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Double Indemnity - The most important thing that must be achieved when creating an anti-hero in a film noir is making the audience root for him even though his morality is questionable and he may or may not do something bad.
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The most important thing that must be achieved when creating an anti-hero in a film noir is making the audience root for him even though his morality is questionable and he may or may not do something bad. In Double Indemnity we know Fred MacMurray's Walter Neff has already done that bad thing because the story is told in flashback, but we still root for his character thanks to one very important scene. It is the scene where he has just told off Barbara Stanwyck's Mrs. Dietrichson character for trying to have him turn the husband she no longer wanted into some cold hard cash. He leaves, and we are happy for him and support his moral indignation, but that is not what we have come to expect in a film noir. After he leaves the Dietrichson house he gets a beer at a drive-in, rolls a few...
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