As we all know, Chandler wrote that Hammet "gave murder back
to the kind of people that commit it for reasons, not just to
provide a corpse."
I was reading the obit of Joseph Stefano when I ran across
his comment about adapting Psycho: "Bloch's novel started
with Marion Crane arriving at the motel and immediately being
killed. My feeling was that, since I did not know anythign
about this girl, I wasn't going to cae about her when she was
killed. So we backed the story up a bit and learned something
about her so that when she was killed, it would have more
impact."
As we all know, Chandler wrote that Hammet "gave murder back
to the kind of people that commit it for reasons, not just to
provide a corpse." The above strikes me as ancillary to that:
hardboiled/noir gave corpses back their lives, so they were
real people, not just puzzle pieces.
Mark
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