[HN Gopher] Oscar Night in Hollywood (1948)
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       Oscar Night in Hollywood (1948)
        
       Author : CaptainZapp
       Score  : 21 points
       Date   : 2023-04-07 05:16 UTC (17 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.theatlantic.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.theatlantic.com)
        
       | neonate wrote:
       | https://web.archive.org/web/20201112013653/https://www.theat...
        
       | actionfromafar wrote:
       | I was honestly astonished how similar some things are now and
       | then.
        
         | yamtaddle wrote:
         | I got _embarrassingly_ far, skimming it and dipping in to read
         | more deeply here and there, before realizing it was a piece
         | from 1948, not looking at the 1948 Oscars (and Oscars in
         | general) retrospectively from 2023.
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         | I was finally brought to my senses by the quality of the
         | writing. "Damn, this is remarkably well-written... hey, wait a
         | minute...." Raymond Chandler, at that! Hahaha.
        
           | jamestimmins wrote:
           | If you haven't seen Double Indemnity, which he co-wrote with
           | Billy Wilder, it's absolutely one of the best noir films out
           | there.
        
             | majormajor wrote:
             | Worth noting that this is an adaptation of a story and the
             | original author is neither Wilder nor Chandler, but James M
             | Cain.
        
               | jamestimmins wrote:
               | Oh I didn't know that. Have you read the book? Would you
               | recommend it? Big fan of Chandler and Hammett.
        
               | majormajor wrote:
               | I have read the book, but I haven't seen the movie or
               | read much else in the genre, just saw a recommendation of
               | it from an author of something much newer I read, so I
               | enjoyed the book but I don't know that I'd read it again
               | if I knew what was going to happen.
               | 
               | Apparently Cain was a big fan of the movie, from a quick
               | check of Wikipedia he said about the male lead: "The way
               | you found tragedy in his shallow, commonplace, smart-
               | cracking skull will remain with me for a long time and,
               | indeed, reinforce an aesthetic viewpoint that many
               | quarrel with; for if I have any gift, it is to take such
               | people and show that they can suffer as profoundly as
               | anybody else..." and the page in general suggests that
               | they deepened the story a bit -
               | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Indemnity_(novel)
        
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