Sunday, March 27, 2011

dose one or two go with noir or not

 
I feel that the THE GIRL WHO KISSED BARNABY JONES is a really good example of noir because it had a really good description of the femme fatale who in this story was Cherie. And a good description of the protagonists who was Tate. Cherie, to many was a beautiful actress who had fell off ,from the acting business. She didn’t seem like a killer to her victim Tate but she was. She called him at 3:00 in the morning asking him for a favor. Then when he gets to were she is, she makes it seem as if sexes was all she wanted but like a femme fatale Cherie had more then that on her mind. She manipulated him with sex and then told him that he had to help her dispose of a man she had just shot. She stated “if I wanted a fucking ambulance I’d called one myself. You’re going to help me cover this up.” the men that was shot was still a live but because Cherie had no love for any one but her self she was over come by darkness. Tate was overcome by his lust for sex and with out question went blindly to were Cherie told him. After getting off the phone with Cherie he stated “I have a grate boner with Cherie’s name on it, and if she asked me to shovel shit I’d ask her how fast…” Tate didn’t realize that any thing was wrong until after he was there at the house with her. This story had me going because the characters were like the one’s in film noir but more in depth, more modern, and more lose with the way they did things. The Kinship seemed be the most difficult to classify as noir. It seemed to have nothing to do with the way noir set things up. The men named Tomas had told more of his life’s story then the plot to hurt a man. telling us about his life and the way his family line stuck to gather for years was not the same as way noir usually presents the story of one event.

2 comments:

  1. I feel the same way. Cherie tripped me out. I couldn't believe the way she slept with him just to get him to do what she wanted. Tate ended update getting what he wanted but he had to pay a price. In the end I think we learned from it that its not always best to get what we want. We will end up suffering the consequences based on the decision we make. Tate paid a heavy price all for a woman.

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  2. yes I do believe that the girl who kissed Barnaby Jones was the best depiction of noir. with Cherie being demented and trying to pull Tate in to her mess. She had sex with him and then expects for him to help her cover it up. and that was a good quote you used about her saying she would have called one herself. using her body to get what she wanted. I just don’t get why she tried to kill Tate too because then she would have to get rid of two bodies she wasn’t one of the smartest femme fatales. lol

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