Treatment of Women in The Big Sleep, the Movie :: Movie Film comparison compare contrast

Treatment of Women in The volumed quiet, the Movie meter reading    Often, we hear commentary most films that reading the book before ceremony the movie ruins the experience or that movies are never as well as the book on which it is based. The difference amid forms is not as much about already knowing how the story ends as it is about the dumbing down of the work for a broader audience. However, Chandler wrote The Big Sleep as a piece of pulp fiction that was read by a medium-large populace.   So, with this knowledge, I expected my experience with the 1946 film transformation of The Big Sleep to be less than stellar. As I watched the film version, one fulgent difference stood out the romance between Vivian Reagan and Phillip Marlowe which did not exist in Chandlers book. Overall, there is a mop up difference in the treatment of Marlowes reaction to womyyn.   Shot during wartime, the film turns the draft induced man shortage into a satyrs fant asy sloe-eyed heiresses, harsh-slingers with come hither looks, and horny lady cab drivers brazenly proposition Marlowe, who regrettably stiff-arms most of them in the name of business. (Hagopian) Two clear exceptions seen in the movie to the hands off, all work and no work out attitude of Phillip Marlowe from the book are the romantic relationship with Vivian Reagan and the afternoon parcelling with a bookstore clerk.   The most obvious reason for the change in the relationship between Vivian Regan and Phillip Marlowe is the movie studios rationale behind producing Hawkes film version of The Big Sleep. Lauren Bacall, who plays Vivian Regan, and Humphrey Bogart, who plays Marlowe, had bring aboutd a successful pairing previously in To get hold of and Have Not. Warner Brothers asked Howard Hawkes to find another script to work around Bacall and Bogart to create another box office smash hit. The piece that Hawkes choose was Chandlers The Big Sleep. So, Hawkes inten tion was not to be true to Chandlers version of The Big Sleep, entirely instead to merely dupilcate the monetary success of To Have and Have Not. In order to maintain the element of romance between Bogart and Bacall which was a spot ingredient to the success of To Have and Have Not, Hawkes had to create romance between Marlowe and Vivian which was not part of Chandlers version of The Big Sleep.