Many of the noir films we’ve seen thus far involve different lighting effects that affect the story line. For the first time in the Asphalt Jungle we have a scenery that can proably be used as a character in the story. Throughout the story we see characters dodging things in the scenes or using different things in the scene to aid them in hiding. This film is also different in that it is about a heist as apposed to other more common crimes in the other noirs.

This movie was like a tease.

It was like if we didn’t read the poem, it would be hard to understand the background story. I think the person who produced the movie could have changed the way they ended the scene. It just made me continue questioning what happened to the other characters. In this movie there wasn’t a Femme Fatale the enemies were male, but the reason for the climax, is the same as all other movies. Money. I knew while watching the movie, what kind of vibe to get between characters, from what they said to one another or how their body’s were positioned.

In the film Out of the Past, the protagonist Jeff Bailey is a man that decided to start his life again at new beginnings, trying to run away from his past but there is only so much and so little that you can run away from. When a man comes to look for him in town Jeff is left with no choice but to go back to his past to face what he had run away from. The story of his past begins when he tells is girlfriend about how he was a private eye hired by a guy named Whit in in search of a woman who was Wilt’s mistress named Kathie, who not only shot Wilt but also ran away with his money. Jeff finds Kathie in Acapulco, Mexico to where she has fled to. While being there Kathie uses her Femme Fatal and falls in love with Jeff, in the other hand Jeff forgets about is mission from Wilt and decides that both should escape from Wilt. After they both escape the lived in a cabin only to be found by one of Jeff’s partner Fisher were Kathie kills him and runs away. Later Jeff finds Kathie’s bank book and sees a large deposit of the money that Wilt was missing, he then decides to run away from her for good. After he runs away Jeff goes on to meet Wilt, only to find Kathie there with Wilt, but Wilt had one last job for Jeff to do but after Jeff goes on to do the job he finds out that Wilt was trying to frame him. At this point Jeff ties to play a bit of the role of a hero and tries is best to get out of this mess but at the end he is left no choice to leave with Kathie after she had killed Wilt, but Jeff had plans of his own but as soon the cops came Kathie snapped and shot Jeff, leading the police to shot her and both died.

In the film noir Out of the Past, we view another detective suspense
film. In the beginning of the film, two men go out looking for Jeff Bailey.
They pass through a gas station where they find a deaf boy who works for Jeff.
I believe Jeff does not want to go back to his past because he changes his
identity and does not do any more cases. At that time Jeff had a girlfriend and
had to tell her everything about his past. The two men knew they could find him
there. They are in search for a young lady who is Katie. Like in most film
noir, Katie is the femme fatal in out of the past. As Detective Jeff begins his
duty, he meets Katie somewhere in Mexico. When they both meet at the bar, they
take a drink and go for walk. Being the femme fatal, Katie seduced him and
convinced him to leave with her and leave everything behind. She told him that
everything they were doing and everything they said was not true. Katie does
not care about reputation or about anybody. After killing someone Jeff realizes
that she’s not who he thinks she is. Years later they see each other again but
Jeff knew it’s best to stay from her because she only brings trouble and
problems to him. Jeff realized how important his other girlfriend was to him
and decided to start a new life with her

The film noir, Asphalt Jungle is about a group of men deciding to complete a task that will bring them a lot of money. Dix recently came out of jail and needs to make some profit somehow. He gathers a group of friends and plans to rob diamonds off a jewelry store. This film noir is different because none of the characters were dragged the wrong path by a femme fatal. I enjoyed this clip because it was not like other films seen in class. This film had more action and I really enjoy action movies. Asphalt Jungle is different because the protagonist did not consist of a detective like in other movies seen in class. In this clip as well, actors were all men. This movie reminds me of a movie I watched before, Takers. Takers and Asphalt Jungle are very similar because a group of men as well get together to do a heist.

The film noir The Set-Up viewed in class has different elements than those we have already watched.  We see how society views people alone and in crowds. The protagonists in this film noir do not commit murder. In the set-up we see that a boxer of a little more than a quartered age, Stoker Thompson fights with a young boxer, Little Boy. Many of the fans attending the fight that night believed that Little Boy would win, even Stoker’s manager, Tiny. This is when Tiny sets Stoker up. In The Set-Up we view different ways to analyze and observe the film. We can see crowed genders, male and female cheering and roaring for each opponent. The audience yelling out “beat him, close the other eye” and “kill him,” illustrate how vicious fans can be. In the film we viewed in class, Stoker and Julie his wife have an argument before the fight because she fears that Stoker will end up getting hurt. In the movie, Julie claims that Stoker is not as strong as he used to be when he was younger. He does not want to believe her is confident that he can fight. An element viewed in the film is the silence of scenes. An example is when Julie is undecided about showing up to the fight between Stoker and Little Boy. She walks around train tracks and thinks over and over. As the train dashes right beneath her, we observe wind blowing her hair while she thinks. When she decides to not to go, she rips her ticket. She cannot stand watching Stoker get punched to become unconscious. Another example seen on the clip is when Stoker is getting ready and he sits there thinking if Julie will show up tonight or not

In the film noir Murder My Sweet, the plot starts off when a man is looking for his wife so he goes into Detective Phillip’s office and hires him because he needs help finding his wife. Phillip Marlowe starts his job by collecting information about the missing person and writes down all details needed to find this young lady. In this film, Detective Marlowe is drugged to prevent any further investigation. Velma is the femme fatal because she wants to prevent any further investigations.  The femme fatal in this film seduces him and making him do whatever she pleased with. I liked this movie because the characters took their role seriously. I also enjoyed this movie because in the scene when Phillip was drugged you can see that he was not feeling himself. Through this scene, we observe blurry parts of the film that show how he felt while he drugged. We see him dreaming that he is running away from some one who wants to choke him.

When i was introduced to the film The Set up i expected this basic Noir film with some mystery and wonder, but The Set Up did something beyond your basic Noir. It was able to portray this feeling of Action pack Mystery and deliver an all around effective film. The character Stoker Thompson is a middle aged boxer who from the film states been on a losing streak and was way pasted his limit already. The director used camera aiming to a great advantage and dialog between the characters to give off that dark feeling of Noir. For Example when Stoker first enters the area the crowd is roaring and yelling for the current fighter to destroy one another, switch from groups of people to a close up on individuals. The noise in that scene allow creates this feeling, that seems to make Stoker see everything in a different perspective, and overall gave us a feeling of what it would be like in that scene, sitting in the stand with those people.

Not only does the camera play an important role, but the characters the movie seems to circle around in the fight scene between stoker and Little Boy. There’s the silent couple, the fat guy who eats everything, the family of little boy, managers, the blind man, the women who loves fights and the guy multitasking with the radio. I find a lot of these characters very interesting and there role in the movie is even more interesting. The gentlemen with the radio, i feel if you listen to the radio while the fight is going on its almost describing the fight, but in different terms and the women who loves fighting, is on any ones side as long as they keep the fight going. But more importantly what each of these characters say give off the sense of Noir, for example, “Make him fight” the women who loves fighting, “Close his eye” from the blind man. Just very powerful lines that increases tension in the moment of fighting.

Lastly is the actually only true scene of the film when stoker is about to get beaten. The cornering of him when he was at that gate the shadows approaching him and once he started getting beaten the camera turns to the shadow of the drumming banging the drums. The beating starts to pick up and gets louder almost resembling the beating and yelling he would be doing. Overall a get scene and Noir film.