-------Original Message------- From: JIM DOHERTY <
jimdohertyjr@yahoo.com> Sent: 08/20/03 08:09 PM To:
rara-avis@icomm.ca Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Re: THE LONG
GOODBYE (1973)
>
> "[Altman] was obligated to be faithful, within the
limits of his talent and the medium in which he was working,
to the work he was adapting."
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You and Terrill and Mario are forgetting an important name
here: Leigh Brackett, who wrote the "Long Goodbye"
screenplay. And, before you start placing a black hat on
Altman and a white hat on her 'cause Brackett wrote her own
HB, let me add that an interview I read with Brackett made it
clear the ending of the 1973 "Long Goodbye" reflected *her
own* attitude toward the Marlowe character.
(Wish I could cite the specifics of that interview, but the
information is not at hand.)
Also, as far as screen adaptations which employ the same
title are concerned ... the '40s "Big Sleep" (screenplay:
Brackett, William Faulkner, Jules Furthman) reassigned the
murder of Regan to somebody else. Do you disapprove of that
adaptation as well?
Me, I dearly love both the "Long Goodbye" and ('40s) "Big
Sleep" movies. To borrow a phrase from General Sternwood's
elder daughter, they ... sock me in the choppers!
Chris
P.S. "Countdown" (1968) came from a novel by Hank
Searls,
"That Cold Day In The Park" (1969) came from a novel by
Richard Miles, and "McCabe & Mrs. Miller" (1971) came
from a novel by Brian McKay.
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