erick says:
>Orphaned at 11. Public school education. Kicked out
of college. Served his
>country during WWII. No friends. No family. Kills for
a living -- in hot
>blood and cold -- and wonders if it's all bullshit.
Follows no ones rules.
>Variously described as cruel, ruthless, cold,
taciturn. PLUS:
hmm... i've changed my mind. maybe bond is hardboiled. ;-)
but honestly, when i thought about bond, i thought that maybe
in a different environment i would have seen him as
hardboiled. but of course, that wouldn't have been valid, cuz
hardboiled is attitude... its noir that is atmosphere.
erick is on a roll:
>Being hard-boiled means being boiled hard -- all the
way through to the
>core; having no soft center. I think one is
hard-boiled in one's soul, that
>it doesn't matter where he lives, where he goes, who
he hangs out with or
>how he talks.
well now. by that definition, i would almost wonder if
marlowe is hardboiled. i could almost swear that guy's got a
soft spot somewhere, not even very well hidden
sometimes.
but seriously, hardboiled to the core doesn't make a very
good or believable character, does it? thats one of the
reasons i thought the con op sucked. he was more of a
two-dimensional cartoon character than a person. the
much-valued demons that haunt the hardboiled soul lose their
value if given soul is untouchable.
miker
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