On Apr 1, 2005, at 4:48 AM, John wrote:
> the show (EYES) looks fun, but they're not even
trying for noir
>
Which is fine with me. Somehow I can't see noir as an
on-going thing -- in film or television or even literature.
Noir stories, I think, function best as a stand-alones, not
on-going series. When that noir hammer comes down at the end,
it should stay down. Noir wasn't made for sequels.
I mean, the world is fucked, you're screwed, and everything
goes to hell. Then next week, same noir time, same noir
channel, the same characters do it all again? Huh?
Better for them to try for a sort of bleak hard-boiled,
noirish sort of cynicism tinged with black humour than
outright noir continued on a weekly basis. The former would
be well worth watching, the latter almost impossible to
achieve..
Kevin Burton Smith The Thrilling Detective Web Site 75 Years
of Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon http://www.thrillingdetective.com
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