rene said:
> Fair enough. It [THE KILLERS] is a dam fine
movie
> even if it had
> nothing to do with
> Hemingway's story.
then jim said: My impression was that the reason Hemingway
liked it was precisely because it was so FAITHFUL to the
story.
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hi jim! i think someone earlier said that it was sort of a
combo of both, and that it faithfully followed the story all
the way thru, and then branched off into entirely new
material.
if i recall the story correctly, you'd hafta create some
material to get a movie out of it. i think most of the story
the swede (is this right?) is laying on his bed waiting for
the killers to come and kill him. i think he was supposed to
throw a fight and didn't, but man, i'm hazy on that. maybe he
goes out and eats something. an action-packed story, it
ain't.
i'd like to see all the movie adaptations of hemingway's
books. i've seen just a couple so far: the sun also rises,
and to have and have not. one was very weak and the other was
totally untrue to the character of harry morgan and the
plot.
miker
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