screen |skr_n| |skrin| |skri_n| noun • a blank, typically white or silver surface on which a photographic image is projected : the world's largest movie screen • movies or television; the motion-picture industry : she's a star of the stage as well as the screen. verb [ trans. ] • protect (someone) from something dangerous or unpleasant • evaluate or analyze (something) for its suitability for a particular purpose or application
Tuesday, February 14, 2023
Marlowe
This Marlowe is Raymond Chandler’s Marlowe, but Chandler isn’t really the voice or the story engine here. This is a “what if” Marlowe. What if Marlowe was an old guy, like 70? Too old to get the girl. What if Marlowe couldn’t really fight like he used to? What if Hollywood looks like it used to…(Spain, apparently)? I more or less enjoyed this vintage gumshoe yarn, intended to be a piece of nostalgia. It’s not very complex and it’s not Earth-shatteringly original. But lots of cigarettes get smoked and a few hard-boiled zingers are tossed around. If the intention was to invoke the past - that is: the artificial Hollywood past, then Neil Jordan and company get an A for effort. But, I mean, it’s no “Poker Face.”
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