--- In rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "jacquesdebierue" <jacquesdebierue@...> wrote:
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> --- In rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, Mark Sullivan <DJ-Anonyme@> wrote:
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> I'm with you. I don't think the audience bought the happy endings. How about Hitchcock's _Suspicion_. Cary Grant took care of it, no matter what the code dictated.
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The original ending had Grant plotting his wife's death afterall, but Hitchcock was forced to change that into the toothless suicide business.
> And we were discussing this vey question of "happy" endings in relation to Charlie Huston's _Caught Stealing_, which I had mentioned as an example where the protagonist doesn't go down the tubes. And your rejoinder was very apposite: But look what happens next!
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I liked Caught Stealing a lot (and increasing less the other 2 in the series) but don't consider it noir, but instead pulp. Not every violent crime book is noir, no matter how much publishers might want to label it as such.
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