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Bezig met laden... The Long Goodbye [1973 film]door Robert Altman (Director), Leigh Brackett (Screenwriter)
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In his novel, set in 1953, Raymond Chandler situated his incorruptible knight Philip Marlowe in Los Angeles, the city famed as the place where you go to sell out. And Chandler wrote to his agent that what he cared about in this book was “how any man who tried to be honest looks in the end either sentimental or plain foolish.” Chandler’s sentimental foolishness is the taking-off place for Robert Altman’s heady, whirling sideshow of a movie, set in the early 70s L.A. of the stoned sensibility. Marlowe (Elliott Gould) is a wryly forlorn knight, just slogging along; still driving a 1948 Lincoln Continental and trying to behave like Bogart, he’s the gallant fool in a corrupt world—the innocent eye. Even the police know more about the case he’s involved in than he does. Yet he’s the only one who cares. Altman kisses off the private-eye form as gracefully as Beat the Devil parodied the international-intrigue thriller. Is een bewerking van
Philip Marlowe is an unromanticized snoop for hire in an unromanticized LA. Working for fifty bucks a day plus expenses, he tries to solve a case the police dismiss as murder/suicide. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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