tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4797087968104121636.post4220353288711984284..comments2023-05-21T03:16:13.000-07:00Comments on Down These Mean Streets: Fallen Angel (1945)Margot Shelbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06580855468061590981noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4797087968104121636.post-7364671386252036442018-09-08T14:18:29.982-07:002018-09-08T14:18:29.982-07:00I watch a lot of noir too, and I do like a good de...I watch a lot of noir too, and I do like a good depressing ending... but I love a good happy ending. A good one, though, not a tacked-on-at-the-last-minute one. I don't like the movie version of <i>Breakfast at Tiffany's</i> at all because the ending feels phony.Hamlette (Rachel)https://www.blogger.com/profile/11961916847426233995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4797087968104121636.post-87790125472240981822018-09-08T09:50:48.042-07:002018-09-08T09:50:48.042-07:00I probably watch way too many Noirs - or Gangster ...I probably watch way too many Noirs - or Gangster movies - with depressing endings, somehow I guess I'm drawn to them. With so many Noirs a happy ending feels tacked on. I wrote about Tomorrow is Another Day which must have the worst tacked-on happy ending ever. However, here in Fallen Angel it works, but then it works as part of the storyline, not against it.Margot Shelbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06580855468061590981noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4797087968104121636.post-11241363731208847352018-09-08T07:38:19.713-07:002018-09-08T07:38:19.713-07:00I must admit that, much as I love noir... I love h...I must admit that, much as I love <i>noir</i>... I love happy endings more, so almost all my favorite <i>noir</i> films are the ones with happy endings. <i>Laura</i>, <i>The Blue Dahlia</i>, <i>Swamp Water</i>, <i>To Have and Have Not</i>, <i>Dead Again</i>, <i>L.A. Confidential</i> -- I love that happy ending! I do love some without happy endings too, like <i>This Gun for Hire</i> and <i>Road to Perdition</i> and <i>The Maltese Falcon</i>, but I've never felt like something had to end bleakly for it to be <i>noir</i>.<br /><br />Anyway, great write-up of this lovely Dana Andrews film! Hamlette (Rachel)https://www.blogger.com/profile/11961916847426233995noreply@blogger.com