Quoted from tomson I say let's bring on the mockumentariies!

Pia, How dare you, lol

Quoted from mcornetto What does this link have to do with Film Noir.  Imdb lists the Genre of this film as Biography / Crime / Drama / Romance.

It has to do with Imdb inaccurately grouping very different films together as similar, and showing that the siteisn't the oracle of cinema. In short: You can't trust everything your read on Imdb. Just a head's up.

Quoted Text Are you saying that IMDB genre assignments are wrong? That's it. Going to bed.

In some cases, most defintely. Again, do you honestly believe there hasn't been a noir film in 47 years because IMdb says there hasn't? 'Cause I can tell you a lot of film critics and makers will disagree with you.

Sleep tight.

Are you two still at it?

Quoted from Death Monkey Sorry, but that's pretty uneducated. Personal preference is fine, but saying that the genre is outdated and every script sounds the same is just wrong. Case in point: A Touch of Evil VS the Big Sleep VS China Town VS Angel Heart VS Dark City VS Sunset Boulevard VS Sin City. If you don't want to participate, fine, but the entire cross-armed pouting thing is a little childish, I think.

Please don't tell me you consider all those titles to be Film Noir.

The only one even in doubt is Dark City which is clearly leaning more towards sci-fi, but nevertheless has strong elements of the noir style including the visual style and pessimism.

Memento is a film noir. Its just a psycho-noir. Their are various films that are film noirs, its just portrayed differently.

Gabe

This might not even end up being Noir, Rom-com could suddlenly shoot up and take the top spot, just seems like there is one guy who doesn't wanna do a noir piece, but there are a lot of hours left, more votes to be cast so there is no reason for some to get all uptight about it if it's noir.

Quoted from The boy who could fly just seems like there is one guy who doesn't wanna do a noir piece...

Do not forget, Jordan, that this competition is ALSO about reading the scripts of your peers -- not just writing a script then sitting back to collect comments.

Writing a noir might be fun and challenging, but I think people who do not want to read 40 noir scripts have a valid point.

And, I hope ALL of you jokers voting for noir intend to actually read some of the submissions and comment on them.

If you know right now that you have no intention of reading any of these scripts, then please do not submit one!!! This holds true regardless of the final genre.

We will have plenty enough without you, thanks.

It's-- It's noir. Or Neo Noir if you will. But real Film Noir can't be made anyomre, that was ended in the 60's.

Quoted from bert Do not forget, Jordan, that this competition is ALSO about reading the scripts of your peers -- not just writing a script then sitting back to collect comments.

I hope your not suggesting that I'm one of the people that enters and doesn't read any cause that is not the case, I ALWAYS read most of them.

Quoted from The boy who could fly I hope your not suggesting that I'm one of the people that enters and doesn't read any cause that is not the case, I ALWAYS read most of them.

Jordan, how come every time I address you, you think I am yelling at you?

Everybody knows the people I am talking about -- we see a few of them every time -- but with all the people popping out of the woodwork for this newest one, it seemed about time to raise the issue again.

Do not play without reading, folks.  Very, very rude.

Which is unlike Jordan -- although, he can be rude in other ways, I suppose...

[Edit:  I think I shall switch to a nicer avatar today]

I deleted my comments from the last OWC of those that didn't read any. I think there were three.

Weird for Psycho to be brought up, as we just watched it last night.  IMHO, Psycho's about as close as you can get to film noir, without actually being film noir.  These are all shades of grey, no pun intended.  The mood that's struck in Psycho, particularly in the opening scene, is reminiscent of film noir.  The voiceover as Marion Crane drives away, albeit it was not her own voice, only adds to that dark mood.  But it's when I put Psycho up against Double Indemnity, that the distinction becomes clear to me.

Quoted from Alfred Hitchcock Please don't tell me you consider all those titles to be Film Noir.

Fine. I won't tell you.

But I do.

Whoops.

Quoted from Alfred Hitchcock It's-- It's noir. Or Neo Noir if you will. But real Film Noir can't be made anyomre, that was ended in the 60's.

Why can't be it made anymore? It's a style. It can be used in a variety of genres, and it has been.

So how can a style suddenly not be used anymore, or when it is used we cannot call it noir?