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Detour (1946)
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Detour - First thoughts
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"There's something about classic noir, and Detour is as classic as they get: cynically narrated from when it's already all gone to shit by an everyman, sad-sack, doomed protagonist. The booze is plentiful, the women are just as cynical as the men and much more manipulative, and boy do I love it.That's probably why noir is my favorite genre. It's not so much that many of my favorite films are noirs: the selection at the top is a little eclectic. It's just that I haven't met a noir yet I didn't at least enjoy.Detour's a perfect introduction. It's short (about 70 minutes, still impressive for a film shot in 6 days), the sets and dingy and the rear projection can either be called clunky or appropriately claustrophobic. And most important of all: it conveys the basic message of noir: life's a bitch, and then you die. Or, as it's said in this film: "That's life. Whichever way you turn, Fate sticks out a foot to trip you".Sidenote: the origin of the forever bad endings was of course that u ... "
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"Detour (1945) has been declared a B-movie classic and a film noir classic, and I love film noir; therefore, I thought the movie was fantastic—not. The argument is that this movie is so bad that it’s good, but maybe it is so bad that it’s not very good at all. The movie was shot in 6 days on a severely limited budget (one figure is $117,000) by a B-movie director who has become idolized, Edgar G. Ulmer. The sets are terrible—which leads some folks to say they give the movie a surreal, dream-like quality. But maybe they just look like cheap sets. The back projection as Al Roberts (Tom Neal) hitches and drives from New York to LA is amateurish (nothing was shot on location)—which leads some people to say that the phoney roads behind the cars creates a claustrophobic air appropriate for a movie about a man hounded by fate. But maybe the rear projection is just amateurish and distracting. Sometimes the cars are reversed, with the driver on the right instead ... "
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