Body Heat (1981) (Neo Noir)
- Directed by Lawrence
- Set in Florida in a Heat Wave
- Woman convinces a small-town lawyer to murder her rich husband.
- Eerie, wind chimes: spiritual, elegant, peaceful, mysterious, mystic. Could have been diegetic or non-diegetic, this adds confusion and intrigues the audience to want to find out more.
- Represents the Femme Fatal: elegant, beautiful and captivating.
- Lurs the man in then non-diegetic BANG sound - BODY HEAT - title comes up.
- Woman: always wearing white; false identity: Holy Dove.
Red shirt, open white formal skirt - Ned Racine: Anti Hero: Male lead.
- Directed by David Fincher
- Follows two detectives who are trying to track down a serial killer who uses the seven deadly sins as his modus operandi.
- Two gangs
- One gang member murdered, blame the other gang - turns out to be the main woman
- Film Noir characteristics: Iconic hat, cigarrette and drink, deep shots, single source lighting
- Set in Los Angeles in 1973
- Inspired by California Water Wars
Notes on Film Noir and Neo Noir watched in class:
Detour (1945) (Film Noir)
- Femme Fatal: Vera; dark haired, wild eyes - threatens and blackmails
- Anti Hero: Al Roberts; becomes the villian
- Dark Themes: hoplessness of his situation
- Archetypal characters: Nightclub singer and a hitchhiker
- Dutch angles/devices of orientation: Yes and blurring, fog at the beginning
- Mirrors: dead woman
- Cigarrette smoking: Vera smokes and drinks
- Voice over, night-time action, and high kep, sharp shadow lighting
- Mise-en-scene
Cigarrette with an arrow on it
Deep shots, lots of background
Old phone on a desk
Library, shot between the books - abscures audiences vision
Single souce lighting - Camera
Awkward camera angles
E.G. just the feet or hands
Zooming
Panning - Sound
Accustic bells
Procusion: Adds tension
Silent
Voice over - shouting as he walks - Characters:
Brendon: Brown hair, glasses - the main guy
Emily: Blonde - the girl he loves who ends up dead
The Brain: Brendon's only friend
Laura: wearing a red dress - the rich femme fatal
Tug: intimidating
The Pin: the big crime boss
- Camera movement, angle, shots:
Depth of shot: Jack walking towards Ed
Over the shoulder
Point of view
Pan down onto a pile of dead bodies from blood covered wall - Sound:
Rough voices
Hardly and music in the background
Voice overs
Background music thats non-diegetic
"What ever you desire" - Mise-en-scene:
Suits and ties
Props: phones, lamps, guns, badges - Characters:
Jack Vincennes: Policeman, drugs, works with the journalist, gets paid on the side. Smooth and a ladies man.
Ed Exley: Policeman with glasses, bullied but he doesnt care, just wants a promotion. He's a snitch but he's really intelligent
Bud White: Policeman, protective over woman but can't control his anger, doesn't play by the rules and hides things from the authorities.
- Mise-en-scene:
Library bookshelf
Raining
Old fashioned cars
Dark
Alcohol, glasses on a tray
Drugged woman
Pornography
Marlowe - top button undone
Silky dressing gown
Sunglasses - pull down/look over them
Detective acting - Camera:
Point of View shot of letter
Close up of encoded book
Deep shot of bedroom
Lamp shade - lighting - Editing:
Zoom in
Jump cut
Shot reverse shot of dead body and detective - Sound:
Diegetic foot steps
Major key, drums, piano, deep: adds tension
Base, violin - non-diegetic
Rain - diegetic
Sudden silence
Female scream
Thunder, lighting, lights up, venecian blinds
Buzzing of Marlowe's bell - Characters:
Phillip Marlowe -suit
Butler
General Sternwood - rich, old, in a wheelchair
Miss Carmen Sternwood - tiny shorts
Mrs Vivian Sternwood - covered up
Joe Brody
Rusty Reegan - never seen. Dead
Mr Geiger - gets shot
Eddy Mars - runs the casino
Mrs Mars - Narrative:
Marlowe takes a black mail case from General Sternwood but it turns out to be more than that.
Murder and missing person (Rusty)
Also includes a pornshop (Geiger) and an encoded book of addresses
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