Film Studies - The Black Dahlia
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The film was made in 2006, however, set in 1947. Because of this, houses and design
of the rooms depict the time. There are certain behaviour rules, formality. In the closing
scene the audience sees much restriction of the rules.
Codes and conventions connected to this genre are easily distinguisable. Still, ``The
Black Dahlia`` is playing, developing the noir style.
Two of the most important conventions in Film Noir are anti-hero and femme fatale.
Anti-hero, detective Bucky Bleichert, in this particular case is played by Josh Hartnett. In
older Noir movies, anti-hero is usually a detective, dominant, commited, confident and he
has a personal motivator why he needs to sort out the mystery within the story. (Mystery
is one of the conventions, though.) Especially in this sequence we see that Bucky is really
confident, he has the power over Madeline and her father (they tell half of the truth), his
personal motivator is the murder of his own partner
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