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Okay, all right, so you kind of see the acting. You know, it's not the greatest of films, but again, we're not in this for the Great American movies; we're here for film appreciation and being able to see things there. You can really tell the importance of the shot in setting up where everybody was and how that interacts.
This is from Robert Aldrich; this gets into film noir, which we'll talk about a little bit later in this unit. This is dark cinema noir, black and white. It's from the French, directed by Robert Aldrich, and the shadows and dark lighting were pretty standard features of noir. So here's just a trailer to kind of introduce that concept. Film noir is definitely an American thing; we'll explore that a little bit in what I am perceiving to be unit six at the time that I record this.
Again, later in this unit, we're going to talk more about film noir, but it is a repeating topic throughout. Shadows are very black and very white, with interesting styles of lighting. I've read that they think directors would start everything in shadow and then add just enough light to show the characters and the props, and then that was it. We weren't about making everybody well-lit; we didn't want everybody glowing and things like that.
My filming might be film noir, but anyway, go watch the clip. We'll come back; we're almost done.