I'm not writing it. i'm probably going to later and force everyone to read it. But there is this great podcast of old detective radio shows from the 1930s taht got me thinking about how Crime Drama genre has evolved and is moving away from it's beautiful roots!
So I want to pose this question to everyone out there... all three of you... could LOCI ever do a show set in the current time, but with the feel of the old pulp serials. Logan narrating, Witt as "Trixie" his gal Friday. I know LOCI is not a show to make fun of itsself, which is a disservice, because I dearly love to laugh, but I think with Logan on the team it would be fantastic. Goren's just not a pulp detective character, he's too smartypants+batshitcrazy.
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Hi Bubba here, I like this idea Kowalski.
QUOTE (Bubba_Bridges @ Dec 1 2007, 11:08 AM) 
Hi Bubba here, I like this idea Kowalski.
thanks bubba, i'll write it up and post it, probably by next weekend.
That's a great idea, and Logan definitely has the personality for it. It would be interesting to read your piece. Raymond Chandler is the author that started the hard-boiled tradition (he wrote books such as Red Harvest, The Big Sleep and The Maltese Falcon). Red Harvest is interesting because it has some ambiguities about the morality of the investigator, even if I found it to be too violent. A classic film noir is Double Indemnity, even if the dialogue is old fashioned and I don't particularly like the role of the femme fatale. A more modern and feminist take on the hard-boiled ideas is Prime Suspect. If you're interested in hard-boiled mysteries or want some ideas, I recommend all three of these.
QUOTE (AmandaB @ Dec 2 2007, 10:31 PM)
That's a great idea, and Logan definitely has the personality for it. It would be interesting to read your piece. Raymond Chandler is the author that started the hard-boiled tradition (he wrote books such as Red Harvest, The Big Sleep and The Maltese Falcon). Red Harvest is interesting because it has some ambiguities about the morality of the investigator, even if I found it to be too violent. A classic film noir is Double Indemnity, even if the dialogue is old fashioned and I don't particularly like the role of the femme fatale. A more modern and feminist take on the hard-boiled ideas is Prime Suspect. If you're interested in hard-boiled mysteries or want some ideas, I recommend all three of these.
Amanda, Thanks for the tips. I'm actually a big Chandler fan. I remember Malteze Falcon as one of my favorite books and movies as a kid. Double Indemnity was on just last night (I like to have the TV running while I write, it helps me focus, if that makes any sense!), so it's funny you mention it. One of my favorite books of that genre actually is very far removed from the idea of a PI standing the stream of some shallow streetlamp. Patricia Highsmith's Strangers on a Train.. Hitchcock's only bad film... wasn't his fault the studio got involved and changed a lot of aspects. His daughter is in it, and she's good, no Sophia Coopola there! If you liked those books check out The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril, it's pretty decent! It's about Lester Dent (Doc Savage's author) and Walter Gibson (The Shadow's author) trying to solve a crime. it's funny to watch these two men who created these great characters fail miserably at trying to be them. but in the end they catch the bad guy and get the girls and that's what life is all about.
Speaking of the Shadow Orson Welles used to play him in the radio show... and D'Onofrio has played Orson Welles... maybe there could possibly be a Shadow revival someday?
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I love old time radio programs. Love old time detectives, too. Logan is rather Bogart-like! I think he would be perfect for this type of story.
Oh and again, really, you should post at fanfiction. There aren't nearly enough Logan stories. I've got some Logan ideas and some Ross ideas but I've been too preoccupied with the Goren/Eames stuff.
Oh and again, really, you should post at fanfiction. There aren't nearly enough Logan stories. I've got some Logan ideas and some Ross ideas but I've been too preoccupied with the Goren/Eames stuff.
QUOTE (musicwench @ Dec 18 2007, 09:28 PM)
I love old time radio programs. Love old time detectives, too. Logan is rather Bogart-like! I think he would be perfect for this type of story.
Oh and again, really, you should post at fanfiction. There aren't nearly enough Logan stories. I've got some Logan ideas and some Ross ideas but I've been too preoccupied with the Goren/Eames stuff.
Oh and again, really, you should post at fanfiction. There aren't nearly enough Logan stories. I've got some Logan ideas and some Ross ideas but I've been too preoccupied with the Goren/Eames stuff.
thanks! I already wrote this one up, it's posted under LOCI - Radio, but I want to create it as show as well. I'll have to post on Fanfic.com. I found this really cool fluffy pulp magazine Astonishing Adventures! Magazine which I'm trying to get into. I put a book out recently and really want to publish as much as possible. I write fanfic for the practice. My goal is to actually write an episode for every Thursday. Just to prove I can.
I write fanfiction for practice as well. I'm a reporter by trade but my fiction writing skills were never developed so I started writing fanfics for practice. Currently working on ideas for original novels with original characters. But fanfiction is great fun, too. Especially writing for LOCI characters.
Did this ever get written?
QUOTE (Maherjunkie @ May 17 2009, 01:59 PM)
Did this ever get written?
I don't know if Kowalski ever wrote her homage, but I wrote a story last year that sounds amazingly like her scenario, so if you'll excuse the shameless self promotion here's the link...
on this board : http://forums.usanetwork.com/index.php?showtopic=405998
or a ff.net : http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4503547/1/Deadly_Is_The_Female
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