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" In the Big Sleep Chandler expands this description of the room and uses this new detail ( e. g., the contrast of white and " bled out ", the coming rain ) to foreshadow the fact that Mrs. Regan ( who was Mrs. O ' Mara in the original story ) is covering up the murder of her husband by her sister and that the coming rain storm will bring more deaths: " The room was too big, the ceiling was too high, the doors were too tall, and the white carpet that went from wall to wall looked like a fresh fall of snow at Lake Arrowhead.
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Furthermore, while Neuromancer < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s narrator may have had an unusual " voice " for science fiction, much older examples can be found: Gibson's narrative voice, for example, resembles that of an updated Raymond Chandler, as in his novel The Big Sleep ( 1939 ).
Film noir encompasses a range of plots: the central figure may be a private eye ( The Big Sleep ), a plainclothes policeman ( The Big Heat ), an aging boxer ( The Set-Up ), a hapless grifter ( Night and the City ), a law-abiding citizen lured into a life of crime ( Gun Crazy ), or simply a victim of circumstance ( D. O. A .).
Raymond Chandler, who debuted as a novelist with The Big Sleep in 1939, soon became the most famous author of the hardboiled school.
Not only were Chandler's novels turned into major noirs — Murder, My Sweet ( 1944 ; adapted from Farewell, My Lovely ), The Big Sleep ( 1946 ), and Lady in the Lake ( 1947 )— he was an important screenwriter in the genre as well, producing the scripts for Double Indemnity, The Blue Dahlia ( 1946 ), and Strangers on a Train ( 1951 ).
He is popular for his films from a wide range of genres such as Scarface ( 1932 ), Bringing Up Baby ( 1938 ), Only Angels Have Wings ( 1939 ), His Girl Friday ( 1940 ), Sergeant York ( 1941 ), To Have and Have Not ( 1944 ), The Big Sleep ( 1946 ), Red River ( 1948 ), The Thing from Another World ( 1951 ), Gentlemen Prefer Blondes ( 1953 ), and Rio Bravo ( 1959 ).
Hawks re-teamed with the newlyweds in 1946 with The Big Sleep, based on the Philip Marlowe detective novel by Raymond Chandler.
Film critic David Thomson wrote of Hawks in The New Biographical Dictionary of Film " Far from the the meek purveyor of Hollywood forms, he always chose to turn them upside down, To Have and Have Not and The Big Sleep, ostensibly an adventure and a thriller, are really love stories.
His films The Big Sleep, Bringing Up Baby, His Girl Friday, Red River, Scarface, Sergeant York, The Thing from Another World and Twentieth Century were rated " culturally significant " by the United States Library of Congress and inducted into the National Film Registry.
Other successes followed, including To Have and Have Not ( 1944 ); The Big Sleep ( 1946 ); Dark Passage ( 1947 ) and Key Largo ( 1948 ), with his wife Lauren Bacall ; The Treasure of the Sierra Madre ( 1948 ); In a Lonely Place ( 1950 ); The African Queen ( 1951 ), for which he won his only Academy Award ; Sabrina ( 1954 ); and The Caine Mutiny ( 1954 ).
Just months after wrapping the film, Bogart and Bacall were reunited for their second movie together, the film noir The Big Sleep, based on the novel by Raymond Chandler, again with script help from William Faulkner.
The character of Captain Queeg mirrored those Bogart had played in The Maltese Falcon, Casablanca and The Big Sleep — the wary loner who trusts no one — but with none of the warmth or humor of those roles.
The film is loosely based on Raymond Chandler's novel, The Big Sleep.
", The Big Sleep directed by Howard Hawks ( 1946 ), The Lady Eve directed by Preston Sturges ( 1941 ), The Shop Around the Corner directed by Ernst Lubitsch ( 1940 ), White Heat directed by Raoul Walsh ( 1949 ), Yankee Doodle Dandy directed by Michael Curtiz ( 1942 ), and Notorious directed by Alfred Hitchcock, ( 1946 ).
