#film nior

[tengo-sentimientos-saben]

[crybabydraws]

I love you, art analysis.

I love you, looking at the historical context behind a piece of art to better understand it. I love you, looking up the references to other pieces of media made in the piece in order to figure out what 1000 words or more a piece of art is saying. I love you, looking at an artist's life and suddenly the dots of what their piece means or why they made it connect. I love you, little details an artist uses to give new meaning or deeper meaning to a piece. I love you, seeing those little details as an audience member that you know others didn't spot. I love you, finding meaning where there is none. I love you, masters of the skill of finding or making beauty in places others would never expect. I love you, art. I love you, artists.

I love you, art lovers, for aren't all humans just that in one way or another?

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[schlock-luster-video]

On February 17, 1956, The Night of the Hunter debuted in Johannesburg, South Africa.

[neverlostbutmissing]

best type of mornings

[finchers-ipad]

SE7EN FUN FACTS!! (SPOILER WARNING)

these are my favourite facts/little details about the production!!! a lot of them are from the dvd commentary, ‘David Fincher: Mindgames’ book and other random interviews i have consumed! :)

(thank you to @loosebonez for giving to an excuse to dump these and itch my brain!!)

- Fincher wanted to keep Kevin Spacy out of the marketing campaign for se7en so that his reveal would be all the more shocking, this included not having him in trailers, posters and even his name not being on the opening credits (and on letterboxd Spacey’s name isn’t at the top of the cast list like it normally would be for such a big role but it’s at the very bottom of the cast list, which is very cool and epic of letterboxd)

- (related) in the promotional material , the scene of John Doe’s phone call to Mills and Somerset is included, and because they were keeping Kevin Spacy out of the campaign, FINCHER DOES THE VOICE OF JOHN DOE WHICH IS SO FUCKING COOL!!

- Fincher wanted the film to be a “no colour, colour movie” and therefore kept the production and set design to a very gray/black/green colour pallet so that when colour is used it has impact and draws the audiences attention (seen most notably with the colour red for blood, Johns prison outfit being red to show he is a threat and stand out and the neon red cross over John Doe’s bed)

- Fincher was sent the wrong script when being asked to do the film, as there was multiple versions of the ending, and the ending he was supposed to be sent was one where Mills’s dog’s head is in the box at the end instead of Tracys head. it was in Brad Pitt’s contract that he would only do the film if it had the head in the box ending

- an extra in the back of the barbershop scene was drunk on set, and the extra sat in the chair was worried that he was going to cut him with a straight razor (which was real and not a prop because the props department ran out of them lmao)

- Clive Piercy and John Sabel, who designed John Doe’s diary’s spent 2 months and around $15000 (i found that number online but idk how accurate it is) to HANDWRITE a lot of the diary’s. obviously not all of them are hand written but the ones given close ups on camera and in the opening credits are. there are around 2000 notebooks. there is a special feature section on the dvd where you can listen to them explain how they created them and the ideas behind the information they put in them, it’s very interesting i highly recommend it :3

- in the back of the leather store scene, John Doe can be seen looking at Mills and Somerset through the window from the outside, he even has a limp like the guy working there mentioned. he has a limp because he cut his leg on a window when Mills was chasing him earlier in the film.

- se7en was heavily inspired by the neo-nior films of the 70’s such as ‘The French Connection’

- Andrew Kevin Walker (the scriptwriter) makes a cameo at the beginning of the film as the dead guy at the first crime scene before the opening credits

- Fincher and Arthur Max (production designer) wanted the city that the film is set to be nameless and unrecognisable, which lets the audience think that this type of crime can be going on in any city and all around them. they ensured the anonymity of the city by removing and changing street signs, creating police cars with their own unique design to the film. they also did no large establishing shots of the city, and if they did, they were shots of building exteriors and general unrecognisable images

-Fincher and Pitt both agreed that Mills is a selfish character, and should be presented as such. they amplified this by adding David and Tracey’s dogs last minute, to show that he is so selfish as to move these big dogs into a small city apartment

- there is a deleted scene of Somerset checking out a new house in the country side, which would have been at the beginning of the film and they really liked this cute little cottage that they filmed it at but it was RIGHT next to a maximum security prison so they had to put these massive barrels of hay in-front of the barbed wire to block the view of the prison 😭

- not a fact but the dvd commentary for se7en is available on spotify and it has the audio from the film too which is really cool (please listen to it just to hear how crazy Arthur Max’s voice is)

THANK YOU FOR READING MY INFO DUMP!!! i fucking love this film (if you couldn’t tell already) and i honestly probably have more facts but these are my favourites that come to mind!!! crazy film with silly guys that established Fincher as a director :) (sorry about any spelling mistakes) <3

[pdrrook]

After playing through all three LI routes in the visual novel, I started looking through more information about your blog.

