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Trekkie, I just started my summer break as well, and noir is on the agenda, I have too many to count available to watch. I’d recommend the Big Heat and the Third Man, which is fantastic and my favorite movie. I believe the BFI actually listed it as the best English movie of all time. Night of the Hunter is also superb. Madjack, you have earned a redesign of one of your characters. Post the character or a concept here and I will do it in my own flair.
Taking a little break from Noir, here is Mikhail, the leader of a group of mutants who wish to conquer the world. They were the result of the falling soviet Union’s attempt to create supersoldiers by breeding mutants. When their powers did not manifest, they were abandoned, along with others in the fall of the USSR. This abandonment would fuel Mikhail’s rage and made it easy to recruit his fellow projects in his goal of world domination. They believe mutants to be the future and they hope to ensure their reign.
Mikhail, or as one who is like god, has the ability to absorb energy, whether it be plasma or kinetic, and turn it into invulnerability and strength. He can also burn with pure energy or charge objects to explode, but he cannot throw energy. He can be wounded, but since his ability absorbs energy, nothing gets in to damage him. He is a very potent enemy as all attacks just make him stronger and he is nigh unstoppable.
Well, Noir is one of, if not, my favorite Genre and I have plenty to recommend. Both of those would count as noir and Kiss me Deadly is a decent Mike Hammer noir, it also inspired the glowing suitcase in Pulp Fiction. The best noirs I have seen are Out of the Past with Robert Mitchum, Fritz Lang’s The Big Heat, Double Indemnity, Odd Man Out, D.O.A., and Gilda. A mention with noir undertones and a fantastic Robert Mitchum is Night of the Hunter. And my favorite movie of all time is a noir, and my next character’s name is a reference to it.
Callaway is a cop/knight who is an expert with his sword. Also people think he’s irish leading him to constantly say, “It’s Callaway, not Callahan. English not Irish.” This last bit is a reference to my favorite movie, a movie who has been my avatar and my signature before. And either those with a good memory or good film history/knowledge, may answer the riddle and earn a redesign from me.
“The most dangerous thing on this planet is a dame. There are daggers in men’s smiles and womens’ are filled with stilettos.”
Thanks and here is another pic with Hawthorne for the contest.
“The real secret of how to stay standing in this bedlam is not to be well liked, or feared. It is to be unknown, a shadow on the wall.”
I’d recommend Kiss of Death, it is a great noir, well good noir elevated by Widmark’s oscar nominated performance. Now my net character, my private eye Hawthorne smokes more than Mitchum in Out of the Past, another fantastic noir.
“Things used to be simpler. Good fought evil. Sword clashed with sword. Spell countered spell. But times have changed. Arrows became lead. Stone castles became steel obelisks that pierced the heavens. Good and evil disappeared into shades of gray. Kingdoms faded into cities and kings became mayors. Knights became cops and rangers became snipers. Magic still flies, but it is simpler. The only things that really stayed the same are the things people want : sex, money, power. People lie, cheat, steal and even kill for these things and they always will. I deal with these people, they need things found or discovered, I’m their man. The name’s Hawthorne and for the right price, I’ll find something for you.”
