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#581
Quote from: cp on Sun 12/02/2006 10:21:45
Quote from: jet on Sun 12/02/2006 10:13:22
Don't forget that my teachers and the 80 students they lecture must be crazy too. No, sometimes things are just like as Christy Burns, prof. Verhoeven and I say it is.
What they say is not necessarily a lie, but keep in mind that some other professor in some other Uni may have written a thesis on the same theme with different opinions. I don't know of any, but writing contradicting books and handing them to students as exam material happens all the time in the academic world and that's what keep thinking students interested. They compare and decide. Well, they write what they must at the exam, but they can still disagree... :-\
True, but it was part of the paranoia culture that was discussed that week. A major part in how Americans think. You can't skip that part.

Quote from: vict0r on Sun 12/02/2006 10:31:07
Quote from: jet on Sun 12/02/2006 01:25:09
I wouldn't be the first.
You wouldn't be the first to what? Come up with lame arguments you cant back up? Oh... Yeah... Rharpe do that alot too...
To answer your question:
Simply put. Everything in film noir that isn't white, middle class, hetrosexual, male is bad.
I could say that the butler who doesn't think much of the main character in sunset boulevoir is german, therefore the bad guy. (spot the bad guy)
However, his german blood is unimpotant in the movie. (He's 99% American)
Yet it does explain why he acts in an "un-american" way (from powerfull director to lapdog). (Shag a german and women will rule the world, therefore destroy the family structure I.E. family values. Keep things American, die like a man, don't live like a lapdog)
#582
Where was I, ah yes, 2:45 am.
Quote from: MrColossal on Sun 12/02/2006 01:29:21
Quote from: jet on Sun 12/02/2006 01:25:09
Quote from: MrColossal on Sun 12/02/2006 00:36:49
Quote from: jet on Sat 11/02/2006 23:06:35
I came to the conclusion first, then I read the article.
As he already said, he believed it was an orange already.
And sometimes things are just as they appear.
Exactly! Somtimes an alien is just an alien, sometimes a movie dealing with a dark gritty storyline has nothing to do with secret feelings towards black people learning to read, therefore not all film noir can be generalized! We agree finally.
I salute thee.

*jet, gives Eric a firm handshake

Quote from: Pesty on Sun 12/02/2006 01:31:11
And no, it's not a quote from a movie. I'm just awesome.
VG cats.

Quote from: Snarky on Sun 12/02/2006 01:57:12
Quote from: jet on Sun 12/02/2006 00:56:07
Blade Runner is not noir, hmmm.
I did not say that. You need to read more closely.
When critics and academics talk about film noir (without explicitly qualifying or extending the term), they mean a set of movies made between the late thirties and the late fifties or early sixties. This is the classic film noir. Everything made in a similar vein since then is neo-noir or post-noir. The difference is that film noir had become a recognized genre with its own name and easy-to-spot style. The later movies were therefore often consciously mimicking the classic films noir.
Blade Runner isn't even a mainstream neo-noir film. It is also a science fiction movie. That makes it tech-noir, or future noir. Tech-noir films have several distinct characteristics that separate them from other noir.
Therefore, Blade Runner is not a good example. It doesn't fall under the strict definition of "film noir," and the type of film it is differs in important respects from what's normally understood by film noir.
It doesn't fall under film noir, yet it is film noir. A contradiction.

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QuoteThis example is only evidence if you accept that The X-Files is noir. Since in a later post you argue that The X-Files is a noir show because of its xenophobia, this is a circular argument.
Your culture is part of your identity. Loss of ones culture is loss of identity.
Did you not understand what I wrote?
Did you understand what I wrote, because what film noir tries to prove is that ethnic minorities are a threat, not people.

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Based on this evidence, it would be more reasonable to argue that "minorities corrupt family values" is a message found in science fiction, not film noir.
A contradiction.
Hmmm?
In American hard-boiled detective fiction, hoodlums are repeately cast as foreigners and marginals, those who must be beaten back because they pose a threat to the white, heterosexual, middle-class values.

