Representation of characters: 'Detective Mills'/Brad Pitt

The modern masculinity of Brad Pitt differ from the traditional/old one of the 'Marlboro Man', who looks like a hard-working man, while Pitt is much more attractive because, apart from being good looking, he has a new fashion style: he's a cool man that, for example, in the 1990 advertisement that made him famous, he takes photos and taunts of a kind of 'Marlboro Man' while he hangs out with a beautiful woman.

This is also seen in the 'Seven' scene, with 'Somerset' (Morgan Freeman) visiting Pitt's house, and playing the roll of the 'Marlboro Man', due to that he has a gun, he's alone when talking, etc..

Seven - Working towards the textual analysis

The film has various factors that create the specific genre. For example, is kind of a mix of taut suspense thriller with mystery and horror. Also, a cop drama.
I can say this because of the elements/conventions found on particular scenes, as for example on monday's one, when the policemen found the crime of the fat man being murdered after being forced to eat until his stomach bursts.

Noir Conventions in Seven

Elements

- colorless (dark ambient/atmosphere because of the city decay) lighting, which suggests the technological environment, but also the cold and unfeeling reality.
- part of police office (building) Dutch angle, long (establishing) and low shot.
- crime in urban place: world full of evil.
- non-diagetic sounds.
- library stands out by green lamps.
- also, the violin music produces these effects mentioned before.
- jump cuts from the two detectives to show what they were doing.
- the rain is heard but not seen.