Channing wrote:
"The reasons why I hate this movie are A) It IS an update of
Chandler to the 1970's, a place where he doesn't belong and
it's incompatible with
his stories. B) It is a typical Altman inversion/perversion
of the genre. Philip Marlowe is a product of the 30's and
40's. Chandler captures that period so beautifully, why would
you want to ruin it and put it in the disco '70's, with
Marlowe driving a flipping Volkswagon beetle."
Everybody burns the toast once in a while, even filmmakers,
& makes a bad flick; but that's not your objection, is
it? You dislike the film on general principles-those which
read, as near as I can figure, that both interpretive
adaptations & the work of Robert Altman are worthless
& should not exist-a taste issue, & not one of
argumentation. As for Chandler "capturing the period," well,
it was contemporary for him, wasn't it? Just like the 1970s
for Altman? & Marlowe himself is a kind of an
interpretation of the chivalrous knight, isn't he? So the
issue's a bit more complex than as you present it, it
seems.
In the end, like it or not, without Altman we don't get
Kansas City, Nashville, M*A*S*H, or Short Cuts, &
frankly, that's would just be too sad.
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