> Why don't we just declare everything hard-boiled
noir and be done with it?
Then we could talk about those hardboiled noir Danielle
Steele novels, right?
So, I don't know what that remark was really supposed to
mean. Sorry.
Don't we see in films and books now that so many things can
be "noir tinged" or have "noir overtones"? They aren't
directly related to what many consider mainstream noir, but
they want those elements. Like that TV show "Angel." Horrible
vampire-teen show, but all the critics are tossing "noir" at
it. I watched it and said, "Maybe because it all happens at
night? Thus, vampires?" I can see the connection, but it's a
flavoring, a dash, not a real ingredient. Still....
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