Rene wrote:
"I think that maybe why the western and the hardboiled novel
often overlap is because they are often set in the same
geographical area - here I'm thinking of noir films &
novels set in the desert or badlands : Detour, Gun Crazy,
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, God is a Bullet. On the
one hand, these stories are set in the same badlands that
good & bad cowboys & Indians fought & died in
Westerns but on the other hand, the protagonists are a drive
away from the modern city."
Rene,
I think your point is reinforced by the fact that the
director of Alfredo Garcia was very (far more in my opinion)
adept at westerns and God is a Bullet is an update of the
classic western The Searchers.
Mark
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