Raymond Chandler documentary
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- Raymond Thornton Chandler (July 23, 1888 - March 26, 1959) was an American-British novelist and screenwriter. In 1932, at the age of forty-four, Chandler became a detective fiction writer after losing his job as an oil company executive during the Great Depression. His first short story, "Blackmailers Don't Shoot", was published in 1933 in Black Mask, a popular pulp magazine. His first novel, The Big Sleep, was published in 1939. In addition to his short stories, Chandler published seven novels during his lifetime (an eighth, in progress at the time of his death, was completed by Robert B. Parker). All but Playback have been made into motion pictures, some more than once. In the year before his death, he was elected president of the Mystery Writers of America.
Raymond Chandler documentary
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He is the standard to which all film noir mystery writers have to be judged. I love The book and movie The Big Sleep .!
Agreed 100%
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*Raymond Chandler was certainly one of the greatest American novelists of the 20th century, so it's a shame that this bio of him was lifted from the scummy "Mysteries and Scandals" series, hosted by A. J. Benza. Chandler deserves better than this. Moreover, Tom Hiney's "biography" of the writer was filled with unproven innuendo. (At one point, Hiney even hints that Chandler was a cross-dresser! ) If you want a better picture of this novelist, I heartily recommend "The Life of Raymond Chandler" and "Selected Letters of Raymond Chandler," both edited by Frank MacShane. I really wanted to give this video a "Like," but it is too filled with spurious gossip about an author who deserves something much better!*
MacShane's bio is definitely the one to get. It's a thoroughly researched and beautifully written book.
Former San Diego Union newspaper columnist Neil Morgan was the young reporter who drove Chandler to the Sanatarium after he broke down in the bathtub with the gun.
My late uncle was the physician at the old Scripps Hospital (across from the Bishop's School on Prospect where it was open from 1922 to 1963; 14 patient rooms with ocean views, 1 operating room, and 1 xray room) who took care of him during his last days and pronounced him dead.
Farewell My Lovely with Dick Powell was titled Murder My Sweet.... Farewell my Lovely and Chinatown both made in the 70s were stellar....RIP Raymond
His portrait of L.A. is still true.
Thanks for sharing! I must say I love your channel
Up the street from Sun Gold Point where his house was on that tight corner, a few blocks to La Jolla Boulevard, across on the east side of the street, was the long-gone Plaza Bar. Built in the local Spanish revival style of the Upper/Lower Hermosa neighborhood, it was where in 1947 the first margarita was poured in the US. The bar's owner had made a trip to a socialite's party in Acapulco where they served them and he liked it a lot. (The first Margarita as far as anyone knows, was in a bar south of Ensenda in 1935 that a little known Hollywood actress had liked to drink as she could not tolerate other booze her friends were enjoying and at that time was made with lemon juice). The Plaza' s bartender tweaked the recipe a little and used lime juice instead and added salt to the rim. Chandler drank there (along with the old Whaling Bar (1947-2012) at the La Valencia Hotel on Prospect Street) until his death. As the St. James Methodist Churched owned the land the Plaza bar was sitting on, they eventually razed it and the parish center stands there now.
Listening to the narrator, gossip columnist AJ Benza, pretending to be hard-bitten Marlowe, is like having battery acid poured in one's ears.
Excellent author
Great one, thanks :)
Can't hear them talking/ music too loud.
The audio was unbalanced. The people interviewed should have had their audio adjusted to the level of the host.
You've got the wrong lipstick on Mister. Slap: 0:13. Nowadays. these "men" have their own lipstick.
And the funniest part about it is that you let it bother you. Who cares?
@@mccuenoirfilms I like the ladies not the laddies.
@@drbonesshow1 I do as well, but I couldn’t care less if some men enjoy putting makeup on. It doesn’t affect me and more power to em. There have been just as many men throughout history that enjoy wearing women’s clothing and makeup, it’s just been hidden by/from society.
@@mccuenoirfilms You must have been at the transgender/transvestite show where I sang as Happy - Not Gay. I learned one thing about these people: don't sing about lady parts. They paid my fee and told me to leave after I sang: Save Your Pink Taco For Me.
@@drbonesshow1 Nah, I’m just a nice person with an open mind. You’re a weird guy. Have a good day.
Critics said he wrote like an angle slumming.
There's a body on the staircase, that I can't identify, and I'd like to reassure you, but I'm not that kind of guy.
Good work! Yet the forgotten giants...more famous and influential alive than any in your who'd who.....Byron and Gorky. Could be a sticky wicket ;)
Thanks! I've noticed. I have a whole month planned of Romantic poets this summer
14:17 this guy was auto writing. 😮 i can't believe no one has picked up on it yet. "demonic drinking" is exactly right
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Sensationalized, sanctimonious, inaccurate garbage. Look elsewhere for wonderful online stuff about Chandler. He was a genius, one of the most important writers in the American canon.
For my money Philip Marlowe will always be Dick Powell.
Agreed.
Chandler was a one trick pony whose " style " became self
parody very quickly. His short stories were superior to the
efforts of most others in that genre but the suggestion that
he was some great literary figure is bunk ! Marlowe is a tedious cardboard cliche . The relentless wisecracks eventually become irritating - as well as the sloppy plotting !
(Shhh!: don't let anyone hear you.)
"But down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid. The detective in this kind of story must be such a man. He is the hero, he is everything. He must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man." -- [from The Simple Art of Murder]
Poetry.
First person great style humor brilliant sidebars one of the great English prose writers. Among my favorite authors.
This is from E: Mysteries and Scandals. NOT a Biography or Documentary!
I just finished The Long Embrace, an excellent biography of Chandler and his wife, Cissy.
From 15 yrs old Chandler is my favourite detective and psychological author. 🇺🇦
I miss this series.
A quote attribute to him..."La Jolla, where old people live...... with their parents.." It is soooo true.
Just goes to show.
You don't need talent in this town honey.
All you need is the graft to go with it. Then you're in .
The greatest pulp writer ever made
This is not as interesting as the other videos I've watched from your channel, but Raymond Chandler is fascinating. A.J. seems more a personality than a reporter.
That's fair. I've got one more with A. J. I'll post in the summer. Maybe he'll grow on you.
He was a gossip columnist.
Lol at about 14:37 into the programme, they showed a poster of the remake of "The Big Sleep" instead of the Bogart version.
There's a great BBC radio play of how Chandler wrote the blue dahlia, booze, 3 secretaries and round the clock limousines. Pls try to find it??
excellent, thank you very much
I used to think Chandler and Hammett were the Faulkner and Hemingway of detective fiction; but now I wonder if Hemingway and Faulkner were reading pulp magazines in the early 20s.
Hard-boiled pulp fiction. There's other mystery stuff around. He's not alone.