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It's a Bitter Little World |
Author: Charles Pappas
Published: 2005-10-01 |
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 Essential Noir
Compiles many of the best hard boiled lines from the Film Noir genre. Back before clever and smart observations were replaced by one liner zingers. Before smart writing was replaced by special effects. This is a bitter little review.
 DOWN RIGHT MEAN AND NASTY QUOTES FROM THE SHADOWY SIDE OF LIFE
What a fun little read, chockablock full of delectable saturnine, sardonic and downright surly one-liners that spew from the smirks and smiles of our favorite dicks, dames and dolls. "My first wife was a second cook at a third rate joint on 4th St." -The Glass Key, is particular favorite of mine...But there are so many more to chew on...like so many mordant morsels. Some are complimentary,e.g. "You'd look good in a shower curtain" -Cody Jarrett -"White Heat" but most bite to the bone. "You've gotta study to get that stupid" -Radak "Desperate" This tiny compendium of sarcasm is complimented with an arrestingly appropriate graphic style that is both simple and effective. Have this by the bedstand and the next time your wife or hubby gives you some grief...turn to page...30 "I'll never think of our moments together without nausea". Now what can you say to that? -NDW
Sizzling!
This book is endlessly entertaining. I've read it several times already and plan to read it several times more. It doesn't get better than this.
Nothing beats dark and mysterious film and pulp noir!!!
I must admit I fell in love with "It's a Bitter Little World", it's a good little reference book for some of the best late forties and fifties noir movie punch lines. Last Saturday afternoon I saw "Kiss Me Deadly" on TCM for the first time but I'm going to make it a point to see all my old favorites like "Somewhere in the Night" though not mentioned by Mr. Pappas, and "Nocturne", "High Sierra" and other Bogey noir favorites, also "Chinatown", "Farewell My Lovely" "Blade Runner" as well as some I haven't yet seen. Long live noir!
A Piece of History
Every once in a while, and it's not often, you run across a book whose contents seem ready to bust its covers. ITS A BITTER LITTLE WORLD is one of those beauties. Charles Pappas has created a multi-media experience in book form. Not only do you get the best film-noir quotations ever uttered by the most desperate guys and dolls, but you get them surrounded by graphics and design that pull you right into the shadows. Visually, it's a striking book. And, as if that wasn't enough, you get a healthy dose of Mr. Pappas' own observations, written in a style that has all the bite and brains of the genre he obviously loves so well. ITS A BITTER LITTLE WORLD is a labor of love, and it pulls no punches. I can't imagine a worthier tribute to the film-noir genre, and I can't imagine anyone pulling it off half as well as Mr. Pappas. Film-noir has given us the greatest dialogue in the history of cinema, and ITS A BITTER LITTLE WORLD is a feast of imagery and phrases whose like we won't see again. This is a book for every library.
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