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Can you see any typical plot lines of film noir in Sherlock Jr, if so which ones he has?

Common narratives

-a pair of illicit lovers conspire to commit a murder or some other seemingly perfect crime. Most often (know as the femme fatale") seduces the male into participating in this criminal for her.

-a police officer or some other detective, like a hard boiled private eye, investigates a case and encounters various complications, including the schemes of a femme fatale.

-a person wrongly accused of a crime attempts to prove his or her innocence.

-a gang of criminals plot to commit a seemingly perfect "heist" or some other caper conventional narrative traits of film noir include:

-flashbacks

-voiceovers

- "dream sequences" (such as nightmares) and subjective camerawork that frequently attempt to render psychological disturbance dialogue consisting of brief, sarcastic, or wisecracking liens

-the portrayal of a metaphorically and visually dark world

-often set in big cities and features various aspects of the urban environment, especially seedy locations

-predominantly dark, unhappy endings female characters in noir generally fall in 2 categories

1.      The femme fatales - who manipulate the male character

Some key stylistic techniques of film noir

-Chiaroscuro lighting. Employs "strong contrast of black and white lighting

-Use of shadows the sources / influences of film noir

-German expressionism

-many salient elements of film noir originate from German expressionism

these elements include:

- Chiaroscuro lighting

- Urban setting

- "narrative patterns" including flashbacks and voice overs

- subjective dream sequences other influences include "hard boiled crime/detective novels" and also the "Hollywood crime and gangster films of the 1930s social context of film noir: world war II, cold war/McCarthyism