Here we go again. In my opinion:
HARDBOILED has to do with the no-nonsense attitude of the
protagonist, who is usually a private eye who does what he
has to do to accompish his goal. He may suffer reversals, but
he is usually sucessful in one way or another in the
end.
NOIR is fatalistic. You can see the protatonist's doom from
the opening pages. It's mostly about people who were born to
lose or those whose fates have undergone a reveral, which can
be stalled but not stopped. Everything they do digs the hole
deeper untill a bulldozer covers them over.
That's my story, and I'm sticking to it.
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