[169] Some critics include Suspicion (1941), directed by Alfred Hitchcock, in their catalogues of noir; others ignore it. But more so than the superficial traits of the genre, neon noir emphasizes the socio-critique of film noir, recalling the specific socio-cultural dimensions of the interwar years when noirs first became prominent; a time of global existential crisis, depression and the mass movement of rural persons towards the cities. Chaumeton and Borde have argued that film noir grew out of the "literature of drugs and alcohol". Also see Silver and Ward (1992): ignored in 1980; included in 1988 (pp. Festival International du Film de Montagne, Festival international du film des droits de l'homme de Paris. 282–83; Naremore (1998), pp. Other tactics also made use of heavily stylized lighting techniques such the chiaroscuro juxtaposition of light and dark, with neon signs and brightly lit buildings providing a sense of alienation and entrapment. 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[60] Scarlet Street was a semi-independent, cosponsored by Universal and Lang's Diana Productions, of which the film's co-star, Joan Bennett, was the second biggest shareholder. Many people are enthralled by the mythological creatures from history, whether it is forest nymphs, gold-greedy dragons, or the elusive unicorn. [134] The neon-noir, more specifically, seeks to revive the noir sensibilities in a more targeted manner of reference, focalizing especially its socio-cultural commentary and hyper-stylized aesthetic. Neon-noir can be seen as a response to the over-use of the term neo-noir. Dargis, Manohla (2004). [79] In addition to The Killers, Burt Lancaster's debut and a Hellinger/Universal co-production, Siodmak's other important contributions to the genre include 1944's Phantom Lady (a top-of-the-line B and Woolrich adaptation), the ironically titled Christmas Holiday (1944), and Cry of the City (1948). 6–9; Silver and Ward (1992), pp. )[90] In Japan, the celebrated Akira Kurosawa directed several films recognizable as film noirs, including Drunken Angel (1948), Stray Dog (1949), The Bad Sleep Well (1960), and High and Low (1963). The iconic noir counterpart to the femme fatale, the private eye, came to the fore in films such as The Maltese Falcon (1941), with Humphrey Bogart as Sam Spade, and Murder, My Sweet (1944), with Dick Powell as Philip Marlowe. Krutnik, Neale, and Neve (2008), pp. The film was directed by Richard Fleischer, who two decades before had directed several strong B noirs, including Armored Car Robbery (1950) and The Narrow Margin (1952).[149]. See, e.g., Silver and Ward (1992), pp. [54] A majority of critics, however, regard comparable films made outside the classic era to be something other than genuine film noirs. Is your life a crime? 4, 6 passim. [190] In the popular (and, frequently enough, critical) imagination, in noir it is always night and it always rains. [32] The movement's sensibility is mirrored in the Warner Bros. drama I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932), a forerunner of noir. (1950), directed by Rudolph Maté and Sweet Smell of Success (1957), directed by Alexander Mackendrick. There was more visual experimentation than in Hollywood filmmaking as a whole: the Expressionism now closely associated with noir and the semi-documentary style that later emerged represent two very different tendencies. Still others focus on mood and attitude. [13], Others argue that film noir is not a genre. Debuting as a director with The Maltese Falcon (1941), John Huston followed with Key Largo (1948) and The Asphalt Jungle (1950). 338–39. Naremore (2008), pp. Other films from the era readily identifiable as neo-noir (some retro, some more au courant) include director John Dahl's Kill Me Again (1989), Red Rock West (1992), and The Last Seduction (1993); four adaptations of novels by Jim Thompson—The Kill-Off (1989), After Dark, My Sweet (1990), The Grifters (1990), and the remake of The Getaway (1994); and many more, including adaptations of the work of other major noir fiction writers: The Hot Spot (1990), from Hell Hath No Fury, by Charles Williams; Miami Blues (1990), from the novel by Charles Willeford; and Out of Sight (1998), from the novel by Elmore Leonard. Voiceover narration, sometimes used as a structuring device, came to be seen as a noir hallmark; while classic noir is generally associated with first-person narration (i.e., by the protagonist), Stephen Neale notes that third-person narration is common among noirs of the semidocumentary style. See, e.g., Muller (1998), p. 81, on analyses of the film; Silver and Ward (1992), p. 2. This