I caught the first episode of DEADWOOD (by the people who do
"The Sopranos") on Sky here in the UK on Tuesday. I'm sure
you get it in North America too, Sky being Sky.
Apart from the amusement of seeing Lovejoy (!) in the role of
the capo, an evil saloon-keeper in Deadwood ('the town where
there is no law') - not to mention one of my favourite
character actors, Brad Dourif, heavily whiskered, as the town
doctor - the design of the thing should make it of interest
to a lot of you.
Illustrates the old generic relationship between the western
and crime fiction very nicely indeed.
Hardboiled: Wild Bill Hickock and an ex-sheriff from a more
law-abiding place have just rolled into the mean streets,
which are full of prostitutes, thugs, thieves and killers
with a tendency to chop up their victims, especially women
and children, into little pieces and blame it on the
Indians.
Noir: could easily revive the argument. NOT shot in black and
white, obviously, nor even necessarily at night, though much
of it does take place in a saloon with shadows, and girls
being beaten in the rooms upstairs and tucking small
revolvers down their cleavage, and their customers falling
headfirst over the bannisters. But many of the outdoor scenes
appear to have been shot in some distant sun-drenched desert
(I'm guessing the outskirts of Palm Springs?). But it IS
noir, damnit.
You are warned!
Marianne Macdonald
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