John Lau wrote:
no, I think you can see it coming with the inevitability of a
train derailment
*********** Hmm... The protagonist gets out alive and with
the babe in The Black Dahlia. Some of Charles Williams's
works, Dead Calm, Scorpion Reef, and Sailcloth Shroud to name
a few, do not end in defeat for the main characters, even
though others, like River Girl and the one about the car
salesman, leave the protagonist in total defeat. Charles
Willeford dooms in one and blesses in another. It could even
be said that the protag in The Big Heat comes out victorious.
And yet these all have the hell-in-a-handbasket
plotline.
I don't buy the inevitability rap. A writer can drop em in
the shitter and drag em out smelling like a rose. If they've
got to be utterly doomed in the end for it to be noir, then
you gotta wait till the end to make the call.
miker
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