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rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, DJ-Anonyme@... wrote:
>
> William wrote:
>
> "Altman -- or whoever wrote the screenplay -- seems
to take that sense
> of the book and pull it into a contemporary setting
as if to confirm
> Chandler's fears. The Long Goodbye isn't Chandler's
Marlowe. It's the
> Marlowe that would have been had he lived
now."
>
> Leigh Brackett, cowriter of The Big Sleep
screenplay, wrote it. And she
> says pretty much exactly this in her essay about it,
collected in the
> The BIg Book of Noir.
I saw The Long Goodbye last weekend and it seemed splendid,
much better than before. I would say it's one of the
important American films of the seventies. The cinematography
is extraordinary, and magic runs through the film, at least
for this viewer. I am not a great fan of the novel, but the
film is bound to be a classic, if it isn't already. The
seventies was a long time ago, ouch.
Best,
mrt
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