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Post by Hoosier X on Nov 19, 2014 1:13:23 GMT -5
Re: Marlowe
I'm thinking of writing a short story where a cute blonde from Minnesota walks into Marlowe's office and wants to hire him to find out what happened her older brother. She's heard several different stories. He was apparently involved in a scandal that was hushed up. But he was either murdered or he killed himself. He was a chauffer for the Sternwoods. His name was Owen Taylor.
One line of dialogue from Marlowe: "I checked with one of my contacts, a guy named Chandler. He was no help at all."
As I typed that, I could hear the voice of the guy who played Marlowe on the old radio show. "Get this and get it straight! Crime is a sucker's road and those who travel it end up in the gutter, the prison or an early grave ..."
I would love to read that! Thanks for the encouragement! I thought about it a lot today. I reserved The Big Sleep (the book version) at the library because I really want to read it very carefully and really work out what happened. I have a theory that I think is a good place to work from, but it's based on the movie, which I saw just a few weeks ago.
I read Kamandi (some issues from the post-Kirby era) last night, and then I thought about the death of Owen Taylor for a while before I fell asleep, and during the night I dreamed I was Marlowe somehow transported to Earth A.D. (After Disaster) and I was working on a case and Kamandi was assisting (and getting all snitty, the way he does in the comic) and I was trying to interview the hippo people, but they weren't much help because they were like ALL the mutated animal people in that they can't believe the "animals" (humans) are talking and they called animal control on us.
(I'm not surprised I dreamed of hippo people because I think the greatest tragedy of Kamandi only lasting 59 issues is that they never got around to hippo people. I would love to see Kamandi run into hippo people like the ones in those Maxwell Fleischer Betty Boop cartoons.)
I seem to have gotten wildly off-topic.
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Post by coke & comics on Nov 20, 2014 0:12:32 GMT -5
Watched Le Samourai. Pretty perfectly realized film.
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Post by thwhtguardian on Nov 21, 2014 16:52:28 GMT -5
Watched Le Samourai. Pretty perfectly realized film. Definitely one of my new favorites, I love the opening. |
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Post by MDG on Nov 24, 2014 10:22:34 GMT -5
Watched Le Samourai. Pretty perfectly realized film. Definitely one of my new favorites, I love the opening. I've only seen it once, as part of a Melville series a few years back. I liked it, but it didn't connect with me as much as some of his others. |
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Post by coke & comics on Nov 27, 2014 0:59:16 GMT -5
Watched The Maltese Falcon, the 1941 version. Solid enough film. Bogart's character was the only real stand-out thing, but Sam Spade is one of the better movie heroes I have ever seen. Generally enthralling if occasionally exposition heavy. And since some of the exposition repeated the opening synopsis, I'm not sure what the point of the opening synopsis was. Why tell us what the falcon was before Sam learned and then repeat it to us for his sake?
I've got M in my Netflix cue, but given that tomorrow is a holiday and the month ends on a Sunday, I don't think there is any way it will make it in time for month's end. Which probably makes this my last noir film for the month.
If somebody could give me a hint of December's theme, I could move something appropriate to the top of the queue.
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Post by shaxper on Nov 27, 2014 1:09:09 GMT -5
Watched The Maltese Falcon, the 1941 version. Solid enough film. Bogart's character was the only real stand-out thing, but Sam Spade is one of the better movie heroes I have ever seen. I watched it for the first time yesterday and adored it. It was all in Bogart's depiction of Spade -- a kid playing at a game; it's the rush, the excitement, far more than the money, the lust, or the need for revenge. He just made it so...fun, and seeing him adhere to an odd internal code by the close, somehow that made it all the more special. He was truly in it just to see it through, just to learn all the details and come out on top. Next month's theme will be chosen by whoever watches the most Noir films by 12 midnight November 30th, and that's still a close call. Even at this late point, anyone could have a three day movie marathon and jump to the head of the class. EDIT: looking at the current tallies, next month's theme will likely be chosen either by myself or by Jesse412, though we've both only watched 10 films so, again, a dark horse could always enter the race late and come out on top. I know what theme I'd like to do for next month, but, if I don't win, I'll keep it to myself to save for a later date. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 27, 2014 1:10:33 GMT -5
Ooh Maltese Falcon is on my list but I haven't gotten to it yet.
