A Thesis
Submitted to Letters and Humanities Faculty
In partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the degree of Strata One
By:
WARDATUL ADAWIYAH 1110026000080
ENGLISH LETTERS DEPARTMENT
LETTERS AND HUMANITIES FACULTY
STATE ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY SYARIF
HIDAYATULLAH
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ABSTRACT
Wardatul Adawiyah, Trance as Neo Noir Film : A Study of Film Genre. A Thesis : English Letters Department. Faculty of Adab and Humanities. State Islamic University of Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta. 2016.
Trance (2013) film which is directed by Danny Boyle is the unit analysis of this research. In this research, i use the structural method with the descriptive analysis. The research is aimed to find Neo Noir contructed in this film which is revealed through six of genre‘s conventions: setting, location, iconography, narrative events, character, and plot structure. The analysis uses genre‘s convention concept proposed by Jane Stokes.
The research finds six conventions of Neo Noir in this film. The
results are the convention in Trance film more dominant contain Neo Noir
elements than psychological thriller. The convention is setting which uses the city as the background, location which uses abandoned building, iconography which appears weapon, low-key lighting and deep focus technique, narrative events which make the storyline being confusing and there is romantic narration, character who appear; amnesia man and
femme fatale, then flashback plot. These indicate Trance as Neo Noir film.
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DECLARATION
I hereby declare that this submission is my own work and that, to the best of my knowledge and belief, it contains no material previously published or written by another person nor material which to a substantial extent has been accepted for the award of any other degree or diploma of the university or other institute of higher learning, except where due acknowledgement has been made in the text.
Jakarta, December 2015
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
First of all, I will give appreciation and many thanks to Allah
SWT, the lord of the universe, the most beneficent and the most merciful
who created and gave everything to human being. Then, peace and
blessing is upon to our beloved prophet Muhammad SAW and all of his
followers.
This paper is presented to English Letters Department of Letters
and Humanities faculty UIN of Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta as partial
fulfillment of the requirement for strata one degree.
I will express the highest gratitude to my family; my parents,
brothers and sisters who giving spirit everyday. Most of all, my dedicated
this thesis for all of my beloved family for the support all this time.
I am very thankful to my advisor Ms. Inayatul Chusna, M.Hum and
Mr. Arief Rahman Hakim, M.Hum. for the great patients and contributions
on finishing this paper. Thanks for all of the advices that have been given
to me, and may Allah SWT bless them and their family.
I also will convey my sincere gratitude particularly to:
1. Prof. Dr. Sukron Kamil, M. Ag., the Dean of Letters and
Humanities Faculty.
2. Drs. Saefudin, M.Pd., the Head of English Letters Department.
3. Elve Oktafiyani, M.Hum., the Secretary of English Letters
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4. All lectures of English Letters Department for their encouragement
to the writer.
5. The beloved parents, H. Sarmili and Siti Aisyah and beloved
brothers and sisters, who have patiently taken care of me and given
motivation in doing anything that relates to my thesis.
6. My bestfriend, Dinar, Odi, Fafaw, Fani, Aida Soraya, Echa, Sulton
Naba, and Ziah, Vivi for support all the time
7. All my beloved friends at English Letters Department ‗10, KKN
TUNAS, ELTD, and others for giving great support during the
process of making this thesis.
May Allah bless all of them. Finally, i hope that this paper would be useful
for me in particular and for students of UIN Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta,
and also the readers in general.
Jakarta, 1 December 2015
The Writer
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
ABSTRACT……….……… i
APPROVAL SHEET ………. ii
LEGALIZATION ..……….…….…….. iii
DECLARATION ……… iv
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ………. v
TABLE OF CONTENT………...………... vii
CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION ………. 1
A. Background of the Study……….. 1
B. Focus of Study ……….…….... 4
C. Research Question ………....…….…..…... 4
D. The Significance of the Study ………...… 4
E. The Methodology of the Research ………...……. 4
1. The Objectives of the Research ………... 4
2. The Method of Research………..…... 4
3. The Technique of Data Analysis………..….… 5
4. The Instrument of the Research …..………... 5
5. The Unit of Analysis ………..………… 5
6. Place and Time of the Research ……… 5
7. Research Design ... 6
CHAPTER II THEORETICAL DESCRIPTION..…….…. 8
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B. The Meaning of Genre ………... 9
C. Genre Classification ………....……. 10
D. Convention of Genre ... ……….…..…... 12
1. Setting ... 12
2. Location ... 14
3. Iconography ... 14
4. Narrative Events ... 14
5. Character ... 15
6. Plot Structure ... 16
E. Crime Genre...……….…..…... 18
1. Noir and Neo Noir Genre ... 19
F. Cinematography...……….…... 21
CHAPTER III DATA ANALYSIS ………….…..…………...… 23
1. Setting ... 23
2. Location ... 27
3. Iconography ... 29
4. Narrative Events ... 34
5. Character ... 36
6. Plot Structure ... 43
CHAPTER IV CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTIONS…... 44
A. Conclusion ….………...…... 44
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BIBLIOGRAPHY………..…..….. 47
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beautifulness. In this modern era, people still look at film apartly. Film is usually only
judged by story or theme, acting of actor or actress, and a little bit of cinematography.
The depth understanding art of film is still limit. Knowledge about film as an art still
in the college spaces, meanwhile in reality, film not only for academics but also for
people who watch film as hobby.
Marselli Sumarno. Dasar-Dasar Apresiasi Film (Jakarta: Gramedia Pustaka Utama, 1996), p. 96
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Philip Rayner, Peter Wall & Stephen Kruger. AS Media Studies : The Essential Introduction
(New York: Psychology Press, 2001), p. 54 3Ibid
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McAvoy) as the main male character who is amnesia in his effort to save the Goya‘s
painting from the cruel leader of the gang, Franck. Simon was addictive in gambling
and had a lot of debts. In the process to remember his memory, accidentally he met
Elizabeth, a therapist who involved a love-affair between therapist-patient in the past.
