Fragen noir an ...
... den Schriftsteller Scott Phillips
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Name?
Scott Phillips
What are you doing besides writing?
Reading, watching movies, trying to make movies.
Film released in the year of your birth?
Yojimbo, baby, Yojimbo! Apart from that '61 wasn't a great year.
What books can we find in your bookshelf?
Hundreds of novels and collections of short stories, including a great deal of crime fiction, most of it in the hardboiled or "noir" category. 150 or so by Simenon, both the Maigrets and the romans durs. Lots of true crime also; collections of crime and accident scene photos and mug shots, as well as books of medical photographs. Cartoons and graphic arts; photography, in particular Martin Parr, Stephen Shore, Gregory Crewdson and other contemporary artists as well as older practitioners like Atget and Lartigue. Books on stereography, paleontology and frauds, particularly art forgery.
Some of your favorite film noirs?
Too many to list -- The Killing, Asphalt Jungle, The Prowler, Double Indemnity, Ride the Pink Horse, Chinatown, The Outfit (John Flynn), The Woman Chaser (Robinson Devore), etc. etc. etc.
And films beside noir?
Anything by Kubrick, Herzog, Huston, Wilder, Bunuel, Keaton; The Wild Bunch, les Enfants du Paradis, The Bank Dick, all of Laurel and Hardy, Blade Runner, anything pre-code, especially from Warner Brothers....many many more. I'm pretty well obsessed.
Internet?
Questions noir - Your life a film noir
1. Which would be your part in the movie?
the gleefully nihilistic psycho cop
2. Your nickname in the movie?
Shitbird
3. Which author (living or dead) should write the script?
Charles Willeford
4. Famous quote in your movie? (Exmaple: Scarface = The World Is Yours, White Heat = Made It Ma, Top Of The World)
Put out that cigarette or I'll stuff it down your throat and set your stomach on fire.
5. Shot in black and white or in color?
Black and white except for the sex scenes.
6. Soundtrack by …
Los Straitjackets
7. Which femme fatale would lead you to your doom?
my nymphomaniac, guncrazy wife
8. Your getaway car?
a 1961 Cadillac, burning smoke out the tailpipe and with a wicked shimmy and badly cracked leather upholstery
9. Your weapons?
A blackjack and a badge
10. Book for your prison sentence?
"You Can't Win" by Jack Black (not the movie actor)
11. Finally: Epigraph on your tombstone?
God Grant that he Lie Still.
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