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This is obviously a warning against nuclear weapons, which scared many people, including the people who made this movie. Mike Hammer and his quest are a parable about the real culture of the ?50s, not the false one of constant optimism and close-knit nuclear families...
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Hammer was used to display all that was feared by most people of the ?50s. He was an immoral man who was a womanizer and a sleazy con artist. His search to figure out and find the Great Whatzis, and the eventual devastation by the object told of the great danger of the nuclear weapons that were being made quite prolifically by both superpowers...
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To what extent do the conventions and codes of film noir used in double indemnity reflect the social, economic and cultural content of the period? In double indemnity the role of the femme fatale is played by Phyllis. She talks about her husband to Walter "I feel as if he was watching me. Not that he cares, not anymore...	3 / 634
Film Noir At It'S Finest In Double Indemnity and Sunset Boulevard the films began by revealing who the killer was or who was murdered in the opening scene. This was very effective in that it allowed the audience to concentrate more on other elements of the film, which was Billy Wilder’s goal...	2 / 525
femme fatale in film noir The females in film noir were one of two types - dutiful, reliable, trustworthy and loving women; or femme fatales - mysterious, duplicitous, double-crossing, stunning, unloving, predatory, unreliable, irresponsible, manipulative and desperate women...	7 / 1906
"Chinatown" as film noir Films that are classified as being in the film noir genre all share some basic characteristics. There is generally a voice-over throughout the film in order to guide the audience's perceptions...	4 / 849
l.a confidential film noir L.A Confidential (Curtis Hanson, 1997) is a neo-noir film about a shooting at an all night diner and the three Las Angeles policeman who investigate in their own unique ways...	4 / 952
Femme Fatale: Evil or not Double Indemnity is one of the film noir masterpieces that follows and has the majority of film noir characteristics. The film portrays a sense of melancholy, pessimism, moral corruption, evil, and guilt with advance filming techniques at its time such as low-key lightings, skewed camera angles, deep shadows, and settings at empty streets or gloomy interior to suggest the tone of the movie (Spicer127)...	6 / 1509
Genre Is The Best Approach For The Academic Study Of Hollywood Film Texts Basically, I’m disagree that almost film noir plots involve crime, the private eye wearing trench coat and fedora, the male are not admirable and the dangerous femme fatale and so on...	3 / 836