>>and don't get me started on Toto -
>Toto is a dog. Dogs are not stand-up guys, hence not
hardboiled. We >have
>hardboiled-type guys like Chopper Read around to thin
their >numbers.
>Rene
except for Fireball roberts, of course; he was a standup
bulldog who could hold his liquor. and what about Keller's
dog in "Hit Man"? (whose name I am forgetting). true, he was
a purebred, but a purebred WORKING dog, does that render him
sufficiently tough? And how much more colloquial do you get
than
"woof"?
and why do more detectives, even hard-boiled ones, own cats
as opposed to dogs? does it tie into the HB hero as loner?
Think about DeNiro in "Heat":
"Never have anything in your life that you wouldn't be
willing to walk out on in 5 seconds flat." That's a
hard-boiled credo if I ever heard one; is there a dog owner
alive who could live up to that? Is that why Keller's
girlfriend and his dog had to run off together?
It's a Tuesday morning. Inquiring minds want to know.
carrie
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