The Film Noir Thread - Beyond Tiki

K khan_tiki_mon Member Syracuse, NY Joined: Sep 15, 2006 Posts: 284	K khan_tiki_mon Posted posted on Fri, Jan 29, 2010 9:54 PM John-O wrote: Your kids have good taste. I agree but I don't think I'll tell them you said that. When they were little I used to tell my oldest son when we were arguing about something that my head was bigger, hence my brain was bigger, and so I was smarter. He said, "Dad, Tyrannosaurus Rex, great big head, little tiny pea brain". I do agree with a lot of what you said about Sin City. In truth some parts of it worked better for me than other parts. I think really mostly just the Bruce Willis cop character comes off as a noir character for me. How about that? Can you have a noir charcter in a non noir film? The film "The Sand Pebbles" is not film noir but the Steve McQueen character is just so tragic and no matter what he does he's doomed. To me that's kind of a noirish character.

John-O wrote:
Your kids have good taste.

I agree but I don't think I'll tell them you said that. When they were little I used to tell my oldest son when we were arguing about something that my head was bigger, hence my brain was bigger, and so I was smarter. He said, "Dad, Tyrannosaurus Rex, great big head, little tiny pea brain".

I do agree with a lot of what you said about Sin City. In truth some parts of it worked better for me than other parts. I think really mostly just the Bruce Willis cop character comes off as a noir character for me. How about that? Can you have a noir charcter in a non noir film? The film "The Sand Pebbles" is not film noir but the Steve McQueen character is just so tragic and no matter what he does he's doomed. To me that's kind of a noirish character.

Post #507943 by khan_tiki_mon on Fri, Jan 29, 2010 9:54 PM