pWhile it#39;s been mostly life and death around here, with the arrival of the more commercially-minded 80s the noir took a turn towards the funny. We#39;re looking first at Steve Martin#39;s 1982 parody emDead Men Won#39;t Wear Plaid/em, followed by Zemeckis#39;s glorious 1988 cartoon mash-up emWho Framed Roger Rabbit./em/ppbr/ppstrongRecommendations:/strong/ppTristan - a href="https://letterboxd.com/film/youth-of-the-beast/" rel="nofollow"emYouth of the Beast/em/aem, /ema href="https://letterboxd.com/film/harakiri/" rel="nofollow"emHarakiri/em/a/ppFred - a href="https://letterboxd.com/film/flux-gourmet/" rel="nofollow"emFlux Gourmet/em/a/ppBrandon - a href="https://letterboxd.com/film/pearl-2022/" rel="nofollow"emPearl/em/a/ppWritten amp; Produced by Tristan Johnson amp; a href="http://www.fredpelzer.com/" rel="nofollow"Fred Pelzer/a. Featuring guest host a href="https://twitter.com/Beeshock" rel="nofollow"Brandon Shockney/a./ppA Strange Phantom Production/ppMusic by a href="https://incompetech.com/" rel="nofollow"Kevin MacLeod/a./ppa href="http://www.celluloiddirt.com/" rel="nofollow"Learn more about us/a or follow us on a href="https://letterboxd.com/CelluloidDirt/" rel="nofollow"Letterboxd/a/p