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scarlet street (1933)Females in Film Noir sparked a new way of representing women in modern film. Before film noir women were shown as damsels in distress and a bit hopeless at defending themselves. So they often relied on the main man in the film to come and save her. So film noir started to show women as independent strong minded. It was the film noir genre that first started using Fem-Fatal’s. This became used in normal mainstream films from then on.
film noir classic double indemnity has classic examples of women in the fim.
The conventional characteristics of women in film noir are that they often have something to hide which is a crucial to the whole movie’s plot. Like for example in the movie “The Third man” the woman in the movie knows about what crimes Harry Lime committed but would not tell the main character about this. But later on in the movie the main character finds out about the truth of his friend and realises that he is a monster because he was selling faulty medicine to hospitals which ended up killing the small children. With Fem-Fatal’s they often have something crucial to hide from the main male character which is fighting for the triumph of good rather than evil. Another characteristic of a Fem-Fatal is the elaborate costumes that they were. In the movie scarlet street (1933) the woman in it has extremely elaborate costume which included lots of feathers and netting. She is also sexy with her long dress that is cut almost above her thighs. Another characterises of women in film noir is that nearly all of them smoke. This is because in the heyday of film noir it was seen as sexy and classy. Often the cigarette is lit by a mans equally classy Zippo. Since the heyday of film noir smoking has been found to be unhealthy and has been de-glamorised.
The conventional characteristics of women in film noir are that they often have something to hide which is a crucial to the whole movie’s plot. Like for example in the movie “The Third man” the woman in the movie knows about what crimes Harry Lime committed but would not tell the main character about this. But later on in the movie the main character finds out about the truth of his friend and realises that he is a monster because he was selling faulty medicine to hospitals which ended up killing the small children. With Fem-Fatal’s they often have something crucial to hide from the main male character which is fighting for the triumph of good rather than evil. Another characteristic of a Fem-Fatal is the elaborate costumes that they were. In the movie scarlet street (1933) the woman in it has extremely elaborate costume which included lots of feathers and netting. She is also sexy with her long dress that is cut almost above her thighs. Another characterises of women in film noir is that nearly all of them smoke. This is because in the heyday of film noir it was seen as sexy and classy. Often the cigarette is lit by a mans equally classy Zippo. Since the heyday of film noir smoking has been found to be unhealthy and has been de-glamorised.
smoking in film noir.
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