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QuoteAnd we're back to insults. Classy.
I guess it's hard to accept that I just don't care enough about you to remember.
Quote from: Snarky link=topic=23898.msg302393#msg302393Screw you.
A hypocrit.
You really do carry a grudge, don't you?
In an interesting bit of circularity, that casual remark was in response to you calling me a hypocrite back then. History truly does repeat itself.
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Nope. I don't know if you carry a grudge eighter, so I make my stand point very clear.

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"The evil in the world are ethnic minorities."
That's a thesis, or a message. You could loosely call it a theme, but since "theme" can also mean a topic or a subject matter, I prefer a more unambiguous word.
And I guess we finally have your argument stated in proposition form: According to film noir, the evil in the world is ethnic minorities.
That's a pretty strong statement, and one I haven't seen you produce one shred of real evidence for.
This isn't new. I'm not the first one to claim this, sadly. Whitey left the city, leaving behind the scum. In Bladerunner, the upper and middle class left the planet.

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Why don't you respond to the substance of my arguments instead of criticizing my rhetorical devices?
Why do you bring up rhetorical devices in the first place?
I use rhetorical devices to make my posts more dynamic, and because it amuses me.
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Is this why you are so bitter?


Quote from: Kinoko on Sun 12/02/2006 02:59:13
Oh my gut hurts... this thread has to stop.
Yes, lets have all the same feelings thoughts and opinions.

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Jet, now I've watched most of the X-Files. A lot. The first 4 seasons are sitting on a shelf in my house. Possibly the 5th too, I can't remember. I haven't seen all that much Noir though so I'll leave that one alone.
The X-Files isn't paranoia about aliens. All you people who said that should be ashamed of yourselves.
The paranoia in X-Files is related to the government! Anyone who honestly thinks the struggle in the X-Files is about the aliens is wrong. The real struggle is Mulder and to a lesser degree Scully's constant fight with the higher-ups, their realisation that they're being used and yet must allow themselves to do so in order to continue their work, and their bitter struggle to discover just what the feck the government is DOING or has done in the past.
X-Files has many paranoia and anxieties. Fear of the government is just one.

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Okay, now that we have that fact established (and I challenge you to ask any other self respecting X-Files fan to disagree with that... if so, I'll retract my statement that that was a fact), let me address your point of you without going through all of your arguments as everyone else has done.
X-Files has many paranoia and anxieties. Fear of the government is just one.

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Now, I can't say with 100% certainty that you're wrong. Noone can. Noone except Christ Carter, and the dozens and dozens of individual writers that wrote episodes for the show. But your ideas are really just insane. Chris Carter wrote a story about wacky things happening to two FBI agents. He never planned on the show being as popular as it was, or running for as long. Of course aliens were a common theme, they're something most humans are sure must exist through sheer mathetical probability and YES, humans are, as any creature is, afraid of the unknown. I personally have very little fear of aliens, and I'm instead deathly afraid of ghost girls with bleeding eyes. Meh, that's me.
You eighter love sci-fi or hate it. The X-Files was a giant hit. Carter must have done something that apealed to the masses. Enter paranoia culture. Carter is no fool who just ramdomly wrote words down and handed it out to FOX. He knew what he was doing.


QuoteNow, one of the most tell-tale signs that your argument, Jet, is crazy, is that everyone thinks you're crazy! It's again a very romantic notion to think you know it all, you know what noone else has thought of (besides some weirdo woman on the internet) and we're all wrong. We just haven't opened our eyes, right? In actuality, the X-Files is one of the biggest TV shows ever and a good deal of people watching it are smart, are looking for symbolism in places it doesn't exist (far more in this show than in most others!) and many of those have even studied American psychology/racism studies. And yet, you're the only one here to have even heard of this theory. It's barely a theory because as far as I can tell, in the whole world, it's just you and this other woman.
Don't forget that my teachers and the 80 students they lecture must be crazy too. No, sometimes things are just like as Christy Burns, prof. Verhoeven and I say it is.

