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The two films I have chosen are ‘The Big Sleep’, made in 1946 with Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, and ‘L.A Confidential’, made 41 years later in 1997 - with a stellar cast including Kevin Spacey, Kim Basinger and Danny De’Vito
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COMPARISON ESSAY For this essay I have taken two films of a similar genre and style from two different cinematic periods and compared them against to attempt to highlight the similarities and differences that will inevitably be present. The two films I have chosen are 'The Big Sleep', made in 1946 with Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, and 'L.A Confidential', made 41 years later in 1997 - with a stellar cast including Kevin Spacey, Kim Basinger and Danny De'Vito. I chose these two films as they both originated from books; Raymond Chandler's legendary 'gumshoe' Phillip Marlowe (Bogart) is adapted brilliantly by 40s film noir director Howard Hawks, and the brutality of James Ellroy's work is powerfully adapted for the screen by Curtis Hanson. An additional reason was that L.A Confidential pays homage to Bogart's generation of life weary detectives whilst bringing an added and stark realism which was lacking from the...
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