The Widows Debt - Film Noir - First Draft

The Widows Debt - Production Script Version 1

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Charcter Bio's



Ray Stoner

35

Detective

Wife and one daughter

Independent

Smokes

Used to be abit of a lad when he was younger

Spent time in jail

Determind not to go back having created a good life for himself



Venessa Poliavin

25

Seductive

Filrtaious

Likes the colour red (represents her personaility)

Has a gambling habbit shared by her late husband

Widowed

Husbands dept with casino passed to her

Troubled

Atrractive


Vincent Retegecho

30

Assain

Hired by the casino to go after the women

Smooth

Gentle

Calm and composed

Smartly dressed

Very dangrous (no compation)


Plot


The story is set in an urban city; where late at night we have a women who is despretly trying to escape the boss of the big city casino. Her and her late husband have raked up astronamical depts which she is unable to pay off, so after plenty of warning, she decides to flee the big city. As she is running away, despreate not to be seen by anyone with any connection to the casino, she bumps into our detective. She pleades her case to him and asks for his help, despite initally wanting to help her, he does not want to get into trouble again so he decides not to get involved. He says, "Not my problem lady," However does he return later on? The opening concludes with the lady running down a back street alley, only to realise its a deadend and before she can react, she bumps into the smooth talking assain. She instantly reconises the danger, as he pulls out a gun a bullet is fired. Only for the assain to hit the floor. What happened? The lady screams at a shadow, "No! What have you done!"

The identity of this person is not revealed in the opening. So who is he? Why did he help? Why was she so angered by the death of the assain? What is actually going on?

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Similar Products - Film Noir Posters

Most Film Noir posters consist of a lot of vibrant colours although the film is in black and white. this is for advertisement purposes and so that it catches the viewers eye much easier as it stands out more. the backgrounds are quite often very dark with the main characters in the front of the image and dependant on the main character is a detective or journalist this will depend on whether he has a gun or not.

on just about very poster there will be the 'Femme Fatale', this is the seductive lady in the film who which is normally an evil character but turns good to help the detective/journalist. most of the time it is only the femme fatale and the main male character within the poster as these are the main two characters within the film.

the title font is bold and clear for the reader to see.

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a type of crime film featuring cynical malevolent characters in a sleazy setting and an ominous atmosphere that is conveyed by shadowy photography and foreboding background music.

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