@MoviesRemastered
Perfect timing on this video. I'm currently re-editing The Batman (2022) into a film noir version. I absolutely love this style.
@zez_gval
One fun thing to mention is the jazz score stereotype, which is actually a more modern thing that came from TV and then became a stereotype with parodies. The old noir movies used to have standard classical music like any other movie of the time.
@raymondmcelroy159
It's never been a question. It is a genre AND a style. I would always get upset when someone said it was an era of film making. It is a definable genre and style, it is beautiful and it has a philosophy to those honest enough to embrace it. To me, that is the core of noir. It may be cynical, it may be fatalistic, but it is always HONEST. I guess that is the truth about the human experience. I am more than willing to accept that.
@Math-un1xu
I think that film noir is both a genre AND a style,which function EXACTLY because of this mixed aesthetic with themes.
@ozeirGD
I always loves film noir and to me it’s both on the style and genre because it’s authenticity and the mood in that setting.
@PDeNigris
Film noir is a stylistic movement that starts in 1941, built upon tropes established in the 1930's, and is then codified into a genre by the 1950's. By 1960 it goes dormant and is revived in the 70's as neo-noir and continues to be regurgitated and reinvented in every decade since. Great video!
@elizabethw5986
YOU MADE A VIDEO ABOUT MY FAVORITE FILM GENRE!!!!!
@chris-p-123
Since video games were mentioned, "L.A. Noire" is a great example of such a game (music, plot etc...), as for movies I found "Dark City" giving a very noir vibe while missing many elements as also mentioned in the video. Great video as always!
@rayancedrichaddad1197
Film Noir are one of my Favorite and one of the Most Inspiring Film Genres in Cinema History. Thanks StudioBinder for explaining it. Very Inspiring and Useful to understand. Best Continuation to come.
@joseabc3304
How precise and succinct the theory and arguments are presented! Very well executed and really accurate with the image selection, references and dialog quotations. It does make justice in showing the density of film noir. Many thanks
@muyleche6466
I think nior is both. And I think that's why it touches our souls so greatly, because it's uniquely intimate in visual and dialog. Hence, it is style AND genre.
@rayancedrichaddad1197
My Favorites Film Noir Movies : -The Third Man (1949) -The Falcon Maltese (1941) -The Big Sleep (1946) -Crossfire (1947) -Sunset Boulevard (1950) -Touch of Evil (1958) -The Night of the Hunter (1955) -M (1931) -Cape Fear (1962) -The Godfather (1972) -Chinatown (1974) -Taxi Driver (1976) -Blade Runner (1982) -Angel Heart (1987) -The Silence of the Lambs (1991) -Cape Fear (1991) -Basic Instinct (1992) -Se7en (1995) -The Usual Suspects (1995) -Sin City (2005)
@FAKKER_rap
Noir is a genre. Each genre runs on a particular emotion: Drama - empathy, Thriller - tension, Horror - fear, Action - mechanical aesthetics. So each Noir i think is based on loneliness and despair. Therefore its a genre? Cus style is only a visual wrap, it doesn't affect the film's core emotion/meaning.
@central8448
I didn't realize how much of a fan I was of this genre. Great video.
@schwarbeastwood
For us in Africa, West Africa, to be specific, Sierra Leone per-say. Film noir is not only a style but also a genre of conventions that expresses the whole story ideation and technically it execute more of emotion that encompasses the director's vision, because in film not all that talk about hate but we express emotion base on moral standard lessons in our African stories.
@rooknado
The backing music in this video is perfect and engaging
@c.7610
Thank you for this excellent video. I’ll be using it in my film class next semester.
@bebopisthetruth
A genre so powerful and compelling that other genres borrow from its stylistic language.
@bacarandii
"It has always been easier to recognize a film noir than to define the term." Noir is a state of mind. An unconscious one at that, since it wasn't even a "thing" until French critics gave a name to the surprisingly dark tone in American films they noticed when they suddenly were able to see what had been withheld from them during the Nazi occupation (1940-1944). It's not a genre, or a setting or a style. There are noir films set in the city and the country, in the American west and Old Europe and outer space, in semi-documentary styles and in surreal fantasy worlds. Noir is more of a feel or an attitude than anything else, which makes it harder to pin down. And though many say Orson Welles' Expressionistic "Touch of Evil" (1959) marked the end of that first cycle, it's never gone away...
@johnstrange6799