I don't really know enough to make a generalization, but I
noticed the same think about the dark hair in Brewer's A
Taste For Sin. The femme in that one is really crazy. Like
acting out rape fantasies with the protagonist in the second
chapter crazy.
On Jan 11, 2008 7:06 PM, <
DJ-Anonyme@webtv.net> wrote:
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> I'm in the middle of Gil Brewer's 13 French Street.
The narrator is
> torn between two women, his blonde girlfriend at
home and the dark
> haired wife of his old Army buddy. Brewer really
plays up her dark
> hair, clearly symbolic of a greater blackness within
her. It reminded
> me of what had been pointed out to me in a college
class on westerns,
> how the blondes usually represent purity (for
instance, Doc Holliday's
> girlfriend back east in My Darling Clementine) and
the fallen women are
> dark haired (Holliday's Mexican girlfriend in
Tombstone). I must
> admit, I haven't really paid much attention to the
hair color of femmes
> fatales in vintage noir lit, but Brewer makes suc a
big deal about the
> contrast. Has anyone else paid more attention? Is
this typical? Seems
> to me a lot of these femmes were blonde or redhaired
in film.
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> Mark
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