You've got me, Patrick. I haven't read Cooper's novel in 35
years, at least. Maybe I saw the movie. I just recalled the
sisters' hair differences. I agree such hair symbolism in
noir can be treated heavy-handedly.
Ed
--- Patrick King <
abrasax93@yahoo.com> wrote:
> But in Cooper, the dark haired sister was an
adopted
> native American and Chingachgook recognizes this.
In
> Cooper the hair color represents the talents of
the
> two races, not good or evil. In most noir, blonds
tend
> to be alluring and ultimately bad luck. Cora
in
> Postman, Phyllis in Double Indemnity, Kathie Moffat
in
> Out of the Past, Blanche Du Bois in Street Car
Named
> Desire. Of course we can't generalize about ALL
noir
> writers, but blond women tend to be the cause of
the
> trouble in many of them. I think, in noir anyway,
the
> very obvious blond=pure, dark=evil type of
"symbolism"
> is reserved for poor examples of the genre. The
better
> ones tend to be a little deeper in the
process.
>
> Patrick King
> --- Ed Lynskey <
e_lynskey@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > ---
DJ-Anonyme@webtv.net wrote:
> > > Has anyone else paid more attention? Is
this
> > typical?
> > >
> > >
> > IIRC, Cooper did this in LAST OF THE MOHICANS.
Cora
> > was the
> > dark-haired sister and Alice the fair-haired.
Maybe
> > he was a
> > prelude to what the noir writers
did.
> >
> > I read Brewer's THE VENGEFUL VIRGIN recently
but
> > didn't pick
> > up on the hair color code. Intriguing idea,
though.
> >
> > Ed
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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