For the next few years, Jules Dessin worked for Michael In 1947, he finally ushered in the opportunity, joined Universal, and followed producer Mark Hellinger to shoot his first sensational film [Blood Splashed Tiger's Head Gate]. Since then, film critics have proposed "black The concept of "movie", which led to the development of a new type of film.
The film tells the story of a strong and stubborn prisoner Joe Collins leads the prisoners of West Gate Prison to tyranny and narrow dictatorship and has absolute power. The captain of the guard The story of Mance's struggle to complete the escape plan. Unfortunately, despite their every attempt, even sacrificing their lives, it ended in tragedy.
This is a typical noir film, and the protagonist of the film, Joe, has a fierce and brutal in the film. The negative image of the character, but also has the positive hero-like color of pursuing freedom and fearless, and the division between good and evil is very indistinct. The background of the characters in the film is always the bottom society full of crime and fraud, which is full of the fetters of the past, but also unable to extricate themselves from the unstable future.
Movies of this type always contain rainy nights, shadows, smoke, and deadly beauties, giving people an atmosphere of emptiness, pessimism, and even decadence. Such as the more famous [Noon], [Taxi Driver], [Angry Bull], [Fight Club], [LA Confidential], [Seven Deadly Sins], [Mong Kok Carmen], [Infernal Affairs], [Memento], [Blade Runner], [Batman], [Murderer M], [Terminator], [Brazil] and most of the works of Martin Circese have this quality.
This type of film is always filled with low-key night lighting ([Murderer M] is a typical one). The picture is often full of black shadows occupying a large area, making people feel depressed and closed. And always some oblique lines (like projections) are used to divide the screen into oblique and unstable shapes. And the protagonist always hides in a room with closed doors and windows in broad daylight, with dim lighting, which is scary and lonely. In the early black-and-white films, the more striking feature is that the characters are often engulfed by deep shadows, and only half of their bodies are exposed to walk in the shadows, which makes people feel that it is extremely hopeless and meaningless . And those deadly beauties in the film are always the victims of fate accompanied by tragedy. On the set, there is always a picture of a backstreet, a rainy day, and a sense of depression.
For me, this type of film has always been my preferred type, and I always feel that the stylization of this type of film is not only very good in crime films and gangster films, but also in movies like [Blade Runner], [ Alien] and [Brazil] also have a unique charm in the classic sci-fi films of the 1980s. Compared with this kind of sci-fi film with a film noir temperament, today's films such as [Transformers] and [Avatar], even if they are technically superior, lack this unique charm.
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