Absolutely essential. I agree totally...a pessimisttic story
(and whatever other adjective one wants to put there...check
thy Thesaurus!) is positively not a ticket-to-noir...a whole
concatenation of esthetics/style/treatment...has to enter
into play for it to become noir stuff...or...to something
akin to what is �generally� recognized as �noir stuff�...
keeping, of course, in mind that �noir stuff� is a very
shifting concept both in time, in geography,
in.../.../...
...hence: there are �noir elements� to many films, to many
books, to many plays, to many operas...yet that does not make
these films, books, or plays, or operas�noir� ones...
...one could say exactly the same thing about �comical�
elements, or
�dramatic� ones...this never black & white (bad
joke)...
Steve Novak
Cinefrog@comcast.net
On 3/14/07 12:47 PM, "Jacques Debierue" <
matrxtech@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Perhaps we should not try to stretch noir to cover
anything pessimistic;
> otherwise, the
> term would lose power rapidly.
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