Day 649 of 365 More.
It was a dark and stormy night. Business hadn’t been great. The dames were even worse. You know how it goes. I gave Miss Jones the night off and shut myself up in my office and decided to crawl inside a bottle of Old Number 7 and tried to wait it all out.
I heard the knock at the front door, but with no Miss Jones to answer, I thought maybe if I just stayed quiet whoever it was would go away.
No such luck.
That’s when she walked in. A pretty face, stems up to here and a rack that could cause traffic accidents. The dame wore red. She smelled like money. She said she needed help. She said she could pay.
Her name was Trouble.
Or it might as well have been. I could smell it a mile away. You could have driven a ’49 Olds through the holes in her story. But what was I gonna do? A man could get lost in those eyes for days and I’m a sucker for a pretty face. Besides, this broad would do anything for my help and I hadn’t done the nasty in nearly a week. Sometimes you just gotta roll the dice and hope for the six the hardway. And sometimes you crap out.
My name is Philip Marlowe.
Trouble is my business.
very cool
love it, the picture and the text!
Fantastic! I love it 😀 I’m glad that Steph is in it; somebody needs to keep an eye on you with Carmen E. as your medical advisor!
lol! Noir Mav. Great pic and text dude.
nice.
"Do the nasty" is much later in time, like 1980s. Can’t think of a good 40s potboiler-type replacement off the top of my head, something more subtle.
I guess there’s a reason she’s wearing red.
fantastic….very nicely done Mav
+1 for product placement.
your gangster look is awesome!
Ahh ha!!! NICE! I love that you didn’t break charactar during your post. Steph looks great too!
Have you ever seen "Brick"? It’s kind of a modern day noir. Very cool.
This is great. I love it. Nice work.
Awesome!
Sorry that I missed Founder’s Day. Please know I appreciate your efforts and your contributions to 365 Days, Flickr, and helping me personally develop a love of photography.
@Afferent-Rapture.com: thank you.
@KatColorado: thanks. I had fun doing it.
@lrayholly: you’re glad? She’s about to stab me for god’s sake.
@navigator23: thanks. I thought it was fun.
@spresogna: thanks, luv. When are we gonna do another with you?
@phlewght: that’s actually intentionally anachronistic. It’s from Hollywood Shuffle(1987), which had a scene spoofing these types of movies. The detective was always talking about "doing the nasty." Anyway, its a reference I didn’t expect most people to get. I don’t think there really was an appropriate spoken euphemism for sex in those films. You weren’t really allowed to talk about it. Instead, you’d just slap a woman, then kiss her and the the scene would dissolve and when it came back, you’d be sitting on the bed smoking a cigaretted and she’d be at the vanity brushing her hair.
@disco~stu: thank you
@shockingbird: yeah, I thought it added something.
@nicky’s_eye_view: hah! but I’m supposed to be a detective. Not a gangster!
@Stephen Poff: yeah, I thought it’d be much better if I wrote it in character. Glad you liked it.
@afunkydamsel: thank you.
@voicesbybrian: no problem. Thank you for dropping by.
very noir…. very well done
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Seen on your photo stream. (?)
@espressoDOM: thanks. That’s what I was going for.
Bahaha! Love it. The text is so great.
"You could have driven a ’49 Olds through the holes in her story."<<—-That’s my favorite. 🙂
Nice.
@sadandbeautiful (Sarah): yeah… I really tried to explore the voice a bit there. It was fun.
@MegaBee: told you. I’m bringing "dame" back
This is awesome! excellent job
haha sorry you look gangster lol
This is a conundrum…if I stab him, CE will come to his rescue. If I don’t then I don’t get to exact revenge on him for hiring her in the first place…I guess my only choice is….Murder….(sorry, Mav!).
@beststephi: or, you know… you could just like stick to the script. 😉
ahah great noir tribute.
…just needed a typewriter and a gun to have all the cliches in. 🙂
love this
@☼ Helder: i totally should have had a gun on the desk. Oh well. Glad you like it.
Yep. Gotta get past the censors.
@phlewght: yeah. it’s always been one of my favorite visual euphemisms. There’s actually an homage to it in my comic, where during a prison scene two girls are brushing each other’s hair, implying that a lesbian encounter had happened.
Chrismaverick, you rock. How’d you pick the actors in the bottom of the movie poster? Are they your faves? They’re an eclectic group. Love the music credits. Thanks for sharing.
Great work man……love your movie posters!!!!!
@_Tyler Durdin: yeah, they’re just some of my favorites. I pick different people every time I do a poster.
@Ll’sWorld: thank you.