Re: Re: RARA-AVIS: Re: THE LONG GOODBYE (1973)

From: JIM DOHERTY ( jimdohertyjr@yahoo.com)
Date: 22 Aug 2003


Jim,

Re your question below:

> What should [Altman] have used [to trash the PI
genre instead of THE LONG GOODBYE], THE ASPERN PAPERS?

He should have used an original screenplay. And my main point, as it's been all along, was that a filmmaker owes some responsibility to the source material he's adapting. If he has no respect for the material, and Altman didn't, he shouldn't adapt it.
 
> I begin to suspect, Jim, that no genre piece that
> isn't traditional is going
> to be acceptable by your lights.

I like all sorts of "non-traditional" genre pieces. What I don't like contemptuous insults to genres I happen to enjoy. Both Altman's TLG and M&MM qualify.

JIM DOHERTY

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