II. Clasic Noir Elements
1. Low budget film
a. cost $450,00 to make
b. took only 20 days to film
c.for the pins house, which was the drug lord, they used an old run down house that was set to be
demolished
2.Very little special effects
a. they filmed a car driving slowly in reverse then played the footage backwards at a higher speed
which gives the illusion of a car quickly approaching
3. Classic characters
a. detective/protagonist, femme fatale, murder, and crimes being committed
According to Jerold Abrams in Space,Time, and Subjectivity in Neo-Noir Cinema "While
neo-noir is certainly new, somethings never change. Obvious among these are the maze, the
detective, the femme fatale and so many other things" (19).
III. Neo-Noir Elements
1.detective/protagonist is a young high school student. Doesn't wear fadora or trench coat.
According to Notes on Film Noir,Humphrey Bogart describes the protagonist as"often
more mature, almost too old and not too handsome".
2. shot in San Clemente, CA instead of a big city
3.shot in wide open flat surfaces
4. has 3 femme fatales
