WRITING 39B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Bruce Holland Rogers, Double Indemnity
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Usually starts out with the detective finding the body and then the story starts. In film, there"s usually heavy lighting, black and white, complex plotlineetc. Nior appeared in the early 1940"s later giving rise to modern-noir and tech-noir. Final e portfolio 30% due during finals week. Theme: the idea of human life does not have value; it is insignificant. The writer focuses on the scenery rather than the death body. 80% of the writing was about the setting. Eastern horizon there"s a band of clouds, though the sky overhead is blue . Mount meeker, capped with snow and orange in the early light . The author"s concern is about the color of the sky rather than the dead body. I already said the sky is blue, but i don"t think you"ve really seen it. I wish i had a word for the blue of the sky.
