Victoria Esposito-Shea (vmes@northnet.org)
Fri, 10 Sep 1999 08:23:12 -0400
: wow. that really, really surprises me, because i've
always thought it
very
: obvious that miller's crossing is unacknowledged glass
key. i'd seen
: miller's crossing many times before i either read or
saw the glass key,
but
: i remember reading it and being completely stunned by
familiar much of it
: was. obviously, the alan ladd film is much closer to
the novel, but
: miller's crossing has always struck me as very
sinificantly influenced,
if
: nothing else, by the hammett novel (but not red
harvest!)....anyone else?
I've never seen "Miller's Crossing", though it's on my
semi-permanent "to see" list (maybe when the kids leave home
I'll get around to all of them), but I remember being irked
by the Alan Ladd "Glass Key" because of the way the subplot
with Janet, Paul and Ned was handled, i.e. on an
amicable-to-the-point-of-romantic-comedy note. I thought the
movie ending really got deflated by this.
: I seem to remember the Coens referring to Blood Simple
as their James M.
: Cain movie, also.
I'm probably belaboring the obvious with this group (hey,
someone has to do it!), but the title comes from "Red
Harvest", which seems to me to set it up to be read as a
Hammett film(even though the movie is far, far more
reminiscent of Cain, and arguably of Thompson).
And Chris--"Nick and Nora" pajamas may not be hardboiled, but
as a proud owner I can certify that they're warm.
Best, Vicky
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