The Long Goodbye Comments

  • Makenzie 2022-03-17 09:01:09

    4.5. Altman completes the deconstruction of the traditional man's personal heroism and the so-called "sinister" people in traditional noir films with his trademark wit, wit and cynicism, Marlowe in the blurred sunshine of Southern California in the 1970s Become a Don Quixote-style hero in a scattered and rootless mental state. The superficial easy-going humor hides the anachronism in the bones, and the last-minute explosion only highlights the essence of the hero more...

  • Amparo 2022-03-17 09:01:09

    @phenomena borrowed the film and re-read the original, two completely different stories, the whole atmosphere has changed. This Marlowe has nothing to do with Chandler. He lives in the chaotic and bizarre 70s of Ultraman, walking in the distorted phantoms and colorful crazy dreams in the mirror. But Elliott Gould is very much in line with the imagined Marlowe image, and the music is also the pinnacle of the "one song ost"...

  • Geovanni 2022-03-16 09:01:08

    This stuff isn't Marlowe, it's just a babble, babble, babbler...

  • Ward 2022-03-16 09:01:08

    It's not the same thing as a novel at all, but I really like this Marlowe who was woken up by a cat and bought cat food for him even though he complained, and was very upset about the cat, and the four girls who lived aerobics and worked out across the door. , The indifference to the opposite sex, what a 70's. There are three or four sung versions of the theme song, which are so good that they tie the whole movie...

  • Pascale 2022-03-15 09:01:10

    Trying to skip the original to look at the movie, it's still pretty hard to find. Altman gave Marlowe a new definition, especially in the grotesque '70s. I don't like Elliott's performance very...

  • Mazie 2022-03-15 09:01:10

    The original party was a little disappointed, and the film adaptation blurred all the characters, except Marlowe. Curious about how those who haven't read the original book feel, don't they feel that the story is very...

  • Derick 2022-03-14 14:12:30

    Originally, I wanted to say that the soundtrack is very good, and the color of the picture composition is very good, but this magical change of the plot and objectification of women made me want to hit the director...

  • Idella 2022-01-29 08:06:33

    It can be clearly seen that this Marlowe is the prototype of spike, but it is far from the Marlowe in the book. The obsessive bloody murders and group portraits in the original book have all been deleted, and the few remaining supporting roles have also become. The masked villain is actually pretty good as a suspense film from the 1970s, but it doesn't deserve to be called The Long...

  • Adelbert 2022-01-29 08:06:33

    "This is Altman's Marlowe, not Chandler's" +1 Thinking how I loved this book in the first...

  • Maybelle 2022-01-29 08:06:33

    Robert Altman's anti-noir film. 1. Marlowe played by Gould is too charming, kind and rambling. He went through fire and water for friendship, but was unable to return to the sky. It was as if he was thrown into the 1970s from the 1950s, and he was at a loss in this chaotic and lost faith in society. Hippie style after Kai PTA [sex is evil]. 2. The film uses a lot of foreground occlusion or glass shadows, plus fading processing, presenting a blurred, ambiguous and chaotic world. 3. As a cat...

Extended Reading
  • Ashleigh 2022-01-29 08:06:33

    anti-genre film noir

    It is finally an "anti-genre" film noir, directed by Altman, which is different from the wanton subversion and deconstruction of film noir by European directors (however ironically, film noir originated in Europe and the United States was ridiculed and deconstructed by European directors. ),...

  • Janae 2022-01-29 08:06:33

    Film Review Interview: Robert Oldman

    By Jan Dawson / Film Comment

    The translation was first published in "Iris"


    Translator's note: Robert Altman is an "outlier" in Hollywood, living under the industrial system of Hollywood, but his creations are closer to European art films. Ultraman has won the highest awards in Cannes, Berlin (West...

The Long Goodbye quotes

  • Roger Wade aka Billy Joe Smith: When was the last time you made love at the lighthouse on Point Venus in Tahiti?" Or out on the lagoon, that shining lagoon with the goddamn surf booming on the Barrier Reef? Or up on Whitney that night of the blizzard in the double mummy bag?

  • Roger Wade aka Billy Joe Smith: You know what I wish you'd do? I wish you'd take that goddamn J.C. Penny tie off and settle down with me and what you and I are gonna do is have a little old-fashioned, man-to-man drinking party.

    Philip Marlowe: That's okay with me, but I'm not gonna take my tie off.

    Roger Wade aka Billy Joe Smith: Alright, you leave your tie on. Now, I"ll tell you what I got. I got champagne, beer, Scotch, bourbon, aquavit, tawny port...