The Girl Who Kissed Barnaby Jones, Pacific Palisades, written by, Scott Phillips is a perfect example of neo-noir. The ambiguous protagonist Tate, being lured in by the femme fatale Cherie, to manipulate him into a murder plot. Even going so far as to lock him in by having sex with him before she exposes her plan. Neo-noir seems to have some different characteristics then classic noir. The protagonist in some cases fight back once they see the trap they are in. Then to make it more interesting, the plan and even new plans due to the circumstances are carried out and the characters get away with the evil.
What You See, Westchester, written by Diana Wagman seems like a weird horror movie with really no plot. The protagonist seems true to the description, he's lost his mother, one friend, and some one he works for. He meets a nice girl that he can't get off of his mind and explores ways to get next to her, even fantasizes. Once he is on an assignment and just so happens to meet his lady friend and she agrees to spend some time with him, insisting that her friend accompanies them, all hell breaks loose and the story to me does not make any sense at that point. This would be in my opinion the most difficult story to classify as neo-nor.
I soooo agree with you! I hated the Barnaby Jones story. I just wanted to slap the guy into reality. He was a really big nerd, with no real ambition. As far as your pick for the best noir example, I agree with you on that as well. I liked that story. It did have all the twist and turns of noir. And there definetly was a femme fatale in that story.
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