Blog # 7

The story i would recommend to my friend would be "The Method" i enjoyed reading this story a lot because it was different having the protagonist as a female, but it was exciting to hear it. i was so into this story because this time it was like the man that are  usually the protagonists was the femme fatale or should i say the man-tale. It was a big flip around having the man seducing the female because I'm always use to hearing about the female taking control and seducing the man. but it still turned out that the female end up wining in the situation. I like that the fact she was aware of what was going on. At the end of the story  she had reverse her self into a true femme fatale she made it seem that she didn't know what was going  on but was really setting him up in the trap that he had planed for her.
In "Morocco Junction" it was a good story to read but i just didn't connect to it like i did reading "The Method". The Method was more film noir to me just in a woman point of view,  even though most of the time it doesn't always turn out that one of them gets away but in this story she end up getting away and he didn't even know it was coming. I also notice that she didn't tell it like she was having  flashbacks it was more of straight forward, however i do consider it still to be noir because it doesn't matter that the fact that the female is the protagonist and first- person narrator either way it still turns out with a cruel murder.

Blog # 5

The article i found on film noir is by Scott Snyder University of Georgia he talks about the many personality of femme fatales in film noir. He explains that in the 1940s and 1950s theses femme fatales has several related personality characterized by histrionics, self-absorption, psychopathy and unpredictability. As in Double Indemnity Phyllis Dietrichson  played by Barbara Stanywyck was the first image and appearances of a femme fatale as the author describes Phyllis Dietrichson  at the top of the stairway landing looking down as if from pinnacle of power and desire, wearing only a bath towel as she walks down the stairs the camera is mainly focus on her legs showing how she begin seductively towards the insurances salesman Walter Neff played by Fred MacMurry. what i had insight from that little part was that   you can tell that the femme fatale role in most film noir movies or novels has composite of lust, power and greed. i also like how in Scott article he refers to the femme fatale as the the "Fatal Women" who lures men in to dangerous or compromising situation. My perspective hasn't change of what i think about film noir this article just gave me better view of why they created the cinematic method of the femme fatale in film noir.    

Blog # 4 (Questions 1&6)

1. Discuss the contrast between the ending of the novel and the film.Which ending seems more appropriate for the film noir? Why?

In the novel the ending wasn't too realistic to me it just seem so confusing.I didn't like the fact how  Walter and Phyllis was together on the boat i least thought she had killed him due to her begin the first to get revenge on Walter overall i think the novel ending wasn't such of a great ending. It has you thinking to yourself what just happen? Did i miss something?, However i did enjoy the film ending because it was more understanding and it went perfect. Walter and Phyllis both end up dying which i wanted one of them to die because of what they did  Mr.Nirdlinger. It turned out well because they both died. it really had my blood thrilling when i was watching the part when Walter was in Phyllis house in the living room and how it was all dark i knew from that moment Phyllis was going to kill Walter but turn out they killed each other. the film Ending was the more appropriate ending that made more sense.

6.Raymond Bore and Etienne Chaumeton in their work "towards a definition of Film Noir," describe the qualities of film noir as "nightmarish, weird  erotic, ambivalent, and cruel." Select one quality and discuss how it relates to the film version of Double Indemnity.

I will have to say film noir to be cruel because of all the violence that goes on and how most of the character in a film noir movies or novels  have no care or heart of feelings towards what they will do just for love or money. Cruel relates to film version of Double Indemnity because of the way Walter and Phyllis were towards each other and the people around them. it was like they had no  feeling of how it would affect someone else.