― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 13:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sons Of The Redd Desert (Ken L), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 14:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 14:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sons Of The Redd Desert (Ken L), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 14:30 (seventeen years ago) link
common '50s noir police descrip: "white American male"
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 14:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 17:09 (seventeen years ago) link
Brick was a more accurate translation of just about every Raymond Chandler book I've read then any Film Noir I've seen, including say, The Big Sleep or Murder, My Sweet.
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 17:33 (seventeen years ago) link
I'm such a dumbass for only now realizing it refers to the shadows in the film.
― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 17:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― David Orton (scarlet), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 18:21 (seventeen years ago) link
How? Be specific. Give examples.
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 18:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― gear (gear), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 18:30 (seventeen years ago) link
(though similarly, my favorite Hammett adaptation is Miller's Crossing)
Anyone seen The Girl in Lover's Lane? I watched it as an MST3K episode, but it seemed like a really successful small town noir.
― p@reene (Pareene), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 18:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― JTS (JTS), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 19:36 (seventeen years ago) link
Oh yeah, I saw that on TCM last year during the Mitchum festival.-- Sons Of The Redd Desert
Actually, I haven't seen that one, but it looks pretty good. I was talking about Angel Face, which is mentioned in the very first post of this thread.
― Sons Of The Redd Desert (Ken L), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 19:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― LOL Thomas (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 19:52 (seventeen years ago) link
- House Of Bamboo (Robert Stack & Robert Ryan in post-WWII gangster Tokyo. Sam Fuller directs)- Scandal Sheet- Nightmare Alley (Tyrone Power as a carny mentalist)
― LOL Thomas (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 20:01 (seventeen years ago) link
I found the dialogue in Brick, like Millers Crossing, totally stylized in a way similar to the books, they also shared the protaganist as punching bag cliche so common in the books. There was just something about the way the lead in Brick kept being knocked out, then seeing just a hint of light, then passing out again, then waking up somewhere else, then getting beat up, that to me represented the feeling I get from the Chandler books. Murder, My Sweat is one vintage noir that does this, of course, with it's expressionistic passing out sequence. The complicated plot that really doesn't matter so much, crime lords and their henchmen, the playing of sides against each other. All classic pulp fiction/film noir things.
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 20:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― Bluebell Madonna (Ex Leon), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 20:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sons Of The Redd Desert (Ken L), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 20:14 (seventeen years ago) link
"I’d hate to think of your having a smashed fender or something while you’re not, uh, fully covered."
It's still amazing that they could get away with some of this stuff considering the times.
Neo-noir can also be fab.
― salexander (salexander), Thursday, 1 June 2006 02:10 (seventeen years ago) link
Is this the one about the athelete with really stinky perspiration?
I second the recs for Detour and Long Goodbye because they seem to not get as much respect as they deserve.
― nickn (nickn), Thursday, 1 June 2006 17:55 (seventeen years ago) link
This is madness, surely? "The Thin Man" may be a Hammet adaptation, but it's still basically a screwball comedy where the main characters solve crimes!
Are these as good as that warner bros gangster box set that they resemble?
― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Thursday, 1 June 2006 21:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― Keywords: revenge, knife, granddaughter, demonic-possession, rock-star, eel (Aus, Thursday, 1 June 2006 21:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― pleased to mitya (mitya), Thursday, 1 June 2006 23:55 (seventeen years ago) link
Not exactly what you're asking for, but it's in my bookmarks.
― Keywords: revenge, knife, granddaughter, demonic-possession, rock-star, eel (Aus, Thursday, 1 June 2006 23:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sons Of The Redd Desert (Ken L), Friday, 2 June 2006 00:00 (seventeen years ago) link
check it out
― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Friday, 2 June 2006 11:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 2 June 2006 12:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― p@reene (Pareene), Friday, 2 June 2006 13:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 2 June 2006 13:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 2 June 2006 13:30 (seventeen years ago) link
if you've read The Big Sleep you've read Chandler, basically -- but Farewell, My Lovely is my personal favorite Marlowe book.
― p@reene (Pareene), Friday, 2 June 2006 13:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― Revivalist (Revivalist), Friday, 2 June 2006 13:40 (seventeen years ago) link
I've also had the novel Out of the Past is based on -- Build My Gallows High -- forever, but haven't read it (tho I've read that Daniel Mainwaring's adaptation of his own book is judged an improvement).
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 2 June 2006 13:46 (seventeen years ago) link
HA, "loathsome." Yeah, Chandler was pretty irredeemably sour, but you know, Marlowe as chivalrous Arthurian knight in morally bankrupt world and all that; he's the most interesting character in pulp fiction, 'cause he's entirely self-loathing, never shoots or fucks anything, really a sort of pathetic repressed moralist masochist, he's as painful to watch as an early Woody Allen protagonist (impotent but for his cleverness, which just gets him beat up repeatedly), except he gets less satisfaction from this terrible modern society, 'cause Allen protagonists always get laid.
― p@reene (Pareene), Friday, 2 June 2006 14:09 (seventeen years ago) link
Cornell Woolrich is fun too.
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 2 June 2006 14:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― p@reene (Pareene), Friday, 2 June 2006 14:24 (seventeen years ago) link
The novels are distinguished by a combination of the hard fiction style of the late forties and a pervasive and morbid sense of psychology, in most cases pathological (psychiatrists and general discussions of insanity pervade the works). The protagonists are subject to extraordinary situations which provoke intense feelings of distress and mental agony, communicated to the reader with a lucidity that makes his storytelling logic surrealistic, fantastic, persuasive and disturbing at once.
― Revivalist (Revivalist), Friday, 2 June 2006 14:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sons Of The Redd Desert (Ken L), Friday, 2 June 2006 17:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sons Of The Redd Desert (Ken L), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 12:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 13:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sons Of The Redd Desert (Ken L), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 13:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sons Of The Redd Desert (Ken L), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 13:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sons Of The Redd Desert (Ken L), Friday, 16 June 2006 17:47 (seventeen years ago) link
Border Incident is in a new Noir box.
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 16 June 2006 18:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sons Of The Redd Desert (Ken L), Friday, 16 June 2006 18:59 (seventeen years ago) link
!!!
Of course, the only pre-"Space Seed" Ricardo I've seen is Cheyenne Autumn.
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 16 June 2006 19:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― duff (duff), Friday, 16 June 2006 22:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sons Of The Redd Desert (Ken L), Friday, 16 June 2006 23:13 (seventeen years ago) link