This is a silly question!

Hey folks, newbie here.

What exactly is fil noir & how did it get its name?

Thx

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film. Not fil.
Use our search engine. We've had threads about it.

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fil got the name from fermented skunk pee...

Ok...MILM?

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I'll give it a shot...

Film noir was the name given to a cycle of films from the late thirties through the early fifties that used harsh, low-key lighting, and usually came in the form of the hard-boiled detective story. Film Noir means, literally, black film, in french. Some examples of classic film noir would be The Asphalt Jungle, Out of the Past, The Big Clock, Kiss Me Deadly (Mikey Spillane), Touch of Evil, The Third Man, Gilda, Double Indemnity, and a slew of Bogart films.

There are newer films like this using the noir mechanics but they are in color and are usually called neo-noir. Chinatown, Angel Heart, U-turn, and The Man That Wasn't There, and Blue Velvet are examples of this genre.

Going to the next sub-genre, tech-noir, we find films that combine film noir and sci-fi elements. The Terminator, Blade Runner, Dark City, and Strange Days are a few examples there...

Some of my favorites that I would recommend checking out first are:

true film noir:

Kiss me Deadly
Out of the Past
Touch of Evil

Neo-noir:

Chinatown
Blue Velvet

Tech-noir:

Blade Runner
The Terminator
Dark City

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I knew someone would answer this better than I could. Thanks Sedai. That was very well done...

[quote=Sedai]I'll give it a shot...

Film noir was the name given to a cycle of films from the late thirties ...



Thx a lot , u made it v ery simple for me to understand with rather basic vocab & no jargon.

since yr name's MIL, here's a link!

http://www.mil2002.org/

(digressing, i know i know, i love it...)

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Does that link come in english toffee flavor?

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