Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
The film is narrated by a small-time criminal, Harry Lockhart (Robert Downey, Jr.). Fleeing a botched robbery, Harry evades the police by ducking into a movie audition for a hardboiled film and, ironically, impresses the producers with his emotional outpouring of regret about the robbery and the subsequent death of his accomplice. He is given the part of a P.I. For the part, he is given an assignment. To shadow a real P.I named “Gay” Perry Van Shrikle. While working with Perry, Harry stumbles into a conspiracy of kidnapping and murder involving a high profile heiress.
During the film, there is a lot of shadow, as well as the Femme Fatale-ish character of Harmony Lane (Michelle Monaghan) who Harry has known since childhood. The noir mood is often set with shadow and sound throughout the film.
Minority Report
The story is based in 2054 in Washington D.C, where an experimental police force called Precrime has completely neutralized murder in the city, by using the psychic powers of three “pre-cogs”, who are all named after mystery writers. The lead Pre-cog is called Agatha Christie. This film shows just how well neo-noir converts to a sci-fi genre. This is a highly shadowed film, that has most film noir conventions in to one extent or another, the only big one it is missing is the famed Femme Fatale character.
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