The tyranny of the ignorant majority over the discoveries of the minority.
The majority say adventure games are dead. So according to you, your own adventure game does not excist.

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Of course, it would be a kind of delicious irony if it turned out we were all just trying to throw you, the young Mulder, off track ^_^ But I think that would prove my point also.
I just answer the questions that I can answer. If you don't want to believe me then I'm sorry I failed you. But I'm not making this up. It is odd that some react as if they have found out Santa Clause isn't real, and yet want to contradict this.
#583
Quote from: MrColossal on Sun 12/02/2006 00:36:49
Quote from: jet on Sat 11/02/2006 23:06:35
I came to the conclusion first, then I read the article.
As he already said, he believed it was an orange already.
And sometimes things are just as they appear.
Quote from: vict0r on Sun 12/02/2006 00:39:45
Quote from: jet on Sun 12/02/2006 00:01:58
It is true.
What a good argument! Seen as you have not said one thing that backs your arguments up in this discussion, this doesnt make any sense.
I wouldn't be the first.
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Quote from: ildu on Sun 12/02/2006 00:28:43
I was just about to argue the same thing. So what if a couple of professors have they're own opinions. Disagreement won't reveal any sort of truth or lies. This issue is not black and white.
This is my point. Things is not all black and white, as Jet makes it look. Sure, some film noirs may have some sort of sub-plot. But not all, as Jet claims.
Plot has nothing to do with theme. You could have a Romeo and Juliet in space. But you do need two groups who both feel superior to the other. You say that this is b&w thinking?

Quote from: Pesty on Sun 12/02/2006 01:16:02
Listen, pal, I don't want any aliens coming along, ripping my head off, and laying their eggs down my throat so that their alien babies can incubate in my still warm corpse until they hatch and eat my remains. If that's racism, then yes, I'm racist against aliens who want to rip my head off and lay their eggs down my throat. Don't drink out of my water fountain, egg-laying aliens!!!
Well, you have this fear because of sci-fi media like the X-Files. If I see an alien I don't know how to react. Should I set it on fire or give it a glass of water. I just don't know (apart from taking a picture).

Was that a quote from a movie, Pesty? It sounds familiar.
#584
Quote from: Snarky on Sun 12/02/2006 00:10:53
Quote from: jet on Sat 11/02/2006 23:06:35
I came to the conclusion first, then I read the article.
I already gave some examples, but here are some more.
In Bladerunner, The character played by Ford asks someone else to translate what his partner is saying, although he could understand him. He clearly shows that he doesn't like foreigners.
1. Blade Runner is not a classic film noir. It's not even a straight modern film noir.
2. Just because Deckard doesn't like "foreigners," that doesn't mean the film has anything against them. Deckard is an unlikeable guy in several ways.
Blade Runner is not noir, hmmm.
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QuoteThe second episode of the X-Files shows black triangular ufo's above an airbase (the aurora project). The airplanes are built from alien technoligy. The test pilotes who fly the airplanes change in personality. It you come in contact with aliens (different cultures) you will change.
This example is only evidence if you accept that The X-Files is noir. Since in a later post you argue that The X-Files is a noir show because of its xenophobia, this is a circular argument.[/qoute]
Your culture is part of your identity. Loss of ones culture is loss of identity.
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Based on this evidence, it would be more reasonable to argue that "minorities corrupt family values" is a message found in science fiction, not film noir.
A contradiction.

