Dave Zeltserman wrote:
Kind of interesting that "Cold Mountain" could be considered
noir. Like "Barry Lyndon" (one of Stanley Kubrick's most
underrated movies), Cold Mountain seems more about
preordained fate, more tragic than dark.
*************** If not a defining element, I think
preordained fate still stands as a dominant theme in the noir
landscape, reflecting noir's roots in the pessimistic
determinism of American Naturalism. Here's a quote from
author Frank Norris on naturalism:
"Terrible things must happen to the characters of the
naturalistic tale. They must be twisted from the ordinary,
wrenched out of the quiet, uneventful round of every-day
life, and flung into the throes of a vast and terrible drama
that works itself out in unleashed passions, in blood, and in
sudden death."
A fairly accurate description of noir, also, I would
say.
miker
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