Are there any great film tragedies that aren't versions of tragic plays or
novels?
One locus of tragedy in cinema, perhaps its great American locus, is in what
is loosely the crime genre. Is the criminal (or the cop) as grand an
instance of tragic prone 'human existence' as a Greek tyrant or a
Shakespearean prince? Are there any great film tragedies? Killing of a
Chinese Bookie? King of New York? Bad Lieutenant? Black Out? (Abel Ferrara
is featuring here), Chinatown? Reservoir Dogs? Days of Heaven?
Ross?
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