>From:
abc@wt.net
>Subject: RARA-AVIS: book/movie
>William Faulkner worked on the screenplay.
Making this the only film to have a Nobel Prize-winning
author adapt the screenply from a book by another Nobel
Prize-winning author.
>From: "M Blumenthal" <
blumenidiot@21stcentury.net>
>Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Re: To Have and Have
Not
>
>Granted the movie has virtually no connection with
the book, However,
>it's a very good movie. I know a lot of critics
consider it better
>than Casablanca.
I don't know of many critics that have said it's better than
Casablanca, though some do think of it quite highly. I
thought it was a bit disappointing after having heard it
compared to Casablanca all the time, but it is a solid Hawks
classic, with some fantastic racy dialogue. ("You know how to
whistle, don't you Steve? You just put your lips
together...and blow.")
>(Why is Harry Morgan called Steve?).
Hawks inserts a lot of stuff from his own life in his films.
Marie Browning (Bacall) and Harry Morgan (Bogart) refer to
each other as Slim and Steve because those were the pet names
that Hawks and his wife Nancy Gross called each other. Hawks
liked Bacall because she reminded him of Gross, though he
sort of had to train Bacall to act more impudent and talk
with a deeper, more husky voice.
Gross was apparently very sassy, and Hawks would often ask
her what she'd say at certain points in a script, and then
tell the screenwriters to replace the dialogue with her zippy
one-liners or sultry double-entendres. I believe Faulkner
said, semi-seriously, that she deserved a cowriting credit
for the script of The Big Sleep.
-Dan
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