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Comparing The 1940's Film Noir 'Desperate' With The Modern Day Film Noir 'Se7en' 'Film Noir' were originally films that portrayed a dark, seedy side to the criminal underworld. They were often thrillers containing police detective and gangster characters in them. They came about in the 1940's and were a development of the gangster film genre. The film 'Desperate' made in 1947 is a film noir, and is about a man who is set up by a gang of criminals. This leads to both the police and a group of gangsters going after him as he tries to escape from them. The more recently made film 'Se7en', made in 1995, tries to replicate features of a film noir in several ways, to make it have a dark and sinister feel to it. The film is about two homicide detectives on the trail of a murderer, who's victims are all people who have...

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