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“The funny thing about Greene is that he offered a somewhat new and intriguing dichotomy of someone who was actually much funnier in person than he is in his written fiction,” Wood says. “T.S. Eliot was the same way?...
What keeps audiences and film directors going back to Greene for more? Wood suggests that modern audiences may be drawn to the “Greene hero” because in this era, where many times human social interaction is limited to the computer screen, contemporary viewers identify with the...
But not all film adaptations of Greene works are created equal. Tellingly, Wood cites that the most successful Greene film interpretation is “the one that Greene [himself intentionally] wrote as a script, The Third Man,”
Except for a few times very early in his career, Greene was rarely a starving author. But the painful memories of those starving days made him anxious to keep the dough rolling in.
His eagerness to make a living, sometimes before considering literary merits of his novellas, meant that Greene was comfortable writing both weighty literature and popular escapist fare like Stamboul Train, which he himself acknowledged he wrote purely for entertainment.