>I admit it. The dame had me spun. But she weren't no ordinary dame. And I ain't no ordinary private dick. So yeah, I took the case.
>>220757879Someone's been playing that mouse game.
>>220757949I've actually been beating off to Veronica Lake
>>220757879It was afternoon. And it was darkest night.I'd blinked and lost my life.It had built up to me living.And I got the start and the end.Someone else took my time.I looked in the mirror. Mute lost loiterer.I was sticking around for another showing.They knock you around a lot. What's another knock from someone wanting to give you a good time.Is it any different.I stopped looking.Plenty of fish don't see. They don't look. They get the hint.Good.I took my raincoat. A cloak. Tok tok. Knife. And a look. Clerk holding it said without expression or words I was the kind that used it.I put a dime on the counter. Stabbed it clean through and offered it to him. He tried to take it but it stuck. I chipped iboff the side of the table and left it there.I never saw him take it. Poor bastard. All his life probably. No difference.We locked eyes as I left. Him and me ignoring the coin. I'd paid to be here. Paid it all. Threw him my wallet. It didn't come cheap. His hellhole was my heaven. Happy ever after was behind the blurb. And I was reading street signs. Where to go in a world that...That. A lonely sign. Words could have been anything but it pointed slightly down. And wrong. Been hit around to.I was looking for myself.Maybe I'd find her with me.Doing the same thing.
>>220757879>In this line of work you rack up a lot of problems, you rack up a lot of enemies. My secretary is on the Abwehr payroll, my dame is a NKVD plant and my ex-wife is snitching to the IRS. On top of that I’ve got some crank with a ray gun claiming to be Ramseses the third upset that I stuck it to his werewolf misses (I didn’t know the broad was a werewolf I just thought she was Armenian), I don’t know where those Jew bastards fit into all of this but I know that they are waiting in the wings. It doesn’t matter, I got a loaded MP-18, fifty barrels of hooch and a Jap broad that’s just put the mother of all cases on my desk
>>220757879>She came in to my life through a door, one of those things with a handle>Walking on legs, the kind with knees on 'em>Something about her told me she wanted something from me... I think it was the way her mouth moved and the words that came out>I couldn't resist her, the firm had a no refuse clause and we didn't turn down work
>>220757879>I am a private dick>The dame had a private dick>The case just keeps getting harder
>>220757879I love when Data in star trek next gen pretends to be an old timey guy and speaks with that accent.
>>220757988She was hot.Rub that hairy bush all over my face while chugging a bottle of vodka together.
>>220758289>(I didn’t know the broad was a werewolf I just thought she was Armenian)Fucking Kek
>>220757879Are there any actual 1930s-1960s films like this? A detective or cop that narrates his own story? Such a common trope when referencing noir but I can't actually think of a full length film that goes like that. The only one that comes to mind is Taxi Driver and that was in the 70s so it's already sort of meta.
>>220759543Murder My Sweet
>>220757879classic noir detective. alas a forgotten art
>>220757949The shrews coming out of the tunnels was memory holed pretty quickly.
>i outlined the frozen stiff with a special pencil that writes on snow
>>220759543I've been watching a lot of noir lately and its surprising how few of them have narration. A lot of them have someone sat down in interrogation or whatever and they dump their story but even then there isn't narration past the initial "It all began when I did X..."
>>220759543I've downloaded entire noir collections in hopes of finding gritty self-narration from gumshoe protagonists but it basically doesn't exist in the old movies. Nothing quite like later movies and shows spoof similar to OP's style.Feelsbadman.
>>220757879Having a cuntishly difficult time imagining Philip Marlowe or Sam Spade saying "ain't", OP.
>>220760314>I've been watching a lot of noir lately and its surprising how few of them have narration>>220760348>it basically doesn't exist in the old moviesAnd thank fuck for that.
