miker:
"Shakespeare's Macbeth comes to mind. Great noir scene with
her trying to wash the blood from her hands. Lots of
(gratuitous?) violence, too. Bill was a crowd pleaser."
Mario:
"So, do you think Macbeth is psycho noir? Who is the psycho?
I can't see Macbeth as noir, let alone psycho noir..."
I'm with Mario. For me, there's a big difference between a
character's being psycho and going insane. Lou Ford is psycho
from the beginning of The Killer Inside Me. Lady Macbeth is
driven insane. Both her and her husband's descent begins with
rationally considered steps to gain power.
"though one could adapt the story to make a noir novel or
film. I bet the Hollywood boys have done it, more than once
or ten times."
Kurosawa made it as Throne of Blood, but I don't consider it
noir.
Mark
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