(I just checked and Dorothy Malone is still alive! She was born in 1925; she and Sonia Darrin look like the only two surviving members of the cast, the indestructible bookshop girls. I'm delighted.)
Andrew and I sometimes refer to this movie as "Bogart on the Planet of the Babes."
It's ridiculous. And the script knows it's ridiculous. Marlowe knows it's ridiculous. I don't think anyone has ever hit on him in his life the way the female cast of The Big Sleep hits on him. I think that's one of the reasons I can't accept Thomson's reading, because it requires the idea of Marlowe as the complacently zipless love-'em-and-leave-'em type. He's got more of a sense of humor about himself than that.
BTW, anyone else think Marlowe’s disguise (Hmm?) influenced Deckard’s nerdy, sleazy “Investigator for the Confidential Committee on Moral Abuses” in Blade Runner?
Yes! All Deckard's missing is the hat with the brim pushed up.
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I do associate her with you.
(I just checked and Dorothy Malone is still alive! She was born in 1925; she and Sonia Darrin look like the only two surviving members of the cast, the indestructible bookshop girls. I'm delighted.)
Andrew and I sometimes refer to this movie as "Bogart on the Planet of the Babes."
It's ridiculous. And the script knows it's ridiculous. Marlowe knows it's ridiculous. I don't think anyone has ever hit on him in his life the way the female cast of The Big Sleep hits on him. I think that's one of the reasons I can't accept Thomson's reading, because it requires the idea of Marlowe as the complacently zipless love-'em-and-leave-'em type. He's got more of a sense of humor about himself than that.
BTW, anyone else think Marlowe’s disguise (Hmm?) influenced Deckard’s nerdy, sleazy “Investigator for the Confidential Committee on Moral Abuses” in Blade Runner?
Yes! All Deckard's missing is the hat with the brim pushed up.