tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36271824.post1917320490076355202..comments2023-12-01T02:19:48.765-08:00Comments on Ed Gorman's blog: David Thomson on Robert Altman's "The Long Goodbye"Ed Gormanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06126267358266480356noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36271824.post-82475392621834669192011-07-29T05:50:30.174-07:002011-07-29T05:50:30.174-07:00I thought the movie was so-so. I guess because I ...I thought the movie was so-so. I guess because I read all of the Marlowe books before I ever saw Bogart in "The Big Sleep," I never thought Bogart's interpretation was sacrosanct, so was not bothered by Gould's interpretation so much as by what I thought was rather lazy storytelling.<br /><br />The best part about TLG was Altman's use of various versions of the title song throughout the film--especially Jack Sheldon's.Debnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36271824.post-7955817668543616462011-07-28T21:04:40.052-07:002011-07-28T21:04:40.052-07:00Interesting that you don't think Brackett wrot...Interesting that you don't think Brackett wrote the script. I've wondered about that too. I'm a big admirer of her work but the shooting script was unlike anything she'd written in a long career. I wonder if she wrote a script to give Altman a structure and then he and the actors played with it. He'd certainly worked that way many times.Ed Gormanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06126267358266480356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36271824.post-88895099313803846262011-07-28T17:58:30.575-07:002011-07-28T17:58:30.575-07:00Shortly after LG came out, Leigh Brackett ran an a...Shortly after LG came out, Leigh Brackett ran an article in one of the film magazines, TAKE ONE, I think, in which she argued that a Marlowe for the '70s had to be Gould's Marlowe and not Bogart's Marlowe. I still find it hard to believe that Brackett wrote the script. Remember how they changed the ad campaign after the first lousy week of box office, abandoning the idea of selling it as a private eye movie and using a Jack Davis poster illo to reposition it as a spoof?Fred Blosserhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07307848103704970189noreply@blogger.com