Drive (2011) is a cinematic masterpiece, and critics are finally calling it the best film of that year. Third watch last week, and I’m still seeing new things in it. Gosling’s facial expressions, the cinematography, the electronic score and Refn’s direction. It’s f*cking perfect.
Adam Kapetanakis I’ve never seen it, has Ryan gosling though so it’s going to be good. Right? Is it on Netflix do you know and what is it about in short?
@@MMAGamblingTips It's about a guy who's a stunt driver by day, a getaway man by night. He's emotionally isolated (I personally think he's somewhere on the autism spectrum, though I get shouted down when I bring that up) but he gets involved with his neighbors in a way that leads to various tragedies. Oh and it also has Brian Cranston.
@@xLightcrystalx a) while it is an important element it could be absent from the movie whatsoever, which was the case even for classic film noirs (quite a few classics such as The Hithc-Hiker lack major female characters whatsoever) and b) technically, Christina Hendriks' character is a femme fatale.
The films mentioned here are: The Stranger, Jackie Brown, City of Tiny Lights, Sin City, Mute, In the Shadow of the Moon, Taxi Driver, Cities of Last Things, Brick, Drive, Earthquake Bird, Too Late, Anon.
Was this a joke? Not really. It just elaborates on the immoral side of things, things society prefer no to talk about. Actually, depression would be Neo-Noir exactly because is Taboo.
Sort of. I found them therapeutic to depression. Neo-noir films explore darker themes that also happen to be realistic. Gives a sense of “oh so nothing is wrong with my worldview. maybe this actually is how things are”. Obviously they are still movies…an exaggeration of reality.
@@konway17... the OP said depth not detailed explanation. Depth & an explanation are 2 very different beasts, especially when we're talking about art (like film or music). "Duh"
I like that movie and still think he's a horrible writer. No one is doubting his directorial skills, but he can't write. Even he sort of admitted it once by saying he's lazy with his writing, how anyone can still defend that aspect of him is beyond him. Give him someone else's script, and he'll give you something great, like Breaking Bad. His own scripts? Well, they keep getting worse, Brick was better than Looper, Looper and etc..
@@v-trigger6137 lol critics nowadays pay attention to everything except writing, acting, directing, etc... all they care about is what's trending in Hollywood, and we all know what that is.
I actually consider L.A. Confidential (RIP Curtis Hanson) anti-noir. Hanson deliberately went against the noir style in terms of staging and lighting, opting for naturalistic on both. And there's the grounding in historical period details that go against the haziness of most noir and neo-noir.
I just want to watch cyberpunk and Neo noir all day everyday and there's so little around. season one of altered carbon was great. Lots of people ragged on Mute but i thought it was really cool too
I really enjoy the coloring in Neo Noir but at the same time it gets me distracted from the things that make the plot noir. There was a comment made about how the Korean audience doesn't really favor Noir when Real (2017) came out and wondered why that is. Are there other countries like that and if so is it because of the cinematography style or because of the things that a noir story usually has?
This would've been a good video to put out around the time the Cowboy Bebop series is released. Who knows when that'll be now. Hope John Cho's recovery goes well.
1:53 is this true? Were femme fatales of noir serving the same purspose as the homme fatales of neo. Which is, more often than not, being the protagonist?
@@johnathonhaney8291 Well, just to explain where i'm coming from further. It's clear who the protagonist is on these neo noir movies, and more often than not it's the homme fatale character. When I think of old school noirs, I think of a character that also does narration though monologues as the protagonist, and those were more often than not male. which is why I asked if the femma fatale in old school noir served the same purpose as the homme fatale of neo noir. Because to me, what the video makes, feels like a false comparison.
@@Netflix You should have fans of the genres or movies you are presenting be the hosts so as to not create a 'face' host for Netflix as a brand on RU-vid.