Elizabeth plays an important role in Simon‘s past because she controlled Simon‘s
gambling addiction, manipulating him until he is depression thus bring him to
gambling habit, debts, and finally working together with the cruel Franck to steal the
painting and finally threatening Simon‘s life. Many critics review the genre of this
film as : psychological thriller5 and a psychological London Noir.6 Some critics said
that Trance film contains psychological thriller genre.7 A newspaper at West Virginia
University, The Daily Athenaeum writes that psychological thriller genre is often
4
Jane Stokes, How To Do Media and Cultural Studies (London: Sage Publication, Ltd, 2003), p. 82
5Claudia Puig. ―Danny Boyle‘s ‗Trance‘ could put you into one‖
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1924429/criticreviews accessed on August 29, 2014
6Anthony Quinn. ―Film Review : Danny Boyle Falls from an Olympian Height with Trance‖
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/film-review-danny-boyle-falls-from-an-olympian-height-with-trance-8553954.html accessed on August 29, 2014
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characterized by providing the audience with a forebiding sense of terror. The plot is
often inner demons and mental afflictions. The killer has motive and reasoning and
their cause is usually a mental disorder that exist in real life. Their enemy is paranoia,
that explores the sickest and darkest aspects of the human psyche.
However, there are some elements in this film that are not consistent with the
characteristics of psychological genre. There are some elements which strengthen that
this film is Neo Noir8. The first is from plot structure. In this film, the plot use
flashback. This structure usually makes the story being confusing. The second is
narrative events. The narrative uses love romantic narration. The third is character.
Characters indicate that this film is Neo Noir because there are amnesia man (Simon)
and femme fatale9 (Elizabeth), Femme fatale usually appears in Noir scene. The last
is setting, iconography and location that reflect Neo Noir characteristic . All of them
as the characters are too good to be true to complete the film thus became the Neo
Noir film.
This research argues that Trance film has genres which contain Neo Noir.
Therefore i analyze Trance film by using the six genre conventions concept of genre
by Jane Stokes : setting, location, iconography, narrative events, characters and plot
structure.
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Coming after the classic Noir period that contains Noir themes and Noir sensibility but not shot in black and white and don‘t contain play of light and shadow like classic Noir had.
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B. Focus of the Study
Based on the background of the study above, the research focuses on the
conventions of genre : (1) Setting, (2) Location, (3) Iconography, (4) Narrative
Events, (5) Characters, and (6) Plot Structure10 in Trance film directed by Danny
Boyle in order to determine and to analyze the Neo Noir genre of the film.
C. Research Question
Based on the research focus of the study, the question of the research is : How
Neo Noir genre is constructed in Trancefilm through Jane Stokes‘ conventions ?
D. Significances of the Study
The significance of the research is to give contribution for knowledge
understanding, especially in cinema, film genre, and Neo Noir genre.
Secondly, this research is to contribute the understanding of film analysis by
using Jane Stokes‘ concept of genre conventions.
E. Methodology of the Research 1. The Objective of the Research
The objective of the research is to analyze and to explain Trance film is Neo
Noir genre construction.
2. The Method of Research
I use structural method in conducting this research. Structural research is a
research that emphasizes relationship building in each intrinsic element. Structural
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research is done in several ways : identificating, reviewing, and describing function
and each intrinsic elements that concerned.11
3. The Technique of Data Analysis
In analyzing data, i use descriptive analysis technique by :
a. Collecting data DVD ( picture and text), books, and some references
b. Identifying data film
c. Analyzing data of film by using the convention of genre by Jane Stokes in Trance
and focusing the elements that build Neo Noir genre in this film.
4. The Instrument of the Research
This qualitative research sets i myself as the main instrument who do research
by formulating the problems of research, collecting data, identifying data, and
analyzing data.
5. The Unit of Analysis
The unit of analysis of this research is Trance film produced by director
Danny Boyle which was released in 2013 in DVD format. The film produced by Fox
Searchlight Pictures.
6. Place and Time of the Research
The research is done at English Letters Departement, Faculty of Adab and
Humanities, State Islamic of Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta during the academic year
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2014/2015. The research is also done in other places such as : library, class, and my
house.
6. Research Design
This thesis is divided into four chapters, which in every chapter has sub
chapter.
Chapter I
1) Introduction
a. Background of the Study
b. Focus of The Study
c. Research Question
d. Significances of the Study
e. Methodology of the Research contains of :
a. The Objective of the Research
b. The Method of Research
c. The Technique of Data Analysis
d. The Instrument of The Research
e. The Unit of Analysis
f. Place and Time of the Research
g. Research Design.
Chapter II
1) Theoretical description
a. The Explanation of Genre Theory
b. The Conventions of Genre.
Chapter III
1) Data analysis
Chapter IV
1) Conclusions and Suggestion contain :
a. Conclusions
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CHAPTER II
THEORETICAL DESCRIPTION
A. Previous Researches
Genre studies is one of the topics for studying film. Film genre has been
chosen by others as research topic. One of them is Fransisca Devita from Universitas
Kristen Petra Surabaya. She analyzes Wreck it Ralph film through code and
convention of Jane Stokes; setting, location, narrative events, plot, character, and
iconography.12 She finds that the film constructed drama, action, and with mixed 10
others genres like science-fiction, fantasy, comedy, criminal, gangster, adventurer and
western. From secondary genre, she finds that this film contain disaster, Noir, roman,
superhero, and thriller.
Besides that, she finds that Wreck it Ralph has the signs of displacement of
code and convention from Disney Animation Studios on drama and fantasy genre.
This film uses bullying as the main theme which latest becomes popular in the US
thus the genre and bullying being comodity to give the advantage for industry.
Different with Devita, other study analyzes Noir in KALA film. Noval Husain
from Airlangga University chose KALA film because it is called as the first Noir film
in Indonesia by the director. The research show the characteristics of Noir genre in
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film KALA that very dominate. He also finds horror genre in this film because horror
is one of film genres that popular in Indonesia.
