How our thriller represents particular social groups:

In our thriller we decided to represent a variety of different social groups such as gender, age and how detectives were represented in the 1940-noir films.

 We chose to use a stereotypical beautiful women as one of our leads of whom the audience could fall in love just by looking at her but instead of having her play the damsel in distress role we made her the femme fatal which is an attractive and seductive women who will bring disaster to any man that becomes involved with her. In some ways our thriller is similar to Billy Wilders 1944 noir film Double Idemnity. The film involves the femme fatal wanting her husband dead so that she can collect the insurance money. The film starts with lust and ends in murder, somewhat like our thriller. We have chosen our female to represent as close as we can possibly get the ideal femme fatal noir women although this is also made easy to portray through our leading man.

 We have chosen him to be older than our femme fatal although she still seduces him in order to stay on top. Normally you would expect the middle age men to have more senese than the younger women and in our thriller you can see that we suberted the dominant ideologies to make the man fall in love with the younger women. A film that does this for example is American Beauty where the older middle aged, married man falls in love with his teenage daughters best friend. Another film example is The Big Sleep where Humphrey Bogart is seduced by the much younger Lauren Bacall which is also a film noir made in the late 40's about lies, deceit and crime. We have chosen to represent our detective in the typical noir style with the detective suit, trench-coat and hat, the suspicious way he walks around checking his steps before he walks anywhere. We have also chosen to have our thriller be in black and white, typical of the noir style.We feel that our thriller would be more believeable

Overall we have tried to get our thriller as similar as possible to the way that typical noir films are done by having similar characteristics such as the detective who falls in love with the beautiful femme fatal but just ends up in a much worse state. 

In some aspects as well our group has also represented disability and mental health because obviously no person with the right state of mind would murder unless for self defence and in our thriller since our detective has no gun on him, clearly it is not self defence. We represented our female lead as a women on the verge of a nervous breakdown and forced to kill to protect herself from the male character who through jealousy and despair has forced her to this act. Violence in the family home was more prevalent in the early part of the 20th century hence we made our film in black and white. In some respects an example that is similar to this is the unfortunate murder by Ruth Ellis in the 50's.

Ruth Ellis was a night club hostess in the 1950's who seemed to have many abussive boyfriends. In the end she ended up murdering her boyfriend David Blakely of whom was also extremily abussive and was responsible for her miscarriage after they got in a fight and he punched her in the stomach. Ellis murdered Blakely after firing many shots at him on the street. She became the last person to be hung in the UK. Although this was a miscarriage of justice because she had been abused she had to pay for his crime.