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I'm a bit surprised at all the strong negative reactions.

posted 11 years ago by spooty
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Just saw this for the first time and enjoyed it quite a bit. I thought the idea of applying typical film noir script/dialogue to a different setting was fresh and original. For those who can't get past the "unrealistic dialogue", I have to ask, how do you feel about film noir typically? I hate to break this to you, but people didn't really speak like that in the 40's and 50's...not even detectives. It's an entirely fabricated film genre, always has been.

It's not unusual for a Shakespearean play to be shown in a modern or otherwise anachronistic setting. People don't complain about that ruining the realism of Shakespeare. That would be missing the point. For a presentation like that (or this) it's just part of the formula.

[–] gabby_bm 11 years ago

To me, i loved the cool dialogue. It was stylish like the noir of old. I just found it being rattled so fast that I had a hard time translating it into English fast enough. These kids can talk so damned fast that it doesn;t allow my brain the time to interpret the vocabulary to my "old man" language.

When i hear things like:
No, bulls would gum it. They'd flash
their dusty standards at the wide-eyes
and probably find some yegg to pin, probably even the right one. But they'd
trample the real tracks and scare the
real players back into their holes, and
if we're doing this I want the whole
story.

my brain needs a second to put it all into terms i can understand. But the script just keeps on rattling off dialogue like a machine gun to the point that I was often left in the dust.

I'm not saying this was bad for the movie. I'm simply saying it was too bad for me- that i missed out on many elements of the story while trying to translate it all into 20th Century vocabulary.

"De gustibus non disputandum est"
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[–] oh_no_mrbill 10 years ago

I think it's a style of dialogue you either love or hate. I'm in the "love" camp personally. There are some long passages that get a little overwrought, but if you read the script through, most of it is done in these little quips and zingers that gives the whole movie a snappy 1940s feeling. One thing you can't deny is that it's extremely unique; there are very few other movies like it. Obviously that style was a big creative risk to take, but I think it paid off well, and it was helped by an interesting plot and some really great character acting.