2024 NaPM 24 April

[dukealien]

I Don’t Mind Canon as Long as the Right People Get Shot


What happens when director takes
a novel seriously?
With all the dead-end sub-plots
barb-wired through
a main plot twisted like
a snake-pit full of just one snake?
Then cast the leads
to hard-boiled perfection
even if by accident
(can you believe
first choice for the lead was
bloody Richard Burton)
rounded out by an actor
who was as tough in real life
as the Moose?

Canon? Farewell My Lovely
with Mitchum and Rampling
is the Paris Gun
for noir, Marlowe,
and Raymond Chandler–
Bogey’s Big Sleep
even Maltese Falcon
to the contrary
notwithstanding.

Some complain about
the voice-over.  Hey!
Marlowe was written
in voice-over!