>>220758289pretty good anon
>my piece was small but fierce, never let me down before>until the broad whipped out a piece twice as big as mine>this always happens. Back in Nip country they have a saying:>"fuko da. kore-wa chinchin daiski dayo.">that just about sums it up
>>220759543Richard Diamond Private Detective. It really was the style at the time.
>>220760695Common on radio broadcasts though. I don't know about film and tv.
https://youtu.be/nEjtYyfi_hk?si=IkJZetMz4Ydh0nR1&t=131 cases usually start something like that though, it's a quick way to get the viewer to match the pace of the setting
>>220760762it's an awkward style, so they seem to have abandoned the narration thing pretty quickly in the tv adaptation.
>>220760348You have to remember the origins of the hardboiled detective in novels/pulp magazines, which could be told in first person.
>>220760762that actor doesn't really have enough charisma for the style, you can see why they ditched narration early on
neo noir is da best
>>220757879Why is it always a private dick and never a public dick?
>>220760689>fuko da. kore-wa chinchin daiski dayoand ching chong to you too good sir
>>220761656>not understanding this much nip on an anime boardshamefuru
>>220761626that's just a cop
>>220761626Because it's an individual with a problem that the cops couldn't or wouldn't help with and she needs to go to hire a private detective to seek justice>>220762366ye
>>220758289Shit. You should actually consider writing a detective noir script. There's more demand for the genre than I think people realise
>>220759543"Noir" is a recent trend masquerading as something old. 90% of notable "noir" content is from the 21st century yet is black and white and usually set in the mid-20th. It's kind of like zoomers making all their videos look like VHS recordings or every zoomer show being set in the 90s (with modern sensibilities). It's a completely dishonest genre and aesthetic.
>>220762350>>>/a/
>>220757879uehehehe dick
>the dame figured it out>because we told her
>5pm, Thursday. The trail was cold, like the plate of tendies I'd left on my desk when the dame first came into my office. And just like her they'd had too much of the sauce for my liking. I popped a box of micro-magic fries in the nuker. Crisps in the box, they said. Sometimes this city feels like being a fry in that box. Just keeps getting hotter and hotter, and there's no easy-tear seal to let out the steam in this crooked 'burg. I know, I've looked. Tear along the dotted line. Been seeing too many dotted lines lately, but not the kind I liked.
>>220763033This is completely wrong and retarded. There were hundreds of pulp noir films. No one talks about 99% of them. It's all just Maltese Falcon and Big Sleep and Double Indemnity and the Third Man, cause those are "good ones". But many existed.
The only thing I dislike about genuine classic noir is they were so obsessed with blonde women (the most boringest kind of woman)
>>220763033>"Noir" is a recent trend masquerading as something oldshutup thirdy
>>220763458Would it kill you to be heterosexual for 90 minutes?
>>220763625cope and sneethe boring damesimp
I don't lurk as much as I used to because I started enjoying tiktok and reddit more (get fucked who cares). But it is so refreshing to come back, every time. So thankful for this place
>>220763770Couldn't be me but mazel tov with your new social media bros, lad.
>>220759543>Are there any actual 1930s-1960s films like this?Does film noir actually exist? Yes. You might be shocked that they made many westerns in those years as well
>He seemed like the kind of guy who let his fists do all the talking so I decided to drum up a conversation.
>>220763943I want every yEw KaY faggot off this site. You guys are the worst posters, I don't know how but you just pick the stupidest fucking words every time
>>220757879HAHAHA YOU CALLED YOURSELF A PENIS!!!!!
>>220759543>>220760348Detour (1945) fits to a T
>>220764231>The guy was trying to buy more sand for his hourglass. >I wasn't selling any
>>220763642Oh no my anon is gay!!!!
>>220763402>There were hundreds of pulp noir films.Which don't fit the motifs most commonly associated with noir. It's a fake modern genre that is dishonestly derivative of the actual older films you're talking about. Just like zoom zooms failing to understand how analog tech worked (hence their VHS effects being hilariously bad)>>220763605>t. ranjesh
>>220763458blondes and redheads are the best, fuck you
most current normies wont watch any movie made before the 80's so they dont really understand what truly old movies are like.