While I love all of the routes, Reed seacrtly over his childhood friend for years, Jewel and MC falling in love when they're both on the run 🥰. Learning Laurent is a fan of classic nior films just makes his romance more hilarious for me in hindsight, considering the MCs Allure ability and illegal activities are traits usually associated with the classic Femme Fatale, but they're also framed for murder and unwittingly involved in a conspiracy so they got some damsel in distress mixed in.

I had no idea about this when I first played Laurent's route because when I created my MC Liz Morren, I gave her a vintage wardrobe and eyes like Elizabeth Taylor. She does hide her natural violet eye color with colored contacts, being a tier 5 Allure is difficult enough without having a rare eye color that would make her easier to potentially identify. Also, considering her limited funds, she can only really afford shopping at second-hand stores, and women's fashion from the 40s and 50s tend to flatter her curvy build better than most modern fashion.

Can you just imagine when Laurent first started visiting the perfume shop and then this sales girl who looks like she just stepped out a classic Hollywood film in live color gives him the most charming customer service smile? The poor bastard never stood a chance.

I was gonna say but "Can you just imagine when Laurent first started visiting the perfume shop and then this sales girl who looks like she just stepped out a classic Hollywood film in live color gives him the most charming customer service smile? The poor bastard never stood a chance." you said it all 😌

Laurent living his best silent noir film life on the run with the love of his life 😳👌

[sam-mcgeetennesse]

Film nior style charcoal study

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Some more fan art of @pdrrook Perfumare characters featuring Laurent and my MC Liz Morren in a scene redraw of Casablanca.

It's still so funny to me that Laurent is a fan of these old black and white films and nior stories considering the games tone and setting. I honestly had no idea when I first played Laurent's route because I gave Liz a vintage wardrobe and eyes like Elizabeth Taylor. While I loved all the romance routes and characters, it's just hilarious that I unintentionally created an MC with the perfect visual design to entice and emotionally devastate Laurent on his route.

Poor son of a bitch probably thought Liz was just a beautiful dream, especially considering how Laurent probably first spotted her. Now, he's experiencing an existential crisis because Laurent is the type of person who usually sticks with regulations and prides himself on his professionalism. Yet here he is risking it all, hiding Elzars most wanted suspect for murder because he knows she's innocent and is in love with her. Although lbr, the first time Liz gave Laurent her most charming smile, that boy was probably already gone.

[violentviolette]

you should post more selfies (if you want to) you have a very nice face.

anon u are too sweet come here and let me kiss ur face. just for u heres one from when my hair was still dark and I felt like a nior film protagonist

he/him pronouns

[madamequackers]

This reads like a 1920s nior film 🤍 beautiful

🦕👻

[kaffkanya]

For the ask game: AUs! Like medieval, assassins, film nior, any kind of story that takes the characters and puts them in a completely different universe

from this ask game

I LOOOOOOOVE AUs!!!!! its def my favorite, i think. cause i really enjoy the idea of putting this silly characters in different scenarios and situations and imagine how they would act and react to the world and each other. i also think its a great creativity exercise ☝️☝️☝️

[blackhorrorblog]

Blog #4

This week in the lecture for this class we discussed the film "Eve's Bayou" directed by Kasi Lemmons. This film is a psychological thriller that looks into incest, infidelity, and toxic relationships. Some of the major themes that we talked about in the discussion and lecture were magic, secrets, betrayal, responsibility, and loss of innocence. The film is from the perspective of the young daughter Eve, you see everything from one perspective and with some dramatized parts of the story that the audience has to decide if they believe or not.

The theme of magic is most prominent because Eve believes even years later that she killed her father with magic. She believes that by taking his hair and using magic she manifested his death. She does this because she is very mad about him cheating on her mother with multiple women. This is the exposure of one family's secrets that ends with a tragedy.

Later in the week, we discussed the "Night of the Living Dead" directed by George Romero. In this film, we see a black main character Duane Jones, playing Ben. He was a strong, confident black man who did not portray the usual black stereotypes in film. In Horroe Niore the interviewees talk about how it was the first time they saw a black main character who was not a gangster, criminal or villain.

The end of this film had a very deep meaning. The theme is that the living are more dangerous than the dead. A gang of white people came to the house and shot Ben just because he was black. The film is based in the South in 1968 which is Jim Crow and Civil Rights, so the fact that these people were more worried about Ben being black was incredibly unsettling for me. I was very upset at the ending of the film. 

Lastly, we discussed the more recent film, "The Girl with All the Gifts" by Colm McCarthy. The image of innocent children being chained up is a very hard image. For the audience, it was important that they make these kids seem like they were the villains who needed to be controlled. But at the end of this film, we can see that there is a turn when the young girl is told she is not just a danger she is also a real person and that she should be herself is very moving.

[sabazinus]

Oooh! Sudden Fear, starring Joan Crawford and Jack Palance. A great nior style film. Waaaay better than I thought it was going to be. Jack is quite effective and in this movie I think his face is about 99% angles.

whatever that means

[cohenskicksposts]

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