Robert Altmans The Long Goodbye As A Genre Revisionist Film

"The Long Goodbye by Robert Longman is trying to do something very interesting, not trying to be a story, it's all types ... without serious effort to duplicate Raymond Chandler's detective story ... it is just a novel I took up all the characters in it and made it possible to simmer them with things like private movies. "--- ROGER EBERT (Comment) Many times between 1965 and 1975 The American film movie was reorganized the traditions of Hollywood classical genres almost entirely these movies.

Robert Altman's The Long Goodbye is an anti black movie. I like black movies, Altman, and this movie ... I can understand why this movie postponed many people. Calling your will, type, sports, what you have, black movies are probably the most popular of all styles of classic Hollywood movies. It will inevitably irritate some wings when a movie is the opposite. Do not do it. This is not a traditional style or story style transmission, but it is almost the same as when it was done to deceive a movie. Altman's movie reveals all the mistakes of black in the film, its own unreal worldview, smart lip heroes, they are too clever, the masculinity of innocence to the black abyss is cool I can believe that

If Robert Altman is not a destroyer, nothing is the case. One of his greatest talents is to strengthen the genre by demolishing it or even destroying it. What he did for the MASH war movie, and what he did for the black movies in The Long Goodbye and Gosford Park's country drama, was in the west of McCabe and Mrs. Miller. John "Pudgy" McCabe (Warren Beatty) is an entrepreneur who founded a brothel in 1902 at the Presbyterian Church in the Pacific Northwest. He was a messy, useless clown until at least puppy Constance Miller (Julie Christie) told him how to make it through the drizzle and mud and make it successful, and his brothels were confused. She is very simple, but the custom of opium is not only the reason, it can not reach it. "I do not know that people spent so much time behind the locked doors in my life," McCabe complained.

Coen Brothers is a big fan of The Long Goodbye (1973) by Robert Altman who specially imagined Raymond Chandler's famous black film detective Philip Marlowe. The Long Goodbye had a major influence on The Big Lebowski (1998) (both movies are "black people" stories, a cunning detective or hero as a cunning, sloppy man). But the influence of Long Longbye also exists in Llewyn Davis. At the beginning of The Long Goodbye, Philip Marlowe (played by Elliott Gould) lost his pet's cat. The fact that a pet's cat is gone is mentioned or implied by the rest of the movie to highlight the misfortune of the Marlowe character. Llewyn Davis also lost a pet's cat, but unlike Marlowe, a cat is not his cat. Although there is no ownership of the cat, Llewyn is still passively drawn into the scene. In Long Longbye, cat loss is used to emphasize how unhappy Marlowe is.