Carrie,
Re your comment below:
> As for Marlowe's age in the movie, this is the
sort
> of story that just cries
> out for a "veteran" actor and of course most
male
> leads are just getting
> started at 40. I mean, George Clooney and
Tom
> Cruise are 40 or thereabouts,
> it would be hard to buy either of them as an
"aging"
> Marlowe.
I don't think the "age" thing was crucial to the book, at
least not to the part that Chandler wrote. Marlowe was in his
early 40s in THE LONG GOODBYE and PLAYBACK, too, but hardly
seemed in his dotage in either of those books. Nor was the
age difference emhasized when the Marlowe/Loring romance got
started
(in THE LONG GOODBYE) because it wasn't that great a
difference. Five or six years hardly qualifies as
"May/December."
My point wasn't that Caan wasn't (or Newman wouldn't have
been) well cast as an "aging Marlowe," only that the "aging
Marlowe" was a conceit of the film, not the book.
JIM DOHERTY
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