I think, crime fiction is one of the most readable and enjoyable genre when it comes to books and its because everyone can love it, and everyone should since it was started by the Genius of Edgar Allan Poe. Probably they have gotten away from what Poe did but they are still quite interesting and entertaining to read. I've read some of these and they are amazingly intriguing and captivating, once you start one, there's no getting away from it and The Mystery of Edwin Drood sounds so interesting I'm going to read it someday soon.
The success of this genre could be of course the basis of the pure logic and reason used by the character. Everyone can relate to that ideology even if they aren't particularly smart and it just simply because everything makes perfect sense when people read it.
It's success can also be due that they always leave you wanting more. Although, today, these genre might be on a decline because the great hits from the past might've taken everything there was to it and left almost nothing to work with, but it still never gets old.
Also, even though cozy mysteries and crime fiction sound interesting enough, they can be made even more through perennial villains or arch enemmies appearing throughout a series of books or pulp magazines in fact (Just an opinion).
Film noir
The movement and evolution can be clearly seen, as films forge a path towards the hollywood movies we see today and their structure. As these movements of fiction and crimes move to the TV and films and they become an instant hit, directors and producers all around the world, even if they didn't like it themselves, would've started doing the same, and then they would evolve to what is next, following along to a few with open minds and more ingenuity. Its called moving with the times.
Now, film noir for itself is a very interesting type of films. And appropriately, most of them had no color, and even if the exist, some of the essence of film noir will be lost, although not entirely.
Just as much as colored-film noirs loose some of the essence, so will neo-noirs for their consiousness of what they are doing, maybe not always, but the chances are, they over did them. Of course the exception would be Alfred Hitchcock who came much later (And a few others, such as Joseph H. Lewis and such), and yet his movies are just amazing and capture everything a film noir should have and add to it a bit more. Also, many people may call him a mysoginist but his movies wouldn't be as good as they are if he wasn't they way he was.
It probably sounds as if I were chewing off Film noirs, but no, in fact I like them a lot really. I have always hated, no matter what the film or subject, an entirely happy film with a happy ending and Film noir's dark approach to life is just right.
Existentialism
Existentialism is one of the things I don't entirely agree with, although, I know for a fact there is a lot to do with it and get amazing results. A quote which hit me the second I read it applies very well to this subject. (It may be improper but it applies so..) "Life's a bitch, then you die, so fuck the world, let's get high". (I'm not saying that's what we should do, just that it applies). I strongly believe it doesn't have to be that way.
There can be no existentialist film, novel, story or anything in fact, without it being extremely emotional and deep. That type of suffering which man causes to himself by his own actions and the misery of one's life which, obviously, no one can escape from MUST be linked with deep, strong feelings and thoughts, and indeed, all of the movies and novels which fall into this category have them.
I've always been keen on sad stories and I love them. And although, they get to me, I never have strong reactions to sad things which helps a lot.
An example of existentialism film which I've seen is Groundhog day. Although, he starts just having fun because he can do whatever he wants and they day will simply begin again, he is still trapped and starts getting tired of it.
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