allowed the United States film industry to enter the European cinema market, because American films could be sold more cheaply than European productions, since the studios already had recouped their costs in the home market. "Twenty-First Century Nervous Breakdown". [187] From historical commentators to neo-noir pictures to pop culture ephemera, the private eye and the femme fatale have been adopted as the quintessential film noir figures, though they do not appear in most films now regarded as classic noir. Illustrating society as decadent and consumerist, and identity as confused and anxious, neon-noirs reposition the contemporary noir in urban decay, often setting their scenes in the underground city-haunts; brothels, nightclubs, casinos, strip bars, pawnshops, Laundromats, etc. The Twin Peaks cycle, both TV series (1990–91) and film, Fire Walk with Me (1992), puts a detective plot through a succession of bizarre spasms. "Fate Seeks the Loser: Edgar G. Ulmer's. Spicer (2007), pp. A crime investigation—by a private eye, a police detective (sometimes acting alone), or a concerned amateur—is the most prevalent, but far from dominant, basic plot. 2012 was also the year French animation studio Mac Guff was acquired by an American studio, Universal Pictures, through its Illumination Entertainment subsidiary. Set in Vienna immediately after World War II, it also stars two American actors, Joseph Cotten and Orson Welles, who had appeared together in Citizen Kane. 49, 51, 53, 235. The film was co-produced by multinational partners, which reduced the financial risks inherent in the project; and co-production also ensured enhanced distribution opportunities. Since 1959, France has a particular policy towards cinema and theater, and made several protective laws about these industries. In 1939, Renoir directed La Règle du Jeu (The Rules of the Game). 32–39, 43; Ballinger and Graydon (2007), pp. Working mostly on A features, he made eight films now regarded as classic-era film noirs (a figure matched only by Lang and Mann). From 1904 to 1911 the Pathé Frères company led the world in film production and distribution.[15]. In addition to the relatively looser constraints on character and message at lower budgets, the nature of B production lent itself to the noir style for economic reasons: dim lighting saved on electricity and helped cloak cheap sets (mist and smoke also served the cause); night shooting was often compelled by hurried production schedules; plots with obscure motivations and intriguingly elliptical transitions were sometimes the consequence of hastily written scripts, of which there was not always enough time or money to shoot every scene. Another example was La Folie des grandeurs with Yves Montand. Movies which followed in its wake included Betty Blue (37°2 le matin, 1986) by Beineix, The Big Blue (Le Grand bleu, 1988) by Luc Besson, and The Lovers on the Bridge (Les Amants du Pont-Neuf, 1991) by Léos Carax. [12] Foster Hirsch defines a genre as determined by "conventions of narrative structure, characterization, theme, and visual design". Silver (1996), pp. In this video we look at this question: Quel genre de musique ou de film préfères-tu ? Features and shorts documentaries on human rights issues. Carl Reiner's black-and-white Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982) appropriates clips of classic noirs for a farcical pastiche, while his Fatal Instinct (1993) sends up noir classic (Double Indemnity) and neo-noir (Basic Instinct). In addition, French movie stars began to claim fame abroad as well as at home. A number of low- and modestly-budgeted noirs were made by independent, often actor-owned, companies contracting with larger studios for distribution. Dargis (2004); Ballinger and Graydon (2007), p. 234. The most acclaimed of the neo-noirs of the era was director Roman Polanski's 1974 Chinatown. British-born director Christopher Nolan's black-and-white debut, Following (1998), was an overt homage to classic noir. Maslin, Janet (1996). Treated as noir: Ballinger and Graydon (2007), p. 34; Hirsch (2001), pp. See, e.g., Naremore (2008), p. 25; Lyons (2000), p. 10. Long shots or montages of cityscapes, often portrayed as dark and menacing were suggestive of what Dueck referred to as a ‘bleak societal perspective’,[128] providing a critique on global capitalism and consumerism. [29], Josef von Sternberg was directing in Hollywood during the same period. Palmer, Tim and Charlie Michael (eds.) C. Action. : no accurate data but estimated at 3 billion for the whole India/Indian languages) and Chinese (275 million in China plus a few million abroad), but above films