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#hardboiled

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Jon Hancock

"Now will you come along willingly or do I bunt you over the crumpet till your sneezer leaks buttermilk?"

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Futility Closet · A Day's Work - Futility ClosetMemorable passages from the pulp detective stories of Robert Leslie Bellem (1902-1968): “There were tears brimming on her azure peepers, and tremulous grief twisted her kisser.” (“Forgery’s Foil”) “She wrapped her arms around my neck; glued her crimson kisser to my lips. She fed me an osculation that sent seven thousand volts of electricity past my tonsils.” (“Design for Dying”) “And then, from the doorway, a gun barked: ‘Chow-chow!’ and I went drifting to dreamland.” (“Design for Dying”) “The rod sneezed: ‘Chow! Ka-Chow!’ and pushed two pills through Reggie’s left thigh.” (“Murder Has Four Letters”) “Against a backdrop of darkness...
#Hardboiled#Fiction#FutilityCloset
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Foggwulf Solidson

#HardBoiled remains a technical triumph, its influence evident in works like „The Matrix“
and „John Wick“. Yet its true legacy lies in its unflinching portrayal of futility. The film’s virtuosic violence, far from celebrating heroism, underscores its impossibility. In Woo’s universe, characters don’t triumph-they merely survive longer, their actions echoing in a void. boxd.it/9GeBVB

boxd.itA ★★★★½ review of Hard Boiled (1992)Echoes in a Void  John Woo’s „Hard Boiled“ stands as a pinnacle of Hong Kong action cinema, a masterclass in the “Heroic Bloodshed” genre. Yet beneath its hyper-stylized gunfights and operatic violence lies an ideologically fraught work that mirrors the existential anxieties of its era. Shot on 35mm film using an Arriflex 35-III camera with Zeiss Super Speed and Angenieux HR lenses, „Hard Boiled“ employs a 1.85:1 aspect ratio to frame its chaotic action within a widescreen canvas. Cinematographer Wong Wing-Hang’s dynamic camerawork immerses viewers in the frenzy: tracking shots glide through cramped teahouses, while Steadicam sequences in the hospital
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Calico Jesse

Got to a section of the Cleansing of Poisonville that is almost certainly edited down in the Red Harvest, and understandably. Beginning of part 3 new agents arrive, and he gives a summary of the first two parts to catch them up. Necessary for a magazine where the reader might not have seen part 1 and 2, but easily glossed over in a novel.

Always interesting to see the evolution of a work.

#Reading#Noir#HardBoiled
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Calico Jesse

Finished part 1 of 4 of the Cleansing of Poisonville, the short story serial that became Red Harvest. I read Red Harvest in college, and remember really liking it. But I don’t remember a lot of details except that there a lot of violence and a lot of people end up dead.

Having now read all the short stories that led up to it, I have a greater appreciation for not just the evolution of the character, but the growth of Hammett as a writer.

#Reading#Mystery#HardBoiled
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Of Bookish Things

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His feet planted firmly on the ground, like an agile panther, the gumshoe fired off two short rapid shots. They were as fast as peppermint stripes on a hot summer's day. It was over in an instant. You could hear garters snap, they had been on too tight, like spinning tires under the cold light of the moon. Later, they claimed The Fuller Brush Man was in a hair's width of killing the woman with a steel comb. The prosecutor bristled with frustration, when they got off.
#ShortFiction #Hardboiled

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