After the film's initial release, critical reception continues to be positive; the review-aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes gives it a score of 94%, with an average rating of 7.79 out of 10, based on 35 reviews. The website's "Critic's Consensus" for the film reads, "Boasting impactful action as well as surprising emotional resonance, Hard Boiled is a powerful thriller that hits hard in more ways than one."[33] Film scholar Andy Klein wrote that the film is "almost a distillation of [Woo's] post-1986 work. Even if the plot is full of holes, and the emotional tug isn't quite as strong as in The Killer, the action sequences (nearly the whole movie) are among the greatest ever filmed".[28][34] Mark Salisbury of Empire Magazine gave the film four stars out of five, calling it "Infinitely more exciting than a dozen Die Hards, action cinema doesn't come any better than this." Salisbury compared Hard Boiled to Woo's American films, stating that his Hong Kong films are "not as slick as his later films, [Hard Boiled is] more inventive and stylised and [has] great early performances from Fat and Leung".[35] Empire placed the film at number 70 in their list of "The 100 Best Films Of World Cinema" in 2010.[36] Ed Gonzalez of Slant Magazine gave the film the highest rating of four stars, proclaiming it to be one of Woo's best films.[37] The British film magazine Empire ranked the character of Tequila as 33rd in their "The 100 Greatest Movie Characters" poll.[38]
Whereas classic detectives stories focused on plot and thought (sometimes called whodunits), Hard-boiled Detectives focused scene setting in the gritty urban street and the characterization of the tough, shrewd detectives. Unlike traditional detectives, hardboiled detectives routinely faced death and danger. The characters were super masculine, independent, American frontiersman-type with a propensity for violence and ambivalence towards the law enforcement.
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Every Private Eye comes from a unique background. Mike Hammer, who despises violent crimes was a soldier and carries an Army Colt .45 Automatic under his coat. Philip Marlowe is an intellectual who worked as an investigator for the L.A. County District Attorney until being fired for 'insubordination'. Sam Spade was an amalgamation of several actual detectives that writer Dashiell Hammett had worked with, not " an erudite solver of riddles in the Sherlock Holmes manner; he wants to be a hard and shifty fellow, able to take care of himself in any situation". The Hard-boiled Detective is not the sort of guy that women normally fall for, but they are happy to have him around when the chips are down.
Unlike the traditional Whodunit, solving the crime is not as important to Hard-boiled fiction as the crook himself. If the other heroes are armored in virtue, the Hard-boiled P.I. is shielded by cynicism. He lives in a tough world and he knows that no matter how hard he fights he is not going to come out on top. However, some things are even stronger than his cynicism.
Carroll John Daly, Dashiell Hammett (Sam Spade), and Raymond Chandlerr (Philip Marlowe) are thought to be the godfathers of hardboiled detective fiction. Writers were encouraged to write with an "authentic" voice often using more metaphors and similes than a 10th grade English teacher. The slang of Hardboiled Detectives is legendary with authors often coining new terms. Eventually this characterization became a cliché and eventually satirized.
This collection included a sample of some of the best Hardboiled Detectives old time radio shows; including: Sam Spade, Philip Marlowe, Pat Novak, Jeff Regan, Harry Lime, Box 13, Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, Richard Diamond, Bold Venture, Big Town, Michael Shayne, Nightbeat, That Hammer Guy, Rogue's Gallery, The Falcon, and a few surprises.
Due to no longer being bound to the limitations of Flash and the computer keyboard, Rocketbirds: Hardboiled Chicken has been greatly enhanced for Playstation 3. They were able to add many new features, new game modes, new movies, new screens, new chapters, new weapons, and more. From the gameplay to the visuals, every single aspect has been expanded and improved.
See also: Development in Rocketbirds: Revolution! Sian Yue Tan used PhyreEngine for Rocketbirds: Hardboiled Chicken which enabled the team to release a stereoscopic 3D-looking game at 60 fps per eye (120 fps). They continued using PhyreEngine to bring Rocketbirds to the PS Vita on 2013 where it counter-tilts at full res without having to compromise on visual quality. Its flexible (and free) licensing allowed them to expand the game to other platforms, such as Steam.
Christopher Breu offers a complex account of how and why hard-boiled masculinity emerged during an unsettled time of increased urbanization and tenuous peace, and traces its cultural conception. Examining the work of Ernest Hemingway, Dashiell Hammett, Chester Himes, and William Faulkner, Breu illustrates how the tough male was a product of cultural fantasy, one that shored up gender and racial stereotypes.
The persona of the American male in the period between the two world wars was characterized by physical strength, emotional detachment, aggressive behavior, and an amoral worldview. This ideal of a hard-boiled masculinity can be seen in the pages and, even more vividly, on the covers of magazines such as Black Mask, which shifted from Victorian-influenced depictions of men in top hats and mustaches in the early 1920s to the portrayal of much more overtly violent and muscular men.
Looking closely at this transformation, Christopher Breu offers a complex account of how and why hard-boiled masculinity emerged during an unsettled time of increased urbanization and tenuous peace, and traces the changes in its cultural conception as it moved back and forth across the divide between high and low culture as well as the color line that bifurcated American society.
A scholarly text of the highest caliber in terms of information and readability. Film noir and hard-boiled detective fiction enthusiasts of all levels of knowledge will find the book not only captivating, informative, and accessible, but a pure, page-turning delight. -- Literature Film Association News
Richard Hallas was a pseudonym for Eric Knight, an Englishman otherwise known, surprisingly enough, for penning the lachrymose novel Lassie Come-Home. Crossing continents as well as genres, Knight would only publish one hardboiled novel (though a manuscript to another, Rose Without Warning, about a young girl's climb from marathon dance halls to stardom, sits amongst his papers at Yale). One can't help but wonder how Knight could write a saccharine tale about a faithful dog, and, virtually at the same time, a hardboiled novel filled with murder, robbery, gambling, blackmail, scams, and suicide. Even more perplexing is the harsh critical reaction he received for You Play the Black. No doubt their responses had something to do with the book's inauspicious publishing history. Marketed as a hardboiled novel "in the style of James M. Cain," You Play the Black was initially published by McBride in 1938. Thirteen years would pass before Dell would see fit to reprint it; then a further 29 years before Gregg Press resuscitated it in 1980, followed by Black Lizard/Creative Arts and Carnegie Mellon University Press in 1986.
There were other, less eloquent, critics of Hallas's novel. A Springfield reviewer thought You Play the Black "would have been better off as burlesque," while J. Fenwick declared in the New York Herald-Tribune that "The book is a phony but a pretty slick job...James Thurber, himself, couldn't have done a better parody... After it is all over you feel sort of disgusted with yourself for having strung along with him." Could hardboiled writing have been so ubiquitous and stable that any deviation constituted a side-trip down parody lane? And why couldn't critics have recognized that Hallas's evocation of 1930s L.A. was at least the equal of McCoy's I Should Have Stayed Home, also published in 1938, or West's Day of the Locust, which appeared a year later?
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