Re: RARA-AVIS: The Big Sleep

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• Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: The Big Sleep
• From: billha@ionet.net (Bill Hagen)
• Date: Sat, 29 Mar 1997 23:53:36 -0600 (CST)
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Recently, Raphael Shargel wrote about Bogart's allure in THE BIG SLEEP.
But let's observe that for all of the romance (which, agree, is contrary to
Marlow), Bogart only really gets serious with his co-star.  So does Dorothy
Malone bed him down when she closes up shop? There is a cut-away after the
drink, a short passage of music, but the post-whateveritis shot shows the
girl with hair and tailored clothes quite in place, her voice still crisp;
she's his "pal."  This is Hollywood Marlow, sure, but he's not Mike Hammer
either.

Yeah, picky maybe, but it has to do with whatever's left of Marlow's
integrity in a movie that's different, but not necessarily that much lower
on the scale from the Chandler novel.

Bill Hagen
billha@ionet.net

Bill Hagen
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