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But if you replaced the setting with a mundane one the movie would be a generic film noir. It only works because of the combination of the setting and the stor
by deltaonefour 4y ago
But if you replaced the setting with a mundane one the movie would be a generic film noir.
It only works because of the combination of the setting and the story.
- hodgesrm 4y agoI disagree. I'm a big fan of Chandler and his monumental creation, Philip Marlowe. Deckard is quite a different character. Just comparing the two, Deckard's role is to be a witness to Batty's dawning humanity (as well as Rachel's I suppose). I think that's one of the things that gives the movie the feeling of extraordinary redemption at the end. There's no such sense of redemption in Chandler--the Marlowe storylines revolve around the struggle to keep a moral compass in the midst of societal corruption, in line with the common definition of the Noir genre. [0] (I'm thinking particularly of The Long Goodbye but it's common to all the Marlowe stories.) Just my $0.02. It's definitely fun to think about. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noir_fiction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noir_fiction