1 | %% Image selected per Image Pickin' thread: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=1476976655010052300 |
2 | %% Please do not replace or remove without starting a new thread. |
3 | %% |
4 | [[quoteright:350:[[Film/MulhollandFalls https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/daylight_noir1.png]]]] |
5 | |
6 | Sunshine Noir combines elements of ShiningCity and CityNoir. The setting may be a CrapsaccharineWorld that looks a glamorous and glitzy place but it's filled with gangsters, drug deals gone wrong, undercover police officers, criminal drifters, violent youths; you name it. However, the setting does not necessarily ''look'' like a Crapsaccharine World. |
7 | |
8 | This setting either tries to accentuate how lively it is, or is filled with beautiful sunshine and stylish chrome cars. Expect signs in the background (or the opening credits/title page of the story) to include a colorful neon font. Expect there to be a huge focus on vibrant, neon-lit nightlife in these kinds of settings. If not, expect to hear upbeat, poppy music playing in the background as undercover detectives bust a drug deal or as a young getaway driver makes his great escape. Often, in this setting, there is a juxtaposition of happy scenes set in broad daylight with events that would normally mark a WretchedHive. However, unlike a WretchedHive, this setting tends to be clean and polished. The setting in this peculiar type of Noir is usually a ViceCity, that looks particularly ''fun'' on the surface, with charming characters and colorful and quirky fashions. However, it is, at its core, a CrapsaccharineWorld where dodgy dealings are the norm. May sometimes overlap with CyberPunk. May make liberal use of WarmPlaceWarmLighting; expect orange and yellow filters. |
9 | |
10 | This term was originally coined by ''Film/{{Drive|2011}}'' author James Sallis to describe his novels. |
11 | |
12 | Not to be confused with ''film soleil'', which is (roughly) quirky [[FilmNoir Neo-Noir]] in a NewOldWest setting. Also see HellishLA and SinisterSouthwest. |
13 | ---- |
14 | !!Examples: |
15 | |
16 | [[foldercontrol]] |
17 | |
18 | [[folder:Fims -- Animated]] |
19 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Felidae}}'' has many of its investigations made during the daytime and in a quaint suburb. Making the cat-on-cat violence all the more horrifying. |
20 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Foodfight}}'' is almost always sunny with elements of film noir, but considering how much of a trainwreck the film is, it remains a mystery as to whether or not this was even ''intentional.'' |
21 | [[/folder]] |
22 | |
23 | [[folder:Films -- Live-Action]] |
24 | * ''Film/{{Chinatown}}'': The TropeCodifier, famous for its golden yellow cinematography. According to an interview with Creator/RomanPolanski, Creator/RobertTowne was furious when he saw the sunny colors he was using. When Towne wrote the script, he assumed the film would have the dark red filter ''Film/TheGodfather'' had made so popular. |
25 | * ''Film/Drive2011''. Pretty neon, chrome, sunshine, and an upbeat pop soundtrack juxtaposed with a serious crime drama. |
26 | * Creator/IdaLupino's ''Film/TheHitchHiker'' is set on the backdrop of sunny Mexico, but has the story of a psycho killer kidnapping two friends. |
27 | * ''Film/KidDetective2020'' has the hallmarks of a noir (seedy underbelly, corrupt officials, flawed detective) but is set in a sunny, quaint little town. |
28 | * ''Film/LAConfidential'': jaded, morally-ambiguous police officers and tragic femmes fatales try to figure it all out in sunny Los Angeles. |
29 | * ''Film/LeaveHerToHeaven'', a psychological noir thriller about a femme fatale terrorizing her new husband with her obsessive jealousy, was filmed in vibrant technicolor. |
30 | * ''Film/WomanOnTheRun'' takes place in UsefulNotes/SanFrancisco and would be much brighter if it was filmed in colour. Even so, it's a sunny looking FilmNoir from the classic era. |
31 | * Creator/RobertAltman's ''Film/TheLongGoodbye'' is an adaptation of Creator/RaymondChandler's [[Literature/TheLongGoodbye novel of the same name]], but has many scenes drenched in the California sunlight. |
32 | * ''Film/ToLiveAndDieInLA'' |
33 | * ''Film/MulhollandFalls'': Despite what the movie poster implies, most scenes take place in bright Californian light. |
34 | * ''Film/TheNakedCity'': Instead of depicting the "dark side" of the city (rain, night, lonesome streets etc.), the film shows us a vital city in summer, mostly by day (and during a HeatWave no less). |
35 | * ''Film/PokemonDetectivePikachu'' has a noir-ish story set in neon-lit Ryme City. |
36 | * The ''Film/{{Pusher}}'' film trilogy. This kind of setting is emphasized heavily in the remake, which uses bright, colorful urban environments and an upbeat electronic soundtrack to frame a relatively grim story of seedy dealings. |
37 | * ''Film/TheRecklessMoment'' is all shot in sunny California in a upper-class suburban neighborhood. |
38 | * ''Film/RomeoIsBleeding'': More than half of the film takes place during bright summer days. |
39 | * Baz Luhrmann's adaptation of ''Film/WilliamShakespearesRomeoAndJuliet'' recasts the Montagues and Capulets as ruthless crime families in a fictitious setting that is a sunny, nightlife-driven mashup of [=SoCal=] and the Miami-Dade area, with Tybalt as a mob enforcer, Mercutio as a local club rat, and Friar Laurence as a priest who moonlights as a drug farmer. |
40 | * ''Film/SuicideSquad2016'' is dark and the main protagonists are all criminals or morally gray government workers. Fitting the dangerous-but-occasionally-quirky aspects of the titular squad, bright colors interrupt the grim landscape, from oddly dyed hair to screaming neon lights. The credits are a kaleidoscopic vision of symbols of the characters in bright neons. |
