Thursday, 25 February 2010

WHAT TO CALL OUR FILM?

We struggled with what to name our film noir. They are normally quite elusive - i.e. you haven't got a clue what the film is about, apart from the fact that I have informed you they are famous 'film noir' films. For example, The Blue Dahlia - what springs to mind? I'll be honest, not much, apart from the question what exactly is a Dahlia? Maybe I will find out in the film...so now you have people hooked in. Like all the great film noir before us we decided to also have an elusive name. We were informed by Miss Moore, that film noir titles including a main character of a femme fatale, often have one very feminine word mixed with a very dark, contrasting word - par exemple, Angels with Dirty Faces, which after IMDBing it doesn't sound like such a great film, but is a good example of a title. Miss Moore suggested we get on t'thesaurus and find alternative words for words like women; which was the worst search we did, as the results were poor, such as 'seawoman'. Not exactly film noir material. We also searched the word violence which came up with a much more successful search - and stealing inspiration from  Touch of Evilvoted number 4 on IMDB's top 50 film noir titles, we came up with the title Touch Of Vehemence, meaning a touch of violence.

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