--- On Thu, 6/26/08, Kevin Burton Smith <
kvnsmith@sbcglobal.net> wrote: And BUS STOP's such a
hard-boiled film too. Can a discussion of Woody Allen's
personal life be far away?
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Kevin, you mean you don't see the noir side of BUS STOP?
Let's see, we have a saloon dancer caging fake drinks from
unsuspecting customers, an ultra macho cowboy who won't take
no for an answer, a local cafe with implied extra curricular
activities, and the dance hall girl and cowboy go off
together in the end... happily ever after? You think? There's
humor in most of Jim Thompson and Elmore Leonard, too, but
that doesn't make them any less noir. You have to read into
the subtext of BUS STOP to reach its cold gray
underbelly.
Patrick King
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