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The Big Sleep Movie and Novel :: Movie Film comparison compare contrast

The Big Sleep Movie and raw          On first inspection of Raymond Chandlers novel, The Big Sleep, the reader discovers that the report unravels quickly through the narrative voice of Philip Marlowe, the detective hired by the Sternwood family of Los Angeles to solve a mystery for them. The mystery concerns the General Sternwoods young daughter, and a matchless Mr. A. G. Geiger. Upon digging for the answer to this start placed before Marlowe for a mere fee of $25 dollars a day plus expenses, Marlowe soon finds layers upon layers of mystifying events confused in the already confidential web of lies and deception concerning the Sternwood family, especially the two young daughters.   When reading the novel, it is hard to imagine the story without a narrator at all. It certainly seems essential for the storys make believe to choose this witty, sarcastic voice present to describe the sequence of events. Yet, there is a version of Chandlers novel that does not have an audible storyteller, and that version is the 1946 movie directed by Howard Hawks.   Hawks version of The Big Sleep is known to be one of the best examples of the film genre-film noir. Film noir (literally melanize film, from cut critics who noticed how dark and black the looks and themes were of these films) is a style of American films which evolved in the 1940s. (The Internet Movie Database LTD). Film noir typically contains melancholy, and not so moral themes. some other characteristic of film noir is ripe because the main character has the title hero, that does not mean that he will eternally be alive at the suppress of the book, or that the hero is always good. Marlowe in The Big Sleep is a prime example of this concept. In the novel it is questionable how lawfully moral he actually is, concerning the situation of bit Carmen into the police for killing Sean Regan. This aspect of Marlowes character added yet another difficult task of formatting The Big Sleep to the prodigious screen-the question of how the audience (media) strength react to such a personality trait was now placed before the writing staff (IE production codes).The Big Sleep Movie and Novel Movie Film comparison compare contrast The Big Sleep Movie and Novel          On first inspection of Raymond Chandlers novel, The Big Sleep, the reader discovers that the story unravels quickly through the narrative voice of Philip Marlowe, the detective hired by the Sternwood family of Los Angeles to solve a mystery for them. The mystery concerns the General Sternwoods young daughter, and a one Mr. A. G. Geiger. Upon digging for the answer to this puzzle placed before Marlowe for a mere fee of $25 dollars a day plus expenses, Marlowe soon finds layers upon layers of mystifying events tangled in the already mysterious web of lies and deception concerning the Sternwood family, especially the two young daughters.   When reading the novel, it is hard to imagine the story without a narrator at all. It certainly seems essential for the storys make-up to have this witty, sarcastic voice present to describe the sequence of events. Yet, there is a version of Chandlers novel that does not have an audible storyteller, and that version is the 1946 movie directed by Howard Hawks.   Hawks version of The Big Sleep is known to be one of the best examples of the film genre-film noir. Film noir (literally black film, from French critics who noticed how dark and black the looks and themes were of these films) is a style of American films which evolved in the 1940s. (The Internet Movie Database LTD). Film noir typically contains melancholy, and not so moral themes. Another characteristic of film noir is just because the main character has the title hero, that does not mean that he will always be alive at the end of the book, or that the hero is always good. Marlowe in Th e Big Sleep is a prime example of this concept. In the novel it is questionable how lawfully moral he actually is, concerning the situation of turning Carmen into the police for killing Sean Regan. This aspect of Marlowes character added yet another difficult task of formatting The Big Sleep to the big screen-the question of how the audience (media) might react to such a personality trait was now placed before the writing staff (IE production codes).

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