Watching FIlm Noir

So I've decided to do what I used to do, when i was younger, and throw the future to the wind.

Whats this mean? It means that I'm going to put away the obsession i had with watching "futuristic" or "progressive" plots, and I'm going to slip deep back into the old films, all over again, just like i did when i was between the ages of 17-24ish.

Why am I doing this? Its simple: By embracing the often painfully old fashioned plot lines of the old films (and not refusing them) I get one single - and enormous -advantage. The advantage should be obvious: Instead of having only one or two decades of film available to me, I instead have a half a centurys worth.

To some readers it might sound strange, i know, to some older readers it might seem like something thats never even occurred to them. They've been watching old film for all their lives. Who knows? But for many of us younger folks, below 30 (as i, for a little while longer, still will be) old films can be a bit insufferable, depending how much you dig the modern world. In my early 20s, ironically, i hardly dug the modern world at all, so dipping into the Old one was very fun.

 I often spent many a night watching films from the 40s, the 50s, the 60s and so on, same as my music. Then, at some point, i suppose i began to feel that my values had, quite accidentally, fallen horrifically behind. I suddenly became obsessed with the future! I became a liberal progressive ... and oddly enough, the moment i did, many old films lost their spark.  Mostly cus i started to see the blatant racism, sexism, and all the other isms, at work in them. I've explained before how, at some certain point, i watched so many films with male leads that i became very sick of ..male leads. I wanted female leads. They were no where to be found! So I renounced film and began to write.

Now however i find i want to journey back into films, particularly old ones, for whatever reason. I think some of it has to do with the band The Doors , actually. I've been listening to them a lot again lateyl and so many of their songs remind me of weird dark "Film noir" plots, so that is sort of becoming my recent mission. FIlm noir might be the best genre for me to sink my hooks into because, unlike my pirates and my elves and all of them, there isn't exactly a shortage of film noir. Its a long standing genre now. Perhaps its where I need to go, as an author. I need it!!! I can watch a few and then steal the plots and reverse the genders. Last night, for ex., I watched original Cape Fear from 1962. Robert Mitchum and Gregory Peck. It wasn't haf bad. Black and white. I missed the last 10 minutes. But ... it starte to give rise to a plot in the deep back of my skull...i started to imagine a murder plot... a female lead...she will be the Killer ... and she will kill....who? Her baby daddy. WHO ELSE! Ayayayaya.

It occurs to me that mixing a fmale lead with film noir might very well be my ticket to Hollywood.

So here i am, trying to find some famous noir to watch. A few movies have come up so far that I am trying to illegally search on Google. Desert Fury. Out of the Past. Double Indemnity. They all have vaguely similar plots. I think I'm going to setlle on Double Indemnity. The plotline seems appealing, i guess.. who cares...i suppose i just want "creepy" "mystery" viobes, and maybe some good looking 1940s women (if thats even possible?).

Well i am off.

Ciao CIAO.