The frames spoke with similitudes, I could sense nostalgic moments creeping into my mind, but couldn’t discover that it was trying to suggest a narrative style of a writer, with a comic touch.
It is Philip Marlowe, it was hard to read between the lines – Kiss Kiss Bang Bang is probably the best tribute to detective fiction writer ‘Raymond Chandler’ who once said that halfwits could guess the suspects of Hercule Poirot’s cases and a rumor involving him which suggested that he called Alfred Hitchcok a ‘fat bastard’.
If you are a hardcore film noir fan like me, there is a possibility that you may have watched the classics like ‘Murder, My Sweet’, ‘Double Indemnity’, the confusing ‘The Big Sleep’ and the audacious ‘Lady in the Lake’. All these film noirs were perfect examples for novel narration of detective genre and they couldn’t have been possible without Raymond Chandler. The above classics were followed by Robert Altman’s ‘The Long Goodbye’ and the old Philip Marlowe played by Robert Mitchum in ‘Farewell, My Lovely’ but I could never find another Philip Marlowe.
Harry Lockhart played by Robert Downey, Jr. in Shane Black's 'Kiss Kiss Bang Bang'is kind of an alter ego of Philip Marlowe. He is vulnerable, poor in English grammar and also poor at mathematics (when he unintentionally puts a bullet into a guy’s head) and says that there was 8% chance, he finds himself at wrong places at the right time and most importantly he is a detective (I mean…he bluffs that he is a detective).
You just can’t miss this Philip Marlowe. Watch it!
It is Philip Marlowe, it was hard to read between the lines – Kiss Kiss Bang Bang is probably the best tribute to detective fiction writer ‘Raymond Chandler’ who once said that halfwits could guess the suspects of Hercule Poirot’s cases and a rumor involving him which suggested that he called Alfred Hitchcok a ‘fat bastard’.
If you are a hardcore film noir fan like me, there is a possibility that you may have watched the classics like ‘Murder, My Sweet’, ‘Double Indemnity’, the confusing ‘The Big Sleep’ and the audacious ‘Lady in the Lake’. All these film noirs were perfect examples for novel narration of detective genre and they couldn’t have been possible without Raymond Chandler. The above classics were followed by Robert Altman’s ‘The Long Goodbye’ and the old Philip Marlowe played by Robert Mitchum in ‘Farewell, My Lovely’ but I could never find another Philip Marlowe.
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| Yes... he is Philip Marlowe, but never says that he is.. |
You just can’t miss this Philip Marlowe. Watch it!
