It's Noirsville, a visually oriented blog celebrating the vast and varied sources of inspiration, all of the resulting output, and all of the creative reflections back, of a particular style/tool of film making used in certain film/plot sequences or for a films entirety that conveyed claustrophobia, alienation, obsession, and events spiraling out of control, that came to fruition in the roughly the period of the last two and a half decades of B&W film.
Thursday, October 10, 2024
Noirsville Tune of the Week
David Shire - Marlowe's Theme - Farewell My Lovely
Mitchum's Marlowe leaves a lot to be desired. As with Liam Neeson, their performances are overshadowed (literally and figuratively) by Bogart's perfection of the genre. And since both of these pretenders to the title are great actors, I doubt anyone else could have done any better. Even worse was Paul Newman's contribution to the typecast in Harper (1966) where even an aging Lauren Bacall cannot pull Newman across the finish line. Dick Powell was good maybe because he preceded Bogart. I remember Elliott Gould and I think James Garner taking a stab at the role but they were forgettable.
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ReplyDeleteMitchum's Marlowe leaves a lot to be desired. As with Liam Neeson, their performances are overshadowed (literally and figuratively) by Bogart's perfection of the genre. And since both of these pretenders to the title are great actors, I doubt anyone else could have done any better. Even worse was Paul Newman's contribution to the typecast in Harper (1966) where even an aging Lauren Bacall cannot pull Newman across the finish line. Dick Powell was good maybe because he preceded Bogart. I remember Elliott Gould and I think James Garner taking a stab at the role but they were forgettable.
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