One difference between film noir and more straightforward crime pictures is that noir is more open to human flaws and likes to embed them in twisty plot lines.
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Noir focuses on the criminal mind, not a whodunit: more why they did it and will they get away with it. The abnormal psychology is what fascinates me rather than the puzzle-solving aspect.
I think there are specific times where film noir is a natural concomitant of the mood. When there's insecurity, collapse of financial systems - that's where film noir always hits fertile ground.
I didn't know I was doing film noir, I thought they were detective stories with low lighting!
Some of the best movies made about crime are those where the crime solver can get inside the head of the serial killer, and those are the techniques we use in C.S.I.
With a genre like film noir, everyone has these assumptions and expectations. And once all of those things are in place, that's when you can really start to twist it about and mess around with it.
I've been a fan of noir films since I was in high school.
Crime fiction, especially noir and hardboiled, is the literature of the proletariat.
But, number one, I think traditional noir doesn't work in contemporary storytelling because we don't live in that world anymore.
One definition of noir is where a not-so-good man or woman tries to touch something good - and fails.
I think a film noir demands a beginning and an end.