ejm duggan (ejmd@cwcom.net)
Mon, 06 Dec 1999 13:10:34 +0000
James Rogers <jetan@ionet.net>
wrote:
> Actually, I think some of the _real_ hardboiled
stuff has a kind
> of comic aspect, as in James M. Cain....where the
world isn't so
> much Chandler-corrupt as it is Beckett-hopeless. In
fact, I kind
> of think I'd like to see a Keaton or Chaplin version
of _Postman
> Always Rings Twice_.
Woah!!! that's (((mind-boggling))) but ... what an
interesting thought!
> Then again, I've always wanted to hear Groucho Marx
reading Chandler.
The reader-in-the-mind's-ear for me is always Alastair Cook
(not just of Chandler, but for reading out loud ... esp. for
pace).
> Anyway, I didn't think it was a dumb
question.
Ditto: interesting question (there is often humour in the
hard-boiled, it's kind of needed to provide relief
from/contrast with the world-view, and often serves to
establish the hb protagonist's cynicism).
ED
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