Film Noir Influence - Hercules vs The Hydra / Granny vs The Weeds

Today while brainstorming how we would go about creating the shots for our film noir section of the animation where Granny is battling the weeds, they were referred to as hydra-like, which prompted me to think of the Hydra battle in Disney's Hercules. We feel the flashing contrasting colours and extreme shots in this clip would be good influence for our animation.

10 Film Noir Tropes

We thought it could be beneficial to us as a group to list 10 tropes of our given genre - film noir, to help us try to ensure our final animation as at least some of the features that makes this genre recognisable. 

1. Long Shadows
2. Detective: Fedora, Trench Coat, Hardboiled Detective
3. Femme Fetale: Seductive, Cigarette Smoking
4. Corruption
5. Raining Weather, Smoke/Smog
6. Contrast of Lights and Darks, Chiaroscuro, Blue Lighting
7. Dutch Angles
8. Big City
9. Private-eye Monologue
10. Plot Thickens

Extra: Heavy on the jazz music