Al said: Noir comes from the inside out. It's a character's
perception of a place, not the place itself. If you're
paranoid, you're paranoid the world over, not just New York
or LA. Noir fiction doesn't get any more noir than David
Goodis (IMO).
********** I agree with this for the most part. You can have
dramatic shadows, dark alleyways, sleazy bars, dirty
tenements, and green slime, but if you got Pollyanna walking
through it all, then the noir fizzles. The environmental
effects serve as an amplifier for the internal strife.
miker
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