Different with the previous researches, i analyze Trance film with the
convention concept of Jane stokes. Through this concept, i try to explain that this film
contains Neo Noir genre.
defined and used mainly as classificatory tool, a way of sorting and organizing kinds
of texts and other cultural objects.13 Himawan Pratista explains that :
“In film, genre can be defined as kind or classification from film groups which
have character or same patterns (spesific) like setting, content, story subject,
theme, narrative structure, action or event, period of time, style of situation, icon,
mood, and character. Those classification produce popular genres like action,
adventure, drama, comedy, horror, western, thriller, Noir, roman etc‖14
The quotation above explains that genre in film has purpose to classify the film
based on the characteristics of film itself. Because day to day, film and film genre
13
Anis S Bawarshi and Mary Jo Reiff. Genre An Introduction. (United States: Parlor Press, 2010), p. 4
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grow fastly. Genre is appointed after some of films that represent those genre are
succesful become trends.
The simple example is western genre. The storyline is often about cowboy who is
expert in gun and help the victim from the cruel leader. The spesific settings are in
jail, small town, main street, and ranch houses. Central plot of the western film is the
classic, normally rooted in archetypal conflict – good vs bad, virtue vs evil. The
typical elements are gun and gun fight (sometimes on horseback), bank robbers and
wore distinctive western clothing (denim, jeans, boots etc).15 Like western, others
genres have their own characteristics.
The main function of genre is to facilitate film classification. Genre help us to
choose films based on the spesification. Genre also set up the relationship between
the film-maker and audiences. Film industry often uses spesific genre as the
marketing strategy. Beside for classification, function of genre is for audiences
anticipation in watching.
2. Genre Classification
Genre in film are various. Most of films are combination from genres at the same
time. But usually a film still has one or two dominant genres. Himawan Pratista
divided film genre into the two major groups, there are primary genre and secondary
genre.16
15Tim Dirks. ―Westerns Films‖.Filmsite.org.
http://www.filmsite.org/westernfilms.html accessed on March 2, 2015
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a. Primary Genre and Secondary Genre Scheme
Primary genre is main genres that existed and popular since the developing of
cinema in 1900-1930.17 Every film at least contains one genre element of primary
genre but literally a film is a combination of some genres. Not every primary genre is
successful and popular from era to era. Genres like action, drama, comedy, horror,
fantasy and science-fiction still popular until today. But genres like musical, history
epic and western are more popular and successful in old time. Different with primary
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genre, secondary genre is always changing due to the development of primary
genre.18 Like primary genre, secondary genre has characteristics and are still known
until now. Genres like detective, Noir, vacation are famous in old time. Meanwhile,
genres such as thriller, disaster, spionase and superhero are still heroic in last two
decades.
D. Conventions of Genre
Genre study in film is a study that conducting retoric research of texts or a series
texts. The kind of hypothesis are based on how far the texts can or can not follow
genre conventions. Those conventions maybe semiotic, narrative, or representational.
The textual genre study at genre conventions through 6 category; setting, location,
iconography, narrative events, characters, and plot structure.19 While every film
within any particular genre will incorporate sense of these elements, few genre films
attempt to include every possible genre convention.
1. Setting
The perfect setting is authentic setting. Setting has to convince audience that the
film seems real and happen on location and time as film story context. In film
production, planning and designing of setting is art director‘s job. A filmmaker either
can use authentic setting as same as with the filmstory or can use artificial setting.
Like in Titanic, the director, James Cameron reconstructed some interior and exterior
18Ibid,. p. 21 19
of ship by using original photos and did the survey on ship‘s fusilage in the bottom of
Atlantic sea.20
Setting is one of the main elements that supporting narrative film. The main
function of setting is as guider place and time to give information or context of the
story. Beside as the background of the story, it is able to built mood as story demand.
Another function is that setting is capable to give time, era, or season information as
narrative context. Daily of time element such as morning, afternoon, evening, and
night are absolut to be filled to explain story context. Setting decoration can
determine social status of character. Setting for high-class (huge, luxury property) is
contrasly different with low-class‘ setting (small, dark, and simple property) like in
Pride and Prejudice.21
utilizes the things around him to support his action like window and door, when he
fights with his enemy or in Final Destination when the things around the characters
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2. Location
Location is the place where scene occurs. Location consists of indoor and
outdoor.23Location refers to scenes that are shoot in places that exist outside, such as streets and buildings, rather than places that have been constructed especially for the
shoot.24
3. Iconography
Iconography is themes or concept expressed by symbolically-charged objects
and events. Its visual motives let the audiences to identify certain films on certain
genres. Iconography consists of recurring symbolic images that carry meanings from
film to film. It helps audiences to understand quickly about information such as
character, action, setting, and costume. In genre films, iconography refers to
particular objects, archetypal characters, and even spesific actors. Iconography may
also refer to general mise-en-scène of a genre. E.g in western genre, a cowboy who
dresses all in black and wear two guns, holster tied to either thigh, is invariably a
gunfighter. This is the iconography wardrobe of a generic type.25
4. Narrative Events
At simplest level, narrative is the telling of the story. More precisely, it is a
movie devoted to convey fictional or fictionalized stories, usually it is organizd in
23
Jason J. Tomaric. The Power Film Making Kit : Make your professional movie on a next-to-nothing-budget. (Burlington: Elsevier, 2008), p. 258
24―What is a filming location‖. Primeshootlocation.com
. Retrieved from
http://www.primeshootlocations.com/32/what-is-a-filming-location/ accessed on March 1, 2015 25
traditional narrative structure, including exposition, rising action, climax, falling
Exposition provides background information on the characters, setting, and
basic conflict.
Rising action, the principal conflict develops and may be complicated
Climax, the turning point, where, for example, the protagonist may begin to
overpower the antagonist, or the opposite
Falling action, the principal conflict moves toward resolution
Denoument, the final part, there should be no question about the resolution
unless, ambiguity is intended.
5. Character
Character is another essential element of film narrative. Story does not exist if
either plot or characters are missing.27 Character usually has physical appeareance
that commonly can be divided into : human character and non-human character.
26
Richard M. Barsam and Dave Monahan. Looking at Movies : An Introduction to Film
-Third Edition. (United States: W. W. Norton & Company Inc, 2010), p. 114 27Ibid.,
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Character does not have just non-physical appearence and animation. Commonly,
film always uses human character as the main character. In some cases, character
doesn‘t have to presence physically, like in telephone conversation or monitor video
or sometimes in playing with the physical and non-physical boundaries.
