(lawrence kasdan) i wrote a sort of standard film noir story, but it was really about something else for me. it was really about something that i was seeing in friends, which was this desire to hit the big score very quickly. and that's really the story for the central character. he just sort of is impatient and things aren't going as well or as pleasurably, as sensually as he would like. and a woman comes into his life that seems to open the door, where he can have everything he wants, immediately. he has a gun. where? (thump, gunshot) (thud) (lawrence kasdan) the character of ned racine that bill hurt plays is not so very different from a lot of people i know and a certain american type. in fact, the villainess, if she can be called that, has the same kind of drives. she's just a hardworking woman who wants to get it all. if you never trust in me again, you'd probably be smart. but you must believe one thing, i love you. i love you and i need you. (john bailey) violence and sexuality have become much more graphic. i think a key element in noir was that tension or repression. filmma