{"id":35479,"date":"2024-03-22T05:44:07","date_gmt":"2024-03-22T09:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=35479"},"modified":"2024-03-22T05:44:07","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T09:44:07","slug":"marlowe-2022-starring-liam-neeson-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=35479","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Marlowe&#8221; (2022) starring Liam Neeson \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z032224zview_marlowe22.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"781\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Marlowe <\/strong><\/em>(2022)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director: <strong>\u00a0Neil Jordan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>William Monahan, Neil Jordan<\/strong> based on <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3PxXaSF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>THE BLACK-EYED BLONDE<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0by <strong>Benjamin Black<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Liam Neeson, Diane Kruger, Jessica Lange<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>Los Angeles, 1939. Outside the spotlight lies a city of secrets.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Phillip Marlowe (Neeson), a LA Private Eye, is hired by the heiress Clare Cavendish (Kruger) to find her missing lover.\u00a0 Marlowe quickly learns that the absent Romeo was drunk in the gutter when he was run over by a boozed up driver.\u00a0 While making his report to Cavendish, she informs Marlowe that she&#8217;s seen her lover after the date he was supposedly killed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Marlowe decides to dig deeper and soon uncovers corruption that runs deep into the movers and shakers of the city.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In Raymond Chandler&#8217;s novels, Phillip Marlowe&#8217;s age ranges from 33 to 42.\u00a0 Liam Neeson was 70 for this role.\u00a0 That makes him the oldest actor to play Marlowe by nearly ten years.\u00a0 Robert Mitchum was 58 and 61 when he played the part.\u00a0 At one point in this film, Marlowe (Neeson) says to himself, &#8220;I&#8217;m too old for this shit.&#8221;\u00a0 I agree.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Neil Jordan does an excellent job of making the film feel like it is 1939 in LA.\u00a0 One goof that jumped out at me is when Marlowe tips a hatcheck girl $20.\u00a0 That is equivalent to almost $450 today.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I&#8217;m a fan of most movie adaptations of Phillip Marlowe, but this one was just okay.\u00a0 The film moved slowly, and Neeson just didn&#8217;t work as Marlowe for me.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Marlowe <\/strong><\/em>(2022) rates 2 of 5 stars.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_d.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z032224zview_marlowe22b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"313\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marlowe (2022) Director: \u00a0Neil Jordan Screenplay: William Monahan, Neil Jordan based on THE BLACK-EYED BLONDE\u00a0by Benjamin Black Stars: Liam Neeson,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[52,17,51,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-celebs","category-crime","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35479"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35482,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35479\/revisions\/35482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}