3/14/2010 8:52 PM
Cultural Offering wrote:
Thanks, David. I love Last Man Standing. I differ with Goldman on Miller's Crossing in that I don't consider the gap between source material and outcome to be that big of a deal unless we are dealing with non-fiction. I will have to pick up Hammett's books.
3/14/2010 11:00 PM
David wrote:
Everyone should read both of them. You can borrow mine. The Glass Key was made into a movie, but I've never seen it. Alan Ladd was in it.
Generally, I agree with you that a movie can be good without being faithful to the book. To Have and Have Not is a good example. The title and locale are the same, and both are about a man who has a boat. The similarity stops there, but it's a very cool movie. They didn't butcher the novel; they ignored it. (As it happens, I read the book, saw the movie, and toured Hemingway's house in Key West all in the same week '72.)
But I agree with Goldman about Miller's Crossing. Having read both Red Harvest and The Glass Key, I found it hard to sit through the movie.
And that clip you posted is just ridiculous. It really did remind me of Looney Tunes as I watched the movie. I still don't know whether it was supposed to be funny. Reply to this
3/15/2010 8:49 AM
Cultural Offering wrote:
You probably didn't like Live Free or Die Hard once you saw the scene where Willis took out the helicopter with a police car. Reply to this
3/15/2010 1:41 PM
David wrote:
I can suspend disbelief with the best of them, if that's the kind of movie it is. The makers of Live Free or Die Hard never pretended that the movie was anything but an escapist action flick. And even Bruce Willis has to reload once in a while. Reply to this
Red Harvest, Looney Tunes style. For an interesting article by Spengler about Dashiell Hammett's Red Harvest and Spengler's favorite character in American fiction, the Continental Op, go here: http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/FA27Ak01.html
For David P. Goldman on Miller's Crossing, go here: http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/spengler/2009/11/13/divine-vengeance-and-the-continental-op/
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Thanks, David. I love Last Man Standing . I differ with Goldman on Miller's Crossing in that I don't consider the gap between source material and outcome to be that big of a deal unless we are dealing with non-fiction. I will have to pick up Hammett's books.
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Everyone should read both of them. You can borrow mine. The Glass Key was made into a movie, but I've never seen it. Alan Ladd was in it.
Generally, I agree with you that a movie can be good without being faithful to the book. To Have and Have Not is a good example. The title and locale are the same, and both are about a man who has a boat. The similarity stops there, but it's a very cool movie. They didn't butcher the novel; they ignored it. (As it happens, I read the book, saw the movie, and toured Hemingway's house in Key West all in the same week '72.)
But I agree with Goldman about Miller's Crossing. Having read both Red Harvest and The Glass Key, I found it hard to sit through the movie.
And that clip you posted is just ridiculous. It really did remind me of Looney Tunes as I watched the movie. I still don't know whether it was supposed to be funny.
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Tommy guns were just too cool. I want one.
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Especially the kind that never runs out of ammo.
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You probably didn't like Live Free or Die Hard once you saw the scene where Willis took out the helicopter with a police car.
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I can suspend disbelief with the best of them, if that's the kind of movie it is. The makers of Live Free or Die Hard never pretended that the movie was anything but an escapist action flick. And even Bruce Willis has to reload once in a while.
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