- Title: Born to Kill
- The Tagline: THE COLDEST KILLER A WOMAN EVER LOVED
- Key Artwork: The picture of a man with a cigarette, The woman wearing Red
- Lawrence Tierney / Claire Trevor / Walter Slezak - Actors names / Famous Actors
- Underneath the Title is the billing block
- The image in the bottom right hand corner - production company
- Smaller images on the left hand side corner - secondary artwork
The Temptress of Broadway
New York 1940. An unsuccessful conman’s life turns around when a beautiful yet manipulative lady gets inside his head.
Evangeline, a deceptive crime seeking temptress gets herself involved in armed heists and robbing banks while catching the attention of Trevor, a conman whose robbing days have never been very successful. Together they gain the attention of an infamous crime lord and delve into the world of crime. When their affair turns out to be too much, a private detective tries to take matters into his own hands, proving to have terrible consequences. Evangeline wants to get in with the crime lords and get her way to the top and will do anything to do so, conning people is definitely not above her. New York has never had such a dangerous woman walking in her streets.
For Evangeline, Margot Robbie would portray her very well, and for the conman, Nicholas Coult would be a good actor. The movie would be shown in single and multiplex cinemas. This movie is aged 15+ and is aimed at teenagers to young adults
Analysis of Film Noir openings
MIS-EN-SCENE
Lighting
Dark lighting, set at night which makes it mysterious and suspicious/unknowing and uncertainty.
When the doomed hero meets the femme fatale light comes in... love?
Typical Film Noir conventions:
DH: Fedora Hat. Cigarette. Voice recorder/phone?
FF: Lipstick. Anklet (close up shown)
Insurance building - fraud and corruption
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Camera shot/angle:
Extreme close up of anklet. Establishing shot - insurance company (corruption/fraud)
DH in a rush to get to insurance building.
When the DH and FF are together many of the shots are close up and shows us the focus on each other.
SOUND
Non-diegetic sound track:
Fast pacing music in the beginning to match the DH in the car driving fast almost recklessly. This is then replaced by slow low music which stays for a while giving the illusion of mystery. When first showing the FF the music goes higher pitched for a few seconds which gives the idea there may be a future between them. Slower and less tense music afterwards.
Diegetic:
DH on the phone? or recording a confession of a murder he has committed.
Lighting
Dark lighting, set at night which makes it mysterious and suspicious/unknowing and uncertainty.
When the doomed hero meets the femme fatale light comes in... love?
Typical Film Noir conventions:
DH: Fedora Hat. Cigarette. Voice recorder/phone?
FF: Lipstick. Anklet (close up shown)
Insurance building - fraud and corruption
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Camera shot/angle:
Extreme close up of anklet. Establishing shot - insurance company (corruption/fraud)
DH in a rush to get to insurance building.
When the DH and FF are together many of the shots are close up and shows us the focus on each other.
SOUND
Non-diegetic sound track:
Fast pacing music in the beginning to match the DH in the car driving fast almost recklessly. This is then replaced by slow low music which stays for a while giving the illusion of mystery. When first showing the FF the music goes higher pitched for a few seconds which gives the idea there may be a future between them. Slower and less tense music afterwards.
Diegetic:
DH on the phone? or recording a confession of a murder he has committed.
Femme Fatale:
- Power over male characters - superior
- Dangerous/manipulative
- Never does the work
- Cold hearted - no morals
- Two-Faced
- Un trustworthy
- Attractive
The more natural the femme fatale looks, the more evil she is.
All characters are pessimistic
- Power over male characters - superior
- Dangerous/manipulative
- Never does the work
- Cold hearted - no morals
- Two-Faced
- Un trustworthy
- Attractive
The more natural the femme fatale looks, the more evil she is.
All characters are pessimistic
Typical story lines/Themes:
- Tragic ending
- Dark/Pessimistic story line
- Never gets away with anything
Visual Style:
- Black and white
- Lot's of shadows/silhouettes
- Venetian bars
- Tragic ending
- Dark/Pessimistic story line
- Never gets away with anything
Visual Style:
- Black and white
- Lot's of shadows/silhouettes
- Venetian bars
Setting:
- Set in america (New York/New Jersey)
- Inspired from Europe.
- Mostly set in alley ways
- Set in america (New York/New Jersey)
- Inspired from Europe.
