History of Relevant Film Genre

After doing some research into the history of the genres of 'crime' and 'thriller', I found a genre that relates more so to our film than we realised when we were first creating and planning our film opening.
The genre 'Film Noir' is used to portray "cynical attitudes and sexual motives" (wikipedia). It is mainly a mixture of romance and crime, however my group and I have decided to give it a modern twist and add in a thriller element and only have a small amount of romance, some of which is shown in the new wedding scene.

Film Noir's peaked in the 1940s and 1950s, some having been famously directed by the likes of Fritz Lang, Alfred Hitchcock and many others.

Here is an example of what a Film Noir genre trailer looks like. It is Fritz Lang's piece 'The Woman in the Window' - 1944:



Here is some information on the history of the Film Noir genre that I found from the website www.filmsite.org:

'A wide range of [film noir] films reflected the resultant tensions and insecurities of the time period, and counter-balanced the optimism of Hollywood's musicals and comedies. Fear, mistrust, bleakness, loss of innocence, despair and paranoia are readily evident in noir, reflecting the 'chilly' Cold War period when the threat of nuclear annihilation was ever-present. The criminal, violent, misogynistic, hard-boiled, or greedy perspectives of anti-heroes in film noir were a metaphoric symptom of society's evils, with a strong undercurrent of moral conflict, purposelessness and sense of injustice. There were rarely happy or optimistic endings in noirs.'

It goes on to say how Film Noir is, strictly speaking, not a genre: '...but rather the mood, style, point-of-view, or tone of a film.'

I feel that this is the perfect way to categorise our film, as the style of our film and the way in which we have planned the shots on our storyboard correlates with the standards of a Film Noir piece.