>
> Manuel wrote:
> >Graham Greene (chapter featuring
Raven)
>
> what book is he from?
>
Isn't he the hero of THIS GUN FOR HIRE (I've forgotten the
original title but subsequent editions, such as my Penguin
ed.always use the title of the early film noir starring Alan
Ladd)?
> and
>
> Rene wrote:
> Rene replied:
>
>
> >Not that I know who Jill [Hennessey] is but it
seems a safe bet that
she's
> >more attractive than Jack Klugman.)
>
> funny you should ask, she's actually my
doppelganger.
>
> OK not REALLY but for a long time we had the same
haircut.
>
> though as it happens, Jill Hennessey does have an
identical twin,
Jacqueline
> Hennessey, and the two of them PLAYED identical
twins in the movie
"Dead
> Ringers," which was based on a thriller by Bari Wood
and Jack Geasland
> called "Twins." Which *sounds* like it was probably
somewhat noir
based on
> the description -
>
> going for the record of biggest stretch to keep a
post on topic,
>
> carrie
>
If the DEAD RINGERS you're talking about is the movie by
David Cronenberg (a great director of visceral horror flicks
whom the critics loathed up until that very film, IIRC) then
I consider it very noir
(but not as in film noir). IMO DEAD RINGERS is Cronenberg's
masterpiece. Although it fits comfortably in Cronenberg's
ouevre as another biological horror film there are absolutely
no fantastic elements in it - the horror comes from
psychological sources. Jeremy Irons (whom I'd never really
rated before this) puts in a stunning performance as the
seriously disturbed twins. He won an Oscar for the film about
Klaus Bulow after DEAD RINGERS & in his acceptance speech
he said he was grateful for it but that he & everybody
else knew the real reason he won it was for his role in DEAD
RINGERS. I think he was right. I understand the book on which
the film was based was inspired by a real-life scenario
involving a couple of whacked out twin surgeons. I guess it's
more Gothic than noir but it's got to be a close relative.
Does anyone know anything about the real case that inspired
the book? If I'm talking about the same film/book though, I
don't offhand recall female twins but I do have an appalling
memory & it's been a while.
Rene
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