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rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com Subject: RARA-AVIS: blonde
vs. dark haired
> I'm in the middle of Gil Brewer's 13 French Street.
The narrator is
> torn between two women, his blonde girlfriend at
home and the dark
> haired wife of his old Army buddy. Brewer really
plays up her dark
> hair, clearly symbolic of a greater blackness within
her. It reminded
> me of what had been pointed out to me in a college
class on westerns,
> how the blondes usually represent purity (for
instance, Doc Holliday's
> girlfriend back east in My Darling Clementine) and
the fallen women are
> dark haired (Holliday's Mexican girlfriend in
Tombstone). I must
> admit, I haven't really paid much attention to the
hair color of femmes
> fatales in vintage noir lit, but Brewer makes suc a
big deal about the
> contrast. Has anyone else paid more attention? Is
this typical? Seems
> to me a lot of these femmes were blonde or redhaired
in film.
>
Clint Eastwood's character in the Good, the Bad & the
Ugly was called Blondie. The Bad, "Angel Eyes", said to a
woman at Tuco (the ugly)'s hanging, "he has a golden haired
angel looking after him." Other than being referred to as
Blondie, Clint didn't look blonde to me!
Jordan
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