The Black Dahlia
Oh wow, it’s been awhile since I’ve seen such a bad movie, hahaha. These two hours felt like four and if it were not for the beau, I surely would have dropped it in the middle.
Okay, so it was not entirely bad and I wouldn’t say I did not enjoy it at all, I just got the impression that I am too used to good movies lately and “The Black Dahlia” obviously could not compete. Pixelmatsch for example didn’t care about anything aside from potential sex scenes with Scarlett Johansson. Actually I think that La Skarlette needs to play a whore once in her career. She just has to, every serious actress should. XD
The biggest mistake of this film is not to make Scarlett Johansson the main femme fatale, but a horribly boring girl. Eek. Film noirs are great because of the women, and these ones in the movie are so incredibly and surprisingly not attractive. Why is that?
However, I must say that there is some rather nice chemistry between her and Josh Hartnett. This not-really-sex scene with them in which he takes her on the dinner table was quite hot. For one second I felt remembered why I was one of those teenie girls who liked him. By the way, I never knew they actually dated for over two years! (Congrats to Mr. Hartnett for having been able to keep La Skarlette for such a long period of time.)
Hillary Swank is so disturbing in this role, she fails so badly compared to, say, Nora Zehetner in Brick. To me, she’s probably going to stay “the boxing girl” forever.
On a side note, I think that Hillary Swank’s role uses “fuck” way too often. This is not how a femme fatale should behave like. “Fuck” is like these machine guns that you can only use once but are powerful.
The one great part about the film is its looks. The soundtrack is a little silly, but it does a good job at being a “neo noir”. I have a certain weakness for this style and it actually makes me want to see an actual film noir now. But what should I see, I wonder? The torrent for “Angel Face” doesn’t have any seeds and there just are way too many of them. Sadly, I don’t think I have ever seen a real film noir so far. XD
Either play a whore or get raped. It shapes the character, definitely. *hrrrr*
Also, Skarlette Fatal wasn’t fatale at all and Main Beau was too emo. Brick was so much better and actually this movie made me want to see it again, although it doesn’t *look* Noir at all. Nora Zehetner was just pure gold, this is what a femme fatale should be! *_____*
In fact, I find it surprising that she was so good, especially since it was ultimately a high school setting and femme fatales are supposed to be sexy and mature. Hoho.
Main Beau has gotten slightly naked pictures of himself taken by some photographer called James White. But so did Tobey Maguire and people whose names I don’t know. XD