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.