>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.
Me, too. Obviously, there are some plot differences (why is
there a Hollywood compulsion to change the killers in
Chandler novel adaptations?), but I loved the mood of the
movie. And, quite frankly, I don't see how you can read
Chandler for the plots anyway--I read his novels for the
atmosphere/mood and for the character of Marlowe. That's what
I was really looking for in the movie, and that's what I
found.
Vicky
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