> On the other hand, the speculations on characters
from the classic
> stories, like the characters from Maltese Falcon and
Casablanca seem
> like great fun. Unfortunately for those among us who
look at every
> riddle as a potential plot, the game has already
been played, quite
> well, by the British film critic (well, film critic
and many other
> things), David Thomson, in his 1985 leap-of-fiction,
Suspects, a fun
> read that I would recommend to everyone. This book
follows up on the
> histories of Brigid, Cody Jarrett, Travis Bickle,
Roy Earle, Walter
> Neff, and many of our other favorite film
characters, telling us of
> their stories from both before and after the
curtains came down and the
> last pages and frames of film in their classic noir
episodes.
It's a fine, fine book, with Thomson's prose quite elegant
and his conceit far more sophisticated than the parlor game
such exercises suggest. I guarantee you will never look at
IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE the same way again.
Jim Beaver
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