Yeah, Spillane did hate the movie. And I totally agree with
you that I'd watch Ralph Meeker as Mike Hammer ten times
before I'd pick up a Spillane novel. The movie is just so
freaking good.
David Moran
Mark Sullivan wrote:
> David wrote:
>
> "One of my favorite noir movies is Robert Aldrich's
"Kiss Me Deadly" for
> precisely that reason. It takes the essential
qualities and magnifies
> them tremendously so you can see Hammer for what, at
heart, he really
> is, a cold, vain, mean-spirited thug. That being
said, it's awful fun to
> watch him behave that way."
>
> For me, this movie was much more fun than the books.
Didn't Spillane
> hate this adaptation for pretty much the same
reasons we like it,
> because he is clearly not a hero? I agree with those
who have labeled
> Hammer a thug, but I don't think Spillane would. I
think he intends
> him, and his thuggish behavior, to be viewed as
heroic.
>
> Mark
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