And John Lasiter's artful lighting scheme reproduces the shadowy look of noir movies in the black-and-white sequences and the artificial tones of old hand-tinted postcards in the color scenes.
Anyone weaned on the shadowy conspiracies of film noir will shrug at the plot of "Renaissance," but the lack of novelty is deliberate; it is the shadows themselves that have changed.
Karlson pointedly depicts this new kind of corporate evil as spreading out from traditional noir preserves — a shadowy, back-lot version of Little Italy in New York, where the hero (Richard Conte) first gets tied up with the mob — into bland, featureless Sun Belt cities in Florida and Arizona.
In the 1980s and 1990s, when Japan posed a serious challenge to the United States' global economic primacy, films such as "Rising Sun," starring Sean Connery, and "Black Rain," starring Michael Douglas, portrayed Tokyo in classic film noir terms -- shadowy, menacing and peopled by grotesque composites of corporate titans and Yakuza gangsters.
David Tattersall (who photographed the pilot for "The Walking Dead") borrows the shadowy look of old film noir and adds color.
It was a vision that depended on directors like the Hungarian-born Michael Curtiz, who adopted a shadowy, menacing aesthetic that anticipated film noir.
But it was the shadowy effects of Klute – a film noir in muted colour – which set Willis on the road to fame, and prompted Coppola to hire him for The Godfather.
So we use very traditional ways of film noir, which are a shadowy world, rain, umbrellas, people coming out of the shadows, people following his footsteps.
These strips are drawn in elaborate, shadowy black-and-white that evoke film noir.
