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| Chloe captured in film noir style. |
film ˈnwär/ film noir
noun
noun:
film noir
a
style or genre of cinematographic film marked by a mood of pessimism, fatalism,
and menace. The term was originally applied (by a group of French critics) to
American thriller or detective films made in the period 1944–54 and to the work
of directors such as Orson Welles, Fritz Lang, and Billy Wilde.
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| "Out of The Past" (1947), a film noir movie. Starring Robert Mitchum and Jane Greer |
You may have heard the words “film noir” that describes a
specific genre of movies that were photographed in black and white.
It’s
a visual style that goes beyond just the simple colors where it also included
canted camera angles, deep focus shots and high contrast lighting. Typically
these were the B level films starring a lesser-known pool of Hollywood actors
but eventually featured the likes of Humphrey Bogart, Robert Mitchum, and
Veronica Lake.
The striking style of
such movies employed a method of light and dark to set the mood and capture the
image. The plot would undoubtedly have the hero appear from the shadow and
quietly walk back into the mist when his work was done. There are the dames,
and the heavies of each story that always seemed to wonder …how
did they ever get themselves into such a fix? It's also just the type of movie
that Chloe and I like to watch when they are shown on Turner Classic Movies. …So here is that “dame” Chloe doing her own film noir style.
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| Chloe "that dame," photographed in film noir. |
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