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Book Chapter
Blind Accidents
2022
Overview
This chapter explains the romance of the caper in John Huston's The Asphalt Jungle (1950). Based on the novel by W. R. Burnett, The Asphalt Jungle is the ur-example for the subgenre. The chapter contends that, whatever the setting, the result of a heist in these kinds of movies is failure not because of the ratiocinative powers of the police but because of the inevitability of betrayal, miscalculation, and violent death. Nearly all of noir is founded on this assumption made somehow romantic and even almost glamorous. Through the film, the chapter briefly explains the ways in which heists can go wrong very quickly, and what it means for the characters involved in the caper.
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Subject
ISBN
1501763628, 9781501763625
