Film Noir: Bringing Darkness to Light

00:00:01 Here's what film noir is to me.

00:03:13 is this idea of total moral ambiguity

00:06:10 The audience is made to identify with the criminals.

00:09:22 He said himself he'd kill Nick if he only had a gun.

00:12:14 Everyone grew up in World War II.

00:14:52 And it worked beautifully, and thank God it caught on.

00:17:46 All right, Lacey. Get up.

00:20:49 Well, let's say a drink.

00:23:56 That's got... Every possible aspect of noir is in that picture.

00:27:02 I've always felt it's what you don't see

00:29:47 to shoot all of the Lady in the Lake from Philip Marlowe's perspective.

00:32:27 and you use techniques like the things that were created

00:35:29 Voice-over is an editorial tool that comes from writing, essentially

00:38:31 There's a lot of interesting layers in film noir scoring

00:41:49 It was a nice, tough film that Anthony Mann directed

00:44:35 That's what's so much fun about film noir

00:47:16 and may or may not be shady, you're not always sure.

00:49:56 because many times there's not a lot of dialogue in these films.

00:52:17 Honest, Sam.

00:55:08 they're just chock full of upstanding, forthright women

00:57:47 They knew what they wanted and they knew how to get it.

01:00:25 and not extremely beautiful. I mean, I wanted to be like Gilda

01:03:32 not coincidently coincides with the witch-hunt.

06:00:07 sort of because of Vietnam