On 24 June 2005, William Denton wrote:
: In related news, POINT BLANK (1967), the great movie
adaptation of the
: first Parker novel by Westlake/Stark, is due out on DVD (in
North America,
: at least) on 5 July. I've only seen it once, years ago, and
I can't wait
: to see it again. In my mind, Parker looks like Lee
Marvin.
It's weirder than I remembered. There's one scene where
Walker (as Parker is called) finds a woman dead. He goes out
of the room, then comes back in, and she's gone and the bed
is bare but there's a cat on it. He goes out again, then
comes back in, and now all the furniture is gone. On the
commentary track, Stephen Soderbergh asked director John
Boorman about this but he didn't really explain what the hell
was going on.
Boorman said that the script they started with was bad, and
Marvin threw it out. That script, he added with a slight
smirk in his voice, was very much like the one Mel Gibson
used for his remake, PAYBACK. Boorman said they went back to
the book, but I'll have to reread it to see how close it is.
Certainly they give some background for Walker that's
un-Parkerlike.
It's a fine movie. Lee Marvin is still how I picture
Parker.
Bill
-- William Denton : Toronto, Canada : www.miskatonic.org : www.frbr.org
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