Re: RARA-AVIS: Re: The Dark Night. No, the Noir Knight. No, the Black Knight. Oh, g

From: Stephen Burridge (stephen.burridge@gmail.com)
Date: 28 Jul 2008

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    These comments by Mark and John leave me wondering if I understand the genre at all.

    Stephen

    On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 9:34 PM, <BaxDeal@aol.com> wrote:

    >
    > In a message dated 7/28/08 6:13:04 PM, DJ-Anonyme@webtv.net<DJ-Anonyme%40webtv.net>writes:
    > >
    > > And in that vein, I think Sin City was a whole lot of fun, just like the
    > > books it was based on. In fact, I like it for exactly the same reason
    > > Kevin discounts it. I like that it strips hardboiled/noir to its
    > > essentials, reduces the genre to its essentials, just those essentials,
    > > then pumps them up and plays with them, in the process telling us a
    > > whole lot about those archetypes. But this is no Propped up morphology,
    > > no dry dissertation. Most of all, the movie was just a whole lot of
    > > fun.
    > >
    >
    > Sin City's biggest problem is one of narrative pacing. as it's 3 stories
    > patched together, by leading with its strongest tale, it's downhill from
    > there
    >
    > and homage or not, keeping women's heads as trophies on your wall, and
    > forcing them to watch while you eat their amputated hands is a pretty noir
    > idea
    >
    > John Lau
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