Blade Runner: The PI of the future... Never read the novel
(which I hear
is way different) but the movie has stolen totally from the
noir renre and
if you like that try Dark City both excellent movies...
Buffy, the Vampire Slayer: Here is the interesting point...
the last
season of this show (especially the last ep) ran along the
lines of the
hard-boiled PI... she is one tough cookie... She ends up a
loner (like
most PIs)... isn't happy, and has to kill her one love...
She's tough and
beats the hell out of anything in her way... not to mention
witty... I
noticed this and was just wondering what you think...
Plus, we know Fitzgerald inspire MacDonald (ross), but how
about this for
a topic... Was the Great Gatsby actually the first
hard-boiled PI book?
I'll bet you can make a case (okay okay I don't know when The
Maltese
Falcon cmae out...) but look at it... the narrator
(detective?) Nick
Carraway (if that ain't a dick name I don't know what is)
investigates
some shadowy figures (Gatsby who has links to the mob)
there's a few not
so nice women (I'm drawing a blanks on names... Lucy??) and a
few tough
guy Tom.... Plus there is death and destruction... some slick
lines ("Life
is best looked upon from a single window" "So we beat on")
and once again
the narrator ends up alone and confused...
What do you think?
-Dave
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