QuoteHappy donkey, one dimentional and only used to show that Bogart was not suburbian. Casablanca also used the term "the usual suspects," which means "pick up all the blacks". (The Marx Brothers are Jewish, and in the film A Night In Casablanca, Harpo is arrested.
This whole discussion is moot, since Casablanca is not a film noir.[/qoute]Hey, I didn't bring it up.
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And check your paranoia: I am not "hounding" you. In fact, I had to look up our posting histories to even understand what you were talking about.[/qoute]What is to expect from a small attention span.
And we're back to insults. Classy.
I guess it's hard to accept that I just don't care enough about you to remember.
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Quote from: Snarky link=topic=23898.msg302393#msg302393Screw you.
A hypocrit.
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QuoteIf there are homophobic overtones to Peter Lorre's character, and I think that's a bit of a stretch, they're just an incidental bit of prejudice from that era caught on film, just as it might be in any other film from the time. Film noir does not have an agenda of oppressing, or repressing, minorities.
I said THEME, me think.
Actually, you said neither. You implied that noir had a xenophbic messsage when you said: "It shows the fear for ethnic minorities like blacks, latino's, homo's, jews and in the X-files even aliens is correct."
If all you're really saying is that repression of minorities is a theme in film noir, that the genre brings the issue up for discussion, you'll have to explain again why you "hate Noir."
(As an aside, if you want to sound intellectual, use "methinks." "Me think" makes you sound like a cave man.)
"xenophbic messsage," never said that. The evil in the world are ethnic minorities. Which would make it a theme, just like a film set in space would have a space theme.
And you don't know how a cave man talks like. (I bet you claim you do)

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As evidence, it's weak, weak, weak.
You first argumet is untrue, your second is redundant and your third is propaganda (repeat a simple messege).
Why don't you respond to the substance of my arguments instead of criticizing my rhetorical devices?
Why do you bring up rhetorical devices in the first place?

Quote from: Pesty on Sun 12/02/2006 00:24:47
Quote from: jet on Sun 12/02/2006 00:01:58
Quote from: Pesty on Sat 11/02/2006 23:38:09
Okay, so who's responsible for spilling the Racism Bucket all over the GenGen?
jet: what why why
I don't see how talking about ethnic minorities will stamp me as a racist. None has claimed that one is superior because its skincolor is pale/dark, so the Racism Bucket is not toppled yet. Not even shaken.
I don't know, I don't remember saying "JET IS A RACIST HE HATES BLACK BABIES" but you're really good at finding racism in things that have no racism, like the X-Files so maybe I got the point across wrong. I merely meant that you were talking about how racist film noir is. Racism is about more than just skin color, you know.
The Racism Bucket has splashed it's contents all over this thread!
The X-Files has aliens from another world who don't get along with mankind, how more racistic can you get. If I talk about it or not, that doesn't make the facts go away.
#585
Quote from: Pesty on Sat 11/02/2006 23:38:09
Okay, so who's responsible for spilling the Racism Bucket all over the GenGen?

jet: what why why
I don't see how talking about ethnic minorities will stamp me as a racist. None has claimed that one is superior because its skincolor is pale/dark, so the Racism Bucket is not toppled yet. Not even shaken.

Quote from: vict0r on Sat 11/02/2006 23:59:19
So if your teacher held a banana up in front of you (you well knowing that this is a banana) and called it an orange, and said that he had discussed it with some professors(believing these are any smarter than normal people), you would blindly follow him and call it orange the rest of your life? You can not believe what someone say to you, just because they have a degree. You must question what is told you, no matter what authority the person talking to you have.
And sometimes things are just as they appear. A teacher isn't payed to lie, but payed to tell the truth. They don't hand out doctines out of chocolate suprise eggs, they have studied for years. These people are proud of their knowlege, and want to share it. Or is this a silly way to justify bad grades.
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As for the sub-plots in film noirs, i could easily pull out fifteen racistic, etc themes from it, even though it actually is not the intention. Even though it is a possibility doesnt mean its true.
It is true.
#586
Quote from: Snarky on Sat 11/02/2006 22:31:58
This Burns character doesn't even appear to be a very prominent critic or expert, so her status as an authority is questionable. And in any case she's merely quoting Julian Murphet. If you'd look up his article, you'd see that he's making a much weaker claim. I'm afraid if you want to argue your point, you'll have to do so yourself.
I'm doing so right now. Burns explains it detailed and deep.

