Miss Barton’s Famous Cakes (2019) by Jared Hirsch and Nelson Vicens (a short film noir) – Miss Barton is famous for her cakes, but she may be perfectly capable of taking care of herself even during a stormy night.
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This is how I wrote my Little Meremaid retelling set in the 1920s, Sea Phantom
‘I don’t think that’s so, Michael. I think you wanted Alice to be your girl. And when she said no and no again, you decided to punish her.’
‘Punish her?’ Carmody seemed genuinely puzzled. ‘Wha’ de ya mean?’
‘I mean that you waited for her on the way home from work and killed her. And that’s why…
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Blood Ties (short film noir) During a hostage situation Detective Nathan Briggs fires a fatal shot, killing an innocent singer. Consumed with guilt he searches the dead woman’s connections and finds Century, a criminal who owns more than just a nightclub
By depicting a very specific reality, but in a stylised way, film noir went beyond its limits of time and circumstances.
Veteran films betrayed a marked hostility toward (and by implication a fear of) postwar integration, the soldier’s difficulty in going back to civilian life
Just like in the 1920s, American cities had an explosion during the 1940s with remarkably similar emotional results. Film noir picked up that uneasy feeling
With very few exceptions, films noir were B movies filmed on a budget, even the ones we now consider classics. They needed resourcefulness in place of money
The noir hero often fails, has shrunken world aspirations, let basic impulses guide himself. For a reason or another, he is not in control of his life
The Haye Code could have been a disaster for film noir. It became a source of creativity and gave birth to some of its most recognised characteristics