6. Plot Structure
Plot is a structure for presenting everything that we see and hear in a film.28
The way of movie‘s story is structured—its plot—also helps viewers to determine
what it is genre.29 Through plot, screenwriters and directors can provide structure to
stories and guide viewer‘s emotional responses. Plot of Noir or Neo Noir most
twisting and flashbacks and amnesia suffered by the protagonist was a common plot
device.30 The typical Noir plot is the main character is lured into violence and usually
to his own destruction by the femme fatale.31
Jane Stokes gives an example analysis in comparing some conventions of
gangster films and television situation comedy by six elements that he mentioned.
This is the example table by Jane Stokes.32
Gangster Film Situation Comedy
Mark T. Conard. The Philosophy of Film Noir. (Kentucky: The University of Kentucky, 2007), p.27
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conventions. By the six elements, we can see the film convention and the differences
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E. Crime Genre
The crime film is most enduringly popular of all hollywood genres and the
only kind of genre that has never once been out of fashion since the dawn of the
sound era seventy years ago.33 Crime film arises from a radical ambivalence toward
the romance of crime like romance that gives the heroic detective (Sherlock Holmes)
as early as 1900 or 1903. Whether crime film focus on criminals, convicts avengers,
detectives, attomeys, or victims, it depends on a nearly universal fear of crime and
equally strong attraction to the criminal word. It plays on a powerful desire for a
modern-day version of the catharsis that Aristotle contended should evoke and purge
pity and terror.34
Crime film consists of sub-genre, there are gangster and Noir.35 Crime film
like popular formulas, is defined by relatively small number of consistent plots and
plot transformations. Crime film and gangsters usually related to criminal action like
bank robbery, theft, gambling, murdered, competition between group and
underground group who work in outside of the legal system.36 This genre are often
based on true story and sometimes this genre shows feuding between criminals and
court. Not like action genre, crime films often show cruel violence. The typical of
crime action are use club, machine gun, and bomb car. The story usually use setting
in the big city with solid citizens. Commonly crime film has three leading role :
33
Thomas Leitch. Crime Film. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), p. 19 34
Barry Keith Grant. Schirmer Encyclopedia of Film. (London: Thomson Gale, 2007), p. 384 35Ibid.,
p. 384 36
firstly, the criminal who commits the crime. The criminal character is a ambitious
man, materialistic, immoral, cruel, and use any way to reach everything they want.
Secondly, the victim who suffers it. and thirdly, the avenger of detective who
investigate it even the last one sometimes doesn‘t exist in scene that depends on the
director‘s focus. 37
1. Noir and Neo Noir Genre
Noir or ―the black film‖38, is the cinema of paranoia, of doubt and fear and
uncertainty. Classic Noir period falls between early fourties in 1941 and the late
fifties in 1958. Classic Noir film (the constant of light and shadow, tilted camera
angles), it‘s the center scene of compositions.39 It takes place in Los Angeles – but it is always in the city and it is always a detective looking for clues to unravel
mystery.40 Noir marked visually by expressionistic lighting and deep focus. Settings
are often interiors with low-key (or single-source) lighting, dark, claustrophobic, and
gloomy appearances. Exteriors are often urban night scene, dark alleyways, flashing
neon lights and story location are in murky street, low-rent apartments and hotel room
of big cities or abandoned warehouses41
The females in film Noir are two types (or archetypes) - dutiful, reliable,
trustworthy and loving women; and femmes fatales - mysterious, duplicitous,
37
Leitch, Op. Cit., p. 14 38
It was the French reviewer, Nino Frank who first used the term to describe a number of dark and stylised Hollywood movies that began to appear after World War and into the 1950s
39
Conard, Op. Cit., p. 40 40Ibid.,
p. 16
41 ―Film Noir‖. Filmsite.org.
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crossing, gorgeous, unloving, predatory, tough-sweet, unreliable, irresponsible,
manipulative and desperate women. She would use her feminine to manipulate. Noir
deals with criminal activity and holds both promise and danger and the character
sensibility. These film are likely not shot in black and white and lately don‘t contain
the play of light and shadow like their classic.43 However, it contains the same
alienation, pesimism, moral ambivalence, and disorientation. New Noir of neo-Noir
still has all the old trappings of classic Noir, like labyrinths, and femme fatales.
Contrasting space can be compared between Noir and neo-Noir to view of a home .
Noir lived at space; takes in rooms, halls, and ceilings as they appear. Neo Noir takes
builder‘s view, a gutted house with pipes, ducts, wires, grids, circuit breakers, pumps,
furnaces, and compressor suddenly in view.44
Amnesia suffered by the protagonist is a common plot device. This kind of
protagonist is often morally-ambiguous low-lifes from the dark and gloomy
underworld of violent crime and corruption. Distinctively, they are obsessive (sexual
42
Wheeler Winston Dixon. Film Noir and the Cinema of Paranoia. (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press Ltd, 2009), p. 14
43
Conard, Op. Cit., p. 11 44Ibid.,
or otherwise), frightened and insecure loners (usually men), struggling to survive –
and in the end, ultimately losing.45
F. Cinematography
Cinematography is the act of capturing photographic images in space through
the use of a number of controllable elements.46 Cinematography and mise-en-scène47
cannot be separated and related each other. Cinematography works when
mise-en-scèneaspects are available and the scene is ready to take. Cinematography include the
quality of the film stock, the manipulation of the camera lens, framing,
scale and movement, and mise-en-scène include actors, lighting, decor, props, and
costume.48 Noir genre has relation with low-key lighting and camera lens deep focus
to build the mood in film. Low-key lighting and camera lens deep focus are some of
elements of the Noir film.
a. Low-Key Lighting
Low-key lighting is a lighting scheme that employs very little light that
creates strong contrasts between the brightest and the darkest parts or often called
chiaroscuro effect.49 Low-key lighting creates strong shadows that obscure parts of
45―Film Noir‖
. Retrieved from http://www.filmsite.org/filmNoir.html accessed on March 2, 2015
46Alexander Bewkes and Trey Hunsucker. ―College Film and Media Studies : A Reference
Guide‖. Retrieved from https://collegefilmandmediastudies.com/cinematography/ accessed on September 22, 2015
47
In the original French (pronounced meez-ahn-sen) means ―putting into the scene‖ and it was first applied to the practice of directing plays.
