![]() 'Zodiac' Credit: Paramount Pictures Summing Up the Definition of Neo-Noir and Examples ![]() Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead.Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans.So here are over 300+ neo-noir films for you to see how filmmakers reinvented aspects, tropes, and ideas. But I wanted to put together one that you could pull from as a primer for where this story could go. Wikipedia has a massive list of neo-noir titles from the 1960s all the way to today. It also goes into detail about how the antiheroes of this genre is usually morally compromised and spiritually shaken individual whose pursuit of a criminal covers for the search for lost or unattainable aspects of the self. The lines between right and wrong and good and evil are blurred inside neo-noir, and the main character of the detective and the criminal frequently mirror each other's most debilitating personality traits. They use many of the specific movies we mentioned above to look at the moral grey areas of most of these movies. You can constantly keep inventing and changing the story as you go. It even has broken into its own offshoot, neon-noir, which replaces the black and white or stark images with bright colors and fantastical sets. In neo-noir you get to use a lot of colors as well. They allowed us to be involved in mysteries and thrillers all juxtaposed with the underbelly of America. ![]() Orson Welles, Billy Wilder, Alfred Hitchcock, Otto Preminger, and many other famous directors made their mark on the industry through this genre. ![]() The pioneers of noir are also some of the most famous filmmakers of all time, so you get a chance to walk in their shoes. They can experiment with film lighting, camera angles, cast against type, dig into dark territories, and talk about social problems that can echo through generations. It also allows them to play in stuff outside the mainstream. Writing and directing neo-noir allows filmmakers to pay homage to the greats of the past, while reinventing the genre for themselves, using their own voices to riff on what came before them. So much of the joy of writing and directing is taking the lessons you may have gleaned from the stories of the past. ![]()
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