DOUBLE INDEMNITY

 DOUBLE INDEMNITY (1944)

Billy Wilder 

- Wrote the screenplay 

- Directed

- Film Noir, Crime, Drama, moral ambiguity 

FILM NOIR:

  • Defined by stylistic and cinematic features or themes. 
  • Low budget due to war and lack of funding in Hollywood amongst studios.
  • Use of lighting to create shadows and suggest crowd when few actors were paid to be on set. 
  • The "noir" alludes to the darkness. 
  • Use of lighting to create atmosphere. 
  • Film noir is about the symbolic use of lighting to create a mood. 
  • Noir - moral ambiguity and uncertainty. Defining a genre through themes. 
  • Transitions in the moral landscape due to changing gender roles (both wars). 
  • Plots around duplicity, deceit, individual desire and gain.
  • Double-crossing people. 
  • FEMME FATALE. 
FEMME FATALE - WILDER

Aligned with Sunset Boulevard - Norma Desmond.  

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