I agree with Bill that I noticed the romantic potential
at
the end of several of the stories. Particularly "Guns
at
Cyrano's" and "Nevada Gas." Those two end the Vintage
Crime
collection I had on vacation and I found the upbeat ending
of
the two interesting.
I don't know when "Smart-Aleck Kill" was written but it
struck
me as fairly weak when compared with the rest of the ones I
read.
The story wasn't as tight and the dialog was much more
cliche.
I know I enjoyed it the least. Particularly compared
against
"Spanish Blood" and "I'll Be Waiting" which I thought
were
excellent.
Term I hadn't remembered or really understood. In "The King
in
Yellow" the line goes:
"I get a bump once'n a while. Mostly a Dutch." A
Dutch???
I also mentioned the issue of "Backfire" used during the
shootout
in "I'll Be Waiting" in an earlier discussion. I saw it again
used
in the same sort of context in another story though I didn't
jot down
which. Clearly a way of describing a situation that was on
Chandler's
mind at the time. I haven't really seen it used quite that
way by
anyone else. I will see if I can find the other reference
again.
Just saw "Out of Sight" again on DVD last night and watched
the deleted
scenes. The idea of fish was more important in the deleted
scenes as a
forecast to the diamond payoff in the fish tank. As all that
was added
to the original book story for the movie, it struck me how
the gimick of
diamonds in the fishtank as a payoff was so similar to
"Goldfish." The
final cut of the movie didn't dwell on it so it didn't strike
me when I
first saw it. As it is billed as "Hard Boiled" I wondered if
there was
a screenwriting "nod" there.
Jeff
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