Yeah, I'm terrible with all the various namings for some reason. Music, art styles, books, philosophy, architecture...can never keep them straight
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I thought film noir meant anti-heros (or maybe "grey area" heros or something), stormy vibes, and mostly detective stories 🤷♀️
I think there’s an obligatory saxaphone in the soundtrack of film noir movies.
Wait wait, sorry.
Not “movies”, that’s so mainstream.
“Films”.
I'm thinking Maltese Falcon. Rainy. "I knew she was trouble when I first saw her...but damn it, I ignored that voice" 🚬
Dude. Have you ever heard of the Bulwer-Lytton writing contest???
It’s ended now but it was a contest to write ridiculous intros to stories in the “it was a dark and stormy night” style.
Great stuff!
#writing
No, will have to come back to this. More coffee must be made first!
I am convinced that the bizarre naming conventions are just another way to maintain exclusivity, like having a cassette tape of some indie band that barely anyone has even heard of.
“Ooh, what an I listening to? Yeah I got this tape at one of the only two shows they ever did. They started their own genre, that’s how indie they are, bro. Their music is postexistentialistpostvaporwavepostemopunkelectronica. You wouldn’t know, ha.”
A bit of that for sure. It is also useful though, in its time, to track shifts in themes/styles, but can get confusing when you try to reconcile the evolving categories over time. Philosophy is prob the worst offender
Very useful historically, when studying architecture, fine art, etc,
but folks are just making up terms now and getting more upset when you mislabel their genre.
Philosophy is definitely the worst of these. Totally agree.