Best 10 quotes in «film noir quotes» category

La révolution satisfait en même temps ce besoin de l’aventure comme étant la chose la plus opposée à la nécessité, qui est encore une réaction contre le même malheur. Le goût des romans et des films policiers, la tendance à la criminalité qui apparaît chez les adolescents correspond aussi à ce besoin.

I don t mind a reasonable amount of trouble.

A wedge of sunlight slipped over the edge of the desk and fell noiselessly to the carpet.

Either you're going to shoot us or you're not. The ball always lands on red or black, never both.

She was a cute as a washtub.

Spike Lee was the voice depicting the ills of social issues. Joseph Strickland will depict the spiritual issues (or ills) from within. ("The Making of Dual Mania: Filmmaking Chicago Style," 2018)

The collective sign of relief heaved on V-J Day ought to have inspired Hollywood to release a flood of "happily ever after" films. But some victors didn't feel too good about their spoils. They'd seen too much by then. Too much warfare, too much poverty, too much greed, all in the service of rapacious progress. A bundle of unfinished business lingered from the Depression — nagging questions about ingrained venality, mean human nature, and the way unchecked urban growth threw society dangerously out of whack. Writers and directors responded by delivering gritty, bitter dramas that slapped our romantic illusions in the face and put the boot to the throat of the smug bourgeoisie. Still, plenty of us took it — and liked it.

The movie style eventually known as ‘Film Noir’ served up hard-bitten crime stories featuring morally bankrupt men and mysterious femme fatales, blending violence and sexual desire into bleak tales of modern life, without clear messages of morality. The comic book industry offered younger readers its own version of the Film Noir mood with a wave of crime comics that began sweeping the newsstands around 1947.

The storyline also changed with the times, and went from Marla Drake held captive by Nazis in the war years, to mad scientists, gangsters and kidnapping after the war. Miss Fury's adventures were part pulp, part film noir.

Today, women have as much of a place as protagonists and antagonist as men.