In a message dated 11/7/07 1:31:04 PM,
demack5@comcast.net writes:
>
> Mitchum was fine as Marlowe, though not my favorite
for the part (that would
> be Powers Booth in the HBO specials). The setting
was all wrong. And
> Chandler's prose wasn't meant to be spoken with
British accents.
>
I'll take that a step further and say that Chandler's prose
shouldn't be spoken AT ALL. I know he gets a lot of credit
for his Double Indemnity adaptation, but naturalistic it
isn't
naturalism is where Altman's Long Goodbye excels. the private
eye genre in film has all but disappeared in part because of
that stylized lack of naturalism
Affleck's version of Gone Baby Gone goes a long way toward
restoring naturalism to the genre
Chinatown, perhaps the best private eye film ever: natural as
they day you were born
John Lau
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