FEMME FATALE
They are a mysterious and seductive character whose charms ensnare her lovers in bonds of irresistible desire, often leading them into compromising, dangerous, and deadly situations.
These women are given not only sexual powers but also ambitions. They are longing or looking for independence, often economic, and freedom, often from relationships with men. These women that are masters and possessors of their own sexuality represent a danger to the males.
MEN AND WOMEN
MEN
The protagonists are often role as detectives. In Trodorov, they are represented as a Hero or Antihero. The men are, as well as the women, portrayed as stereotypes. As a result of this they are not allowed to live their lives in alternative ways anymore than women. The patriarchal order that is surrounding them, and that they in addition to women are trying to upheave, represents a certain set of rules they have to follow and live up to. . The struggle to keeping women in their place also keeps the men in their places. The men can not show much emotion in order to upheaval their emotional, and they have to work alone and be successful in what they do .
WOMEN
She uses the protagonist(male protagonist) as a tool to help her accomplish some unsavory deed and the protagonist is powerless to refuse her. She would use her feminine wiles and her sexuality to manipulate him to becoming the fall guy
Mindmap of how the Femme Fatale role in the film noir
WHY WAS THE FEMME FATALE SO POPULAR IN 1940S?
The most obvious thing to deduce about this type of woman in film noir is that she does not fit with the traditional role put on women as being loving wives and doting mothers. Often the femme fatale in films is not content with being married as she finds it dull and lacking passion. This type of character was a popular one in film noir in the 1940s and 1950s.
Women smoking was a mainstream in film noir; it was a stereotype back in the 1940s. Everybody smokes, it's a common thing to do in that society.
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