Outline for the Presentation

Outline for the Presentation  (100 Points)

I.              Introduce your film and provide the premise of the film in three sentences or fewer.

              The film L.A. Confidential, directed by Curtis Hanson, is the movie of a combination of several classic film noir elements as well as considered as a great contribution to the neo-noir genre due to it’s different time period and setting.

II.            Characteristics and Conventions of the Film that Link it to Classic Film Noir

                1. The plot of the movie is the most popular noir theme, that is, corruption in the police force; along with usual noir aspects, such as, greed, duplicity, bloodshed and obsession. The movie shows the dark side of American life of the 1950’s.

                2.  The film meets the standards of film noir by establishing three ambiguous protagonists, their anxiety and their searching for truth.

III.           Elements of the Film that Deviate from Classic Film Noir and Link it to Neo Noir

                1. Instead of the presence of one protagonist like classic film noir, the movie has three flawed heroes; the movie also contains very bold and open sex scenes unlike classic film noir.

                2.  Issues like homosexuality and racism add the neo-noir flavor in the movie.

Quotes from Outside Sources (These may be inserted anywhere in the outline)

Source One:

Context:  Provide a signal phrase that includes the title of the source and the author:	Quote from the Source: Be sure to include the page number	Significance: How does this quote relate to the topic of your essay?
In the article called, “A Good Cop is Hard to Find” by David Thomson, the writer comments on Ed,	“Ed Exley is a straight arrow...very ambitious, but repressed; he reveals his own immaturity as he insists on doing things by the book. He is a version of incorruptible but dangerous because of his own emotional disorder”(Thomson, “A Good Cop is Hard to Find”, pg 3).	Ed is highly ambitious, very fond of being in the lime light and doing all of his actions by the book. However, eventually he realizes that, in reality, it does not happen, especially under a corrupted system.

Source Two:

Context: Provide a signal phrase that includes the title of the source and the author:	Quote from the Source: Be sure to include the page number	Significance: How does this quote relate to the topic of your essay?
From an article called, “The L.A. Riots: 15 Years After Rodney King” by Madison Gray, it could be mentioned, an African American man named Rodney King became a victim of police brutality by LAPD. As Gray states,	“...which felt that racial profiling and abuse by the police had long gone unchecked”(Gray, “The L.A. Riots”, pg 5).	In 1991, incidents like Rodney King police brutality, inspired the film directors, to adopt the contemporary anxiety as a theme of neo-noir; and films like L.A. Confidential  were made, which brought up this issue as a significant aspect in the movie plot.

Optional Component:  Film Clip