Ed,
Great to see you posting here.
Dave
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rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, ejgorman99@a... wrote:
> I always assumed that the phrase "existential hero"
was an apt
description of
> noir protagonists. But I recently read a piece about
Sartre who,
it turns
> out, felt that existentilism was often a philosphy
of joy and
liberation.
>
> I think a lot of this present discussion about noir
makes it sound
as if noir
> is the only possible (or legitimate) way to look at
the world. A
piece in the
> London Sunday Times a few months ago made the point
that too much
> contemporary crime writing makes a "fetish" out of
grimness for
its own sake. I agree.
> It's like the old John Candy-Eugene Levy SCT
hillbilly movie
critics who judged
> all films by how many explosions were in them.
"Blowed it up real
good!" if
> you recall. Darkness for its own sake strikes me as
a form of
arrested
> adolescance. Life is too complicated and too
ambiguous to be
reduced to "darkness."
>
> Ed Gorman
>
>
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