Lately I've been studying film noir movies, movies
that consist mostly on murder, mystery, conspiracy's and people being
wrongfully accused of a crime that person didn't commit. Basically,
Investigation Discovery on cable or Hulu. Now I've been watching quite a few of
these great films and granted they were both excellent in every way possible.
Though two of the movies I've enjoyed through my time ones I honestly can't
choose which one to recommend so I decided to talk about both films the first
one for which I would highly recommend to anyone who’s a big fan of the film
noir genre is The Third Man a film produced by London surprisingly which
starred Orson Welles and Bernard Lee. Now before we begin I like to point out
that you may think there's a third man but there really isn't.
American pulp western writer Holly Martins (Joseph
Cotten) arrives at post WWII-Vienna being offered a job by his friend Lime
(Orson Welles). But all of a sudden Martins is told that his friend is dead and
the police don’t have in interest to tell him what happen nor want Holly to get
involved. Not listening to everyone around him Martins tries to find out what
really happen to his best friend. Though how far will Martins go to find out
what really happen to his pal or does he know him at all.
Hands down one of the best visually stunning films
I've ever seen, and awe hell I'm just going to say this defiantly one of the
top five greatest films of all time. It's one of these films that people do
need to check out moreover watch and see that even the simplest stories can
achieve greatness. Even I didn't know who Orson Welles was portraying in the
film because I though he was going to help out the main protagonist or was he
just there to sell the movie posters but once you finally see him I was like
"WHAT?" Like hands down one of the biggest and yet greatest surprises
I've witness on film since Christian Bale's reveal in the Prestige. Carol Reed
the director of the film did a fantastic job as well because in most film noir
pictures that I've seen, they don't in essence create a beautiful backdrop or a
portrait on screen and Reed did that in an amazing way possible that you can't
help but be at awed in those numerous scenes that Carol creates on screen, and
having a photography background myself that's even great to see back in the
oldies. Probably one of the coolest surprises is seeing Bernard Lee aka M from
the sixties and seventies Bond films and that was one of those surprises I was
thinking to myself "dude that's M from the Sean Connery years". Now
I, a side from Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark or The Searchers or even Taxi
Driver being one of the greatest films of all time I would strongly suggest
watching The Third Man, because it definitely changed my life in a sense that
even simplest stories can do great things and you don't even need big budgets
to create some amazing scenes all you got to do is take a camera, have a good
eye and create magic that's all you got to do, also this film alone has given
me a huge love of film noir, though granted I've seen some on YouTube but this
film alone has sealed the deal for me in the love of film noir.
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