``The Black Dahlia`` we see that Bucky is almost crying. This may lead us to the point that in old times men didn't show much emotions in films but nowadays it is ok, even if it is Film Noir and an anti-hero. Even though, the general dress codes (suits, hats) are still exactly the same. The femme fatale in this film is Madeline Linscott (played by Hilary Swank). Before Noir genre, women were quite inactive figures in Hollywood films. They were wives, mothers or whores and they didn't have much rights. In this gerne, role of women has changed. Through the film Madeline played one of the central roles and even at the end it seems like she could manipulate and control Bucky. She has the right to say what she wants. In this case, however, the anti-hero has the power and femme fatale gets shot. As well as in this sequence, we also see guns in almost every other Film Noir. The Dialogue replicates to the corruption, to violence
Bathos spoiling the lofty effect, bringing something down to earth. The usual function is irony or humor. FGI 1081 Stylistics (I. Ladusseva) 16 - The author may mention elevated things side by side with down-to-earth objects (e.g. "They kissed violently, passionately. The pigs in the sty grunted." "He liked her ever so more than the don don whores." (Aldington). - Words belonging to different stylistic layers brought together is also bathos (colloquial + formal vocabulary) (e.g. "I ain`t attempting to discuss the celebrated moral aspect of parental affection."). - Applying colloquial words to distinguished people (e.g. "That Shakespeare chap most likely had written countless books of poetry."). 2
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