Films such as The Maltese Falcon and The Big Sleep are considered classics and helped launch the careers of legendary actors such as Humphrey Bogart and Ava Gardner.
The Big Sleep ( 1939 ) is a hardboiled crime novel by Raymond Chandler, the first in his acclaimed series about detective Philip Marlowe.
The Big Sleep, like most of Chandler's novels, was written by what he called cannibalizing previously written short stories.
In the case of the Big Sleep the two main stories that formed the core of the novel were Killer in the Rain published in 1935 and The Curtain published in 1936.
As might be expected, all this cannibalizing — especially in a time when cutting and pasting was done by literally cutting and pasting paper — sometimes resulted in a plot that had a few loose ends ; in the case of the Big Sleep there is the famous story of who killed the chauffer.
* The Big Sleep, a 1946 film starring Humphrey Bogart
* The Big Sleep, a 1978 film starring Robert Mitchum
* The Coen brothers ' film The Big Lebowski is inspired by the character Philip Marlowe and the style and plot elements of Chandler's novels such as The Big Sleep.
* The Big Sleep, a stage adaptation by Alvin Rakoff and John D. Rakoff, premièred in October 2011 at The Mill at Sonning, Berkshire, UK.
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Joel Coen cites Robert Altman's contemporary take on Chandler with The Long Goodbye as a primary influence on their film in the sense that The Big Lebowski " is just kind of informed by Chandler around the edges ".
" Major Works: The Big Sleep, by Rayond Chandler ".
* The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler: A book review
Surveyor William H. Emory in 1852 sent M. T. W. Chandler to survey what is now the heart of Big Bend National Park.
# The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
* Raymond Chandler in his first novel, The Big Sleep ( 1939 ), lets his private eye Philip Marlowe describe and comment on " a knight in dark armour rescuing a lady who was tied to a tree and didn't have any clothes on but some very long and convenient hair.
Philip Marlowe is a fictional character created by Raymond Chandler in a series of novels including The Big Sleep and The Long Goodbye.
His first full length book, The Big Sleep, was published when Chandler was 51 ; his last, Playback at 70.
" — Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep.
Rhys Muldoon has starred in numerous television roles including Bastard Boys, Play School and the high rating Dr Bogle and Mrs Chandler, the BAFTA nominated Lockie Leonard based on the books by Australian writer Tim Winton, Blackjack with Colin Friels, the multiple AFI award winning Grass Roots ( series 1 and 2 ) as the scheming general manager, Greg Dominelli, Secret Life of Us, Big Sky, and The Genie From Down Under.
* Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, 1939
* Raymond Chandler, mystery and thriller writer, author of The Long Goodbye and The Big Sleep.
" Hill, " Big " Ron O ' Brien, Kris Chandler, Geoff Richards, Joel Denver, Brother Lee Love ( Alan Smith ), and Banana Joe Montione.
His best known work is * Big Business and the Wealth of Nations ( edited by Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., Franco Amatori, and Hikino, ISBN 0-521-48123-6 )
The film and its plot are mentioned in the Friends episode, " The One with Rachel's Big Kiss ," the character of Chandler Bing describes it as " a tutti-frutti love story where he ( Val Kilmer ) played a blind guy.
Big and expands
Rather, space itself was created in the Big Bang and imbued with a fixed amount of energy and matter distributed uniformly throughout ; as space expands ( i. e., as R ( t ) increases ), the density of that matter and energy decreases.
This scenario would result in the ' Big Freeze ', where the universe cools as it expands and reaches a state of entropy.
She expands on her philosophy into how we live our lives in her seventh book, The Not So Big Life, focusing on " quality, not quantity " of time and life experience.
Because the Buddha seems to present a model of cosmology wherein the universe expands and contracts over extremely long periods of time, this description has been found by some to be consistent with the expanding universe model and Big Bang.
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