Re: [bomp] Directors writing fiction

[jumpinginthenight <jumpinginthenight@xxxxxxxxx>]

I meant PULP FICTION was a hit movie not MR. ARKADIN.
  Anyway, "Pulp" has nothing to do with "noir." This was a French term they started applying to formerly embargoed because of the war Grade B movies they finally got to see after the fact.  A book can't be "noir" anymore than Danny & the Juniors can be "freakbeat." But if you look at say the western HIGH NOON it is a "noir."
  More Welles: did you know he pitched the idea of TOUCH OF EVIL from an airport phonebooth with no idea of a title. A paperback on a nearby rack with that title inspired him. But he made up his own plot.
  

weisbaker <roky@optonline.net> wrote:
  
I think he meant it had pulpish noodlings, not that it resembled them in the 
external apparatus or physical format: Mr. snider was also prob 
interpolating noir defs with acceptable pulp defs with his description: a 
fairly honest endeavor all in all

btw gone with the wind was a hit movie; Mr. Arkadin was not. I bet less than 
10, 000 people saw it and that's a ( hodgepodgy )product from one of the few 
great American directors!

go Texas!

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Subject: Re: [bomp] Directors writing fiction


>
> Ohh, wrong use of "pulp novel." Pulp novel means the full-length (30,000 
> word?) fiction that appeared in 1930s & '40s newsstand magazines printed 
> on cheap pulpwood. They were pretty much dead by the '50s, killed by 
> paperbacks as well as TV & comic books [which all used the same genres: 
> Westerns, mystery, war, adventure, masked avengers, science fiction].
> just cause some hit movie came along doesn't mean we suddenly throw out 
> 70 years of accepted definition.
>
> Michael Snider wrote:
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> weisbaker wrote:
> hey
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> i know this one
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> tony blair's wife (i think) is daughter
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> which makes george bush and anthony booth cousins?
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> booth btw is star of lovely and literate L shaped room , a real knockout,
> directed by bryan forbes, the only(?) top notch director i know who is 
> also
> a fine fiction writer unless you include sayles who authored several
> noteworthy leftish short stories in the late 60's (or a little later)
>
> Orson Welles' "Mr. Arkadin" (the book) is a fun little 50s pulp novel, 
> it's actually better than the (miscast) film
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> We talk and talk until my head explodes
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> I turn on the news and my body froze
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> The braying sheep on my tv screen
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> Make this boy shout, make this boy scream!
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