The Long Good-bye (Phillip Marlowe)

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CHA: We find Philip Marlowe, who's a private investigator - he's kind of the quintessential LA private eye, you know, definitive of the LA noir genre. He involves himself with a married couple with a lot of problems. The husband is an alcoholic writer, much like Raymond Chandler was himself, as well as a drinking buddy of Philip Marlowe's who he ends up liking and trusting, you know, which is something that he doesn't really do in his other books, you know? So I think of this one as the one where Philip Marlowe gets his heart broken. And I think for that reason, it has a really strong, lasting resonance for me. This was my first novel by Raymond Chandler about his famous detective Philip Marlowe. Marlowe is probably second only to Sam Spade as the most famous of hard-boiled detectives. Both were played by Humphrey Bogart.

Houseman, John (1978). "Chapter 5: Lost Fortnight". In Gross, Miriam (ed.). The World of Raymond Chandler. New York: A & W Publishers. pp.(55). ISBN 978-0-89479-016-4. Chandler was also raised in England and received a classical education there. Chandler also retained a great love for the English and what he viewed as their more civilised way of life compared to the shallowness and superficiality of Los Angeles. This frequently put him at odds with screenwriting collaborators, such as Billy Wilder, and with most of Los Angeles and Hollywood society. [4] [5] Film, television and radio adaptations [ edit ]

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Heads-up: Written in the 50’s so you'll need to take in stride some racism. Women are broads and they're all bad news. He seems to like them anyway. "So they're human, they sweat, they get dirty, they have to go to the bathroom. What did you expect-golden butterflies hovering in a rosy mist?” Around the time Chandler wrote The Long Goodbye, he seemed to be struggling pretty hard with life’s troubles. His wife, Cissy, was dying a slow death due to severe medical issues. He dealt with long bouts of melancholy where he found it difficult to write. He drank constantly. And it all showed in the book. The alcoholic writer who couldn’t seem to finish his book is most definitely Chandler’s way of inserting himself into the story—and likely working through some of his own issues with the help of Marlowe’s tough point of view. The plot isn't quite as difficult to follow as that of The Big Sleep, and yet there's a very elusive quality to this novel. In an early passage, as Marlowe sits in a bar waiting for a client and pitilessly observing the foibles of human nature (one of his favorite hobbies), he notices a man sitting and talking the bartender's ear off: Altman's direction is focused on the style and, although he is fairly respectful to the material in regards what happens, he doesn't go out of his way to make it engaging. Gould fits the role well and enjoys his character. I would have liked more of the complexity underneath to come through to contrast with this surface. He is the film but he is well supported by a hammy show from Sterling and solid turns from Rydell, Pallandt, Gibson and Bouton. Altman carrella, panoramica, zoomma, muove in continuazione la sua macchina da presa col dolly, e riprende attraverso finestre, su vetri specchi quadri finestre acqua, superfici che riflettono e schermano, cornici che raddoppiano l’inquadratura.

O'Rourke's story is one of a life gone off the rails, of how watching her mother's illness-and separating from her husband-left her fundamentally altered. But it is also one of resilience, as she observes her family persevere even in the face of immeasurable loss. Poi, vent’anni dopo l’uscita del romanzo, nel 1973, arrivò Robert Altman. Erano i suoi anni più fecondi: in soli cinque anni realizzò film storici, come questo, “M*A*S*H*”, “McCabe & Mrs Miller-I compari”, “Thieves Like Us-Gang,” “Nashville”, concedendosi anche opere ‘minori’, ma sempre più che pregevoli, come “Brewster McCloud-Anche gli uccelli uccidono”, “Images” e “California Split-California Poker”. Il suo obiettivo sembrava essere fare buoni film intervenendo sui generei cinematografici, smitizzandoli (pietra miliare rimane la rivisitazione del West nel film con Warren Beatty e Julie Christie), giocando sugli stereotipi. Spender, Natasha (1978). "Chapter 11: His Own Long Goodbye". In Gross, Miriam (ed.). The World of Raymond Chandler. New York: A & W Publishers. pp.(128–150). ISBN 978-0-89479-016-4. Marlowe doesn't take this story at face value either, and continues to get threatened, cajoled, and seduced by various parties, none of whom really want him to uncover the truth. Eventually the two cases converge, at first the way you think they will, but with a few twists thrown in.The Long Goodbye is Chandler’s sixth Marlowe novel. Originally published in 1953, it won the Edgar Award for Best Novel in 1955. The story begins outside a fancy club called The Dancers, where a chance encounter with a drunk man named Terry Lennox eventually gets Marlowe mixed up in a world of trouble—a world inhabited by the rich and ritzy of Los Angeles’ elite. Embarrassed by his drunken behavior, Lennox’s wife leaves him at the club, and Marlowe drives the man to his home until he can sober up.

It’s a shame that things get put on a pedestal like that because the expectations always overreach and cause an expectation for more. And that’s exactly what happened when I read Chandler’s The Long Goodbye (and watched the Star Wars films, for that matter). Discover the first Edgar winner for Best Novel: Beat Not the Bones by Charlotte Jay! SPOILER ALERT: this pretty much gives the whole plot away, so don’t go any further if you haven’t read the book (and want to do so in blissful ignorance). I sit here in my tiny study, bills dropped on the floor, books piling by the desk— Death and Western Thought, Death’s Door, The Denial of Death, This Republic of Suffering—believing in some primitive part of my brain that if I read them all, if I learn everything there is to know, I’ll solve the problem.”The Long Goodbye is a detective fiction novel published in 1953, written by Raymond Chandler. Chandler produced several works--both short stories and novels--which feature Philip Marlowe as the protagonist. Marlowe is a private investigator, whose casual acquaintance Terry Lennox (who exhibits lurid and extravagant behavior) asks for a ride to Tijuana, Mexico. Marlowe learns only upon returning from this trip to his apartment that Lennox's wife has been found murdered. Marlowe is briefly held for complicit guilt in this murder, until Lennox himself is found dead in Mexico, having confessed to murdering his wife.