William wrote:
"What I appreciated about the book and the film is that the
story wasn't a whodunit in any conventional sense although
Archer's murder was a theme whose resolution was solved and
revealed in a really interesting way. But the Falcon was a
story about greed and dreams not as a motivation but as a
lifestyle. I was disappointed that the film didn't
incorporate the story of the used car salesman-- a side road
that illuminated the thrust of both the book and the film.
The other film that successfully and brillantly portrayed it
as well was Chinatown (that's not to say that I don't think
there aren't other good filma of the type). The Falcon deals
with crime in a unique way and others have imitated it but
never grasped the depth of the book. It operates under all
the allusions and that's what Huston tapped into that the
other versions missed."
Well said!
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