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- “To say goodbye is to die a little.” ― Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye.
- “There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself.” ― Raymond Chandler, Long Goodbye.
- “I was as hollow and empty as the spaces between stars.” ― Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye.
- “A man who drinks too much on occasion is still the same man as he was sober. An alcoholic, a real alcoholic, is not the same man at all. You can't predict anything about him for sure except that he will be someone you never met before.”
- Marc Chacksfield
- The Silence Of The Lambs. "I do wish we could chat longer, but I'm having an old friend for dinner..." Hannibal Lector (Anthony Hopkins) 151 43 Thanks for voting.
- Ferris Bueller's Day Off. “Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once and a while you might miss it.” Ferris Bueller. 140 37 Thanks for voting.
- Back To The Future. "Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads! " Dr. Emmett Brown (Christopher Lloyd) 121 23 Thanks for voting.
- The Usual Suspects. "The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he did not exist. And like that... he is gone. " Verbal Kint (Kevin Spacey)
1. Nothing Lasts Forever – The Long Goodbye makes it clear that, no matter how hard someone may try, nothing lasts forever. In Philip Marlowe's case, all of his efforts to maintain a sense of normalcy and stability in his life are ultimately futile, as his relationships and his sense of security come to an end. 2.
- Marlowe Makes The Film
- When People Peg You — Wrong
- The Long Goodbye
The truth is that The Long Goodbyeis something of a mess of a film. Yet I’ve always loved it. It’s somewhat embarrassing to admit, but I feel much like Marlowe (Elliott Gould) in it. He’s a man out of time. He’s constantly interacting with a world that makes no sense to him. But he has what amounts to a mantra, “It’s okay with me.” Note his amused ...
I had an experience recently that made me feel much the same way. I was running my errands — walking from the library to the Target — and these two young women singled me out to ask if I had a light. There were a lotof other people around, but I was the one they picked out. This is not all that uncommon, but the example was so stark that I couldn’t...
But I do have a strict (some would say rigid) moral sense. Like Marlowe in The Long Goodbye, “It’s okay with me” — until it isn’t. And that’s what makes the ending of the film so powerful. For Marlowe, being liberal about the universe he finds himself in is not really a choice; there is no other universe that he can live in. Naked girls next door m...
The Long Goodbye is a 1973 film in which detective Philip Marlowe tries to help a friend who is accused of murdering his wife. Nothing says goodbye like a bullet. I have two friends in the world. One is a cat. The other is a murderer. [to Joanne] Look at that face.
The Long Goodbye: Directed by Robert Altman. With Elliott Gould, Nina van Pallandt, Sterling Hayden, Mark Rydell. Private investigator Philip Marlowe helps a friend out of a jam, but in doing so gets implicated in his wife's murder.
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May 6, 2021 · “The Long Goodbye” sits in that groove but with a more understated morality on behalf of its hero and fewer good-cop cliches. It is a melancholy movie that never surrenders to nihilism.