41 | * ''Film/UnderTheSilverLake'', which pays homage to many classic noir elements, revolves around an amateur detective trying to unravel a vast criminal conspiracy in Los Angeles' vibrant scene of hipsters and aspiring artists. Much of the story takes place either in broad daylight or in neon-lit night clubs frequented by colorful characters in equally colorful costumes. |
42 | * ''[[Film/WelcomeToAcapulco Welcome to Acapulco]]'', takes place in the nice, sunny, and beautiful, but rather treacherous and crime-ridden Acapulco Mexico, with a not-so-good chance of being chased, attacked, and surrounded by conmen, thieves, degenerates, lowlives, thugs, and criminals. |
43 | * ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'' is a somewhat gritty detective noir lined with cheery and goofy elements provided by the animated characters that exists in the film's world. [[ToonTown Toontown]] could most notably highlight this as it appears all silly, vibrant and happy, [[CrapsaccharineWorld but can actually be a dangerous place for humans]]. |
44 | * ''Film/{{Palmetto}}'' is a Neo-Noir set in sunny and humid Palmetto, Florida. |
45 | [[/folder]] |
46 | |
47 | [[folder:Literature]] |
48 | * The ''Driver'' series by James Sallis is the TropeNamer, while the film of the first book starring Creator/RyanGosling is the TropeCodifier. |
49 | * ''Literature/InherentVice'' and the [[Film/InherentVice film adaptation]] are both examples of this trope, and partly a GenreThrowback to the noirs of the 1970s. |
50 | * ''Literature/TheLAQuartet'' by Creator/JamesEllroy is a sleazy, dark, and corrupt version of Los Angeles in the 1940s with much of the violence taking place in broad daylight. These include ''Literature/TheBlackDahlia'', ''Literature/TheBigNowhere'', ''Literature/LAConfidential'', and ''Literature/WhiteJazz''. |
51 | * The ''Literature/TravisMcGee'' novels, many of which take place in the author's home state of Florida. |
52 | [[/folder]] |
53 | |
54 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
55 | * ''Series/IAmTheNight'': Takes place in sunny LA during 1960s, complete with the protagonist stalking a starlet on a Malibu beach. |
56 | * ''Series/{{Innocent}}'': A neo-noir thriller set against the backdrop of a rustic seaside town surrounded by turquoise waters and sundappled forests. |
57 | * ''Series/MagnumPI'', a detective show set in sunny Hawaii, featuring beaches, women in bikinis and men in flowery shirts, and including every single Noir trope you could possibly think of. |
58 | * ''Series/MiamiVice'': Pastel colors combined with neon, 80's music, cool cars, and the perpetual sunny Miami weather is juxtaposed over episodes focused on drug dealers, murderers, and gangs. Combines this with ViceCity. |
59 | * ''Series/SilkStalkings'' is about sexy, noir-style crimes among the super-rich in glamorous Palm Beach, Florida. The color palette is noticeably bright. |
60 | * ''Series/TropicalHeat'' is set on the fictional island Key Mariah, which is beautiful, sunny and full of thugs. |
61 | * ''Series/{{Dexter}}'' combines grisly crime and serial murder with the bright, sunny and colorful backdrop of Miami. |
62 | * Season 2 of ''Series/AgentCarter'', which is set in 1947, has Peggy Carter go to Los Angeles, where it's way sunnier than in New York City but where dark threats loom all the same. |
63 | * ''Series/VeronicaMars'' takes place in the town of Neptune, a playground for rich businessmen and their children. It's appropriately fancy and beach-adjacent, but there's not a pool in the region that hasn't been the site of a murder, an affair, or both. |
64 | [[/folder]] |
65 | |
66 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
67 | %%(ZCE) * ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCity'', ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas'' and ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'' fit the bill. While ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIVTheBalladOfGayTony'' fits the flashy nightlife version of this trope. |
68 | * ''Videogame/HotlineMiami'', to varying degrees. It is certainly this in [[spoiler:Biker's arc]]. In Jacket's arc it is definitely a WretchedHive, although due to SanitySlippage Jacket tends to be something of a WeirdnessMagnet. The game has been stated to have been partially inspired by ''Film/Drive2011'' as well. |
69 | * ''Videogame/LANoire'' is a shining version of this trope, featuring all manner of crime, sleaze and mayhem taking place in a sun drenched [[TheFifties 50's-era]] Los Angeles. |
70 | * ''Videogame/MaxPayne3'' moves its nighttime NYC setting to sunny Brazil. Rather than a black leather jacket, Max spends most of the game wearing a colorful Hawaiian shirt. |
71 | * Southtown in ''VideoGame/FatalFury'' is constantly described as a crime-ridden hellhole. On the surface however, it looks just like another sundrenched American city on the west coast. |
72 | * The City in ''Videogame/MirrorsEdge'' is almost entirely white with some garishly bright colored highlights, with the sun glaring down from a cloudless sky in almost every level. At the same time it's almost devoid of signs of life and somewhat [[SpaceBrasilia unsettlingly sterile]]. |
73 | [[/folder]] |
74 | |
75 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
76 | * ''WesternAnimation/ArcherDreamland'' is set in 1947 Los Angeles, though it's part of the [[{{WesternAnimation/Archer}} titular protagonist]]'s AdventuresInComaland. |
77 | [[/folder]] |
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/context.php
FollowingContext Main / SunshineNoir
Go To
- Show Spoilers
- Night Vision
- Sticky Header
- Wide Load