Blog 6

This article gave a great in depth insight into the differences and likeness of the two.  Where classic noir has a femme fatale, an ambiguous protagonist detective type male, crime and black and white setting, neo-noir is not so cookie-cutter.  Because it has been said before that noir is hard to define, neo-noir is no differentm they are difficult to pin point.  Neo-noir is typically graphic with the use of strong language and vulgarity to display emotion and characters' thoughts, where in a classic noir language is insinuative but never blatantly said, these thoughts and emotions are usually depicted by shadows and scenes, refelective of the inward character.  The femme fatale is not emphasized and usually gets away with whatever deviant crime she has conjured up.  The poor sap who is caught in her trap realizes he has been taken for a fool probably just as it's too late and is at the will of the femme fatale.  Neo-noir is violent and gruesome, which I am certain has a lot to do with society and how we are so desensitized to these sorts of things now.  Classic-Noir was considered outrageous for its time, where watching a Classic-Noir film now, it is so innocent and mild compared to a Neo-Noir or any other film of our time for that matter.  Classic-noir told by a voice over, and as a flash back feels as though you are listening to a story from the past, where as it seems most neo-noirs are told in a first person narrative and feel as though it is in real time. Neo-noir and classic-noir are similar in that they still revolve around a crime scene and they both address current social anxities.