Film Noir - Detective
The detective in film noir movies is usually the main character in the movie; he is hard boiled, cunning and a strong leader but can be easily persuaded by the femme fatale. Usually he is the character who this story is from the point of view of, learning information about the crime when he does trying to keep other things a mystery. Not only that but he would be traditionally the only character in the film noir movie to do voice overs, letting you know little pieces of information like what he’s thinking and back stories that he thinks about in his head. Not only this but the opening sequence to nearly all film noir movies start with the detective giving a short voice over describing the area or himself while establishing shots of the city happen.
In a Film Noir the Detective is the
stable character who is a part of every film Noir in some way. There characters
are quite straight forward, being quite blunt in their actions in the beginning
and coming off as quite a stubborn character but changing his attitude when
presented with something out of the ordinary or different which in the film Noir case it’s the femme fatale. The Detectives in film Noir dress in a much
distanced way which is part of the codes and conventions of film Noir. They are
commonly seen wearing patterned suites with trilbies and ties. They are usually
equipped with a police badge and a gun which they keep by their side with a gun
holster so they are pretty much your stereotypical police detective.
Majority of the time this character will be the main foci of this film, the viewers would be by his side more or less the whole time watching, learning new information when he does and solving the mystery at the same time. he becomes more of the underdog when going through the film, when learning about his past and car rear and how downhill it has become be start feeling sorry for him and it answers our questions as to why he has ended up becoming the disaster that he is today. However we also fall victim to the femme fatale of the film just like our main detective does. He is easily stricken by her hard to get attitude and man like qualities which women at the time were thought not to have being the stereotype that was established around that time. Her ways of twisting the detectives mind works wonders and gets him to fall for her footling and sinker. which just so happens to be the villain (Usually the femme fatale) way of deceiving the minds of the cops and detectives leading no traces on what she's done.However usually at the end of the film the detectives has cracked the case and knows just who to turn to. And as the old saying goes "the bad guy never wins" the Femme fatale gets her rightist death and leaves the detective heart broken again.
Majority of the time this character will be the main foci of this film, the viewers would be by his side more or less the whole time watching, learning new information when he does and solving the mystery at the same time. he becomes more of the underdog when going through the film, when learning about his past and car rear and how downhill it has become be start feeling sorry for him and it answers our questions as to why he has ended up becoming the disaster that he is today. However we also fall victim to the femme fatale of the film just like our main detective does. He is easily stricken by her hard to get attitude and man like qualities which women at the time were thought not to have being the stereotype that was established around that time. Her ways of twisting the detectives mind works wonders and gets him to fall for her footling and sinker. which just so happens to be the villain (Usually the femme fatale) way of deceiving the minds of the cops and detectives leading no traces on what she's done.However usually at the end of the film the detectives has cracked the case and knows just who to turn to. And as the old saying goes "the bad guy never wins" the Femme fatale gets her rightist death and leaves the detective heart broken again.
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