A BRIEF HISTORY OF NOIR, PART 4
In Steven Soderbergh's sexy adaptation of Elmore Leonard's crime novel 'Out of Sight' , Jennifer Lopez and George Clooney come from opposite ends of the crime spectrum. Lopez is a Federal Marshal, Clooney an escaped convict. Clooney's pickup lines get her attention during their chance opening encounter, locked together in the trunk of a car. Clooney does time, wondering what would happen if he and Lopez met under different circumstances. Here, Lopez is waiting alone in a hotel bar while men try and buy her drinks, when Clooney shows up. . . They move upstairs... We all fall in love sometime, somewhere, sometimes with the right person, sometimes with the wrong person. Noir is inevitable. It's a romantic momentum that can't be stopped. The wrong place, the wrong time, the wrong girl.