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And check your paranoia: I am not "hounding" you. In fact, I had to look up our posting histories to even understand what you were talking about.[/qoute]What is to expect from a small attention span.

Quote[In The Maltese Falcon, Joel Cairo is identified as potentially gay and definetely foreign, both in his dress and manner.]

In The Maltese Falcon, Sam Spade is not corrupted by coming in contact with Joel Cairo. If there are homophobic overtones to Peter Lorre's character, and I think that's a bit of a stretch, they're just an incidental bit of prejudice from that era caught on film, just as it might be in any other film from the time. Film noir does not have an agenda of oppressing, or repressing, minorities.
I said THEME, me think.

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As evidence, it's weak, weak, weak.
You first argumet is untrue, your second is redundant and your third is propaganda (repeat a simple messege).

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As for science fiction and alien invasion stories, critics have pointed out a relationship to fear of all kinds of social upheaval since forever. Just today there was an article on Salon about how this seaon's sci-fi shows (Surface, Threshold, Invasion) can be seen as metaphors for interracial marriage.
(As is Kong)
Therefore one could say the X-Files is modern day noir.

Quote from: cp on Sat 11/02/2006 23:11:19
Can somebody give me examples of films/series/books that are not xenophobic, racist and all the things mentioned in this thread?
Yes, [ur]=http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=3085]Bobobobo bobobo bobobobo[/url].

Quote from: MrColossal on Sat 11/02/2006 23:21:52
Jet, no one said you were lying, it's just no one agrees with you.
T__T Why not? Is it the lack of smileys? I can do smileys. C|:3
Well, I found the link between noir, the X-Files and paranoia culture very revealing, since things that made me wonder are now confirmed.
If you don't believe me, then I have to try harder to convince you.
#587
Quote from: ildu on Sat 11/02/2006 21:46:51
Quote from: jet on Sat 11/02/2006 20:33:32Who to believe. An anonymous internet scripting kiddy who hounds me, or an graduate in English and author of several books and essays...

How about thinking for yourself? If you really think that film noir has obtrusive racist connotations, please give examples. Don't believe some high and mighty douchebag just because he/she has a degree. I didn't believe Pat Robertson when he said that God sent a tornado into New Orleans because it was full of sin or that Ariel Sharon got a stroke because he divided sacred land. Should I believe him just because he has a high social status, owns a tv network and is a preacher?
I came to the conclusion first, then I read the article.
I already gave some examples, but here are some more.
In Bladerunner, The character played by Ford asks someone else to translate what his partner is saying, although he could understand him. He clearly shows that he doesn't like foreigners.
The second episode of the X-Files shows black triangular ufo's above an airbase (the aurora project). The airplanes are built from alien technoligy. The test pilotes who fly the airplanes change in personality. It you come in contact with aliens (different cultures) you will change.

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If this Christy Burns makes this kind of conclusion about film noir, is it not possible to make the exact same conclusions about regular movies? Why were there so many ethnic people on the airplane in Con Air? Why are Russians and Germans always portrayed in a bad light? Why does the black dude always die first? Why doesn't the black dude ever marry the white girl?
The bad guys live in a bad world. If you want to let people spot the bad guy before the main character does, you got to trow in some hints. I live in a white suburban area, I can't spot any crime here. There is crime in the city. You can spot a hooker, a drugdealer or a group of hooligans by looking at people. It doesn't mean they are, but you still avoid them. We don't make up the rules. We just follow them.

