![]() ![]() Technically film noir is an era, not a genre. I think Fritz Lang would have loved Rorschach! Rorschach's panels are a true homage film/literary noir. When one says "film noir", I immediately think of the classics: Maltese Falcon, Strange on the Third Floor, M, In a Lonely Place, Postman Always Rings Twice, Double Indemnity, Public Enemy, Public Enemy, White Heat, I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang, anything Hitchcockian, and the more modern Chinatown, Body Heat, Basic Instinct, Se7en, Taxi Driver, L.A. It's all the anxiety, guilt, cruelty, lust, treachery, paranoia, and obsession that's just delicious! Nearly everything Rorschach-centric in the book has a film noir flavour to it, with its dark streets, low-key lighting, chiaroscuro effects, deep focus, high angles, stark contrasts, dramatic shadows, moral and sexual ambiguity, moody atmosphere, and lots of German expressionistic visuals, with sharp angles and distortions, which is meant to give you a very unsettling, uncomfortable feel of alienation, disorientation, disintegration. Ah, film noir! I'm a HUGE fan of film noir and literary noir. ![]()
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