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The Long Goodbye

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The Long Goodbye	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })The Long Goodbye is a 1973 film directed by Robert Altman and starring Elliott Gould as detective Philip Marlowe. It was adapted from Raymond Chandler's 1953 novel of the same name by Leigh Brackett (who had earlier co-written the most famous film version of Chandler's The Big Sleep).Marlowe's old friend Terry Lennox comes by in some sort of trouble, asking for a ride to Tijuana, which Marlowe provides. This winds up getting Marlowe in hot water with the LAPD, when it turns out that Lennox's wife Susan was murdered and Terry is the prime suspect. Meanwhile, Eileen Wade (Nina van Pallandt) hires Marlowe to find her missing husband, the noted author Roger Wade (Sterling Hayden)—and it turns out that the Wades' Malibu home is right down the beach from the Lennoxes'. Things get even more complicated when crime boss Marty Augustine (Mark Rydell) comes to Marlowe's apartment demanding $355,000 that Lennox was supposed to deliver but instead has absconded with.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })A pre-stardom Arnold Schwarzenegger has a non-speaking part as a Mook. The role of Terry Lennox is played by Jim Bouton, a former Major League Baseball pitcher far better known for his famous baseball memoir, Ball Four.
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The Long Goodbye / int_20f689e9	comment	Adaptational Villainy: Terry Lennox is the murderer, after all! While the novel didn't exactly have this character come across as particularly clean by the end, lying to your friend and letting him deal with the consequences still isn't as bad as murder...
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The Long Goodbye / int_33d5b7f2	comment	Adapted Out: Most blatantly, Linda Loring—the classy yet just-as-snarky-as-Marlowe lady who Marlowe meets during his investigation in the novel. She's the sister of Terry's late wife, and shares Marlowe's doubts that Terry killed anyone—and thus, becomes Marlowe's ally and uneasy assistant in his investigation. Chandler's purpose for her was to be the "Princess in Sour Dress" to Marlowe's Knight in Sour Armor, and their parting near the novel's end forces the detective to begin questioning his once-firm love of isolation. In the movie, she's nowhere to be found, and instead Altman has Marlowe strike up a complicated relationship with Mrs. Wade—who, ironically, was the murderer in the book.
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The Long Goodbye / int_3f45f1e6	type	Adaptational Heroism
The Long Goodbye / int_3f45f1e6	comment	Adaptational Heroism: Eileen Wade is not the Femme Fatale she is in the book.
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