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Joel Cairo in Maltese Falcon being foreign has nothing to do with racism. As for gayness, there was no hint of such a thing in the whole movie. Just because someone acted in the 40's in a way that might be marginally identified as gay by americans in the modern world doesn't mean he was. If this was any proof, you might as well say Lauren Bacall played a tranny in each of her movies (she was a masculine, tough type).
Maltese Falcon, the book.

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And anyways, do you know who the most wholesome and kind character in the history of film noir was? It was Sam, the piano player from Casablanca. He was black, too.
Happy donkey, one dimentional and only used to show that Bogart was not suburbian. Casablanca also used the term "the usual suspects," which means "pick up all the blacks". (The Marx Brothers are Jewish, and in the film A Night In Casablanca, Harpo is arrested.

Quote from: Adamski on Sat 11/02/2006 22:46:56
QuoteNot in this case. Great arguments, though. I can see you put a lot of effort in your one-liner.

There is no argument here, you're talking out of your anus. It requires no more effort than that.
Talking like a real moderator there, keep it up.
Seriously, I'm studying American Studies on the University. Three teachers, one is a professor, one is a doctor and on is a assistand professor, have discussed this culture issue. So if you say I'm lying, which means my teachers are lying, it proves that you don't know shit from a sunday.
#588
Okay give me a moment. So many questions, so many awnsers.

MiB is about turning an urban myth connected with paranoia into something positive in the Spielburgian way. Just like ET and CEot3K, aliens are your friends (thinks Spielberg).

Xmen is mostly about punching bad guys. But it has a self-reflection of mankind thing too, like the mutant work camps to solve problems.

X-files; the fact that nothing changes is the first reason of why I don't like it anymore. The second is the fear for culture theme.

Star Trek: Anti Communism undertone.

"Yes, it is possible that sometimes a theme can be taken from real life and applied to another style of story telling without condoning the theme. But not in this case. "
Because Carter filmed the American Paranoia Culture. Things are scarier when fantastic things become real.
Carter based the X-files on real paranoia claims to turn the X-files into a succes.

Quote from: Adamski on Sat 11/02/2006 21:38:01
I think the point is you're talking complete garbage, jet.
Not in this case. Great arguments, though. I can see you put a lot of effort in your one-liner.

Farl: Somethimes they DO put symbolism into series/films. Like the white clothes the girl wears in Ring symbolises that she is dead.

Quote from: Becky on Sat 11/02/2006 21:43:51
QuoteX-files is packed with paranoia and anxiety. I'm not the first to say so, yet you claim this is "wacky?"

It was paranoia and anxiety about your actual alien.
ET, Mr Spock and the Tribble are aliens. Are you scared of them?

LimpingFish, in that case, don't yopu have anything better to do?
#589
Again, Eric, I don't understand your comment. I feel as you want me to look at your left hand so you can punch me out with a right hook. Should I duck?

You quote me, yet you don't awnser me. Again, am I the first to tell you that the X-Files is packed with paranoia and anxiety that is characteristic to American culture? Do you find this untrue, and why?


Yes, it is possible that sometimes a theme can be taken from real life and applied to another style of story telling without condoning the theme. But not in this case.
#590
Quote from: MrColossal on Sat 11/02/2006 21:02:08
Right well, I'm done... That's just too wacky for me.

I guess the black goo in Xfiles is people's fear of black people integrating into our society... And that one Xfiles about cockroaches that killed people was about mexicans and that one Xfiles about snake like fish materializing in salt water to kill people was about... Jews?

How would they go about telling countless writers that worked on that show that the secret symbolism behind the show is that americans are afraid of losing culture and having them all go "Good idea!"

Well, there was an episode where a few jews gassed in WW2, turned out to be aliens. And that alien shape shifter who looks black in order not to be noticed.

I don't understand your comment. X-files is packed with paranoia and anxiety. I'm not the first to say so, yet you claim this is "wacky?"
#591
Because;
A, She sees The X-Files as modern noir, just like me.
B, She sees aliens in the X-files as symbolism for the (american) fear of losing cuture to ethnic minorities, just like me.