48 Gabe Moura. ―The Elements of Cinema : A Student‘s Guide to the Fundamenta ls of filmmaking‖. Retrieved from http://www.elementsofcinema.com/directing/mise-en-scene-in-films/ Accessed on September 15, 2015
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important subject and associated with ―hard boiled‖ or suspense genres such as film
Noir.
b. Camera Lens Deep Focus
Deep focus technique is the result of a technological development in the lens
in the late 1930s. Deep focus requires elements at very different depths images,
which mean that the foreground, middleground and background of the frame remain
in focus.50 These can be seen in Touch of Evil (Orson Welles, 1958) and
Besieged (L'Assedio, Bernardo Bertolucci, 1998).51
picture 1 picture 2
All of the different backgrounds of the images are given equal importance
through deep focus, not only to the characters (like the man peeking at the window in
the first image), but also to the spaces (Shanduray's basement room in the second).
50
Alexander Bewkes and Trey Hunsucker. College film and medi astudies.com. ―College
Film and Media Studies : A Reference Guide‖. Retrieved from
23 CHAPTER III DATA ANALYSIS
In this chapter, i analyze Trance film through Jane Stokes‘ conventions
concept; setting, location, iconography, narrative events, character and plot structure.
This research is to answer the research question ―How Neo Noir genre is constructed
in Trancefilm through Jane Stokes‘ conventions?‖ and as the result, the research will
also proves that Trance is Neo Noir film. I use data from the text, pictures, and
dialogues from Trance. Those data are analyzed to show the elements that build Neo
Noir genre.
A. Six ways to analyze Neo Noir genre by Jane Stokes’ convention concept 1. Setting
Setting is a supporting element in film production. Beside as the background
of the story, setting can show social status of character and built mood of situation.
Commonly in Noir film or Neo Noir film, the setting is always in city.52 In Trance,
below shows the setting in London city.
picture 1 (00:17:35)
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City is the inescapable terrain in most of Noir film. The director uses city as
the background setting of the film. In Trance film, the director choose London as the
setting. Picture 1 shows one of the London sides from the top. The different between
most of Noir films and this film is that usually classic Noir takes place in Los
Angeles53, meanwhile Trance, takes place in London as the growth of Noir modern or
called Neo Noir.
Setting consists of exteriors and interiors . In Noir film, one of the exteriors
that is used is urban night scene, flashing neon lights and the gloomy and dark
appearance interior.54 Using urban night scene can be seen in the picture below.
picture 2 (00:26:13)
Setting in picture 2 takes place in a restaurant, Yauatcha. The scene shows
when Franck, the gang leader and Elizabeth meet to deal about something. A
restaurant represents the urban night life in this film, when Franck and Elizabeth meet
in the night and dinner together. Dinner in restaurant is a lifestyle of society in the
city. Setting decoration around can determine social status of character. The picture
53Ibid., 54―Film Noir‖
above shows that the characters are high-class because the clothes that they wear and
the property around are seem luxury.
Different with the picture above, in this picture below, the director combines
the use of flashing neon light in the night with the gloomy appearance. Night as
setting of time because night is the domain of Noir.55 The director uses these
elements with to build mood and situation in film.
picture 4 (01:15:13
picture 3 (01:15:13)
Mood and situation related with the lighting. Picture 3 shows Simon,
Elizabeth and Franck are in parking lot. They are looking for the painting ―Witches in
the Air‖ that is hidden in a car. The director uses the flashing of neon light to build
intimate effect and mysterious mood. Intimate effect and mysterious mood are shown
through neon light which make shadows in wet floor and the characters, Simon,
Elizabeth and Franck who are walking. In this scene, the director uses the night as
true domain of Noir film. This film is closer to neo-Noir because the lighting is not
dark like classic Noir did.
The kind of setting in Trance represents setting in Neo Noir film. City as the
background, the urban night scene, and the use of flashing neon light are the elements
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of Noir. The differences are that Trance is not shot in black and London is chosen as
the background of the city than Los Angeles that has been powerful in most of Noir
film before.
2. Location
Location in film usually depends on development of storyline. Usually real
location is the main option because realism effect in real location is more convincing.
Like in comedy, the director often uses home and workplace as the main locations to
support the story. Different with comedy, location in Noir film usually tends to use
murky street, low-rent apartment or abandoned warehouse.56 The differences between
Noir and Neo Noir are that Noir is takes in rooms, halls and ceilings but Neo Noir
takes the building‘s view, a gutted house with pipes or ducts suddenly in view.57
In
Trance film, the director tends to show the Neo Noir location. Like in the picture
below when the director shows the abandoned building as the filming location.
Picture 4(00:13:11)
Abandoned warehouse is chosen as one of the filming locations in Trance.
The director changes this building to be a temporare basecamp for Franck and the
56―Film Noir‖.
Retrieved from http://www.filmsite.org/filmNoir.html accessed on March 2, 2015
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gang. And in this location, Simon gets violence from Franck and the gang to tell the
truth where he hides the Goya‘s painting. The abandoned warehouse in Trance
represents the vagueness when the criminal act happened, that is violence. Different
with the picture above, in this location the director stick pipes and ducts out suddenly
in view.
Picture 5 (00:04:37) picture 6 ( 00:07:10)
A gutted house with ducts is one of the locations in Trance like in picture 5 and 6.
The scenes have different actions in picture 5, the location shows the way of Franck
and the gang plan to steal the painting. Through this way, they infiltrate the auction
house. Otherwise, in picture 6, ducts way is used by Simon to escape and save the
painting. The director uses this location besides to built the criminal situation on the
scene, but also to represent a place where the criminal action is started or is going on.
Some of locations above represent the Neo Noir film because the locations
closed to Neo Noir element. Different with Noir that use rooms or halls, Neo Noir
takes a gutted house with ducts or a abandoned building. Location taken either to
build criminal element in this film or to build the criminal action.