shot in Korean (115 million admissions in South Korea plus a few millions abroad) and Japanese (102 million admissions in Japan plus a few million abroad,[26][27] a record since 1973 et its 104 million admissions). Working generally with much smaller budgets, brothers Joel and Ethan Coen have created one of the most extensive film oeuvres influenced by classic noir, with films such as Blood Simple (1984) and Fargo (1996), considered by some a supreme work in the neo-noir mode. Moteur ! For instance, critics tend to define the model film noir as having a tragic or bleak conclusion,[171] but many acknowledged classics of the genre have clearly happy endings (e.g., Stranger on the Third Floor, The Big Sleep, Dark Passage, and The Dark Corner), while the tone of many other noir denouements is ambivalent. [160] Belying its parodic strain, The Long Goodbye's final act is seriously grave. Horror movie fans are much more likely to be city-dwellers than fans of other genres. "[182] Amnesia is fairly epidemic—"noir's version of the common cold", in the words of film historian Lee Server. See, e.g., entries on individual films in Ballinger and Graydon (2007), pp. Before leaving for France, Jules Dassin had been obliged by political pressure to shoot his last English-language film of the classic noir period in Great Britain: Night and the City (1950). No survey of classic noir's identifying characteristics can therefore be considered definitive. Clarens (1980), pp. Casque d'Or (1952), Touchez pas au grisbi (1954), and Le Trou (1960) directed by Jacques Becker; and Ascenseur pour l'échafaud (1958), directed by Louis Malle. See, e.g., Ballinger and Graydon (2007), p. 4; Bould (2005), p. 12; Place and Peterson (1974). 9, 311–12 n. 1. [159], Noir parodies come in darker tones as well. [12], Les frères Lumière released the first projection with the Cinematograph, in Paris on 28 December 1895. 9. 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[c] The shadows of Venetian blinds or banister rods, cast upon an actor, a wall, or an entire set, are an iconic visual in noir and had already become a cliché well before the neo-noir era. [25] In 2012, films shot in French ranked 4th in admissions (145 million) behind films shot in English (more than a billion admissions in the US alone), Hindi (? [135], Director Sean Penn's The Pledge (2001), though adapted from a very self-reflexive novel by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, plays noir comparatively straight, to devastating effect. See Naremore (2008), pp. The highest-grossing film was Taken 3 (€261.7 million) and the largest territory in admissions was China (14.7 million).[28]. occasionally casts Kermit the Frog as a private eye; the sketches refer to some of the typical motifs of noir films, in particular the voiceover. The film plays with an awareness not only of classic noir but also of neo-noir reflexivity itself. [74] The work of other directors in this tier of the industry, such as Felix E. Feist (The Devil Thumbs a Ride [1947], Tomorrow Is Another Day [1951]), has become obscure. Which genre do you prefer your Christmas movies to be in? According to J. David Slocum, "protagonists assume the literal identities of dead men in nearly fifteen percent of all noir. See, e.g., entries on individual films in Silver and Ward (1992), pp. Kolker (2000), pp. For specific production circumstances, see Brady, Frank. Sesame Street (1969–curr.) Some of the strongest 1970s noirs, in fact, were unwinking remakes of the classics, "neo" mostly by default: the heartbreaking Thieves Like Us (1974), directed by Altman from the same source as Ray's They Live by Night, and Farewell, My Lovely (1975), the Chandler tale made classically as Murder, My Sweet, remade here with Robert Mitchum in his last notable noir role. [167] A half-century later, film historians and critics had come to agree on a canon of approximately three hundred films from 1940–58. The 1979 film La Cage aux Folles ran for well over a year at the Paris Theatre, an arthouse cinema in New York City, and was a commercial success at theaters throughout the country, in both urban and rural areas. [66] Movies with budgets a step up the ladder, known as "intermediates" by the industry, might be treated as A or B pictures depending on the circumstances. The tendency was at its peak during the late 1980s and 1990s, with films such as Dead Calm (1989), After Dark, My Sweet (1990), The Hot Spot (1990), Delusion (1991), Red Rock West (1993) and the television series Miami Vice. 188, 202–3. [138], With ultra-violent films such as Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002) and Thirst (2009), Park Chan-wook of South Korea has been the most prominent director outside of the United States to work regularly in a noir mode in the new millennium. Framing the entire primary narrative as a flashback is also a standard device. 