Le Samouraï: Difference between revisions

* [[Doomed Protagonist]]: Pretty much the whole idea behind the film and its take on the Crime genre.

* [[Film Noir]]: Seen as a definitive example of neo-noir films for its style and pacing. Even though it's a crime movie, it has only ''three'' scenes involving guns.

* [[Incest Subtext]]: Melville cast Nathalie Delon as Costello's first romantic interest because they looked more like siblings than lovers, and wanted that sort of awkwardness between them for the audience. It gets weird when you realize the two of them were husband and wife in real life, and [[Identical Stranger|not related at all]].

* [[Incredibly Obvious Bug]]: Subverted. When the Paris police sneak into assassin Jef Costello's apartment to plant a listening device, the one they initially choose is a huge black box with a big antenna and a red light. The officer puts it in the hiding place, scrutinizes it briefly, and then decides to go with a smaller model.