From Roger Ebert’s “Detour (1945)” (The Chicago Sun-Times: 7 June 1998):
The difference between a crime film and a noir film is that the bad guys in crime movies know they’re bad and want to be, while a noir hero thinks he’s a good guy who has been ambushed by life.
Posted on September 3rd, 2010 by Scott Granneman
Filed under: art, language & literature
