Origins of Film Noir

[@arnabmukherjee3771]

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[@kr5746]

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[@scribemike]

Man this is the third time I've watched this one all the way through and it gets better every time. On a channel of truly exceptional videos, this is one of the best.

[@philipdrake2343]

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[@merasanam]

A BIG WOW for the noir opening/closing !!!

[@1995yuda]

This is perfection! Should have millions of views. Thank you.

[@franko8858]

Great insight into not only noir, but film in general. Wonderful job here!

[@Borella309]

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[@kevinluckham]

I just wanted to say that this was amazingly well written and presented. Kudos.

[@gabrielharter2903]

This video was better than expected. Thank you for the posive advice at the end, and the editing in the begining was top notch!

[@CameronMcGrath]

Just discovered your channel, and I cannot believe how much I've missed out! Much respect.

[@Indyshotmedia]

John!! Love the stylised production.... and of course the exceptional content and delivery. Bravo.

[@sistersu3902]

So happy to find this video has an excellent transcript, so students who are learning English as a second language can improve their language. Added to my Close Captioned video list to use with my students.

[@tyevind]

Great presentation john. Been following you on FB for a while and watching your videos here and there. Always a pleasure to see your view.

[@zookeeper2872]

Great video. I'm posting this on my Facebook movie page. I made my, crazy classic movie page on Facebook as a way for me to save links like old film Noir movies and total b-movies, and not have to subject my friends on Facebook to see all these posts. It's not a very popular page but I got about a hundred sixty followers. So I think this video is a good educational tool for anyone who doesn't know about film Noir. Really well done and great history

[@Landes1024rs]

What was the first film that showcased the stereotypical monologue backed by piano and saxophone? "It was a dark night in a city that knows how to keep its secrets. But on the 12th floor of the ACME building, one man is still trying to find the answers to life's persistent questions. Guy Noir, private eye."

[@sylviasmother7124]

Garrison Keillor?

[@oTgNinJAFTW]

Please can you do a video on the history of gangster or crime movies would love to learn about them and you seem to explain movies well

[@FilmmakerIQ]

oTgNinJAFTW We'll consider that ;)

[@johnberkley6942]

Apart from the really nice lighting, it's a bonus that we don't get to see the autocue reflected in your glasses...

[@GallowaySackett]

Thanks for posting. Liked it. Favorite in that genre is Blade Runner and The Big Sleep. Seems like the dialogue in noir is as interesting as the themes. There are some great lines in The Big Sleep.

[@MaoRuiqi]

at 11:26, you say, "coming in on the tail-end" after the famous tail-end scene from the "Big Combo" is played. Well timed?

[@ThatDudeWithAGuitar-2k]

Well done John! A very nice overview of the genre. Inspiring for future work - thanks!!

[@cyrille8693]

Great video, John, as usual :)

[@sparkybluefox]

I am melting at the awesomeness of this video!!!! ..... Bravo! Over the Top Great video! sbf

[@stevebirks2186]

A great piece of video ! My father loved both westerns & film noir - Personally I love film noir - there is so much out there ? - I am gonna order those first four noir movies mentioned here on Monday ! Your YT docu I found very interesting and I am gonna us it as a basis for my collection of noir movies - Once again many thanks for this infomative Documentary !

[@leila7524]

Thank you for featuring Dark City... people tend to overlook that film in these type of videos. One of my favorites!

[@eddiethetruhead]

Absolutely love The Big Combo. Also The Big Heat and The Big Sleep. 3 of my fav noirs.🎥👍

[@RCAvhstape]

I gather you make these videos for film students, maybe? I'm no film student, just a big fan of movies, and your vids are great. Loves me some noir. You mentioned Batman fims; the better of the Batman-related TV shows are also heavy on noir, including "Batman: The Animated Series" from the 1990s and the current "Gotham". TAS especially, since animation means you can exaggerate the noirish elements like crazy. Both series also deliberately play with anachronistic technology to you can't really figure out what decade it's supposed to be. In Gotham people have cell phones but they are all driving 1980s cars (like a Scorsese gangster film), and in TAS the designs are all art deco and there are computers with black and white monitors.

