Review: Spider-Noir recaptures the magic of a bygone era

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KjellRS

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I’m not an expert by any stretch and maybe my expectations are wrong, but I’ll say I’m a little disappointed that the cinematography seems too modern to me for the Noir vibe. We get quick flipping shot/reverse-shot dialog and fast moving camera takes from drones (or CGI’s magical cameras).
I mean you're right but I also don't miss it? For me it's more of a technical limitation of the film /editing technology at the time, could they have managed to get a guy with a film camera up in a zip line for an overhead tracking shot? Yes at great cost and inconvenience so no. Same with splicing all the dialog for a modern conversation, I'm fine with magic cameras.

To me it's a style of story and it ticks pretty much all the boxes of noir, in fact I couldn't imagine the Spider action scenes shot 1940s style - that would be rather terrible. If you went there you'd have to go full camp and make a spinning spider icon like Batman (1966) or something, like this a very much an artistic choice to not follow any modern standards at all.
 
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