Sunday, March 27, 2011
Difference of Noir
The girl who kissed barnaby jones was deffinetly Noir. At first Cherie just seems to be like your normal waitress that's a actrees and working at a diner. But we end up finding out that she is a craked out meth head. We see that the guy that she brings in to the house that she is house sitting for is her friends that both knows the man telling the story and Cherie. We come into the story as she has already shot him and brings this guy into set him up to have to help out so she tricks him, by telling him to come over and sleep with her and after she shoots him she wants the guy to help and get rid of the body. But him being the good guy he is he's trying to save the guys life and she wants him dead and the guy doesn't want to let him die. This is classic Noir where the women is the Femme Fatale Cherie tries to play on his manly needs and since she can't convince him to kill Gary she tries to kill him in cold blood. And the other story The hour when the ship comes in it's has no sign of the Femme Fatale. And it's hard to see how this story shows elements of Film Noir to me. In this story this guy Yancy ends up saving the womens life in this story because she ends up seeing his friends that killed her friends and this guy can't stand to see this innocent woman get killed like everyone else. Yancy is the ambigous protaginist but their is no Femme Fatale to set him up. So he uses his own concisence and saves the people they were going to kill and he feels bad for what he has done with his life.
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I agree with you about "the girl who kissed barnaby jones". Cherie set him up and I think she did so so that he would be the one to take the fall. I think thats why she got so bent when he wouldn't go along with her and then she follows him to the store. And her being tweeked out played alot in her head. I didn't read "The Hour", I read "The Kinship" and that one was not noir.
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