Femme Fatale, the best known film noir characters … Femme Fatale has many characteristic features. All of them are similar, but they are all different. It is the woman that men adore and women are envied.
She spent hir childhood with the first youth poverty. The deadly woman who is in her 20s carries the maturity and elegance of her 30s. There is no trace of childhood or innocence. Both femininity and masculinity are embodied in these women. She drinks alcohol and cigarettes, and can apply to the gun without blinking when necessary.
It is the type of woman that men do not trust most but fall in love with. Although it is mostly younger and innocent alternative than it, it is the preferred one. Even the camera follows the deadly woman. It is normal for the camera to filter the deadly woman as film noir are films shot from a male perspective.
How did the fatal femme fatale character appear?
Bette Davis – The Letter (1940) Classic female type in American films; How could she suddenly have such a character when she was a resident of her home, husband, child? II. The men who went to World War II, the women they left behind managed to stand on their own feet in their absence. Because the women who say “I am in it” appeared before the men who are in power alone. In the absence of men, they made their living, out of their sacred cuisine. A strong woman is an untrusted woman. This is how the deadly female character appeared.
In American movies there were vamp women before the deadly woman. Vamp women were mostly pure bad, doomed characters to lose. He tries to separate the two lovers, but he could not prevent their love. The deadly woman prepares the death of both herself and man. While he is losing, he takes someone with him.
Marlene Dietrich – What the deadly woman values most is money. She gets the money using her beauty and intelligence. She often earns her living by singing in bars or is the wife or mistress of the big boss. If the person he or she is a wife or mistress of is a little tight, he has to find himself a victim. Because she had many problems in her past.
She cannot leave the man without a broth. It is necessary for her to dig up the grave of his boss (husband). She cannot do this alone. she has to find herself a handsome and free young man. The plan is ready. Although the young lover does not approach this plan very much from the beginning, he cannot say ‘no’ to this woman after a while. So we move towards the inevitable end. As with any film no evil remains unpunished.
All about Martin Scorsese’s Femme Fatale movie.
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