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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 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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    In the novel " The Big Sleep "‚ there’s a character by the name of Philip Marlowe. Philip Marlowe is a private investigator who is hired to work for a wealthy  man named General Strenwood‚ in the month of october. General Sternwood wants Marlowe to deal with a blackmail on his wild young daughter Carmen . Carmen is being blackmailed by a book seller named Arthur Geiger she was also previously blackmailed by Joe Brody. Carmen is clearly the femme fatal who killed her brother in law Rusty because he

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    In the books The Big Sleep and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight‚ both authors‚ Raymond Chandler (The Big Sleep) and Simon Armitage (Sir Gawain and the Green Knight)‚ create the protagonist of each story into archetypal knights. The protagonist of The Big Sleep is named Phillip Marlowe and in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight the protagonist is named Sir Gawain. The 3 knightly qualities that we will be focusing on in this essay are self-sacrifice‚ loyalty and courage. These qualities are displayed throughout

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    otherwise artificial story would sustain. Chandlers statements issued in “The Simple Art of Murder” are quite contradicting to the product that he provides for his readers in his “realistic” detective agendas. While the characters of the story The Big Sleep can be seen as very real individually‚ it is when Chandler brings the characters together for the purposes of the story itself that his plot becomes moderately artificial. The exaggerations presented by Chandler serve as social criticisms and the

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    How does your chosen film adhere to or diverge from the generic convention at play within the genre of the chosen film? ‘The Big Sleep’ (1946) starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall is one of Raymond Chandler’s best hard-boiled detective mysteries transformed in to a Film Noir‚ private detective film classic. The Big Sleep is the best example of a classic Warner Brothers mystery. It is very complex‚ confusing L.A. private eye Phillip Marlowe takes on a blackmail case and follows a trail

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    Ellie George Mr. Press Mystery Fiction 2 25 March 2013 Phillip Marlowe: A Knight in Tarnished Armor The Big Sleep‚ an American hard-boiled detective fiction novel by Raymond Chandler may appear to contain only example after example of corruption in America in the 1930s‚ however it is difficult for the reader to not find the character of Phillip Marlowe refreshing. Philip Marlowe is a private detective with his own practice in Los Angeles. He is an honest detective in a corrupt world‚ full of

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    The Big Sleep‚ by Raymond Chandler‚ was written in 1939. It is a story about a private detective in Los Angeles who takes a case about blackmail‚ but the case would soon develop into a big ordeal with murder‚ corruption‚ and kidnapping. The first two paragraphs of the story provide a great introduction to Marlowe‚ the private investigator‚ and great information about him. The first two paragraphs also give a lot of information the reader can use to better understand the plot later in the story. The

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    Study: - read over your essay and familiarise yourself with your wording - have discussions - Figure out the arguments in your head - practise exams - don’t just Know the material REALLY UNDERSTAND it The Big Sleep Observation: - conventions that are constant throughout generations of crime fiction genre (passion‚ detachment‚ love‚ hope‚ justice) are a reflection on the timeless and universal human needs - conventions

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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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