- Mostly set in alley ways
What makes a film noir:
shadow's/silhouette's
cigarettes
guns
chiaroscuro lighting
black & white filming
shadow's/silhouette's
cigarettes
guns
chiaroscuro lighting
black & white filming
Chiaroscuro lighting:
- Type of extreme low key lighting used in film noir to create
distinct areas of light and dark. It creates a moody atmosphere
which often reflects events in the film.
- Type of extreme low key lighting used in film noir to create
distinct areas of light and dark. It creates a moody atmosphere
which often reflects events in the film.
Dutch angle shot:
- a dutch angle shot is mostly used in the film noir genre to show/
tell us that something usual is going to happen.
- showing the audience that the character is unstable or paranoid
Doomed Hero:
- Gullible
- Inferior - thinks he's superior
- Weak willed
- Trapped in crime because he has nothing else
- 'Claustraphobic'
- Gullible
- Inferior - thinks he's superior
- Weak willed
- Trapped in crime because he has nothing else
- 'Claustraphobic'
Layout & Representation of women
The layout in the poster represents women to be prominent, powerful and in control. Marilyn Monroe is the only character and takes up essentially the whole poster, she is shown in a fancy dress with a fur shawl which looks expensive therefore she looks important and superior. The back ground of the city seems to be facing her which shows her to be most important and in charge. Marilyn Monroe also is shown to be looking back over her shoulder downwards to show whatever she is looking at is lower than her and that she is more important.
Colour, Images & Art work
The colours in this are more subtle fancy, also significantly brighter than film noir but still captures the essence of it with the darkness and colour. Marilyn Monroe is a completely different colour to the colour behind her showing her to be bright and bold. Marilyn Monroe is the first thing that you see out of the whole poster on first look. Lastly this too is painting making it bold and clear. The back ground of the city seems to be facing her which shows her to be most important and in charge. The artwork is vivid and in the right proportion.
Lettering & Font
The title is all in capitals (most actually) and this makes it clear and bold. The lettering shows Marilyn Monroe's name to be bigger than her co-stars and therefore showing her to be more important and prominent. The names are all in blue which has connotations of some mystery.
Layout & Representation of Women
The layout of the women in this poster show the women to be reliant on the man as she has her arms around the male and this is shown to be as though she needs the man to support her, In this picture both pictures are the same size roughly there for it may be difficult to pin point the more prominent character. This layout represents both characters to be mostly equal. Colours, Images & Art work These colours although are darker than Gun Crazy are still also brighter than what would be expected for a film noir poster, again the poster looks like it has been painted making it more noticeable. The background colour is blue which connotations are sadness and mystery. The colours of the city behind are dark murky, this makes it even more mysterious. The female in this poster is in the centre so it could be thought that the female is more prominent in this, as she is the first thing you see. The art work is big, vivid and bold making it noticeable. Fonts & Lettering Most of the title is in capitals but its lettering is wonky making it more bold and vivid. The males name in this movie is a lot more prominent which is actually bigger than the title however the females name is significantly smaller. All the names and more are in blue except the male characters which is in yellow to show a difference. |
Layout & Representation of Women
The layout in this poster shows the women to be more powerful and more important as she is the primary art work and takes up most of space on the poster, along side this she has two guns in her hand which both have smoke coming from them which means she has recently shot them, this creates the illusion that she is not afraid of anyone. Also Peggy Cummins name is above her co stars John Dalls name therefore she is shown to be more important and prominent. Colours, Images & Art work The colours in this poster are bright & colourful in comparison to the the movies which are black & white with chiaroscuro lighting. The colours for Peggy Cummins are dark and these contrast the back ground giving the audience a theme of mystery surrounding the women. The poster looks like it has been painted which also is a contrast to the look of the films, this makes the film look bolder and eye catching. The connotations of red are love and anger, both are complete opposites however due to the secondary art work, we see a picture of two people who look like they are in a relationship but then we see the same man, lying on the floor who looks hurt and possibly shot (Peggy Cummins gun), meaning the female character is superior over the male. Lettering & Fonts The lettering and font of the title is bold and in capitals, the title has a shadow at the back making it more bold and eye catching. Most of the other writing is in black which gives it connotations of death. The colour around the tag lines is black also giving it connotations of death. |