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David Thomson The Big Sleep (Paperback) BFI Film Classics. Publisher: BFI Publishing. Series: BFI Film Classics. When it was first shown to a military audienceThe Big Sleep was coldly received. So, as Thomson reveals, Hawks shot extra scenes, 'fun' scenes, to replace one in which the film's murders had been explained, and in so doing left the plot unresolved. Further DetailsTitle: The Big Sleep Condition: New Description: The Big Sleep : Marlowe and Vivian practising kissing; General Sternwood shivering in a hothouse full of orchids; a screenplay, co-written by Faulkner, famously mysterious and difficult to solve. Released in 1946, Howard Hawks' adaptation of Raymond Chandler reunited Bogart and Bacall and gave them two of their most famous roles. The mercurial but ever-manipulative Hawks dredged humour and happiness out of film noir. 'Give him a story about more murders than anyone can keep up with, or explain,' David Thomson writes in his compelling study of the film, 'and somehow he made a paradise.'When it was first shown to a military audience The Big Sleep was coldly received. So, as Thomson reveals, Hawks shot extra scenes, 'fun' scenes, to replace one in which the film's murders had been explained, and in so doing left the plot unresolved. Thomson argues that, if this was accidental, it also signalled a change in the nature of Hollywood cinema: 'The Big Sleep inaugurates a post-modern, camp, satirical view of movies being about other movies that extends to the New Wave and Pulp Fiction .' Author: David Thomson EAN: 9781839021596 Format: Paperback Country/Region of Manufacture: GB ISBN: 9781839021596 Item Height: 190mm Item Length: 135mm Item Weight: 132g Language: English ISBN-10: 1839021594 Genre: Films & TV Item Width: 8mm Publisher: BFI Publishing Release Date: 11/12/2020 Series: BFI Film Classics Release Year: 2020 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
