Hmmmmmmmmm....no many people or critics...at least accross this vast
pond...would ever qualify Psycho (or any Hitchcock for that matter) of being
Śnoirą...in between Ścrime filmą and Śhorrorą maybe but not noir...itąs a
witty mecanism, not a murky descent into inferno...
This might start another definition battle/controversy...but it had to be
brought up...I would be very curious to find quotes from non-North American
critics giving the Śnoirą label to Psycho and/or Hitchcockian films...There
may be, here and there noir elements. shots, lighting set-ups, blabla
blah...but that does allow the leap into qualifying the whole celluloid as
Śnoirą...because if heąs noir, than Hammer films are noir...and some péplums
are too...and then it all becomes absurd, irrelevant, untenable...because
łYou see....most people never have to face the fact that, at the right time
and the right place, they're capable of... anything!˛
...now, I never read the Bloch book...so (this maybe far fetched): the book
could be Śnoirą but the film would not...highly possible in fact...our own
DTW writers from Estleman to Leonard would gladly attest to that...
e-nough for now
Montois de DTW
PS: łgrand guignol and noir˛...what a subject really...
Anybody?
On 7/13/09 10:57 AM, "E. Borgers" <webeurop@yahoo.fr> wrote:
>
> And what about PSYCHO by Robert Bloch? Motel Bates, do you remeber? Noir it
> is, even if it leans to grand guignol from time to time.
>
> E. Borgers
> Polar Noir
> http://www.geocities.com/polarnoir/
>
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