Day #11 of the 30 Day Film Meme

[shadowkat]

Day #11 of the 30 Day Film Meme - A Film You Like From Your Least Favorite Genre

Also easy...since I like very few films in this specific genre.

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I saw this on the plane from NY to Seattle in 2018 and I was crying halfway through. It's thoroughly charming and held my interest - which is hard to do on a plane flight. There's so many distractions.

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[cactuswatcher]

This is a difficult prompt. Unless you have someone you watch with who has very different tastes, you just aren't going to watch genres you don't like.

So I picked film noir, a genre in which I can often tolerate a movie but rarely think twice after I've seen it. The movie I like, often said to be the first film noir is The Maltese Falcon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3a9YU1SVbSE

[shadowkat]

Ah, not a noir fan? Well, that's also why you disliked The Third Man - it's noir.

The Maltese Falcon is interesting - it's a book written by Dashielle Hammet, and one of the tightest written, and the screenplay was written by mystery writer/noir writer Raymond Chandler - who wrote the Phillip Marlow novels. And, it had an amazing cast.

It's one of my favorite films.

Noir film is a weird category - since the characters for the most part aren't necessarily "likable".