>How much, too, does the drinking give stylistic
license to run wild and
>generate the descriptive imagery of the genre: lots of
rain slicked
>everything with blurry neon, hyperreal
descriptions--almost caricatures--of
>faces and features....
I've always seen this more as an American Gothic (as in the
painting of the
Diner ... American artist's name on the tip of my tongue and
staying there)
than a chemical induced vision ... the movie "Batman" being
the extreme
expression of this ... I don't recall which one it is, but
good ole Batman
has gotten to rather "hard-boiled" in the chemical sense
during one series
... there's a bottle of hooch in the glove department of the
Bat mobile
which he warms himself from time to time ... the critique on
CBS Sunday
Morning mentioned it in his critique of Batman Forever (I
believe) and that
there were far better stories lying around for a Batman movie
than for them
to make one up from scratch.
----
volente Deo,
Anthony
jackechs@erols.com or ICQ #3717510
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He went to the White House, showed LBJ his butt
He's Gump ..."
- "Wierd Al" Yankovic
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