On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, JIM DOHERTY wrote:
> Re your question below:
> > Do they [insurance investigators] count as
PI's?
> Do ob/gyns count as MDs?
What are "ob/gyns" and "MDs"?
> Do homicide detectives count as
policemen?
[snip]
> In other words, do specialists (so I don't
belabor
> this point too much) count as members of the
larger
> professional fraternity?
Of course they do. But somehow insurance investigators just
don't feel like PI's. This must a prejudice. I didnt' think
of "Memento" as a private eye film, even though the Guy
Pearce guy (sic) acts like a private eye most of the time.
But as for the insurance investigators - does "Double
Indemnity" count as a PI movie? Edward Robinson plays an
insurance investigator and yet I don't feel it's a PI
movie.
Shouldn't there be some generic rules under which the PI of
the movie is portrayed and what is his dramatic importance?
So, if there just is a private eye in a movie, it's not
necessarily a private eye movie, but if the private eye is
portrayed in certain ways. (Which I'm too busy or lazy to
elaborate on at the moment.)
Juri
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