'Screwed' is close but it doesn't take attitude into account.
You can strap a man in an electric chair and fry his brains
but if he doesn't give a shit, it's not noir.
Mortality has always been a fundamental part of noir for me.
Consequently, I'd suggest that noir might be defined as 'a
confrontation with death by someone ill-equipped to deal with
it'.
Al
--- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, Michael Robison
<miker_zspider@...> wrote:
>
> Mark: I'm down with Jack's "screwed"
definition.
>
> John Lau: if we want to take a vote, so am
I
>
> **************
> I'll jump on this wagon. The Harry Potter books
have
> a dark and sinister atmosphere, but I don't think
I'd
> indentify them as noir.
>
> miker
>
>
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