--- JIM DOHERTY <
jimdohertyjr@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> One can't honestly compare Elliot Gould's
> performance
> to Dick Powell's, Humphrey Bogart's,
Robert
> Mitchum's,
> or Powers Boothe's, and conclude that we're
looking
> at
> essentially the same character.
>
That makes no sense. One can't look at any of those
performances and assume the same character. You can't grasp
that some people refuse to have the genre dictate the form of
the piece and as a consequence any variation is by definition
unacceptable. The Long Goodbye is by far better than The Big
Sleep and Lady In The Lake and Murder, My Sweet. The last two
are just bad movies and the first is a good Bogart/Bacall
film but not a good representation of Chandler. You seem to
be stuck with a set of values that defines borders so
narrowly that you'll never be satisfied with anything but a
loop that feeds that stuff back to you.
William
Essays and Ramblings
<http://www.williamahearn.com>
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