The Black-Eyed Blonde (Philip Marlowe)

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Se uno scrittore (bravo, ovviamente, come Banville dimostra di essere) può scrivere una "Philip Marlowe novel" così autentica, bella, divertente, accattivante, cosa resta della real thing?

The Black-Eyed Blonde by Benjamin Black | Goodreads The Black-Eyed Blonde by Benjamin Black | Goodreads

Banville did an excellent job with this addition to the Marlowe epics of noir. He knows his history of the character, the taste of the era and the smell of the air. I have high praise for this creation and addition to to saga.Possibly my biggest issue was that Marlowe felt to me more like some kind of manic, unhinged version of himself. Like an evil twin impersonating the real one, maybe. Certain character traits were just wrong, such as huge gaps in common knowledge that I would certainly expect him to be aware of, I mean, not knowing what a Shriner was? I know that even, and that's not exactly my scene. And what was this affection for Mexican beer? Or for beer at all? It didn't jive at all with me. Perhaps worse is his unexplainable infatuation (or was it love...?) with Clare. That is not at all the Marlowe that I know and obsess about. I should do the obsessing, that's the way this works. Oh. And the constant habit of Marlowe telling me things he did or didn't like, or what he did or didn't do. No. Firstly, I can't see many of those things as being true, second I don't think someone borrowing a dead author's character should take such liberties. I would stab someone who did that to one of my people. I swear, Marlowe was more watered-down and mushy here than in Poodle Springs. Actually, I kind of liked him in that, at least he felt somewhat like himself. Even if the circumstances made things go wrong. Gardner wrote that in 1944. The more things change the more they stay the same. Of course there’s lots of derring-do, with help from trusty, recurring characters Della Street and Paul Drake. Lt. Tragg and the crusty men of his force are always hot on the trail, but they stay a step behind Perry and his sleuthing, at the best of times. Women are not the only thing I don’t understand—I don’t understand myself, either, not one little bit."

The Black-Eyed Blonde: A Philip Marlowe Novel - Publishers Weekly The Black-Eyed Blonde: A Philip Marlowe Novel - Publishers Weekly

This is the first of three PM director credits for Roger Kay. Roger Kay was born (1921) in Cairo, Egypt. He passed in Paris, France, at the age of 79...MikeM. 8/29.2016 I do enjoy a Perry Mason, especially when there is a limited cast of characters to follow. Sometimes there are way too many to follow without making notes, but this one is quite concise.

She glanced at me with a steely twinkle. "For a living, you mean?" She pondered the question. "He sees people," she said. Uncredited Actors: Burr’s stand-in, Lee Miller, makes one of many appearances as the unobtrusive but dutiful Sgt. Brice. Submitted by gracep, 9/27/2010. The Cahuilla Club. Do you know it? It's in the Palisades. Polo grounds, swimming pools, lots of bright, shiny people. The kind of place that wouldn't let a shamus like you put his foot inside the electronically controlled gates." That last bit she didn't say, but I heard it all the same. Reviewing from the San Sebastián International Film Festival, Screen Daily wrote, "With some crunchingly incongruous gags about famous screen MacGuffins, the knowing screenplay by Jordan and William Monahan...doesn't feel devious enough in its plotting or sufficiently fresh in reimagining either its hero or his LA world". [20] Guy Lodge from Variety wrote in his review, "Jordan's film is both resolutely conservative in its period framing and irksomely postmodern in its audience pandering". [21]