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. 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