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To what extent do “Blade runner (USA 1982)” and “The Matrix (USA 1999)” make use of film noir features and techniques? This is an essay to show how films use different film noir techniques  

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To what extent do "Blade runner (USA 1982)" and "The Matrix (USA 1999)" make use of film noir features and techniques? This is an essay to show how films use different film noir techniques and features the films I will be looking at are "Blade Runner (USA 1982)" and "The Matrix (USA 1999). Film Noir means "Black Film" It is a style of black and white films what first evolved in America at around 1940 and its classic period was from 1940 to 1960 these films were firstly made by French film directors after the war. Film Noir is not described as a genre more of a tone of film, a few classic features of film noir were stark camera angles and very bleak shadowy scenes. In Film Noir films the male (Hero or Anti-Hero) doesn't have many attachments and is shown to be an outsider who only cares about one person...

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