History of 'Film Noir'

History of ‘Film Noir’.

Film Noir’s were made very cheaply and effectively with new directors and up and coming actors play the parts. They had to be cheap because they were normally made by a multi millionaire company, who at the time were spending thousands of money on the blockbusters and kind of ignored the ‘B-Movies’ as they were called, this meant that the directors had more to play with, they could go deeper into the scripts, and make twists and almost confuse the audience, and people weren’t used to this, so it wasn’t everyone’s cup of tea.

 Pulp Fiction magazines heavily influenced the  creation of Film Noir, with the hard boiled characters  in Pulp Fiction Magazines, and were transferred into  films and into Film Noir’s. Almost all film noir plots  involve the hard-boiled, disillusioned male.

Also Gangster films influenced the creation of Film Noir, with their crime and gangster sub genre plots, film noir used theseto create films similar to this sub genre, gangster films were very popular in the 1920’s to late 1930’s but soon died outbecause of their same plots and same crew members, with actorsin many films similar to each other.

Another influence to Film Noir is that the World War 2 had just ended, at it was a depression time, with dark and lonely times, so the film producers expressed that depression and created films about it. With the Nazi’s taking control of France it was hard to make movies, so Hollywood made them and imported them a few years after the World War and it showed on the screen

 it was a dark time for the world. And in some ways some of the films replicated the Nazi’s codes.

With the world war going on, the jobs the men left behind had to be taken by the women, and as soon as the war finished the jobs were taken by women, and not all of the women wanted to give their jobs up, and most men disagreed to this because women were being united and becoming stronger, and the women didn’t want to go back to being a housewife, they enjoyed work and it was a different experience, and even some film noir film's replicate this with the women being the stronger character on screen. But some directors didn’t like women working so the films showed this by making women a very sneaky and dangerous character on screen, (The Femme Fatlale).  So there was a huge jealousy between Men and Women.

Eastern Europe affected the making of film noir’s, because many people fled the country they were born in the world war due to the threat of the Nazi’s, mainly Jews in France and Germany, so the directors and film workers fled to Hollywood. And their experience, ideas and interpretations were passing over to the films America was creating. So it gave new ideas and a lot of new films about dark times in the war.

German Expression also triggered in some early Film Noir’s with the German directors using the stylistics of German expressionism in the 1920’s onwards. And that generated many odd and wierd scene's