Lavender Distinctive voices can change our perceptions and views towards an individual. This is shown in the novel “Life and Crimes of Harry Lavender” by Marele Day. The novel tells the story of Claudia Valentine‚ a private female detective and Harry Lavender‚ a ruthless individual who believes he has power over all of Sydney. The distinctive voices of both Harry and Claudia change our perspective towards the story and characters. Our main character Claudia has her own distinctive voice. She is portrayed
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Analysis of The Movie of The Big Sleep The Big Sleep‚ written in 1939‚ is known as most famous hard-boiled novel by Raymond Chandler. In recent decades‚ unsurprisingly‚ this novel has been made into two movies. The first one which produced in 1946‚ by Howard Hawks‚ is the better one. Actually‚ there are still a lot of differences between the film and the novel. Even though I enjoyed The Big Sleep by Howard Hawks‚ I prefer the book‚ but I can see how someone hooked by the silver screen would
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The Big Sleep: Point of View “I was neat‚ clean‚ shaved and sober‚ and I didn ’t care who knew it” (Chandler 3). In The Big Sleep‚ a hardboiled crime novel published in 1939 by Raymond Chandler‚ the protagonist‚ Philip Marlowe‚ effectively relates to his audience through first person point of view. Although there are several benefits of third person point of view‚ in first person readers are able to engage in the story and feel apart of the investigation. Chandler does this by providing Marlowe’s
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Marlowe - The Big Sleep What are my traits? Marlowe runs a single man operation out of the Cahuenga building in Los Angeles. He is tall and big enough to take care of himself. And his interests are Liquor‚ women‚ reading‚ chess and working alone. He is educated enough that he can speak English if he’s required to’. Marlowe used to work for the district attorney‚ but was fired for insubordination. Philip Marlowe‚ a private detective. Tall‚ dark‚ and rugged‚ with a poker face and a quick
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numerous techniques that constitute film editing‚ ranging from fade ins and outs‚ to the Kuleshov effect and the 180-degree axis rule. This response is dedicated to analyzing‚ relating‚ and pointing out the use of shot/reverse-shot patterns in The Big Sleep. When cutting a dialogue scene that typically utilizes a shot/reverse-shot‚ one character’s reaction to what is being said is just as important as what is being said. Through the 180-degree axis rule‚ the camera shifts along the axis without
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shot A and shot B 3. Spatial relations between shot A and shot B 4. Temporal relations between shot A and shot B1 Howard Hawks‚ being highly inspired by German Expressionist films‚ has used many stylistic film editing techniques in his 1946‚ Big Sleep. These techniques can fall into all four categories mentioned earlier. Hawks has widely used establishing shots to transition from one scene to the other. Examples of these shots can be observed as Marlowe commutes to various locations (Brody’s apartment
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press can be worth paying attention at. Thus‚ it would be more secure to refer to more proper crime fiction book. The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler is a hardboiled crime novel‚ which is included in "TIME ’s List of the 100 Best Novels."[1] Moreover‚ it has an honorable place in several other lists of top 100 books. Such figures speak for themselves. Therefore‚ The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler will be used in this work as an example of crime fiction novels. In the main body of the work attention
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The Big Sleep In the book The Big Sleep‚ and the film The Big Sleep‚ I saw many similarities and many differences. Both book and film intrigue the mind of the reader and viewer by introducing different plots and characters through out the book and film. First I shall start off by talking about the plots and characters of the book and film. The plot and the setting at the beginning of the film pretty much started out the same as it did in the book. The only difference
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Writing 39B January 20‚ 2013 Unconventional Conventional Women: Chandler’s Femme Fatales The Sternwood sisters‚ Vivian and Carmen‚ depict themselves as being the ultimate femme fatales in Raymond Chandler’s The Big Sleep. A femme fatale is an attractive and seductive woman‚ especially one who will ultimately bring disaster to a man who becomes romantically involved with her (“TV Tropes Femme Fatale”). While both women possess the attractive and seductive characteristics‚ they fail to become involved
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Film noir is a genre based on moods of fate‚ evil‚ and undesirable outcomes. In the film The Big Sleep exemplifies film noir from the visual using the black and dark atmosphere. The genre film noir has a dark downbeat sort of feel to the theme. Film noir is very dramatic and in the movie when a character dies the movie has the orchestra play a dark‚ gloomy‚ grim type of music. The lighting in film noir is also used in the movie. During the car rides the lightening is clear showing what audience should
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