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3. Iconography
Genre‘s iconography usually expressed symbolically object or event58
. It
consists recurring symbolic image that carries meaning from film to film. Symbol in
film can make audience understand about the genre of the film. Different with symbol
in western film that always shows a coboy who has two guns and riding a horse,
some of iconography in Trance film show object or event that close to Neo Noir
genre. Because Neo Noir is a sub-genre of crime film, it contains same elements, that
deal with criminal activity like weapon. Weapon is usually used as a device to
support criminal action or to threaten. In addition, low-key lighting and deep focus59
are visually consistent appear as stylistic element in Noir film.
a. Weapon
picture 7 (01:13:19) picture 8 (01:09:57)
Weapon is the primary thing in crime film, both gangster film or Noir film.
In Neo Noir, weapon is still the important element to support the story because it uses
in criminal activity. In Trance, shotgun is used as device to threaten and often appear
on criminal action film. Like in picture 7, when Simon points the weapon out to
58
Barry Keith Grant. Film Genre from Iconography to Ideology. (London: Wallflower, 2007), p. 11
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Franck because he feels that he is used by Franck. Different with picture 7, picture 8
reveals that a weapon is able to make someone frightened, that it is shown when
Simon is frightened when Franck threatens and points the weapon out to his head.
b. Low-key lighting
Low key-lighting relates with mood and situation in film. It is often used in
film that assosiates with suspense genre like in Noir.60 In Trance, the director tends to
use low-key lighting technique like in the picture below.
Picture 9 (00:14:50)
Picture 9 is one of the scenes that use low-key lighting. This place is Franck
and the gang‘s temporare basecamp and in this place they injure Simon. The director
built the mood by using this technique that shows the place with little dark and with
little play of low-lighting creates an mysterious but gloomy mood. Gloomy mood is
shown when there are contrast between the dark area and the bright area. Dark area is
more dominance on the scene and the lighting comes from the shadow of a
hanging-lamp. With this technique, this place suggests where the villain lives. Another scene
shows how low-key lighting is used like in picture below.
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Picture 10 (00:59:05)
The picture above is Elizabeth‘s apartment. In this scene the director uses his
low-key lighting technique to build mysterious mood and high-tense situation by
adding rain swept effect on the street. Picture 10 is one of the scenes which the
director shows the building‘s view.61
It is neo-Noir technique when the director takes
from the outside then moves to the inside of the building. Trance is not type of classic
Noir film but the picture above successfully creates mysterious mood; there are
contrast between the dark and the bright area thus create a lamp-shadow through the
rain swept on the street.
c. Deep Focus
Picture 11 (00:12:03)
61―Film Noir‖. Filmsite.org.
Deep focus technique is camera lens technique when foreground and
background of the picture are equal in focus.62 This camera technique is one of the
characteristics of Noir film eventhough it used occasionally. Like in picture 11, the
director uses this technique to focus on the character, Simon and his apartment where
he lives. The director tries to demonstrate about part of Simon‘s life through this
technique; show the character and his apartment on the background. Deep focus is
also used in the scene below when Simon wants to heal his memory.
Picture 12 (00:18:22)
In picture 12, the director uses deep focus technique when Simon comes to
Elizabeth‘s clinic. He comes to do hypnotism therapy from Franck‘s suggestion. This
scene demonstrates the character; Simon who looks waiting and looking out the
window and Elizabeth who is standing behind. Through this picture, the director tries
to reveal that deep focus shows there is nothing between both of them. They meet
like nothing ever happened and being stranger each other even in this film they had
relationship in the past. The director puts the focus on the character‘s face in order to
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Alexander Bewkes and Trey Hunsucker. College film and medi astudies.com. ―College Film and Media Studies : A Reference Guide‖. Retrieved from
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catch Simon‘s restless on film. Emphasizing the character is also shown in the picture
below when director focuses on the three of the characters who are involved in the
scenes.
Picture 13 below shows the strength of the deep focus. Related to Noir film
which contain violence that dominates the screen, this scene demonstrates deep focus
technique combined with the high-tense situation.
picture 13 (01:15:51)
The equal focus on the three characters; Franck on the foreground, Simon and
Elizabeth on the background show the pressure of this scene. The scene shows that
Franck with the bleeding-nose is forced by Simon to drive the car and Elizabeth who
is afraid with the situation.
From the explanation above, it can be concluded that these iconography are
consistently used in Noir film like weapon, low-key lighting and deep focus. Through
these, the director tries to convey the situation on the scene and let the audiences to
choose which of the picture‘s detail they want freely. Deep focus technique is used
according to the director‘s will because each of the directors has different purposes to
4. Narrative Events
Narrative events in Trance is about the search of the lost expensive painting,
Witches in the Air then there is a conflict between Simon (amnesia man), Franck
(gang leader) and Elizabeth (femme fatale). Through five dramatic structure,
narrative is revealed.
a. Exposition : The story is started when Simon works in auction house. In this
part, Franck character is introduced as a gang leader who has deals with
Simon.
b. Rising action : Simon and Franck work together to steal the painting but
Simon loses it because his head is attacked by Franck that causes him
amnesia. Because he forgets where he puts the painting, Simon is treated
cruely, and gets violence by Franck cs. To heal Simon memory, Franck gives
list of therapy and Simon chooses Elizabeth randomly.
c. Climax : Since the appear of Elizabeth, among Simon, Elizabeth and Franck
have love-triangle affair. If Simon is with Elizabeth, it always reminds him
about something at the past but he does not know. Simon is obsessive with
Elizabeth, meanwhile Elizabeth and Franck have secret plan to eliminate
Simon. Simon is suspicious and feels cheated then he forces Elizabeth and
Franck to come with him to find the lost painting. On the car, Elizabeth
reveals that at the past, she was Simon‘s therapist to heal Simon‘s gambling
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Elizabeth‘s life. And when the time is coming, Elizabeth does her revenge to
damage Simon‘s life.
d. Falling action : Elizabeth‘s story on the car makes Simon angered and
disappointed. At parking basement, he orders Elizabeth to take the lost
painting in the red car. Meanwhile, Simon burns the car when Franck is still
on the car with hand-tied. Elizabeth can not accept what she is looking at and
she drives a truck then hits against Simon and the burning car to a river.
e. Denoument : After the accident, suddenly, Franck appears from the swimming
pool and he get messages from Elizabeth. She said that she wants the painting
and she does not want to send it back to Franck because the painting means so
much to her after she works hard for it.
