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You gotta love the language of film noir. Theres no room here for flowery speech not when the bullets and fists are flying.
The ball always lands on red or black never both.
Film noir phrasen. So load your gat don your trench coat and join us once more in the drizzly treacherous world of noir. The Maltese Falcon 1941 Tough talker. Philip Marlowe Humphrey Bogart Tough talk.
We didnt exactly believe your story Miss OShaughnessy. We believed your two hundred dollars. Film noir is not a genre.
It is not defined as are the western and gangster genres by conventions of setting and conflict but rather by the more subtle qualities of tone and mood. It is a film noir as opposed to the possible variants of film gray or film off-white. In narrative cinema a certain terminology has already been established.
Film noir Western even Spaghetti Western When we say film noir we know what we are talking about. But in non-narrative cinema we are a little bit lost. So sometimes the only way to make us understand what we are talking about is to use the term avant-garde.
Film noir arguably offers some of the best quotes in all cinema. Along with noirs distinctive characters shadowy presentations labyrinthine plot tangles and cynical hopeless tone it is the hard-boiled dialogue that makes it such a fascinating era of filmmaking. Heres Part 1 of my favorite noir quotes from the mouths of the gents.
I just wanna be somebody. Theres no room here for flowery speech not when the bullets and fists are flying. Terse yet evocative dialogue from film noir also rings with the pistol crack of truth.
And in noir films its the rapid-fire back and forth between characters usually dames and their dupes that shows the form off in all its gritty glory. It helps of course that the dialogue was often scripted by hardboiled masters like. 10 quotes have been tagged as film-noir.
Either youre going to shoot us or youre not. The ball always lands on red or black never both. Version 40 is planned.
Originally published as a pamphlet by Miskatonic University Press 1993. If youve ever read a hardboiled detective story you may have come across a sentence like I jammed the roscoe in his button and said Close your yap bo or I squirt metal. Something like this isnt too hard.
Best mistakes Best pictures New this month Best comedy quotes Most mistakes Questions Movie quote quiz IMDb top 250 Best of 2021 Best film noir movie quotes of all time Please vote as you browse around to help the best rise to the top. Dark film style of filmmaking characterized by such elements as cynical heroes stark lighting effects frequent use of flashbacks intricate plots and an underlying existentialist philosophy. The genre was prevalent mostly in American crime dramas of the post-World War II era.
Film noir is not a clearly defined genre see here for details on the characteristics. Therefore the composition of this list may be controversial. To minimize dispute the films included here should preferably feature a footnote linking to a reliable published source which states that the mentioned film is considered to be a film noir by an expert in this field eg.
My 25 personal favorite film noir movies of all time. The Killing 1956 - Stanley Kubrick Kiss Me Deadly 1955 - Robert Aldrich Drunken Angel 1948 - Akira Kurosawa The Big Sleep 1946 - Howard Hawks Shadow Of A Doubt 1943 - Alfred Hitchcock The Letter 1940 - William Wyler Angels With Dirty Faces 1938 - Michael Curtiz I Am A Fugitive From A Chain Gang 1932 - Mervyn. Favorite Film Noir Quotes.
Dennis Dermody November 10 2020 Cult. Sometimes only film noir will do. That post-War black.
And smoke-filled cop precincts. A nighttime universe populated with dangerous dudes and devious dames. But what I find so much fun in these movies is the snappy hard-boiled.
The Big Heat 1953 Lt. It was bad judgment to bother a cops widow about the love life of her husband. Good or bad it was my judgment.
Youre missing the point. Im the one that gets the pressure calls from upstairs. You gotta love the language of film noir.
Hard-boiled cynical straight to the point and unmistakable this era of filmmaking offers some of the best quotes in all cinema. Here I offer for your consideration Part 2 of my favorite noir quotes and these aint no idle threats. Touch my truck and Ill climb into your hair.
It contains over 750 definitions. The glossary comprises my personal notes about noirish language including speculation about more obscure terms and inferences based on context. While some elements of noir and hard-boiled slang are straightforward or at least familiar to contemporary readers because of their overuse to flag a particular.
Blood Simple is a 1984 neo-noir crime film written directed and produced by Joel and Ethan Coen. The films title derives from the Dashiell Hammett novel Red Harvest in which blood simple is a term to describe the addled fearful mindset of people after a prolonged immersion in violent situations.