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What about writers like, say, Faulkner? "Faulkner is difficult to read," admits Hirsch, "but you could not say what he was trying to. mean any other way, so he would have to get 100 in relative readability...
...detective story suspense. The idea was to hold the reader's interest with mood, dialogue and above all eccentric, not to say grotesque people. The fact that Writer-Director Winner has been more "faithful" to Chandler's story line than Hawks and his writers (among them, William Faulkner) is no virtue at all. What matters is being faithful to Chandler's singular vision, and that requires acts of cinematic imagination that are beyond the reach of the crude craftsman whose biggest previous success was Death Wish...
...question, asked whenever this film is brought up, of who comes out as the culprit in the end. At least that's the answer in the book; whether it actually carried over into this screenplay is not at all clear. One of those great rumors has it that Faulkner, who was out in Hollywood taking his day in the sun touching up this script, could make neither heads nor tails of the plot-line and got in touch with novelist Raymond Chandler for some clues. "Beats me if I can figure the story out," Chandler said. Maybe your luck will...
...Brer Rabbit in the Collection of Joel Chandler Harris, E.C.L. Adams and William John Faulkner" will be discussed by Northeastern University professor Sterling Stuckey at 7:30 p.m. in the ground floor of 77 Dunster Street...
...twelve-member supporting cast continually boosts the show's energy level and keeps it moving. This strategy backfires only once, in the sole disappointing scene of the show. A service led by Jero builds to a manic pitch reminiscent of William Faulkner's description of a rural black church in The Hamlet, but it is too high a note to maintain throughout the excessively long scene...