When my English teacher assigned this article to us so we could blog about it, I really had to ask myself "What is film noir". Because the first time I read the article that was assigned to us, I really didn't exactly know what film noir was. So I did some reasearch on film noir and what I found really interested me. I found out that film noir had a classical era beginning in the early 1940's. But the classical era of film noir came to an end in the mid 1950's. The article that we had to read told us that film noir re-emerged in the 1970's and the 1980's. Also in the article they described film noir as "crime infested, shadow-draped black and white movies".
I also noticed when I was reading the article, and everywhere else that I researched they spoke about Femme Fatale. I was wondering what it was about, so I looked more into depth about it. There is actually two different types of femme fatale. The first type is basically a woman who is very mysterious and sneaky and seductive and very manipulative that charms gentleman. Then the gentleman usually end up in dangerous situations. The second type of femme fatale is the woman who are trustworthy, and loving women.
Overall I did find the article very interesting because I learned about something new that I have never heard of before. The article pointed out a few movies that seemed intersting. I think that I am going to pick one out and watch it, just so that I could get to understand more about film noir. But so far what I did find out about film noir, made me realize that just because they are balck and white movies doesn't mean that they can't be good. Just give them a chance and maybe you will be fasinated on how movies were made back then and what makes them a film noir.
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