[lit-ideas] Re: Movie Night
- From: Donal McEvoy <donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2005 23:29:04 +0100 (BST)
--- Andy Amago <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > [Original Message]
> > From: Andreas Ramos <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> The movie also created the
> very noir genre
> that led to American Beauty and similar.
This is a sentence too far. No it didn't and American Beauty wasn't noir in
such a "similar" way. (The Maltese Falcon was at least one noir before, and
Citizen Kane, Chinatown and The Godfather are surely more noirish than
American Beauty which is more bourgeois disenchantment a la Desperate
Housewives, Six Feet Under, Nip Tuck, etc. than noir. Hell, Miami Vice is
more noir even if in garish 80's garb).
Robert Paul should not be afraid: Sunset Boulevard holds up very well,
particularly because Wilder's playful vein of cynicism chimes with the
so-called 'anti-hero' development, the modern playful vein of cynicism
generally, and the idea that movies, particularly the Hollywood kind, are an
essentially delusional form of representation.
>I recommend
> Man with the Golden Arm, with Frank Sinatra, also from the 50's.
I recommend 'Songs For Swingin'Lovers', also with Frank Sinatra, also from
the 50s. But enough of my logic-chopping.
Donal
Plymouth
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