NoirPawn Posted June 9, 2015 Share Posted June 9, 2015 I thought this was a fun article: http://www.bestmoviesbyfarr.com/articles/film-noir-quotes/2015/02?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Film+Noir One of the many lures of the film noir genre is its taut, no nonsense dialogue. There’s no room here for flowery speech, not when the bullets and fists are flying. Terse yet evocative, dialogue from film noir also rings with the pistol crack of truth. And in noir films it's the rapid-fire back and forth between characters, usually dames and their dupes, that shows the form off in all its gritty glory.It helps, of course, that the dialogue was often scripted by hardboiled masters like Raymond Chandler, and spoken by tough guys like Bogart and Mitchum. In a world of brass knuckles, characters need to get down to brass tacks. Their lives may depend on it, and besides, dames like it. And delivering this patter is an art, not unlike reciting Shakespeare, or hitting a bullseye. For fans of movie mysteries, it’s a pleasure that never pales. One of my favorites is from I Walk Alone: [stuffy woman]: "My name is Mrs. Alix Richardson." [burt Lancaster]: "You say that like it was spelt in capital letters." Zing! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lauraw Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 I thought this was a fun article: http://www.bestmoviesbyfarr.com/articles/film-noir-quotes/2015/02?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Film+Noir One of my favorites is from I Walk Alone: [stuffy woman]: "My name is Mrs. Alix Richardson." [burt Lancaster]: "You say that like it was spelt in capital letters." Zing! Lots of great ones. One of my favorite is the last lines of Maltese Falcon. Detective Tom Polhaus: [picks up the falcon] Heavy. What is it? Sam Spade: The, uh, stuff that dreams are made of. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alton Mann Posted June 14, 2015 Share Posted June 14, 2015 Check out the book "It's A Bitter Little World" by Charles Pappas ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PiercingMildred Posted June 14, 2015 Share Posted June 14, 2015 "Humphrey Bogart" from Woody Allen's Play it Again Sam: "I never saw a dame yet that didn't understand a good slap in the mouth or a slug from a .45." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crimewave Posted June 14, 2015 Share Posted June 14, 2015 Robert Mitchum to Jane Greer in Out of The Past: "Baby, I don't care." -Mark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thistle Posted June 15, 2015 Share Posted June 15, 2015 Murder My Sweet contains so many great lines: "A black pool opened up at my feet. I dived in. It had no bottom. I felt good--like an amputated leg." "The window was open, but the smoke didn't move. It was a web woven by a thousand spiders. I wondered how they'd gotten them to work together..." "I walked. For how long I don't know; I didn't have a watch. They don't put that kind of time in watches anyway...." 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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