83–85; Ottoson (1981), pp. [108], Hill was already a central figure in 1970s noir of a more straightforward manner, having written the script for director Sam Peckinpah's The Getaway (1972), adapting a novel by pulp master Jim Thompson, as well as for two tough private eye films: an original screenplay for Hickey & Boggs (1972) and an adaptation of a novel by Ross Macdonald, the leading literary descendant of Hammett and Chandler, for The Drowning Pool (1975). This little scene of impromptu amateur film criticism or market research, if you prefer occurs in Emmanuel Laurent’s new documentary, “Two in … 7–8. David Cronenberg also mixes surrealism and noir in Naked Lunch (1991), inspired by William S. Burroughs' novel. are tales told by dead men. Still, it would be inaccurate to view Liquid Flesh as a bunch of goofs reveling in the barbaric simplicity of their … 4, 32, 75, 83, 116, 118, 128, 155. "Back to the Brats", in. Popular actors of the period included Brigitte Bardot, Alain Delon, Romy Schneider, Catherine Deneuve, Jeanne Moreau, Simone Signoret, Yves Montand, Jean-Paul Belmondo and still Jean Gabin. They regard true film noir as belonging to a temporally and geographically limited cycle or period, treating subsequent films that evoke the classics as fundamentally different due to general shifts in filmmaking style and latter-day awareness of noir as a historical source for allusion. In 2015 French cinema sold 106 million tickets and grossed €600 million outside of the country. For this reason, French cinema is sometimes intertwined with the cinema of foreign nations. [145][146], In the post-classic era, a significant trend in noir crossovers has involved science fiction. For example, the award-winning documentary In the Land of the Deaf (Le Pays des sourds) was created by Nicolas Philibert in 1992. They’re on a budget. [196], Film noir is often said to be defined by "moral ambiguity",[197] yet the Production Code obliged almost all classic noirs to see that steadfast virtue was ultimately rewarded and vice, in the absence of shame and redemption, severely punished (however dramatically incredible the final rendering of mandatory justice might be). Others simply share narrative elements and a version of the hardboiled sensibility associated with classic noir, such as Castle of Sand (1974; Japan), Insomnia (1997; Norway), Croupier (1998; UK), and Blind Shaft (2003; China). [44], The film now most commonly cited as the first "true" film noir is Stranger on the Third Floor (1940), directed by Latvian-born, Soviet-trained Boris Ingster. Its $193 million gross in France puts it just behind Titanic as the most successful film of all time in French theaters. 3, 4; Hirsch (2001), p. 11. 200–2; Walker (1992), pp. 217–18; Hirsch (2001), p. 64. He later played secondary roles in several other formative American noirs. [70][71] Joseph H. Lewis directed noirs as diverse as Gun Crazy (1950) and The Big Combo (1955). Which genre do you prefer your Christmas movies to be in? 111–16. Film noir encompasses a range of plots: the central figure may be a private investigator (The Big Sleep), a plainclothes policeman (The Big Heat), an aging boxer (The Set-Up), a hapless grifter (Night and the City), a law-abiding citizen lured into a life of crime (Gun Crazy), or simply a victim of circumstance (D.O.A.). [124], Among big-budget auteurs, Michael Mann has worked frequently in a neo-noir mode, with such films as Thief (1981)[122] and Heat (1995) and the TV series Miami Vice (1984–89) and Crime Story (1986–88). As the advent of television threatened the success of cinema, countries were faced with the problem of reviving movie-going. For characterization of definitive tone as "hopeless", see pp. 253, 255, 263–64, 266, 267, 270–74; Abbas (1997), p. 34. Because Truffaut followed the hero of his screen debut, Antoine Doinel, for twenty years, the last post-New-Wave-film is Love on the Run in which his heroes Antoine (Léaud) and Christine (Jade) get divorced. Not only were Chandler's novels turned into major noirs—Murder, My Sweet (1944; adapted from Farewell, My Lovely), The Big Sleep (1946), and Lady in the Lake (1947)—he was an important screenwriter in the genre as well, producing the scripts for Double Indemnity, The Blue Dahlia (1946), and Strangers on a Train (1951). Whoever went to the movies with any regularity during 1946 was caught in the midst of Hollywood's