 The Price of Vengenace (NC17)There was no Maltese Falcon, and no matter how many times she’d daydreamed about it, not once had some leggy dame oozed into her office, planted her perfectly toned ass on Tara’s desk and breathlessly asked for help....  |
 Going Scully (PG13)She couldn't see much, but after some concentrated peering she came to the conclusion that, although some of the beings whose forms her eyes could just make out inside might be human, very probably none of them were.... |
 Demons Are My Business (R)My heart stuttered to a stop with a sharp, deep pain. I think Spike had figured it out already. He was checking the exits. Not that running would do any good.... |
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Welcome to The Noir Zone of Season2Ep14.net - This zone exists mainly because I happen to think that the Film Noir genre of the 1930-50's, as well as the slew of more modern films with Noir elements, happens to be the best thing ever. And as one of the best things ever, I'd like to see more of it in your Buffy'verse fic.
One of the very first Film Noir's that I watched was The Big Sleep (1946) starring Humphry Bogart and Lauren Bacall. To this day the fast moving plot, the Whedonesque snappy dialogue, and the undeniable chemistry of Bogart and Bacall (who married in real life soon after filming) make it one of my favourite films in the genre. Infact, one of my favourite films of all time.
It just goes to show that you don't need special effects, or even colour to make a riveting film. More contemporary films like Dick Tracy (1990), which manages to survive having Madonna cast as the femme fatale, L.A. Confidential(1997) and Sin City(2005) also rock my suitably noirish socks.
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