The Big Sleep Movie Analysis

During the Great Depression a Knight arises by the name of Philip Marlowe. Philip Marlowe is a detective during this era trying to make a living by solving cases but also seeking the truth when solving these cases. In the book The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler Philip Marlowe is given a task by General Sternwood, to take care of the person who is black mailing the Sternwood family. Marlowe takes the task and as the story unfolds he finds out whom the individual is that is blackmailing the family, but it leads to more questions. Philip unable to put the job down even though he is told too leave everything as it is decides on pursuing for answers and seeking the truth. The film adaptation however gives The Big Sleep a twist. It destroys the concept of the knight and the hard-boil aspect of the book. Furthermore, it deletes crucial parts and in doing so takes away the fair play. The purpose for having twisted the story was to make it into a romantic film in order to grasp a larger audience in doing so it no lost its …show more content…
It no longer seems to be a hard-boiled film. Rather it is a film that has hard-boiled aspects to it, in order to make it more suspenseful for the viewer. In this adaptation we lose the fem fatale, which is Carmen. This adaptation throws away important aspects of the book in order to pool in a larger audience and meet their emotional needs. Especially during the Great desperation were people were hopeless. This romantic film allows for people to see that hope exists in a time of darkness and trouble. If Hawks would have stuck with the original ending it would have made it a depressing film that would have possibly have been able to gain a large audience. In altering it, Hawks allowed it to be an enjoyable film that even those that did not read the book would watch, and even women could come and watch. The audience would then be able to feel a sort of comfort and a surge of hope by this romantic