--- Jacques Debierue <
matrxtech@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> You can´t say it was all over by 1955, that´s
not
> true in literature
> or in film. A film like Coppola´s _The
Conversation_
> is pure noir, yet
> is not an hommage to anything, it is a
late
> seventies noir story.
We totally disagree. And that's good. But that "The
Conversation" isn't a hommage to anything is clearly
misstated. It is -- without question or doubt -- a hommage to
Antonioni's "Blow Up." Do you want to suppose that "Blow Up"
is also noir? "The Conversation" is one of my favorite films
(as is "Blow Up") and a hommage in the true sense rather than
the dePalma sense. But noir? Sure, it's a dark story and all
of that but in cinema -- even more so than in written work --
it clearly ain't noir. That's my problem with a lot of
definitions floating here. It's so expansive to be
pointless.
William
Essays and Ramblings
<http://www.williamahearn.com>
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