I guess I ma having a hard time getting this distinction. (I
accept that there is one. But it is elusive to me.)
So let say for instance you were doing a production of Hamlet
set in gangland Chicago. (Gabriel Byrne for Hamlet if you ask
me.) Instead of the royal family of Denmark you have a
powerful mafia family. Instead of brother killing brother,
partner kills a partner, and marries the widow. Instead of
Hamlet's uncle ruling, his godfather.
Now i don't think you can make it Hard Boiled without also
leaving out a lot or changing around. To be or not to be is
not HB.
Would it not be noir though? Hamlet is fairly well screwed.
His father whom he loved is murdered and the man who did it
is in Hamlet's seat, and sleeping with his mother.
Hamlet's choices and his tendancy to keep putting off, doom
him in the end. If he had killed off the murderer early, then
he could have taken the throne and that would have been that.
By waiting and acting all funny, he inspired two atempts on
his life, the second of which succeeded. Not to mention
contributing to the suicide of Ophelia, a woman he loved, by
killing her father.
I think clearly I don't get it. I happily await
enlightenment.
-- Clendon
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