profound postwar affection for morbid drama. March 23, 2016. Ph. D. Fantasy. Many people walked out of the cinema after watching the latest movie in the Mission Impossible series saying that they absolutely loved the action shown in the movie. Some refer to such latter-day works as neo-noir. Gorman, Ed, Lee Server, and Martin H. Greenberg, eds. See, e.g., Naremore (2008), p. 167–68; Irwin (2006), p. 210. See, e.g., Silver (1996), p. 11; Ottoson (1981), pp. At the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, Entre les murs (The Class) won the Palme d'Or, the 6th French victory at the festival. See, e.g., Biesen (2005), p. 1; Hirsch (2001), p. 9; Lyons (2001), p. 2; Silver and Ward (1992), p. 1; Schatz (1981), p. 112. A decade before the classic era, a story by Hammett was the source for the gangster melodrama City Streets (1931), directed by Rouben Mamoulian and photographed by Lee Garmes, who worked regularly with Sternberg. Bold experiments in cinematic storytelling were sometimes attempted during the classic era: Lady in the Lake, for example, is shot entirely from the point of view of protagonist Philip Marlowe; the face of star (and director) Robert Montgomery is seen only in mirrors. [65] Some were Bs in the most precise sense, produced to run on the bottom of double bills by a low-budget unit of one of the major studios or by one of the smaller Poverty Row outfits, from the relatively well-off Monogram to shakier ventures such as Producers Releasing Corporation (PRC). Film noir (/nwɑːr/; French: [film nwaʁ]) is a cinematic term used primarily to describe stylish Hollywood crime dramas, particularly those that emphasize cynical attitudes and sexual motivations. Film noir of this era is associated with a low-key, black-and-white visual style that has roots in German Expressionist cinematography. Silence, on tourne ! Firesign Theatre's Nick Danger has trod the same not-so-mean streets, both on radio and in comedy albums. 255–61. [6] They emphasize that not every film noir embodies all five attributes in equal measure—one might be more dreamlike; another, particularly brutal. Menu. 110–111. The commercial and critical success of Sternberg's silent Underworld (1927) was largely responsible for spurring a trend of Hollywood gangster films. Just over half of all films made anywhere in the world over the past twenty years are Dramas (51.6%). 81, 319 n. 13; Ballinger and Graydon (2007), pp. Where Chandler, like Hammett, centered most of his novels and stories on the character of the private eye, Cain featured less heroic protagonists and focused more on psychological exposition than on crime solving;[40] the Cain approach has come to be identified with a subset of the hardboiled genre dubbed "noir fiction". [92], Among the first major neo-noir films—the term often applied to films that consciously refer back to the classic noir tradition—was the French Tirez sur le pianiste (1960), directed by François Truffaut from a novel by one of the gloomiest of American noir fiction writers, David Goodis. David Cronenberg's Crash (1996), an adaptation of the speculative novel by J. G. Ballard, has been described as a "film noir in bruise tones". Accentuating the already present use of artificial or neon lighting in the noir films of the '40s and '50s, neon-noir films imbue this aesthetic style with electrifying color and manipulated light to accentuate their socio-cultural critique as backdrop to thematic references to contemporary and pop culture. [188], Film noir is often associated with an urban setting, and a few cities—Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, and Chicago, in particular—are the location of many of the classic films. 13, 28, 241; Ballinger and Graydon (2007), pp. [5] "We'd be oversimplifying things in calling film noir oneiric, strange, erotic, ambivalent, and cruel ..."—this set of attributes constitutes the first of many attempts to define film noir made by French critics Raymond Borde and Étienne Chaumeton in their 1955 book Panorama du film noir américain 1941–1953 (A Panorama of American Film Noir), the original and seminal extended treatment of the subject. Movie Genre Definition What is a movie genre? To support their categorization of certain films as noirs and their rejection of others, many critics refer to a set of elements they see as marking examples of the mode. In 1935, renowned playwright and actor Sacha Guitry directed his first film and went on to make more than 30 films that were precursors to the New Wave era. 203–5; Ballinger and Graydon (2007), pp. "[195] Film noirs, especially those of the 1950s and the height of the Red Scare, are often said to reflect cultural paranoia; Kiss Me Deadly is the noir most frequently marshaled as evidence for this claim. During this period, French commercial film also made a name for itself. [9] France is also one of the few countries where non-American productions have the biggest share: American films only represented 44.9% of total admissions in 2014. 