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Post by coke & comics on Nov 27, 2014 1:19:09 GMT -5
This and several posters for the movie depict Sam Spade with guns, despite how clear he is in the movie that he doesn't carry one.  It even has him firing two guns and mentions his guns in the tagline! |
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Post by shaxper on Nov 27, 2014 1:23:57 GMT -5
This and several posters for the movie depict Sam Spade with guns, despite how clear he is in the movie that he doesn't carry one. It even has him firing two guns and mentions his guns in the tagline! Well he does steal guns from other people and then point them at said people, but yeah, that's pretty misleading. Is that even Bogart on the poster?? |
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Post by coke & comics on Nov 27, 2014 1:28:11 GMT -5
He rarely points them. He is much more likely to take the gun and put it in his pocket, drop it to the floor, hand it to somebody else, or just give it back.
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Post by shaxper on Nov 27, 2014 11:26:56 GMT -5
Looks like our winner for the month will likely be Jesse412 who has apparently watched five films in the past 48 hours. No way I'm going to match that pace  |
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Post by coke & comics on Nov 27, 2014 11:36:28 GMT -5
At the end of the month, for those interested, I'd also be curious which film on people's lists they liked best. Gives me hints as to what I should watch. Either in a post about it, or just at the bottom of the month is the list threads.
It's a tough call for me, as all the noirish films I saw were excellent. Bogart's Sam Spade was my favorite character in these films. Le Samourai was an excellent film, but I think of them all, my tastes lean modern and American, and Blood Simple appealed the most to my sensibilities in terms of what an excellent film looks like. Every detail was engaging and well-realized. The plot manages to twist itself while being ridiculously straightforward. Characters just do what they would do and the chips fall as they will.
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Post by Prince Hal on Nov 27, 2014 11:44:06 GMT -5
This and several posters for the movie depict Sam Spade with guns, despite how clear he is in the movie that he doesn't carry one. It even has him firing two guns and mentions his guns in the tagline! Well he does steal guns from other people and then point them at said people, but yeah, that's pretty misleading. Is that even Bogart on the poster?? It's Bogart, but not as Spade. he had a different hairstyle than that pictured. The on in the poster reminds me of his look in High Sierra, maybe even from The Petrified Forest? I have to check those out, see if one of those was the source. |
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Post by Prince Hal on Nov 27, 2014 11:47:13 GMT -5
Bogart in "High Sierra"  |
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Post by thwhtguardian on Nov 27, 2014 11:48:56 GMT -5
Watched The Maltese Falcon, the 1941 version. Solid enough film. Bogart's character was the only real stand-out thing, but Sam Spade is one of the better movie heroes I have ever seen. I watched it for the first time yesterday and adored it. It was all in Bogart's depiction of Spade -- a kid playing at a game; it's the rush, the excitement, far more than the money, the lust, or the need for revenge. He just made it so...fun, and seeing him adhere to an odd internal code by the close, somehow that made it all the more special. He was truly in it just to see it through, just to learn all the details and come out on top. Next month's theme will be chosen by whoever watches the most Noir films by 12 midnight November 30th, and that's still a close call. Even at this late point, anyone could have a three day movie marathon and jump to the head of the class. EDIT: looking at the current tallies, next month's theme will likely be chosen either by myself or by Jesse412, though we've both only watched 10 films so, again, a dark horse could always enter the race late and come out on top. I know what theme I'd like to do for next month, but, if I don't win, I'll keep it to myself to save for a later date. Ah, so glad you got to see the Maltese Falcon, that's seriously one of my favorite films of all time. |
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