[@Kuudere-Kun]

Even the Adam West show had it's weird Noir influenced here and there. The Credits sequence of the movie in particular feels like a Noir sequence to me, though I don't know what classic Noir did a similar thing.

[@joseville]

Batman: TAS it's a favorite!

[@oklojamas]

These videos are superb . I think with some youtube publicity this channel could get a stable 50000 views per vid

[@Clay3613]

To me the definitive film noir is Kiss Me Deadly.

[@eddiethetruhead]

Stumbled across a vhs copy a couple years ago. Probably watched it 20 times since. Kiss Me Deadly is a noir masterpiece.

[@Cinemuckfilm]

A Tribute to Film Noir Thanks for your advice Mr Hess!

[@creatinotionchannel2680]

Your videos are so thorough and informative. I love the content. I was blown away that Karl Freund worked on Metropolis and I Love Lucy. How fascinating!

[@Zehahahaa]

Love your insight and information , splendid

[@jamstonjulian6947]

I find Film Noir very satisfying, and find it works very naturally with other genres such as Sci-fi, Crime, Period Pieces, Comic Book movies. Many of my favourite films are noir or influenced by it, such as Blade Runner, Chinatown, LA Confidential, Brazil, Dark City, The Third Man. There's something about that is malleable and doesn't date.

[@AtonMaiti]

You are a master teacher. :)

[@lucasmax2067]

Wish I could take a film studies course with this guy.

[@vickyhella]

these helped a lot! amazing job and thanks!

[@diazfilms]

great great great presentation thank you

[@lifewithlani2637]

My favorite noir is The Big Sleep. Not a "b" movie, but definitely film noir. Dark lighting, seedy characters, and a dark story.

[@ciprianwinerElectronicManiac]

I was constantly wondering if you're going to show Sin City and sure enough there it was. Keep up the good work. Cheers :)

[@fuzzylumpkin49]

Excellent video. Thank you.

[@bobsden25]

Very well presented.

[@lcar4000]

There was (and is) a category of fiction known as noir, prior to motion pictures. Fascinating presentation here

[@PiscesPriestesses]

Thank you John. I have been a big fan of Film Noir for a long time. Love the low down in your video and you keep on being a great storyteller!! 😎

[@RDelerue]

Great video! What's the name of the song played in the background as John Hess speaks?

[@FilmmakerIQ]

That was just an adlib we did with some strings pads and trumpet.

[@RDelerue]

Oh, I see. I really love this noir atmosphere and I think that soundtrack has a great role. Do you have a playlist to recommend? :) Thanks!

[@FilmmakerIQ]

Most of what we consider "traditional" noir music is 50s era minor blues - check out Miles Davis stuff especially: kzbin.info/www/bejne/e167h5-oltp_rsU

[@lunacarmin]

Love the intro 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻and the fedora!!! 👍🏻🕵🏻

[@WhiteBloggerBlackSpecs]

Funnily enough _Who Framed Roger Rabbit_ (which ironically takes place in the heyday of noir), and even _The Big Lebowski_ have major elements of noir woven in the fabric of its narrative

[@baronvonlimbourgh1716]

I love who framed roger rabit....

[@FilmmakerIQ]

Jessica Jones maybe a hint of Noir but not GoT

[@FilmmakerIQ]

It's still GoT which makes it fantasy. It's not noir in the slightest.

[@FilmmakerIQ]

Thematically, Christopher Nolan has a lot of film noir influences in his body of work from Memento to Insomnia.

[@michaelwilliams2677]

Nicely done enjoyed it !

[@walmartpimp2]

Can you do a video regarding the three act story structure please?

[@Topzapper2]

Awesome video! Also how about Brick? That was to me a film noir set in high school

[@johnnykarlitch]

GREAT fantasmatical historical lesson!!!

[@ToppsyKred]

nice work again but there is a small misspell: Its "Karl Freund", not Fruend its german for "friend" btw :)

[@alcyonecrucis]

Love it Mr. Hess, you're such a baller

[@joseville]

I really like the look and feel of film noir, but also the elaborate metaphors and analogies that you sometimes hear when a private eye is narrating

[@evanescapades2513]

This is amazing!!!!! Thank you!!!!

