DLM wrote:
> Currently reading FAT CITY by Leonard Gardner - a
great little novel about
> boxing in Stockton, California.
Is this the one John Huston made his great film on?
Since having contributed to this wonderful line of
discussion, I feel like doing some kind of a
conclusion.
There seems to be a misunderstanding between the sport itself
and its dramatic influence on the story. In the first
occasion, hardboiled sport should be something in which the
players are hardboiled or show some HB manners. Hockey could
be one and boxing of course, but I believe physical strenght
doesn't qualify as HB, because then weight-lifters would be
hardboiled.
But in the second occasion, boxing, horse racing, car racing
and poker game are hardboiled, because they are used very
much to the dramatic effect in hardboiled fiction. We could
also include pool or billiard here too, remembering at
least
"The Hustler", and perhaps some other sports (shooting? at
least in Charles Williams's "The Long Saturday Night"). These
sports (or arts, like Bob Randisi said about poker) are also
very dramatic in themselves, which gives them natural feeling
for being dramatized. Furthermore, I believe that even though
hockey and football and the like can be exciting, they are
not very dramatic, in the same sense that Bertolt Brecht
meant saying that boxing is like the Greek drama.
Juri
jurnum@utu.fi
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