>>220765037You are so brown it's painful.
>>220765322you will never feel the love of a woman
You boys better leave this thread alone if you know what's good for ya. Don't go sticking your noses where they don't belong.
>>220763033Maybe but Dark City and The Crow were pretty good
>>220765404Didn't mean to stick my beak in. >>220765037Coined by French critics in 1946, "film noir" refers to a cinematic movement that peaked in Hollywood during the 1940s and 1950s. Heavily influenced by German Expressionism, classic films like The Maltese Falcon (1941) and Touch of Evil (1958) established core themes of existential dread, paranoia, and betrayal.
>>220765424No, not maybe. >>220765424Dark City > Blade Runner
>>220763033Can you name some of these modern examples besides Sin City?
>>220763033>"Noir" is a recent trend masquerading as something old. 90% of notable "noir" content is from the 21st centurysome of the dumbest bait Ive ever responded to, but I'll bite:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_film_noir_titles
>>220759543>>220760314It's not common all the way through, usually it's just a few scenes, The intro to The Big Shot has it.Blast of Silence is later but has a lot of narration.The intro to Farewell, my Lovely does it.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uk0jQsEFF4MI wish more of them had it.
>>220758342Beat it, these toots ain't what they used to be.
>>220764083Way to dodge that anon's question while pretending to know about shit when you clearly don't.
>>220757879>The rain played jumping jacks on the pavement again as I played the click clack instrument, singing to strangers via electric signals.>Slow days came and went like cloudy skies, just something to notice and move on
>>220759543Usually that's more from the books the noir movies were based on, the first person narration.
>it was just about time for me to face reality: it's a frog eat frog world out here, and I wasn't the one speaking French....
>>220763458all women are boring, regardless of hair color lol, with a bit of an exception for drug using women.
>>220767818>all women are boringI know! I wish they could all just be hot guys instead.
Any narration kino recommendations? I love Casablanca and Max Payne and anything film noire inspired so I might as well check out the real deal but I don't know where to look
>>220767984in case you're stupid and don't get what I'm saying -- they don't talk about or do anything interesting. If they're attractive enough and not too stupid/crazy/whatever, you might want to hook up with them, but there's very little chance they'll utter anything that's not normie babble, although most men aren't that much more capable either.
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>>220759543Anthony Mann's T-Men is excellent and features narration.And Blast of Silence is great too.
>>220759543You have to keep in mind a lot of film noir doesn't feature a cop or private eye as the protagonist. Lots of film noirs use an everyman or a petty criminal getting caught up in a scheme that gets out of hand. A lot of them use voice over narration, but not throughout the whole movie. Voice over was often seen as a crutch back then just like it is today, so it's more common in lower quality B movies. The really good ones still used it because it's a trope of the genre, but they did so sparingly.Double IndemnitySunset BoulevardDetourOut of the PastKiss of Death
>>220757988based
>>220759543"Out of the past" with Robert Mitchum has a long flashback section with some narration if I remember correctly
>>220759543Also, the very noir-ish (but not really detective driven) Orson Welles film "The Lady from Shanghai" has him narrating sporadically thorought the film
>>220757879
>>220757879>And I aint no ordinary private dick.Heheh you said private
>Normally I wouldn't be so unsteady after only six shots, but the trouble wasn't the five scotch, but the one lead.
>>220761626every police department has a detective squad. those are public dicks. if they aren't willing to make a case because lack of evidence or whatever, or you don't want the law involved (for legit reasons or you're dirty, too) and you're willing to pay, that's what private dicks are for.
>>220764243u wot, m8? i'll hook u in the gabber
>>220760762man those swelling strings... we need to go back
>>220764421>>220768669>DetourJust watched this one because of these posts, great little movie with a shoestring budget. Very stressful at times.
>>220759543The original cut of Blade Runner :^)
