As a genre, the noir of post-World War II was based on characters who were weak or repellent, bound to let down us and themselves.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Yeah, I was always a big fan of noir.
But, number one, I think traditional noir doesn't work in contemporary storytelling because we don't live in that world anymore.
I think a film noir demands a beginning and an end.
One definition of noir is where a not-so-good man or woman tries to touch something good - and fails.
Crime fiction, especially noir and hardboiled, is the literature of the proletariat.
Billy Wilder is really is a heavy influence on Bound. We felt that film noir was a genre where you could create a really contained story. We wanted to be on a set as much as we could to get the kind of style level we were looking for.
I've been a fan of noir films since I was in high school.
When I first started writing the books in the 1980s, all of the female detectives were flawed in some way because they were based on noir characters.
Noir focuses on the criminal mind, not a whodunit: more why they did it and will they get away with it. The abnormal psychology is what fascinates me rather than the puzzle-solving aspect.
Noir is dead for me because historically, I think it's a simple view. I've taken it as far as it can go. I think I've expanded on it a great deal, taken it further than any other American novelist.