Mostly agree with this except for a couple of exceptions, The
Godfather 1&2, and The Shield (which has been
consistently noirish from the first episode. Three episodes
in this season and hasn't missed a beat - still the best show
on Television).
-Dave Z.
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rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, Kevin Burton Smith
<kvnsmith@t...> wrote:
>
> 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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