RARA-AVIS: I disagree

From: Moorich2@aol.com
Date: 18 Feb 2003


In a message dated 2/18/03 4:33:26 PM Eastern Standard Time, owner-rara-avis@icomm.ca writes:

<<
> Film noir is not exclusively defined by visual
> stylistics . . .
 
 Yes it is.
>>

Alas, Jim, you can say it loud and you can say it proud and you CAN SAY IT IN ALL CAPS but I don't agree. Period. PERIOD.

But that doesn't make you a bad person. As the early 1950s SF movie "The Twonky" stated, "it is your God given right to be wrong." Based on a Henry Kuttner short story and starring Hans Conreid (IIRC), the movie has little to recommend it beyond this philosophical statement. But, hey, its been a pretty handy thought that I've hung on to for all these years.

Richard Moore

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