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The Big Sleep (Paperback, 2nd edition)
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The Big Sleep (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Series: BFI Film Classics
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Loot Price R317
Discovery Miles 3 170
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The Big Sleep: Marlowe and Vivian practising kissing; General
Sternwood shivering in a hothouse full of orchids; a screenplay,
co-written by Faulkner, famously mysterious and difficult to solve.
Released in 1946, Howard Hawks' adaptation of Raymond Chandler
reunited Bogart and Bacall and gave them two of their most famous
roles. The mercurial but ever-manipulative Hawks dredged humour and
happiness out of film noir. 'Give him a story about more murders
than anyone can keep up with, or explain,' David Thomson writes in
his compelling study of the film, 'and somehow he made a paradise.'
When it was first shown to a military audience The Big Sleep was
coldly received. So, as Thomson reveals, Hawks shot extra scenes,
'fun' scenes, to replace one in which the film's murders had been
explained, and in so doing left the plot unresolved. Thomson argues
that, if this was accidental, it also signalled a change in the
nature of Hollywood cinema: 'The Big Sleep inaugurates a
post-modern, camp, satirical view of movies being about other
movies that extends to the New Wave and Pulp Fiction.'
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