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[[File:Noir 8041.png|frame| [[Private Detective]]? Check. [[Femme Fatale]]? Check. [[Chiaroscuro]] lighting? Check. This is Film Noir.]]
{{quote|''You need [[Cops and Detectives|cops]], venetian blinds, [[Everybody Smokes|lots of smoking]], [[Nice Hat|hats]], sweat, [[Blind Alley|dead-end streets]], guys who know all the angles except for the one that ends up sticking out of their backs. Sirens of the [[Chase Scene|automotive]] and [[Femme Fatale|female]] kind.''
|'''James Lileks''', ''The Bleat'' [http://lileks.com/bleat/?p{{=}}701 "Think You Oughta Drink That"]{{broken link}} }}
Film Noir is a genre of stylish crime dramas, difficult to define, but the 1940's and 50's were the classic period. Whether works since then can be accurately classed as Noir is a subject of much debate among film critics. Film Noir, and the literature from which it is drawn, is clearly the progenitor of later genres, particularly [[Cyberpunk]].
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* ''[[Watchmen (comics)|Watchmen]]'' contains significant noir elements.
== Fan
* The aptly named ''[[Coruscant Noir]]''.
* ''[[A Dark Knight Over Sin City]]''
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* And [[The Automatic Detective]] is Noir [[X Meets Y|meets]] [[Raygun Gothic]].
* ''[[Felidae]]'' is a Film Noir [[Recycled in Space|WITH CATS]].
== Spoofs and Parodies ==▼
* ''[[Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid]]'' (1982)▼
* ''Play It Again, Sam'' (1972), a [[Woody Allen]] film that matches up Allen's "neurotic Jew" character with [[Humphrey Bogart]]. [[Hilarity Ensues]].▼
* ''[[Problem Sleuth]]'', at least setting-wise, plays with the genre and its tropes in part. The bulk of the work is an incredibly silly take on the [[Eastern RPG]], but it's decidedly within a Film Noir framework. And when it does noir, oh, ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20121011185122/http://www.topatoco.com/graphics/00000001/mspa-office-print.jpg it does noir]''.▼
** In a similar vein, ''[[Homestuck]]'''s Midnight Crew intermission plays with the [[Heroic Sociopath|darker]] end of the genre's spectrum, [[Timey-Wimey Ball|just with extra time travel]].▼
* ''[[Kiss Kiss Bang Bang]]'', an [[Affectionate Parody]] with {{spoiler|a [[Averted Trope|surprisingly happy ending]].}}▼
* The [[Affectionate Parody|Tracer Bullet]] stories in ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]''.▼
* ''[[Sam and Max Freelance Police]]'', especially with the character Flint Paper.▼
** In ''[[The Adventures of Sam & Max: Freelance Police|Sam and Max Freelance Police]] Season 3: Episode 3'', Max gets murdered and Sam has an '[[Heroic BSOD|embarrassing noirish rampage]]' that turns the game into a Film Noir spoof for a while, down to the lighting and the camera angles in the cutscenes. Highlights include Sam demonstrating his edgy true-to-life violence by [[Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique|slapping people in the face mid sentence]] and having a 'Noir' option during conversations which causes him to [[Wangst|give a largely incoherent metaphorical description about how amoral and miserable he is]].▼
* Less spoof than reference, but Tyrell Badd of ''[[Ace Attorney|Ace Attorney Investigations]] is a blatant noir detective down to the stubble, trenchcoat, and tragic past.▼
* ''The Black Bird'' is a film spoof of ''[[The Maltese Falcon]]'' without much originality.▼
* ''[[Rock Slyde]]'' (2009) is a modern film-noir parody starring [[Patrick Warburton]] as "Rock Slyde", private-eye and former [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|homosexual-pirate musical-pornstar]].▼
* One of the scenarios in the Artificial Reality machine in [[Red Dwarf]] is a film noir setting, complete with monochrome, a [[Femme Fatale]], [[Al Capone]]-style outfits and a car from the 30s.▼
== Live Action TV ==
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* Season 5, episode 10 of ''[[Monk]]'', "Mr. Monk and the Leper," was filmed as a noir, and there are both color and black and white versions, which were shown back-to-back when the episode premiered (the B&W version aired first).
* ''[[Angel]]'' was heavily influenced by Film Noir, mostly up to about half way through the third season, but it retained certain Film Noir traits until the very end, such as the moral abiguity. {{spoiler|The final scene of the show is in the classic Film Noir setting of rainy alleyway}}.
== Music ==
* [[Wall of Voodoo|Stan Ridgway]]'s 1986 single [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arxG4gzJU5k "The Big Heat"], from the album of the same name, is a Film Noir movie compressed into a song {{spoiler|with bonus [[Time Travel]] elements -- or maybe it's [[Days of Future Past]]}}.
== Video Games ==
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== Other ==
* The 2007 Hollywood Portfolio of Vanity Fair magazine set up a faux noir film called [http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2007/03/filmnoir_portfolio200703#slide=1 "Killers Kill, Dead Men Die"] to accompany the series of photos taken, complete with casting and set descriptions in the captions.
▲== Spoofs and Parodies ==
▲* ''[[Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid]]'' (1982)
▲* ''[[Play It Again, Sam]]'' (1972), a [[Woody Allen]] film that matches up Allen's "neurotic Jew" character with [[Humphrey Bogart]]. [[Hilarity Ensues]].
▲* ''[[Problem Sleuth]]'', at least setting-wise, plays with the genre and its tropes in part. The bulk of the work is an incredibly silly take on the [[Eastern RPG]], but it's decidedly within a Film Noir framework. And when it does noir, oh, ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20121011185122/http://www.topatoco.com/graphics/00000001/mspa-office-print.jpg it does noir]''.
▲** In a similar vein, ''[[Homestuck]]'''s Midnight Crew intermission plays with the [[Heroic Sociopath|darker]] end of the genre's spectrum, [[Timey-Wimey Ball|just with extra time travel]].
▲* ''[[Kiss Kiss Bang Bang]]'', an [[Affectionate Parody]] with {{spoiler|a [[Averted Trope|surprisingly happy ending]].}}
▲* The [[Affectionate Parody|Tracer Bullet]] stories in ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]''.
▲* ''[[Sam and Max Freelance Police]]'', especially with the character Flint Paper.
▲** In ''[[The Adventures of Sam & Max: Freelance Police|Sam and Max Freelance Police]] Season 3: Episode 3'', Max gets murdered and Sam has an '[[Heroic BSOD|embarrassing noirish rampage]]' that turns the game into a Film Noir spoof for a while, down to the lighting and the camera angles in the cutscenes. Highlights include Sam demonstrating his edgy true-to-life violence by [[Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique|slapping people in the face mid sentence]] and having a 'Noir' option during conversations which causes him to [[Wangst|give a largely incoherent metaphorical description about how amoral and miserable he is]].
▲* Less spoof than reference, but Tyrell Badd of ''[[Ace Attorney|Ace Attorney Investigations]] is a blatant noir detective down to the stubble, trenchcoat, and tragic past.
▲* ''The Black Bird'' is a film spoof of ''[[The Maltese Falcon]]'' without much originality.
▲* ''[[Rock Slyde]]'' (2009) is a modern film-noir parody starring [[Patrick Warburton]] as "Rock Slyde", private-eye and former [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|homosexual-pirate musical-pornstar]].
▲* One of the scenarios in the Artificial Reality machine in ''[[Red Dwarf]]'' is a film noir setting, complete with monochrome, a [[Femme Fatale]], [[Al Capone]]-style outfits and a car from the 30s.
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