Film Noir Mystery Writer Raymond Chandler Vignetted Texture Color Added 2013 #5
by David Lee Guss
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Film Noir Mystery Writer Raymond Chandler Vignetted Texture Color Added 2013 #5
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David Lee Guss
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Photograph - Photography
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Raymond Chandler did not begin writing until he was 44 when he was fired from a well paying executive position in an oil company.
Chandler began with pulp magazines. In 1950 he had this to say about them:
"Wandering up and down the Pacific Coast in an automobile I began to read pulp magazines, because they were cheap enough to throw away and because I never had at any time any taste for the kind of thing which is known as women's magazines. This was in the great days of the Black Mask (if I may call them great days) and it struck me that some of the writing was pretty forceful and honest, even though it had its crude aspect. I decided that this might be a good way to try to learn to write fiction and get paid a small amount of money at the same time. I spent five months over an 18,000 word novelette and sold it for $180. After that I never looked back, although I had a good many uneasy periods looking forward."
Chandler's greatest creation is the detective Philip Marlowe acted by several different actors in films - Humphrey Bogart, Robert Mitchum and Dick Powell. While most critics prefer Bogart in "The Big Sleep," I am partial to Mitchum (although too old) as the bone weary Marlowe in "Farewell My Lovely."
Chandler collaborated with Billy Wilder in "Double Indemnity" and Alfred Hitchcock in "Strangers on a Train." The alcoholic Chandler did not get along with either men.
Chandler's major flaw is his plotting. He published only 7 novels in his lifetime, most cobbled together from short pieces. They continue to sell briskly.
His descriptive passages remain unbeatable: "The muzzle of the Luger looked like the mouth of the Second Street tunnel"; "He had a heart as big as one of Mae West's hips"; "Dead men are heavier than broken hearts"; "I went back to the seasteps and moved down them as cautiously as a cat on a wet floor."
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