Post by kijii on May 20, 2020 18:04:05 GMT
The Long Goodbye (1973) / Robert Altman
Elliott Gould was very big in the early 70s. I first saw him in Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice then in Robert Altman's 3rd feature film, MASH. This movie is a modern-day color film noir film.
Here, Gould plays a new type of character as Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe. This one, unlike the Marlowe that Borgart played in The Big Sleep (1946), is a little more laid back, as he gets up in the middle of an LA night to get some special cat food for his cat at an all-night grocery store. Only to be visited by an old friend of his who wants Marlowe to drive him to Mexico...Marlowe sleepily complies...
As Marlowe moves through this movie, he is always mumbling to himself. The movie is very good as it takes us from one setting to another in that serpentine fashion so familiar to us from other Marlowe movies...I'm now thinking of Dick Powell's Marlowe in Murder, My Sweet (1944). As usual, this movie is full of twists and turns. But, I liked the flow and look of this movie.
Philip Marlowe (Elliott Gould): Nobody cares but me.
Terry Lennox (Jim Bouton) : Well that's you, Marlowe. You'll never learn, you're a born loser.
Philip Marlowe : Yeah, I even lost my cat.