Narrative events based on five dramatic structure conclude that : 1) Trance film
contain Neo Noir film where there are love romatic narration, 2) the character who
plays their roles as amnesia man, femme fatale and a gang leader. And 3) the ending
is open ending and not clear because the main character, Simon does not appears at
the ending of this film and it is not known what happen with him.
5. Character
Commonly, character in film consists of human character, non-human
character, non-physical character and animation. In Noir or Neo Noir, the character is
femme fetale.63 This protagonist is often morally-ambiguous low-lifes from the dark and gloomy underworld of violent crime. They are obsessive, frightened and insecure
loner, struggling to survive and in the end, ultimately losing.64.
The typical of Noir character is amnesia suffered by the protagonist. In
Trance, Simon as protagonist has amnesia after Franck knocked on his head.
Simon : [screaming]
Franck : Where is it?
Simon : [sobbing] i don‘t know.I‘m sorry, Franck.
Franck : You must have taken it. You must have put it somewhere
Simon : Yeah, i must have. I know i...
Franck : Well, did you or did you not?
Simon : i can‘t remember! I got hit on the head!
(00:13:14-00:13:36)
The conversation above explains that Simon can not remember where he puts
the painting. Franck and Simon have make a deal to steal the painting as Simon‘s
requirement to pay his debt. The conversation: ‖ You must have taken it. You must
have put it somewhere‖ is the evidence of Simon and Franck as a team on the robbery
in auction house and Franck suggests Simon to put the painting on the place that they
have planned. Another dialogue: ―I can‘t remember! I got hit on the head!‖ is the
evidence that the knock on the head made by Franck has made him lose his memory;
he cannot remember where he hid the painting, or even why he hid it. The
characteristics of the characters in Noir film were obsessive, frightened and insecure
loner, struggling to survive and in the end, ultimately losing. Like in the conversation
63―Film Noir‖. Filmsite.org.
Retrieved from http://www.filmsite.org/filmnoir.html accessed on March 2, 2015
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below, Simon is obsessive with drugs and gambling : two things that close to criminal
world and bring him to face many risks.
Simon : I used to buy drugs from Riz. That was is really. Well, the
The dialogue above explains that Simon‘s life is close to criminal world. The
dialogue: ―I used to buy drugs from Riz‖ and ―I was...I am [laughing] addicted to
gambling‖ reveal that he used to drugs from Riz, one of Franck cs. He is even still
obsessive to gambling then it causes him to have many debts. Meeting with Franck,
one of the leader gangs is started when he has many debts and Riz introduces him to
Franck. It can be seen in the monologue below.
Simon : ...I panicked. To various people in various ways i am in for
money i don‘t have. Never will.
The painting came in. And i know it sounds ridiculous, an
inside job, but it just seemed like the answer. I didn‘t know
any criminals so i thought Riz might. He brought me here. He introduced me to Franck. Franck cleared my debt in return for the painting. i owe him a lot of money.
(00:32:33-00:33:31)
The monologue above explains that Simon owes a lot of money from Franck
because Franck cleared his debt. For the return, Franck wants the painting located in
Franck cs. The main character in Noir often lured into violence65 and face many risks. He always faces violence from Franck and the gang like in the conversation below.
Franck : What did you expect? You assaulted me. I had a shotgun.
Simon, the plan was simple. All you needed to do was take the painting and bring it to me.
Simon : i know... i...
Franck : So, where is it?
Simon : I don‘t know, i can‘t remember! I can‘t remember! I‘m sorry,
I can‘t remember. Franck! [frightening]
Franck :Amnesia ‗s bollocks. Everyone knows amnesia is bollocks.
Simon : No, it‘s not [screaming]
(00:13:14-00:14:12)
The conversation above is a dialogue when Simon gets violence from Franck
and the gang. Because he does not do his job well, he faces many risks related to the
criminal gang; violence or tortured. The dialogue: ―I can‘t remember, Franck!
[frightening]‖ and ―No, it‘s not [screaming]‖ is Simon‘s expression while he gets
violence and tortured even he said the truth.
Noir deals with promises and danger.66 The risks that Simon faces actually
sometimes threaten and make his life in dangered. Like the conversation below when
Franck threatens to kill him if he does not finish the job namely giving Franck the
painting.
Franck : Hey! [whistle to Simon]. You know what? I ought to kill you
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The conversation above reveals that Franck is angry with Simon and threatens
to kill him. He loathes because Simon makes Franck‘s plan to be complicated with
his amnesia. The dialogues: ―Hey! You know what? I ought to kill you‖ is Franck‘s
madness and he will kill Simon because Simon makes Franck‘s plan to be messy.
Besides being obsessive, Simon is also frightened and insecure to Franck and
Elizabeth. He thought that both of them have hidden plan to get him out of the plan. It
reveals in the conversation below.
Elizabeth : Simon?
Simon : This all part of your plan, yeah?
Elizabeth : What are you talking about?
Simon : The two of you. Planing it together. Gonna get it out of me
and then dump me.
Elizabeth : Simon, will you calm down, please?
Simon : How long have you been fu*king Franck?
Elizabeth : Where did come from?
Simon : It‘s true, though, isn‘t it? You know it isn‘t. Why would
Nate lie about something like that?
(00:59:24-00:59:40)
Simon realizes that there is something wrong between three of them. The
dialogue: ―The two of you. Planing it together. Gonna get it out of me and then dump
me‖ is the evidence that Simon feels alienated from Franck and Elizabeth. The
dialogue: ―It‘s true, though, isnt‘it? you know it isn‘t. Why would Nate lie about
something like that‖ expresses frightened and insecure of Simon. He is frightened and
insecure that he will be eliminated from the plan that they made.
In Noir, the females are either of two types (or archetypes) - dutiful, reliable,
tough-sweet, unreliable, irresponsible, manipulative and desperate women.67 In Trance, the female ia close to the role as the femme fetale is Elizabeth.