[@JamesBond-uz2dm]

hot diamonds, cold hard cash dirty coppers, clean getaways stand up guys, low down rats two-timing dames, only one way out This is film noir. " What's your angle, sister? "

[@FilmmakerIQ]

+James Bond that description left me shaken... not stirred.

[@peterxyz3541]

Another good episode!!! Good shit!!! BLADERUNNER!!!

[@RedThebigOne]

+Peter XYZ In MY TOP 5 films but rather Film/Tech Noir? Peace

[@TheVideoSteve]

Great hat. I want one. What brand ? Color?

[@RedThebigOne]

Wow ,"Mr. John P Hess." My IQ actually increasing after watching KZbin? Thanks and the "Femme fatales" so fricken hot, just stunning!

[@laurencelikestopgun]

Minority Report had lots of Film Noir elements also

[@inigojuancarlos]

Super Rabbit Isn't it considered a sub-genre as a neo-film noir?

[@jspaingreene6350]

I'm going to be that squirrel on the thread - but, are you part Filipino? My Filipino-dar is going off and making me think of my family! Love the video - great, succinct overview of Noir. Thank You!!

[@FilmmakerIQ]

Not Filipino, Chinese German

[@michaelallport5816]

Nice job.

[@trv16gel]

Impressive production

[@btetschner]

Thank you for the video.

[@scottbrower9052]

Fascinating.

[@eddievhfan1984]

How'd you de-sat your skin tones without taking away from the color of your tie? Was that just an automated post-production thing, or is there a trick to manipulating the color saturation with the lighting?

[@FilmmakerIQ]

Some of it was power windows with a color grading application - part of it is the way it's lit, with an eye light.

[@TheyCallMeGroucho]

This guy is cool. Thanks for the essential info Mr. Noir. Larry, Taiwan

[@FilmmakerIQ]

TheyCallMeGroucho John was born in Taiwan ;)

[@TheyCallMeGroucho]

Filmmaker IQ So was my wife. We came here from the U.S. to teach at a university in southern Taiwan. Thank you for the very informative videos. -I've learned a lot. As I said, that dude's cool. Larry, Taiwan

[@chenghan2180]

+Filmmaker IQ Is John half-Asian? He looks like it.

[@lddevo88]

I can totally see that.

[@SamLovesMovies25]

Hm, how about The Maltese Falcon? I've heard that considered classic film noir as well by many people.

[@FilmmakerIQ]

+Sakura4anime25 A great noir - there are tons of noirs we didn't get to, we just highlighted 4 key noir films: The first one, a big budget one, a small budget one, and what's considered the last of the era.

[@WAQWBrentwood]

The Maltese Falcon's Sam Spade and the radio series version of Sam Spade points up the difference between broadcasting and filmaking. The radio's Spade is lighter and more comic than Film's spade. The radio PIs (Sam Spade, Johnny Dollar...) Handled crime in a less serious light, I guess to appeal to a wider "drive by" audience than film detectives. But where TV would in some respects alter film, Radio in this case informed TV: The radio Sam Spade type led to the Honey West, Jim Rockford, Magnum P.I. Remington Steel types.

[@fredericoleite2539]

perfect video!

[@BrandonFer]

excellent genre. have you made a video on horror? or slasher?

[@scotgat]

6:00 ...'many film makers were laid off.' Yes, and there was another reason many workers in film were "laid off" during this time period and his name was Joseph McCarthy. But they couldn't get a job in television or anywhere else. The smarter ones moved to Europe, never to return to the U.S.

[@quietrobert2010]

this is fascinating I've been trying to write up in the war movie or novel for some time now

[@Yzyenthusiast]

Gary Moore how's it coming along

[@quietrobert2010]

Jon Snow very very slow

[@thomassalyers1391]

Body Heat,,, excellent film noir,,,

[@horrorhabit8421]

Interesting. I don't know much at all about film noir. Thanks for the introduction. You know, the film studios continued to do block-booking until the 1970's...but only when they were selling to TV studios. I guess there was a loophole. Universal, for instance, would sell a batch of horror movies to a TV studio for the Friday night late show, or Creature Feature or whatever. If you wanted Dracula, you had to buy House of Frankenstein with it. This started in the 1950's.

