New version on a femme fetal

Femme fetal's have changed quite alot in modern day cinema, as they are becoming more of the main characters in films, but are still femme fetal's they are mysterious and seductive.

Case Study Kill bill 2

(Coffin and Trailer scene)

This is a classic example of a Thriller film, with the headlights on a car coming towards you, almost blinding you and leaving you disorientated. This is the beginning of the whole Trailer, which straight away adds a mysterious feel, as if its all abit of a dream, (nightmare).








Lighting
The first light in the scene is what i talked about before, the car headlights, which leaves you disorientated and mysterious. With a dark outlook in the Mise-en-Scene it con-notates the dark personality of the Bill's brother, and gives off the personality's of a Noir film.

Camera angles
To begin with there is a good high angle/bird's eye view shot which shows how desolate and isolated the trailer is, with no one else around for miles. And as the car approaches the trailer it brings mysterious and a surreal landscape dream world, with there being a whole huge landscape it makes the trailer seem very insignificant and small, which shows just how small and isolated anyone in that environment would be.
The camera then comes into a close up, to show the look of suspicion and concern on bill's brothers face, as if someone is watching him. Then the camera follows him, as if someone is actually following him.

Sound
The use of sound in this beginning clip is mysterious as the camera angle and lighting, as it gets more tense as the scene does. But its not just what your hearing which is tense and eary, its what your not hearing which is also very tense, as we dont know what is going to happen next, and what is waiting behind the door of the trailer.





The coffin scene in 'Kill Bill' is an amazing piece of camera work and general tension. The classic thriller scene eather has claustrophobic spaces, or very large areas. with a common factor in both, there is no escape. 






The music while she has just been shot, is the same music as the "the good the bad and the ugly" as in kill bill there is also a good, a bad and an ugly character. Tarantino is not just playing this music to con-notate the good the bad and the ugly, but to also show respect to the director Sergio Leone.
                                                                           
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A Noir Film

Film noir is a cinematic term used primarily to describe stylish Hollywood crime dramas, particularly those that emphasize cynical attitudes and sexual motivations. Hollywood's classic film noir period is generally regarded as stretching from the early 1940s to the late 1950s. Much of the attitude of classic noir derive from the hardboiled school of crime fiction that emerged in the United States during the Depression,

Some could argue that the film Sunset Boulevard (1950) is one of the top Noir films, because It is so brilliantly shot (in that stark black/white that only nitrate negative could achieve), has a witty, clever and extremely well-written script, features some of the best acting in film's history, acrobatically balances the main plot/subplots with expert precision.

Storyline

The story, set in '50s Hollywood, focuses on Norma Desmond, a silent-screen goddess whose pathetic belief in her own indestructibility has turned her into a demented recluse. The crumbling Sunset Boulevard mansion where she lives with only her butler, Max who was once her director and husband has become her self-contained world. Norma dreams of a comeback to pictures and she begins a relationship with Joe Gillis, a small-time writer who becomes her lover, that will soon end with murder and total madness.