14–15. Film Genres: Film genres are various forms or identifiable types, categories, classifications or groups of films. Dueck, Cheryl. 1–21; Schatz (1981), pp. During the Eightees they are added by a new generation including Sophie Marceau, Emmanuelle Béart, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Sabine Azema, Juliette Binoche and Daniel Auteuil. See Ballinger and Graydon (2007), p. 31, on general issue. Naremore (2008), p. 275; Wager (2005), p. 83; Hanson (2008), p. 141. See also Place and Peterson (1974). [75] Ulmer's other noirs include Strange Illusion (1945), also for PRC; Ruthless (1948), for Eagle-Lion, which had acquired PRC the previous year and Murder Is My Beat (1955), for Allied Artists. [101] The first major film to overtly work this angle was French director Jean-Luc Godard's À bout de souffle (Breathless; 1960), which pays its literal respects to Bogart and his crime films while brandishing a bold new style for a new day. [107] In 1978, Walter Hill wrote and directed The Driver, a chase film as might have been imagined by Jean-Pierre Melville in an especially abstract mood. [97][98] The television series The Fugitive (1963–67) brought classic noir themes and mood to the small screen for an extended run. At least one important reference work identifies the latter as a film noir despite its early date. The early days of the industry, from 1896 to 1902, saw the dominance of four firms: Pathé Frères, the Gaumont Film Company, the Georges Méliès company, and the Lumières. Action ! For description of noir as a genre, see, e.g., Bould (2005), p. 2; Hirsch (2001), pp. It became the highest-grossing French-language film ever released in the United States. 392, 396). Ursini (1995), pp. '‘Spring Breakers’ Is A ‘Fever Dream’; Or, The Most Common Description Of Harmony Korine’s New Film. Some of the first films of this new movement were Godard's Breathless (À bout de souffle, 1960), starring Jean-Paul Belmondo, Rivette's Paris Belongs to Us (Paris nous appartient, 1958 – distributed in 1961), starring Jean-Claude Brialy and Truffaut's The 400 Blows (Les Quatre Cent Coups, 1959) starring Jean-Pierre Léaud. 41–48, for a survey of noir morality. An A-level feature all the way, the film's commercial success and seven Oscar nominations made it probably the most influential of the early noirs. [140] The film is based on a series of comic books created by Frank Miller (credited as the film's codirector), which are in turn openly indebted to the works of Spillane and other pulp mystery authors. The characteristic protagonists of noir are described by many critics as "alienated";[185] in the words of Silver and Ward, "filled with existential bitterness". 14, 32. Mathieu Kassovitz's 1995 film Hate (La Haine) received critical praise and made Vincent Cassel a star, and in 1997, Juliette Binoche won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in The English Patient. 'From 'Trance' to 'Spring Breakers,' Is This the Golden Age of Film Noir?'. Bernstein, Matthew (1995). [193] The noir stories that are regarded as most characteristic tell of people trapped in unwanted situations (which, in general, they did not cause but are responsible for exacerbating), striving against random, uncaring fate, and frequently doomed. One was an independent distributed by MGM, the industry leader: Force of Evil (1948), directed by Abraham Polonsky and starring John Garfield, both of whom were blacklisted in the 1950s. [57] Among Hollywood's most celebrated directors of the era, arguably none worked more often in a noir mode than Preminger; his other noirs include Fallen Angel (1945), Whirlpool (1949), Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950) (all for Fox) and Angel Face (1952). Bob Hope inaugurated the private-eye noir parody with My Favorite Brunette (1947), playing a baby-photographer who is mistaken for an ironfisted detective. See, e.g., Borde and Chaumeton (2002), pp. See, e.g., Ballinger and Graydon (2007), p. 4; Christopher (1998), p. 8. 2011 saw the release of The Artist, a silent film shot in black and white by Michel Hazanavicius that reflected on the end of Hollywood's silent era. Patrick Bokanowski creates his own universe and obeys his own aesthetic logic. 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