Noir Film Critic

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Film Noir

The following will explore the film genre known as film noir The attraction to the French cinema 's coined phrase Film Noir is a mixture of sex , melancholy and alienation . The main character is an anti-hero , whose deeds are not easily categorized under the black and white labels of good and evil , but rather the more primal sense of a self-possessed morality that is beyond the dutiful moral recall of society : that is to say that the anti-hero is

bound to do some disgusting things which the audience will not agree with such as have an affair or kill a murderess , but in the end it is this anti-hero who saves the truth of the film . The purpose of this is to present how film noir approaches its scenes through mis-en-scene characterizations , and other film techniques . The main film which will be used as an epitome of film noir is The Maltese Falcon (1941 ) directed by John Huston . The film The Maltese Falcon creates a scene of suspense , danger and passion which the viewer cannot ignore and for which the film genre is chiefly known

Maltese Falcon exhibits the elements of film noir in the very beginning of the film when Humphrey Bogart 's character Sam Spade walks up to 12 C apartment building and the music plays loud and harsh although the scene were a chase scene of some sort this music thereby sets the viewer up for events that are about to transpire . Along side the anti-hero in the film genre film noir the audience is also exposed to a mystery Huston 's film The Maltese Falcon illustrates this exact nature of mystery , film noir , and the anti-hero presented with an enigma to solve Spade knocks on the door and gains entrance into the foyer . The music becomes slow and suspenseful as Spade makes his way into the parlor with his host who offers him a drink and says that , Because he is not be trust when he does ' which makes reference to a man drinking too much and therefore talking too much . This small sentence emphasizes the film noir aspect of the movie as it recalls that the movie will about trust and loyalties , either making them or breaking them and thus , the viewer is automatically thrown into the idea of distrust at the very start of the film . The conversation goes on to re-emphasize this idea of trust which is a main element in the film noir genre either in characters trusting other characters , or the audience members trusting the director there are many misconceptions in either case and that is part of the suspense of the film noir genre especially as it applies to The Maltese Falcon

This will focus on the use of each of these techniques as they apply to Huston 's The Maltese Falcon . In each of these scenes Huston reveals to the audience these details of the escape...