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Originally Posted by Connavar  Its prolly Film noir and the genre existed famously way before two movies.
The 40's-60's was Film Noir at its best. Even Stanley Kubrick did a famous one. They even won oscars,the actors atleast. |
I was assuming that
Sin City and
LA Confidential didn't start Film Noir, I kind of half understand what Film Noir is without really knowing the specifics of what defines it but one of the things I found myself thinking while watching
Cat People was how hard some movies (like those two) work at trying to achieve the same 'feel'. Whereas there's an honesty to
Cat People a lot of the times modern versions not suprisingly have that staged feeling, which sometimes works and sometimes doesn't. So in the end I'm also wondering, how much of this style was the intent of the people who made
Cat People and how much is a result of it being a 1940's movie with the term Film Noir being applied later?
Sorry that's probably even more confusing then my first post.