--- Michael Robison <
miker_zspider@yahoo.com> wrote:
> *****************
> I agree. Most of the hardboiled detectives who
win
> at
> the end are too tough for noir fiction and
don't
> have
> the right amount of angst. Film noir and
noir
> fiction
> have parallels in content, but they
aren't
> identical.
>
As with the Maltese Falcon. Hardboiled, not noir. The real
difference to me -- as someone stated recently -- is that the
protagonist is destroyed as the result of his behavior as
enticed by an outside force usually an immoral (for want of a
better word) woman. James M. Cain's work is a perfect example
as is Detour and Gun Crazy and especially Woolrich's Waltz
Into Darkness that could be a noir opera. I'm rethinking Red
Harvest as noir. The book Strangers On A Train is noir, the
movie isn't. At least that's where I'm going with this.
William
Essays and Ramblings
<http://www.williamahearn.com>
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