Comments on: Noir: What is it Good For? http://mutantreviewers.com/blog1/noir-what-is-it-good-for/ Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:59:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Eunice http://mutantreviewers.com/blog1/noir-what-is-it-good-for/comment-page-1/#comment-1351 Eunice Thu, 09 Apr 2009 18:56:31 +0000 http://mutantreviewers.com/blog1/?p=1887#comment-1351 Okay Brick lost its deathly seriousness with the table lamp in the van. Just saying. And how can you not love a genre that will use the line "What's the rumpus?" with a staight face. I use that all the time! Sitting Duck> Have you ever seen Robert Stack in Noir? It's truly a thing of wooden beauty. Okay Brick lost its deathly seriousness with the table lamp in the van. Just saying.

And how can you not love a genre that will use the line “What’s the rumpus?” with a staight face. I use that all the time!

Sitting Duck> Have you ever seen Robert Stack in Noir? It’s truly a thing of wooden beauty.

]]> By: Sitting Duck http://mutantreviewers.com/blog1/noir-what-is-it-good-for/comment-page-1/#comment-1344 Sitting Duck Thu, 09 Apr 2009 15:31:49 +0000 http://mutantreviewers.com/blog1/?p=1887#comment-1344 If you want to see (in a figurative sense) how truly ridiculous Noir can get, there was a radio series back in the Forties called Pat Novak, For Hire, starring a pre-Dragnet Jack Webb in the title role. I'm pretty sure that the excesses committed to noir tropes were intended for comic effect. Of course, life is generally unkind to noir protagonists. But if you believe in reincarnation and karma, then you would come to the conclusion that Novak had been an utter bastard in his previous life. Then there's Lt. Hellman, who is the most vindictive and moronic of all the Vindictive Moronic Cops to be found in Noir. Add in a load of over the top metaphors in the first person narration and intentional camp is really the only explanation. If you want to see (in a figurative sense) how truly ridiculous Noir can get, there was a radio series back in the Forties called Pat Novak, For Hire, starring a pre-Dragnet Jack Webb in the title role. I’m pretty sure that the excesses committed to noir tropes were intended for comic effect. Of course, life is generally unkind to noir protagonists. But if you believe in reincarnation and karma, then you would come to the conclusion that Novak had been an utter bastard in his previous life. Then there’s Lt. Hellman, who is the most vindictive and moronic of all the Vindictive Moronic Cops to be found in Noir. Add in a load of over the top metaphors in the first person narration and intentional camp is really the only explanation.

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