Stereotypes In The Movie, The Big Sleep

The Big Sleep is a movie which is based on Chandler's novel. It has an interesting title because there was nothing about sleep during the movie. Besides sleep, there were a lot of deaths. Therefore, sleep which means being nearly unconscious may have been used to refer to death. The movie was about a detective who undertakes a job of saving an old millionaire man's daughters from blackmailers. However, it did not stay that far because the daughters were not innocence also. First of all, almost all characters were carrying at least one gun which is small enough to carrying in pockets. Some of them didn’t hesitate to use their guns. Because of the big traffic of using guns, a big question that is who killed who is appeared in audience’s mind. …show more content…
People left their cars unlocked in the streets. Most likely, everyone trusts trust each other. They don’t think anybody would do bad things. However, at the very least, people open the cars’ doors and look at the licenses easily. In addition, there are a lot of blackmailer, thief, or murderer in the city. It can’t even be claimed that so many people come from the outside of the country as in the other stories that belongs to golden age crime fiction.
While mentioning about traditional crime fiction, there are some similarities and differences among two generation. Firstly, making deductions by looking people’s appearance is also Marlowe’s hobby. When he made one of them with Vivian, she asked why he is doing this. Marlowe said “because, I love it”. Another similarity is announcing the crime in two ways. The audience saw the truth but the detective hid some points to protect the one who love.
The difference was the interest of detective to women. From the first scenes of the movie there were a lot of courtship among detective and women who meet him. The conversations were like flirting. Traditional crime fiction doesn’t have emphasis on gender relationships. In this genre, the important thing is crime and its