Jim Blue (
WordRunner@aol.com) wrote:
<< In a message dated 6/10/03 11:48:07 AM,
matrxtech@yahoo.com writes:
<< At the very least, they're badly dated. Without
inviting anyone to disclose age, ¿were American girls in the
fifties *that* naive? >>
Some were, as were many of the men,
and sad to say, today's generation appears to me to have an
equal number of good hearted folks who have only recently
fallen off the turnip truck. The nonsense of the Mcgee
wounded birds was that they seemed to be the only females who
flocked to the busted flush. Many women of that time were
mucho street savvy - but apparently T.M. wasn't interested in
them or perhaps he figured they could get along without his
help.
>>
Consider also that JDM, as a thorough professional, likely
was aware that he was essentially writing formula fiction for
a series aimed at a ready audience
-- an audience with (perhaps unconscious) expectations for
certain sorts of formula.
The girl-in-trouble theme worked for McGee. It worked well
enough in pop fiction bascially that it got picked up and
modified a bit for nearly all the James Bond movies. (In
recent years the Bond-movie girl-in-trouble has become the
girl-as-fellow-spy or some variation of that.)
- Duane Spurlock
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