The Bridge & Genre Flashcards
What is Film Noir?
Film Noir is a cinematic term used primarily to describe stylish Hollywood crime dramas, particularly those that emphasise cynical attitudes and sexual motivations.
What are the four key conventions of Nordic Noir?
Multi-Layered Storylines, slow and melancholic pace, dimly lit aesthetic and an uncovering of the dark underbelly of contemporary life.
What is the impact of using low-key lighting in Nordic Noir?
The darker tone of lighting offers a bleak or pessimistic view of society.
How is colour utilised in The Bridge?
The Bridge incorporates muted colours such as black, grey, brown and cold blues to portray a brooding and unsettling aesthetic.
What is key about the setting of The Bridge and Nordic Noir?
The setting for Nordic Noir has to be distinctly Scandanavian using recognisable conventions such as light, climate, seasonal conditions, language, characters and themes.
How does The Bridge incorporate ‘Recurring Situations’ in the Helle Anker scene?
The main narrative arc is based on the ‘Murder Investigation’ of Helle Anker.
How does The Bridge incorporate ‘Elements of Narrative’ in the Helle Anker scene?
The audience witnesses multi-layered storylines that interlink with each other and the audience is positioned from on omniscient perspective?
What is an omniscient perspective?
Where the audience is positioned in a privliged perspective of seeing and hearing everything.
How does The Bridge incorporate ‘Style’ in the Helle Anker scene?
The Bridge captures a bleak, dark, tense, suspense, disturbing, cold world.
How does The Bridge incorporate ‘Iconography’ in the Helle Anker scene?
The iconography of chairs, tables, utensils and mannequins creates the ideology of a nuclear family. This projects the motive of the killer as opposing alternative lifestyle and values.
How does The Bridge incorporate ‘Stock Characters’ in the Helle Anker scene?
Saga is the main protagonist who portrays the role of a detective, Helle Anker victim and the enigma of the character/s who are the murderers.
How does The Bridge incorporate ‘Themes’ in the Helle Anker scene?
Enigmas to promote mystery and audience interest as well as a motive behind the killers intentions of ‘anti-liberalism’.
How does The Bridge incorporate ‘Setting’ in the Helle Anker scene?
The setting creates an unsettling aesthetic and the horrors of murder combined with a loving family and the horror of murder.
Why does the ‘Interview of Natalie Anker’ challenge conventions of Nordic Noir?
Two female detective dynamic, the characterisation of Saga’s neurodiversity and Hanne’s anti-liberal attitude and challenges the maternal empathy of how females are usually represented.
