Mark Sullivan:
> Giving Marlowe a cat was actually one of the lesser
liberties taken by
> Altman and/or Brackett in the film adaptation of The
Long Goodbye.
One of the articles in "The Big Book of Noir" is Brackett
explaining why she scripted the film the way she did. Given
the basic premise that the film was to be set in the
'70s, her explanations make perfect sense. No way could the
novel have been followed closely without it becoming an
anachronism.
Personally, I love the movie, and I'm saying that as someone
who would have put the novel on his "Blown away" list, had he
ever written one.
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