollywood's classic film noir period is genrally regarded as stretching from the early 1940's to the late 1950's. film noir of this ara is associated with low key back. White visual style. The term film noir french for black film.


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Dutch Angle
Dutch angle is often used to portray the psychological uneasiness or tension in what is being filmed. Achieved by tilting the camera tot side so that the shot has the horizon at an angle to the bottom line of the frame.


Chiarascuro lighting is a type of extreme lighting used in film noir to create distinct areas of lighting. Chiarascuro lighting is used to give the film more envosis to create an effect that viewers can relate to.
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Protagonist
"The protagonist of anti-hero is usually brought down by the femme fatale and his own greed.Strangely the audience still like these dislikable characters"
Conventions of a Protagonist
Drinks/smokes,On the edge,Weakwilled,Desperate,No morals,Easily seduced,Lives in the world of crime(Often a P.I or a Policemen.

Dangerous Crossing

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This poster is a Film Noir poster because it has all the conventions needed for a Film Noir genre such as a Femme fatale,urban city,Chiaroscuro lighting,Dutch angle.


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Double Indemnity
Director Billy Wilder

Double Indemnity stars 3 people
Fred Macmurray
Barbara Stanrnwyckn
Edward G. Robinson

 Double Indemnity Review
Double Indemnity was written by James M. Cain and was screen played by Billy Wilder. Double Indemnity was set in LA and was later released in USA on the  6th September 1944, the genre of Double Indemnity was Crime/Drama Film Noir Thriller. The plot for Double Indemnity was "It's Love and Murder at first Sight". Double Indemnity got nominated for 7 Oscars.


The spirit

This poster is a Film Noir because it has all the conventions of a Film Noir which are Dutch angle text it also has a Femma Fatal which is a convention of film noir,Looming shadows,vivid contrasts.


The Godfather

This poster is a Film Noir poster because it has all the conventions that make a film Noir Genre such as the protagonist,femme fatel,urban city, shadows, chiaroscuro lighting.


Unresolved

Telling by looking at the poster you can tell it is a film noir because of the conventions it's made up from.the conventions are Looming shadows,Vivid contrasts,Protagonist and Chiaroscuro lighting.



Fred Macmurray

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Fred Macmurray the Patagonist in double imdemnity.The film is black and white it is set in LA.At the start of the film he admits killing someone for money and a women,and he ends up getting nither after the murder.It was abit strange it all happening in the first part of the film but we then find out it was a flash back.Borton Keys is the protagonist's boss he talks very fast.When the patagonist and femme Fatle meet they start to flirt,you can they fancy each other but the Femma Fatle is playing hard to get  but then admits that the patagonist is coming on to strong. Fred Macmurray playing the character Walter Neff is a his character is a protagonist and is usually brought down by Femma Fatles and his own greed.Strangely the audience still like these dislikable charcters.Femma Fatles easily persuade protagonist to do stuff using her sexuality to get her own way.

Phyllis Dietrichson

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Phyllis Dietrichson is played by Barbara Starnwyck her character is a Femma Fatel she gets her way  round by her sexuality.Her character in Double Indemnity is very persasive and leads every man to do bad stuff.She is also a murder,she murdered Mr Dietrichson and then gets her boyfriend to murder her husband Mr Dietrichson.She claims Double Indemnity but then she gets shot by Walter Neff.When Walter Neff and  Ms Dietrichson first met she was very flirty and looked like she wanted him but made him think otherwise.

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Keys is the manger for the insurance company and knows when someone is out to get for his money.Hes been the manger for years and suspects something is wrong about the Mr Dietrichson claim.

What i thought about Double Indemnity?
Double Indemnity was my first Film noir i thought it was very intersting,i thought it would be boring because it was in black and white but when i watched it,it did'nt bother me.The storyline was great because you did'nt know what was going to happen next and once you watch you would want to wath the whole thing.The charcters were very good acters and played the roles really well.The storyline was not very complex and was easy to understand even though the language is different to the way we speak now.Double Indemnity is the perfect example of film and i would love to watch it again.
The classic example of film noir is Billy Wilder's 1994 'Double Indemnity'. The film Double Indemnity was written by James M.Cain and screened played by Billy Wilder. The film was set in LA and then was later realeased in the USA on the 6th of September 1944 the  genre was Crime/Drama film noir Thriller."It's love and murder at first sight" was the plot of the film noir Double Indemnity, the classic film noir was also awarded 7 Oscars. The film was about wounded insurance sales men called Walter Neff who talks about what lead him to wounded. He confesses in a microphone at the start of the film whats he has done and relives the moment(flashback). He talks about how he fell in love with a beautiful but deadly women called Phyliss Dietrichson. Who persuded him into killing her husband Mr Dietrichson for a life and accident scam so that she had enough money to start a new life with Walter Neff. He later found out that she had previously killed Mr Dietrichson's wife to get her hands on his money. He later came to the conclusion that Pyhliss didnt love him and that he was apart of the murder plan.By the end of the film they both end up shooting each other and are trapped dyeing lonely.Walter Neff and Phyliss Deitrichson are known as dark characters the Chiarosurio Lighting shows this effect because it uses one light source to show that the character has two sides to them. Although Phyliss never actually killed her husband she was the mastermind behind the crime and you could say she tricked Walter Neff in to the killing of Mr Dietrichson this is why Phyliss is known as a Femme fatale.Like most film noir films the film involves flashback story telling.