Chris,
Re your quextion below:
> It's a matter of complex translation to say
who
> pulled the trigger?
The story goes that not even Chandler could remember who
killed Regan (though it might have been one of the other
murders he couldn't remember). The novel had an amazingly
complex plot; the film simplified while keeping its
spirit.
Scarlett lost a sister, a brother-in-law, and two kids in
making the transition to film, but that doesn't mean the film
version of GWTW was unfaithful, anymore than simplifying the
complex plot of TBS makes it unfaithful. It's a consequence
of adapting for different mediums.
Turning Marlowe into a "court jester," as someone else put
it, to show your contempt for the novel and the genre from
which it springs is a whole different stretch of
country.
JIM DOHERTY
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