Neo Noir

Neo Noir

Examples:

Blade Runner (film)

Mulholland Drive (film)

The Red Riding Tilogy (TV Series)

Other examples:

Fatal Attraction

Basic Instinct

Sin City

The Black Dahlia

The Red Riding Trilogy

Typical Conventions

Narrative begins with the end and tells the story through flashbacks/memories

Narration from the main character

Drinking whisky etc

Cigarettes/smoking

Anti-hero

Dark lighting, dull colours, a sepia filter

Crime

Untypical Conventions

In colour

Blood shown

Not set in 1940's

Location is rural rather than urban

More experimental camera angles

Music - acoustic guitar

Mulholland Drive

Typical Conventions

Attempted murder (crime)

Smoke and fog used

Set in a urban area

Lighting

Shadows

Untypical Conventions

No male anti-hero

Femme Fetale seems scared and not always in control