> Rene wrote:
>
> "I think that maybe why the western and the
hardboiled novel often
> overlap is because they are often set in the same
geographical area -
> here I'm thinking of noir films & novels set in
the desert or badlands
:
> Detour, Gun Crazy, Bring Me the Head of Alfredo
Garcia, God is a
Bullet.
> On the one hand, these stories are set in the same
badlands that good
&
> bad cowboys & Indians fought & died in
Westerns but on the other hand,
> the protagonists are a drive away from the modern
city."
>
> Rene,
>
> I think your point is reinforced by the fact that
the director of
> Alfredo Garcia was very (far more in my opinion)
adept at westerns and
> God is a Bullet is an update of the classic western
The Searchers.
>
> Mark
Yep. In fact God is a Bullet is the second noir update of The
Searchers that I'm aware of - the other being Scorsese's Taxi
Driver.John Ford's The Searchers itself belongs to that list
of Westerns with a strong noir feel, as does his My Darling
Clementine and he also directed a film noir, The Fugitive,
based on Graham Greene's The Power and the Glory, set in the
deserts of Mexico.
Rene
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