For you last question see first post.
#592
Quote from: Snarky on Sat 11/02/2006 19:21:31
No films noir that I can think of deal at all with minorities, much less suggest that they are the source of corruption in society.

Just to get started, explain to me how what you said applies to The Maltese Falcon, The Big Sleep, Double Indemnity, Sunset Blvd., The Third Man, Touch of Evil, or Kiss Me Deadly. Or, if we're talking neo-noir: Chinatown, Body Heat, Blood Simple, or Insomnia (1997).

Christy Burns seems to agree with me. (p.198 l.19)

Who to believe. An anonymous internet scripting kiddy who hounds me, or an graduate in English and author of several books and essays...

ps: you might want to chech out note 6 & 7.
[Although film noir has focused fairly exclusively on the white, middle-class man's individualism- challenged by femme fatale's destabilitation- Julian Murphet points out that in the period of noir's emergence in the 1940, France was dealing with decolonization and emerging Algerian crisis, while the US was experienceing the white flight to suburbs, which reconstructed cities as "black," plpulated as they were by variety of ethnic poor. Historically, then, noir posits a repression of blackness and racial diversity.J

[In The Maltese Falcon, Joel Cairo is identified as potentially gay and definetely foreign, both in his dress and manner.]
#593
Quote from: SBsLoVeNiA on Sat 11/02/2006 17:07:44
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Oh, and the game looks a lot like Police Quest and that's a good thing. We all know that Police Quest was a good game.
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Hahaha, oh silly you. Game over because you didn't check all 4 wheels on the car. How I laughed.
But yes, many characters are PQ paint-overs, and the original resolution is 160x100 like PQ.
#594
General Discussion / Re: Release Something!
Sat 11/02/2006 19:02:46
http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/yabb/index.php?topic=25051.0

I wanted to release a demo as well, but I think it's better to have a propper demo released later than a rushed, half working one.
#595
Any noir films. What are you refering too?
#596
Class ends in week 21, but will be followed by tests. Lapaset will be in week 26. I think I can make it, so count me in.
#597
I hate Noir. It shows the fear for ethnic minorities like blacks, latino's, homo's, jews and in the X-files even aliens is correct. These minorities are here to destroy the family values. To come in contact with their culture will rot your life just like that of the detective.

edit: that fear is unjust.
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or "HBM" for short

-story-
Roberto DeMauricio is sight-seeing in the southern states of America. He spends the night in High Bluemarsh, a small town somewhere in Alabama, when he is accused of murder. Roberto escapes and searches for the truth of what lies underneath the small town.


-features-
Explore the town at day AND night.
Non player characters wander through the screen.
Sneak, hide and avoid the local police with the help of the lightbulb interface.
Travel through the giant underground maze.
Unravel the mystery of High Bluemarsh.
Original music by Petteri.

-demo-
    To do list for demo:
  • Interactions.
  • Puzzles.
  • Dialog system with pictures.
  • Cash machine.
  • Hotel rooms with open doors.
  • Inside jail.
  • Sound & Music.

I'll be in the shower. All that game pimping makes me feel dirty.
#599
General Discussion / Re: Mohammed cartoons
Sat 11/02/2006 16:35:41

I think it's funny. No haha-funny, but hehe-funny.
But yeah, freedom of speech above the will of the ignorant masses.

There were manny "political incorrect" cartoons after that airplane hijacking thingy in 2001. I didn't hear any muslim complain about them (maybe because they were living in caves a.t.m., maybe because I only know one muslim which I didn't knew at the time).
Arab papers insult the jewish religion all the time. Hypocrites!
English embassies are targeted. Generalisation!
Taliban members shoot in the crowd to raise the rage. Evil!
#600
General Discussion / Re: tekken 5 fighters
Sat 11/02/2006 16:11:34
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I made someone happy. ^_^
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