I haven't seen this, will definitely check it out. Isn't Bladerunner noir-ish? Maybe I don't know what I'm talking about, though, or maybe it wasn't a hit when it came out.
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I haven't seen this, will definitely check it out. Isn't Bladerunner noir-ish? Maybe I don't know what I'm talking about, though, or maybe it wasn't a hit when it came out.
"Blade Runner" is indeed noirish, which is why it was an almighty flop, despite being one of the best movies ever made.
Audiences have a feel for the downbeat anti-heroic nature of noir, and if they taste that kind of despair in a trailer, they avoid the movie like a plague.
The key to noir is that it thrived amongst folks who had fought world wars, and who no longer believed in fantasy. But the natural state of human beings is to dream, so once the trauma of war was over, so was noir. :(