(john bailey) violence and sexuality have become much more graphic. think a key element in noir was that tension or repression. filmmaking techniques have also become so much slicker. there's a lot more money available. we don't make b-movies really that deal with that material. b-movies tend to be like slasher films and so forth. a-movies usually have a very strong production budget and design budget. and film noir films inherently were b-movies, low-budget. and they had certain physical limitations and restrictions that became part of the filmmaking vocabulary. and i don't think we use those so much anymore. there's been many attempts to emulate that style. but that style was tied to a time and a place. and that time and place is gone. if somebody wanted to make a film using that dialogue, that very terse, chandler, hemingway dialogue, would it sell today? i don't know. i don't think so. i do really feel this genre is a historical genre. when you speak of german expressionism, you speak of a specific time. when you speak of the nouvelle vague, that'