| Posted by: Buck Turgidson at August 31, 2002, 11:58 pm | | Topic: (VIDEO) "The Long Goodbye" (8/10) Forum: JoBlo | | The running joke about the finicky cat is hilarious. A lot of Chandler/Marlowe purists didn't like it much, but I really love it. I've seen it @ 5 times, and I just read the novel a couple of weeks ago. It's ironic as hell to me that one of the complaints lodged at the time is that Elliot is just a little too touchy-feely 70's style to play hard boiled Marlowe. In point of fact, the Altman/Gould Marlowe is one HELL of a lot harder on his friend Terry Lennox than the one that originally came straight off of Chandler's pen. It's really a good adaptation. Other than changing the time frame from the late 40's-early 50's to early 70's, (it works SO much better here than in the ill-concieved and indifferently executed 1978 remake of The Big Sleep w/ Robert Mitchum...), it's got all the basic aspects of the plot: rich, troubled writer w/ a young, beautiful wife; Lennox's wife murdered, Marlowe helping Lennox get to Mexico; Lennox being reported dead there... all the basics are present. It's unorthodox, but it's very much in the vein of Chandler and his cynical/moralistic worldview. Terrific film, definitely worth your time and effort. [This message has been edited by Buck Turgidson (edited 09-01-2002).] |
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