Re: RARA-AVIS: Naked Kiss
joseph (joseph@sos.net)
Tue, 8 Sep 1998 22:53:45 +0100
> Joseph wrote [snip],
>
>"Unfortunately she [the Peggy Cummins' character in "Gun
Crazy"] moves into
>villain territory when she guns down the lady that
annoyed her in the last
>heist before the end of the film. Shoudn't the
anti-hero(ine) be on the
>side of some angel?"
>
>I see your point. But I'm not comfortable with this
angel standard,
>either, except as something you call someone you're
going to "send up."
>
>--How about Martha Ivers ("Strange Love of...") as
another hard-boiled
>anti-heroine?
>
A doomed anti-heroine with very freudian overtones.
But the problem with these women is they are not the lead
character like
Constance Towers in "The Naked Kiss." Thats what makes NK
stand out.
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