'Drive'

Drive shows some conventions of Film Noir, we see within the first scene that low key lighting is used, this suggest a darks tory line that that danger is ahead. Within the first scene also the location is established, to be in an urban environment which is typically used within 'Noir' films. `for example, when we are first introduced to Sin City, we see that the film is set within an urban environment, suggesting similarities between the two. Another convention of film noir is that rain drenched steers and damp weathers used frequently, we see this is established when the disequilibrium begins to occur, also the same as it does throughout the whole of Sin City.

The introduction to the femme fatale in Drive is also an convention of film noir. When we first see her character, she is wearing red lipstick and is smoking these are two very common uses of iconography within film noir as it suggest danger. The villain also states that she is a 'beautiful lady' which tells the audience that she may be dangerous throughout the film. This believes us to think that this film has the same conventions as a film noir, as the use of a beautiful woman wearing red lipstick is used in films such as 'The last seduction' and   'Sin City'.  This then contradicts the idea of her being a femme fatale during the end of the scenes in which she is in, this is because her character dies, which is usual as it is usually the male character that she has become involved with that end up dead or severely injured.

Drive also shows another convention of film noir, is the use of neon lights on typical american places such as american dinners and motels which are frequent in other noir films. for example in Pulp Fiction the opening scene is set in typical american place in the dinner, whereas in Drive, this is set in the typical american place in a Motel.