Re: currently reading


"Sean Chercover" <sean@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Stanley L. Moore wrote:

Sean, you expressed what I was trying to say (much better than I could).
You have the situation taped. I enjoyed the audacity of it and the
implied criticism that we all make when seeing a film version of our
favorite books.

This can work the other way. I had read J.L. Burke's Heaven's Prisoners
before I saw the movie (I didn't remember it though) but ever after that
I see Alec Baldwin in my mind when I read a Robichaux novel. There is a
crossover. Usually I have a mental image of the protagonist in books such
that I have to reject the actor's portrayal in the film. That time it
went the other way.

In The Narrows you notice that Eastwood is said to not resemble McCaleb
which is usually the case as each reader of a book has a mental image of
the characters which seldom would connect with the decision of a producer
or casting director.

I think you may also be onto something with the "criticism of the movie"
angle. Perhaps Connelly was itching to say what he didn't like about the
movie. He let Buddy do the griping and then had Bosch say, "You got paid,
didn't you?" Which is a way of poking fun at himself and his reaction.
Maybe.

I'll always see Dave Robichaux as a cross between James Lee Burke and
Tommy Lee Jones. The image is so firmly set in my mind that the movie
didn't change the image a bit. But I know what you mean. Philip Marlowe
will always look like Bogart to me. I have no problem watching Robert
Mitchum or *** Powell do the role, but when I return to the books, he
always looks like Bogart.


And certainly NOT like Elliot Gould <G> Though my favorite part is where the
gangster tries to intimidate marlowe by setting up his beautiful girlfriend
in a chair and smashing her face with a beer bottle. He says to Gould as he
comforts the injured girl, "Her I love; you I don't even like." Take care,
--
Stanley L. Moore
"I used to think I was
indecisive but now I'm
not so sure."
"Indecision is the key
to flexibility."


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