[@FilmmakerIQ]

TV wasn't included in the Paramount accords

[@gerryd1953]

I’ve never heard “noir” pronounced like that before. Always thought it was one syllable

[@wildsmiley]

yes!!

[@ilirlluka6789]

This is just a personal opinion but I think Caravaggio has had an immense influence on the visual (especially lighting) style of Noir.

[@jabrettell]

What about M? It's a German film released in 1931 staring Peter Lorre. I'd say it ticks all the boxes for film noir.

[@FilmmakerIQ]

It's German impressionism which predates noir

[@Larkinchance]

does Louis Malle's, Atlantic City rate?

[@FilmmakerIQ]

You tell me ;)

[@flux202]

This is a listenable.

[@brucetaylor5917]

Certainly Fritz Lang's "M" (1931) qualifies as being the earliest of the sound film noir genre.

[@FilmmakerIQ]

Too early for the classic period of film noir which begins early 40s. Lang's M is part of the German Expressionist movement but not "Film Noir"

[@willieluncheonette5843]

@@FilmmakerIQ have you seen all 4 1/2 hours of his Dr. Mabuse the Gambler? (1922) IMO that is the first proto-noir. A masterpiece whatever you call it. To me it is noir, even though yes it is before the classic noir era.

[@lodalega9674]

@@willieluncheonette5843 i have seen Dr.Mabuse and i assume its nature of being a film noir debatable.

[@mlangley2229]

What year was noir in

[@FlippytheMasterofPie]

I’ve heard someone refer to film noir as a “cycle” rather than a “genre” and I think that works better. If film noir is a genre, why do we count anything from the 60’s onwards as “neo-noir”? How do you define it? Calling it a “cycle” places it in a historical context and removes some ambiguity.

[@theman2017inc]

The contested question… Is Noir a genre in its own right or style of film?

[@willtobias5280]

Awesome

[@baronvonlimbourgh1716]

Do you have a ponytail?

[@FilmmakerIQ]

no

[@mjbirdClavdivs]

So, would Casablanca be considered Noir? It used low lighting, was made as part of the studio system, I think it was originally considered a B-List movie, had a hard-bitten protagonist, and a forbidden love affair. But it's also a patriotic romance, so would this still fit?

[@FilmmakerIQ]

This is a classic debate... I would say no even though it's lit like a noir, it's a little too upbeat to be a noir.

[@dbitgood1]

The latter day examples seem more horror than noir. There is a difference. Also, the more modern, the more overstated and obvious seems to be the rule.

[@yuntingw7462]

great

[@mortezaa4369]

Great was what it was

[@hjeriz]

The Dark Knight (2008) really ? i never thought of that.

[@SihirbazTsar55]

Wings of Destiny intensifies

[@DylanPank71]

You spelt ''FREUND'' wrong!

[@Geewhizzy]

Great! But "femme" ( as in ' femme fatale') is pronounced "fam"

[@bound2thefloor1]

He skipped my favorite one. Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

[@SharpDesign]

The "Hays Code".... aka....."Hey" hey hey... you can't say that!

[@Kuudere-Kun]

I have in depth posts on my Blog about why this genre is affiliated with so many French Words. jaredmithrandirolorin.blogspot.com/2016/06/the-french-history-of-femme-fatale.html jaredmithrandirolorin.blogspot.com/2016/10/the-mysteries-of-gotham.html

[@dhp6687]

Motion picture production code is abbreviated as MPPC, so is the motion picture patents company. Not surprising, they are both annoying.

[@Frank-kw3tq]

They want Charlton Heston to play a Mexican

[@royfr8136]

Just 7 years after kane.... Welles really let himself go.

[@genedumas3956]

Citizen Kane 1941 - Touch of Evil 1958 = 17 years

[@neub4321]

I'm guessing you did your thesis on film noir. This video is too melodramatic for my taste.