Jim Doherty wrote:
>>My point wasn't that Caan wasn't (or
Newman
wouldn't have been) well cast as an "aging Marlowe," only
that the "aging Marlowe" was a conceit of the film, not the
book.<<
Jim has made some good points on this subject, but I read the
book long before I saw the movie--as a matter of fact, I just
saw the movie for the first time about a month or six weeks
ago-- but I had the sense of an aging Marlowe and if not
aging, at least world weary. I don't remember anyone saying
his age in the book, but even if Parker had--
Forty something was a hell of a lot older than today, as was
fifty something. They were much older ages than now.
But forty-something even then wouldn't have been the way Caan
played it.
I still think Newman would have nailed it.
All opinion, of course.
Jack Bludis
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