This film begins when the main protagonist Rick is getting Chinese food and Gaff an officer asks him to go with him. Rick begins to speak to his former boss and even though he has no interest in working for him, he has to help capture 4 replicants (human like droids) whom had escape and whom are running around the city killing and creating chaos. These replicants are a model Nexus- 6 generation, and only have about a 4 year life span. As Rick agrees to take the job he goes out to meet Tyrell the master creator of these replicants. There he meets Rachel, a beautiful woman who he suspects to be a replicant even though she passes the replicant test. Rick ends up killing the replicants one by one, until he is left to face Roy Baddy the leader of the group of replicants. Roy finds Pris body on the floor and react emotionally just like any human being would, which raises question on how human like can replicants be. Roy, losing his partner and his friends is fill with anger and seeks to take revenge on Rick. At the end even though Roy has many chances of killing Rick, he only wanted Rick to know what it feels like to live in fear. Roy dies as his time is up, and Rick hurries to find Rachel, as he finds her he sees one of Gaff’s paper origami and the movie ends.

Brazil is a film from 1985, is about a totalitarian government a government that controls many aspects of an individual’s life and uses technology as a way of controlling them. Sam Lowry is a low raking citezen who finds an escape from his dull boring life by having daydreams with a woman who he has yet to meet named Jill. Unlike his reality when Sam has his dreams he experiences a nature-like, colorful, and romantic life next to his beloved Jill.His quest to find Jill and finding her gives him the courage to go against his totalitarian government and break the rules. At the end Sam is captured by Harry Tuttle and is tortured, unlike Winston from 1984 Sam is able to use his daydreams to block all his sufferings and have his very own “happy ending” even as he is being tortured to death.

1984 is a book based on a totalitarian government, a government who controls every aspects of an individual’s life and who constantly spies on its citizen in order to keep them under absolute control.

Winston, a thin 39 year old works for the department of records editing records. One day Winston goes to the slums of Oceania and purchases a paperweight, feather pen, and a journal. He also ees a lady with black hair who he believes to be a spy. Later on he meets this “spy” named Julia and they begin carrying conversations. Winston hates Julia because even though he likes her he can’t have her. As Winston gains courage after receiving a noted from Julia reading “I love you” they begin to have conversations and soon after end up falling in love. Winston and Julia talk about breaking the law and about the shared hate for Big brother (the controlling party). Because Winston foolish trust towards a man named O’Brian who is actually working for the Thought police, Winston and Julia get captured and tortured. While Winston is being tortured he is treated to face his worst fear, which are rats. As he sees his life treated, the Thought police has finally been able to get into Winston’s head. Winston would rather Julia get hurt than him, and this is when Big brother wins. After all the tortured he went through he is realize and must return to work like usual. He later sees Julia but realizes that he no longer loves her but now loves Big Brother.

The movie begins with a man named Maloy being release from prison. Maloy begins his quest to find Philip the main character, in order to ask him to find his “lost” girlfriend named Velma. As Philip sees no other option he accepts the job. As Philip begins to investigate he realizes that he is constantly being lied about this lady named Velma whom he is searching for. He is later hired by Marriot to act as a bodyguard on a sale of stolen jewelry. Philip decides to go along with it, Marriot is killed and Philip gets knocked out. At the end of the movie Mr. Grayle kills femme fatale Helen.

The movie begins when a man named Joe is looking for Jeff, the movie’s main protagonist. Jeff doesn’t not want to be found by Joe but when meeting is inevitable, Joe tells Jeff that his old boss Whit Sterling needs to see him. Jeff, who starts to remember his past which he has been running away from tell his girlfriend Ann about his past and about how femme fatale Kathie shot and stole money from White Sterling and also the way she killed his former partner Jack leaving Jeff alone to cover up the crime.

When Jeff finally meets with Whit he tries to avoid having such job but Whit is determined to make Jeff work for him. They attempt to frame Jeff for the murders but he covers it up. The beautiful deceiving Kathie knowing that Jeff was once in love with her, asks him to run away with her or to take the blame for all the murders and Jeff agrees to go away with her, even though this time around he is not being deceive by her so easily. Jeff later calls the police secretly, femme fatale Kathie figures out that Jeff has “betrayed” her and shoots him to his doom. The police opens fire on the car and the car goes off the road, both Jeff and Kathie die.

I think that this was a great movie specially towards the end when Jeff knowing how dangerous Kathie is intends to stop her at any cost even if it means dying.

In the Noir film Double Indemnity we are presented with the themes of greed and lust which later leads to adultery and murder. The film begins with Walter Neff who is a door-to-door sales man. Upon visiting one of his former clients, he ends up meeting his wife Phyllis Dietrichson instead.
Upon their first meeting we get the feeling that Phyllis is a mysterious and seductive woman whose charms instantly captivate Walter Neff. This makes her a femme fatale; as we know a femme fatale often leads a male character into compromising dangerous situations by using their seductive charm against them, which is exactly what Phyllis does with Walter.
Often in movies even today powerful characters are shown by showing a camera angle, which goes from the bottom up, which is exactly how we meet Phyllis (up the stairs) signifying that she’s the one in power. Later in the movie we can clearly see that Walter is aware of Phyllis intentions, and his lust for her is so powerful that he’s willing to do whatever it takes to be with her. Even if that whatever means murdering her husband. Walter leaves his hat behind after meeting Phyllis for the second time, giving a reason for her to go visit him.
This film presents us with many hits that lead us to know what’s going on and what is to be expected. I believe the main theme of this movie is that of the femme fatale; Phyllis leads Walter who was a honest man earning a living as a sales man to turn his life around for the worst and become a murderer just like her.

The film The Maltese Falcon is a classic black and white movie containing many different genre conventions. This film displays varying aspects of the male as well as the female character. In this movie we can see how femininity is portrayed in contrast to masculinity. This film explores ideas of the detective genre, by having the main character Sam Spade, take us through many mysteries awaiting to be discover. The constant mystery of “who did it” that surrounded the movie made it very interesting and intriguing to the point where I had forgotten that I was watching a black and white film.

Sam Spade the main male character is portrayed as a smart, sneaky, and clever. He is seen in my eyes as the character that people usually sympathize with and cheers for, in other words he is the hero of the story.
In the other hand Brigid, the female lead is portrayed as a deceitful, selfish woman who pretends to be weak and hopeless to get her way. She likes to play games and manipulate the male characters (mainly Sam).
Effie, Sam’s assistant is portrayed as a strong female character because she’s often surrounded by males.
Iva who was Miles wife was portrayed as I would called “the classic female character” of the 20’s-40’s. She’s beautiful, lady like and weak.

One thing I noticed about the film is that the female characters are constantly being distracted by the male characters.