William wrote:
"Altman -- or whoever wrote the screenplay -- seems to take
that sense of the book and pull it into a contemporary
setting as if to confirm Chandler's fears. The Long Goodbye
isn't Chandler's Marlowe. It's the Marlowe that would have
been had he lived now."
Leigh Brackett, cowriter of The Big Sleep screenplay, wrote
it. And she says pretty much exactly this in her essay about
it, collected in the The BIg Book of Noir.
Mark
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