> Here's another definitive hardboiled character trait
... self
> confidence. The hardboiled character doesn't need
anyone else to agree
> with 'em. Typically they're going against the grain
with such vigor that
> their confidence is labeled as arrogance by the 9to5
grunts who just
> don't see it or don't want to see it.
That's half of it - a hardboiled character is that, and in a
noir there's a sense but best left unstated or explained,
that that is not quite enough to deal with the world. It's no
wonder the Europeans invented the noir cinema; they already
had the words for it: Schadenfreude, welschmertz, ennui
JAA
This would be a little more profound or at least intelligible
if I weren't drinking.
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