Reconsidering Robert Altman’s The Long Goodbye (1973)
By Thomas Pluck
I think Altman’s rendition of The Long Goodbye gets a bad rap. Fans of Raymond Chandler‘s poetic novels and Bogart’s iconic portrayal find Elliot Gould as a smart-ass, sleepy “Rip Van Marlowe” too much of a change in character. Gould’s Marlowe is a man who fell asleep in the ’40s and woke up to the…