Film Noir Treatment

A private room in a restaurant with two people sitting at an Oil Lamp lit table. Matt and his business partner Daniel, talk about business. While they are talking, Matt asks about their business manager. Daniel shows a photo of their leader Marion (Hayley) and speaks about her loyalty to the company.

Matt gets up to take care of personal business but leaves a mysterious case on the table. Dan picks up the case after Matt has left then is about to see what is inside when a figure hits him on the head and is dragged away.

Matt returns to find the case and Dan gone. He walks around looking for the case. Then he hears a sound behind a door, he opens the door and finds Dan tied up and with a cloth over his mouth. Matt pulls down the cloth and obtains as much as he can from Dan. To make things seem like nothing has happened, he puts the cloth back over Dans mouth and closes the door.

Matt walks outside towards a street light and finds the case on the ground. He picks up the case, opens it, but the cargo is not there. However, Matt finds a piece of paper in the case that give a certain location. Matt looks into the distance and walks to the location.

Matt arrives at the location (but no one is there. He hears a voice in the shadows and a figure reveals itself. Matt identifies the figure to be his younger brother Tim. The precious valuable in the case is revealed to be a family ring. They speak about the ring and Tims plot while Tim reveals his wife Marion. Marion reveals her true colors to Matt and has a henchman hold Matt.

Matt gets out of his grip and punches the henchman then punches his brother and gets the ring. Then Matt is caught off guard when his brother chokes him and kills him. Matt is killed and Tim got the ring he wanted.

I personally think I didn't do a good job on my part of the presentation. On the spread sheet, my group wasn't highlighted in purple so I thought we were not going to get called when we did. We weren't prepared to present because of the spread sheet. Dan's and Rami's presentations were considerably better because they had time to prepare what they were going to say while I didn't because I went first. I don't believe I went deep enough into the scenes to give a through analysis to the class. I think if we were more prepared for the presentation things would have been way better.

ChinaTown

The movie does not have a narrator. The story is about an investigator name Jake Gittes who is trying to solve a mystery behind the water department of LA county. One of the head people (Hollis Mullwray) is murdered and now he is looking for the person who murdered him. Hollis's wife Evelyn Mullwray, works with him but she is hiding something from him. Throughout the movie, Jake displays he the type of character who doesnt go down without a fight. Evelyn then packs her stuff and is ready to leave when Jake starts asking her questions she could barely answer. During this time, Evelyn reveals her secret that her father Noah Cross raped her and the mystery girls Jake knows about is Evelyns sister/daughter Katherine. When Jake hears this, all the pieces of the puzzle came together instantly. He then tries to book Noah for what his paln and for what he has done but the police have turned to his side and wont arrest him. The movie ends sadly as Evelyn is killed when trying to escape with Katherine, and Noah gets away with Katherine. In Film Noir, usually the villan gets what he wants and the heroes get nothing.

This film is a very realistic film. Most of the characters only care about themselves and try to get what they want by any means necessary. During the days of Film Noir, having affairs or sexual relationships was very popular.