Citizen Kane director Orson Wells and Double Indemnity director Billy Wilder both used specific techniques to create a heightened form of realism in their respective films. This realism was developed to ensure they conveyed their film's message about human nature that people will do anything if they truly feel they can get away with it. Both directors worked to create a world in their films that seemed believable to audiences, so that their ultimate truths would have a greater impact on those who watched. Wilder used his world of film noir to reveal the truth that a law-abiding man like Walter Neff could be persuaded to commit murder with little influence because he believed he could manipulate the system and receive no punishment for his crime. Wells created a world that would allow for the existence of a "larger than life" character like Charles Foster Kane who felt he could do whatever he wanted and use the influence of his vast wealth to make it happen. In the rest of this article I will illustrate how each director used techniques associated with realism in the film to show the audience why the characters believe they can act without consequences, the process in which they act and, finally, that the events that occurred are truthful because the audience believes see in retrospect. As previously stated, the Double Indemnity thriller is set in a world known as film noir. This style of film has very specific characteristics that allow it to achieve a more realistic feel for audiences than other studio productions. In the book Autopsy: An Element of Realism in Film Noir by Carl Richardson it is stated that the film style “represented life in strange ways, distorted for the sake of entertainment, but also allowed… the medium of paper…. .has news. The audience sees that the men have already committed their acts and are now facing the consequences, even though they had thought they would escape them. The hyperrealism that Orson Wells and Billy Wilder established in their films helped them create a believable truth for their audiences that people will do anything with if they feel they can escape the consequences. The realistic cinematic environments they created allowed them to show the audience why their characters believed they could act the way they did, the process in which they acted, and ultimately, that they had already committed the acts because the audience was simply listening to the memory of events. The men may not have achieved the results they had planned, but Wells and Wilder managed to create a realistic world that would help their message be better received by their viewers..