Analysis Of The Movie ' Big Sleep '

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The Big Sleep follows the tough wisecracking, and morally upright private eye, Philip Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart) after he is hired by the old, ailing and tremendously wealthy, General Sternwood. While originally Marlowe was hired to help the General deal with a man named Arthur Gwynn Geiger, who is blackmailing the General over the General’s youngest daughter, Marlowe soon finds that the problem lies much deeper than previously thought and finds himself intertwined in the scandalous and hazardous lives the generals two spoiled, pretty, and wild daughters. This intertwinement though, fully depends on Marlow’s attraction to the eldest sister and fixation on solving the mystery of what these two girls have gotten themselves into.

Mise en scene with elements like the camera work, settings, characters, plot and themes. The films involve mystery solving by detectives, in addition to a revolution on the crime and the corrupted people, And dark themes and a sense of unsolved problems and evil. The big sleep involves hardboiled character, which is the masculine strong detective in The Big Sleep he was hired by a rich man to solve a blackmail mystery. The movie shows all the events take place in the city, which symbolizes the darkness,corruption and that people that live there are untrustworthy. Another important element of film noir is the femme fatale, which dress up in white,

   In response to Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep, I have just one question. Why all the similes? There isn't a single page in the novel that doesn't display this annoying literary device. Everything is "like this" or "like that." It never ends! Similar to decoding a secret message that isn't difficult to understand, but nevertheless tiring due to the overwhelming amount of messages, the novel is frustrating to read. The following analysis acknowledges Chandler's creativity in developing his main character, Philip Marlowe, with his usage of simile. However, the excessive style of the novel creates a dominating force that ultimately leaves the reader unfulfilled at the end.

In The Big Sleep, Chandler portrays Marlowe as the knight in shining armor. This establishes a motif of the stained glass window in General Stern wood’s home in the first chapter of the novel and is an appropriate motif in dictating Marlowe’s knightly role in the novel. The stained glass that is reflected in the novel places Marlowe in the position of the knight as it shows a knight who strives to reach a woman to set her free. The fact that he stares at the glass makes him develop the need to offer assistance. This motif is suitable because it sets the stage for what is to take place in the aftermath when Marlowe rescues Carmen. Secondly, Chandler tries to connect Marlowe with the knightly personality from the beginning of the novel that he intended to name his detective the modern knight and a brave man fighting for General Sternwood. He takes the role of the servant to Sternwood’s lord and therefore, in the knightly terms, it is sufficient to say that Marlowe is striving to find justice. Moreover, he is dedicated to rendering his services in the line of duty with much loyalty and honor despite the sexual and financial temptations that come his way. Like the ancient knights, Marlowe has deeply invested in his personal code of chivalry that contain among others, the need to overcome the sexual temptation of whatever magnitude that comes his way. Lastly, as a representation of the modern-day knight, Marlowe comes out in the novel as a tough detective and a brave individual

The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks, 1946) uses mostly restricted narration, perceptual subjectivity, and the lack of mental subjectivity to show the strength of Marlow’s (Humphrey Bogart) loyalty towards Vivian (Lauren Bacall) and General Sternwood (Charles Waldren).

In the books The Big Sleep and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, both authors, Raymond Chandler (The Big Sleep) and Simon Armitage (Sir Gawain and the Green Knight), create the protagonist of each story into archetypal knights. The protagonist of The Big Sleep is named Phillip Marlowe and in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight the protagonist is named Sir Gawain. The 3 knightly qualities that we will be focusing on in this essay are self-sacrifice, loyalty and courage. These qualities are displayed throughout each story in different and similar ways throughout each book.

    I sat at my desk, wondering what I could possibly write about The Big Sleep. I mean, there are so many possibilities. This guy, Raymond Chandler's writing style is so different from anything I have ever read before, that there are many things that I could talk about. I heard that Chandler once said, "I live for syntax!" It does not surprise me that he would say something along those lines. I mean, this writer is all over the page with different writing techniques. Whether it is his use of similes or the lack of punctuation, Chandler's novel is easy to read, process and enjoy.

The Big Sleep is a detective novel set in 1930’s Los Angeles written by Raymond Chandler. Phillip Marlowe is a private detective hired to take care of a blackmailing scheme. General Sternwood is a wealthy old man with two troublesome socialite daughters. The General wants Marlowe to handle a man named Arthur Gwynn Geiger who has some type of dirt on the youngest daughter, Carmen. Upon meeting Marlowe, General Sternwood drops hints that he has an ulterior motive for Marlowe to find his missing son-in-law Rusty Regan, a former bootlegger married to Vivian Sternwood. Marlowe’s investigation quickly meanders when Geiger ends up dead. The story sends Marlowe to porn shops and casinos, the underbelly of Los Angeles. He is constantly fighting off

Lighting was used very creatively in this film, for example, when Marcellus is in his club, the lighting is very low. This gives the audience a sense of mystery and danger. There is many different genres that film may fit into such as, Gangster, Comedy, and even Drama. The viewers may have felt very connected to the film due to specific content such as, history and class. The actors are dressed up like anyone would expect to see past gangsters, they have a class that is usually stereotyped as suit wearing, dangerous men, and in this film it’s

Generally when there is low key lighting, the audience feel tense, which creates a sense of suspense. The audience want to know what will happen next and the darkness foreshadows a bad even to come. Dark looks and styles are a key gothic horror element, an example from the film is the low-key lighting used in the boy’s room, which has not been touched for many years. This along with intense music sends a chill down the spine of the audience, as we will feel a demonic presence within that room. When the woman in black meets Arthur Kipps in person to see her son, the dim lighting makes us worried about what she will do next to Arthur Kipps. Due to the lighting in the film the scenes look dark, which makes the The Woman In Black a gothic horror

Are you a huge fan of detective films? Are you interested in solving mysteries and cases? If yes, “The big sleep” film by Howard Hawks may be suitable for you. “The big sleep” movie is an American thriller-mystery film which is adopted from a well-known complicated novel with the same name in 1939 by Raymond Chandler. Both of the film and novel have a remarkable success during their time and considered as one of the best classic Hollywood film that is still recognized until now.

"Someone is blackmailing Carmen, dissolute younger daughter Sternvuda old general, who hires a private detective Marlowe to find and discourage extortion. Tom did not manage to do the job - all the suspects one by one kill.

The film is one long take that lacks any editing; in other words the film is arguably rushes that have not been given its final form, it is an unfinished piece. Yet, its incompleteness is what makes the film the truest form of footage, it has not been meddled with and it is

The aim was for the audience to have a longing for sensual images out of ordinary things they could relate to. Sleep was written at the time he realised this truth was to be found in a fresh examination of the link between man and woman and their environment and