> on 7/2/03 3:39 PM, Mario Taboada at
matrxtech@yahoo.com wrote:
>
> To follow up on Chris's post, in a text you can
use
> Hemingway's "iceberg principle" (hide 7/8 of the
stuff,
> since the reader will provide it himself, or imagine
it).
> Hemingway also points out that the author *must
know* the
> remaining 7/8...
I'm not sure, when
you say "Chris's post," whether you're referring
to me or to Chris Martin.
I'll use that
confusion, in any case, as an excuse to remark on how
one of the themes of the 1973
"Long Goodbye" is the distance between
what's traditionally thought of
as Philip Marlowe's era and 1973, a
distance which is illustrated
by the use of both a 1938 Johnny Mercer
song ("Hooray for Hollywood,"
written with Richard Whiting) and a 1973
one (the gorgeous title tune,
written with John Williams).
On the off-chance
that the name "Johnny Mercer" is unfamiliar to you,
I'll say that he and composer
Whiting are the same team who wrote the
song "Too Marvellous For Words"
which is given conspicuous use in the
"Dark Passage" movie. There
were several Mercer songs in the "Midnight
In The Garden of Good And
Evil," and the "L.A. Confidential" movie
featured his "Ac-Cen-Tchu-Ate
The Positive" and "Hit The Road To
Dreamland" (both co-written
with composer Harold Arlen).
*
"Chandler did some
screenwriting too, I know" writes Michael Robison.
Well, um, yes. He cowrote the
screenplay for "Double Indemnity" --
which the guard in "Long
Goodbye" quotes when he does his Barbara
Stanwyck impersonation -- and
for "Strangers on a Train." Although
it's been asserted, as far as
the latter picture is concerned, that the
greater part was actually
written by Ben Hecht associate Czenzi
Ormonde.
And, as long as
people are making reference to the first "Big Sleep"
movie, let's not overlook
writer Jules Furthman. He was the guy, after
all, who wrote the screenplay
for "Nightmare Alley" ...
Chris
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