One of the types of femme fetale is manipulative. Like on the conversation
below, Elizabeth talks to Franck about Simon and the painting. He said that Simon
can bring the painting for them.
Franck : And then what happens?
Elizabeth : I give him what he wants. He is mine. And after
that, he gives me what i want. What we want.
Franck : Just like that?
(00:51:08 - 00:51:20)
In the dialogue above Elizabeth is planning something with Franck to get the
painting. The dialogue: ―I give him what he wants. He is mine. And after that, he
gives me what i want. What we want‖ is the evidence that she has capability to
manipulate Simon. The sentence: ―He gives me what i want. What we want‖ proves
that Elizabeth wants the painting for herself, not to divide it with Franck.
Femme fatale leads into the main character‘s destruction. In Trance, Elizabeth
does it. She controls Simon‘s mind because Elizabeth has dark experience with
Simon and threaten her life.
Elizabeth : You grow close to the therapist. Too close and so you begin
affair. A strongly sexual affair... you fall in love with a kind of perfection. But then you become possessive. Suspicious. night and day you fear that you will lose her and you become jealous. You start to hate her as much as you love her. She has
to break it off but you won‘t let her go. In the end, she knows
that you will kill her [groaning]... she will take control. So, she perverts the therapy you‘ve insisted on continuing
67―Film Noir‖. Filmsite.org.
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Simon : You made me forget.
Elizabeth : She makes you want to forget
Simon : But you knew. You knew i‘d come back one day
Elizabeth : Your memory is not destroyed. It is locked in a cage and with
Enough force, enough violence the lock can be broken. It Comes back the memory. Not completely. Not entirely but Enough to drive you to make you feel you have been cheated. Enough to make you angry.
(01:18:22 - 01:24:03)
From the conversation above it can be concluded that the last time she meets
Simon, she controlled Simon‘s mind unconsciously. She made Simon forget her
because Simon will kill her. Elizabeth leads Simon into violence through Franck. The
dialogue: ―Enough to drive you to make you feel you have been cheated. Enough to
make you angry‖ is the evidence that Elizabeth is successfully lured Simon into his
own destruction.
Desperate and irresponsible are revealed in the ending of the film when
Elizabeth escapes and makes a video call with Franck, with on the screen the painting
has been hung on the wall.
Elizabeth : Hello, Franck. It looks good... don‘t you think?
hanging on the wall. I thought it might make me think too much of him, but... instead...i think of
you. You want me to send it back, don‘t you? or sell it... and divide the money. But... you know
dialogue: ―But... you know I can‘t do that. Not it means so much to me. Not when
I‘ve worked hard for it‖ is the evidence that Elizabeth has awaken from her dark past
with Simon and does all the thing hardly to get the painting. It is a kind of desperate
woman who does anything to get what she wants.
Characters in Trance like the character of Simon, a protagonist who is lured
into violence and destruction by femme fatale who is roled by Elizabeth. The
charactersin this film represent the characters in Noir film, include Neo Noir.
6. Plot
Plot of the story is flash-back mostly eventhough in some scenes the plot is
flash forward. Simon was ever involved a love affair with his therapist to heal his
gambling addiction, Elizabeth, in the past. Elizabeth makes Simon to forget her and
makes Simon continues his criminal activity through hypnotherapy. Flashback scenes
come when Elizabeth appears while Simon gets amnesia. When Simon with
Elizabeth, something always reminds him back but he does not know what it is. This
plot has open ending because it still left the question about Simon who does not
appear after the accident on the river and Franck who suddenly appears in his
swimming pool. In typical Noir or Neo Noir plot, the main character is lured into
violence and usually his own destruction by femme fatale. Same with other characters
in Noir film, in Trance, Simon always gets violence and pressure from Franck cs and
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CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION A. Conclusions
I analyze Trance film by using genre convention concept by Jane Stokes to
understand how Neo Noir genre is constructed through genre convention. This
research uses structural method with Trance film as the unit of analysis. I answer the
research questions through the explanation of the pictures and texts on the film. The
other sources besides the film are used to support the analysis.
Based on the analysis of convention in Trance film, the film shows a story
about the main male character, Simon, being sn amnesia man in his efforts to save the
Goya‘s painting from the cruel leader of the gang, Franck. Simon was addictive to
gambler and had a lot of debts. In the process to remember his memory, accidentally
he met Elizabeth, a therapist who is involved in a love-affair between a therapist and
a patient in his past. Elizabeth plays an important role in Simon‘s past because she
controlled Simon‘s gambling addiction, manipulated Simon for going back to
gambling habit, debts, and finally working together with the cruel Franck to steal the
painting and finally threatening Simon‘s life.
All of the convention in Trance film; setting, location, iconography, narrative
events, characters, and plot structure contribute to the analysis of Trance as a film
with Neo Noir genre. The first is setting. Trance uses city as the background of this
film because commonly city becomes the setting in Noir or Neo Noir film. The
in Los Angeles. Urban night scenes and the flashing neon light are used in Trance
because these are true domain in Noir.
The second is location, when Trance uses abandoned house and gutted house. These
places are used because both Noir and Neo Noir deal with criminal activity where
action is started or is going on.
The third is iconography such as weapon, low-key lighting and deep focus. These
iconography consistent are used in Noir film and usually the lighting is used to built
the mood of the film.
The fourth is narrative events. The narrative events in Trance is contain Neo Noir
element love romantic narration.
The fifth is character. The character that is involved in Trance represents the
character in Noir; an amnesia man who lured into violence and to his own destruction
by the femme fatale. Simon who has amnesia lured into violence world and stick
together with Franck, a leader of gang. Simon‘s life is finally destructed by Elizabeth,
the woman who has affair with Simon in the past.
The last is plot structure. Plot mostly uses flashback plot and the ending which still
left the question. The main character, Simon who is lured into violence and
destruction by femme fatale whois roled by Elizabeth, are typical of Neo Noir plot.
B. Suggestions
The writer suggests to the other researchers to use another theory or concept,
because this film could be analyze through many theories or concepts in order to find
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this film. Therefore, it is hoped this research gives more contribution to all students of
English Letters or all students of other universities outside who want to use this
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