Philip Marlowe Essay

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Philip Marlowe Philip Marlowe is my favorite character in the movie “Farewell my lovely.” Marlowe is working a boring job trying to find a missing husband when he has the bad luck to come across Moose Malloy. Malloy is a very big guy who just got out of prison and is looking for his lost love, Velma. Unfortunately, Moose is kind of simple mind and doesn’t know his own brutal strength so he ends up killing somebody when asking questions. As a witness, Marlowe told the polices what he saw and is coerced into trying to find Velma by a lazy detective. However, a real paying job as a bodyguard for a guy delivering a ransom for the return of stolen jewelry comes up so Marlowe ditches the Malloy mess. But things don’t go quite as expected. Philip Marlowe is a private detective, and introduced to the audiences as a seemingly straightforward, everyday "man’s man." But inside Chandler’s characteristic of Marlowe contains a complicated and uncertain central figure that often uses his biting one-liners to sidestep serious personal questions that might give the audiences any insight into his views on women, relationships, or his mysterious past. In fact, Chandler draw a portrayal of Marlowe as the formula "hardboiled" tough-guy at times seems contrived and overstated, almost as if it were a wall sheltering him from the people from which he appears so estranged. By looking more closely at Marlowe and his interactions with other (especially female) characters in Farewell, My Lovely, we can analyze a little bit more observable idea of how his masculinity. Marlowe feels uncomfortable when faced with female characters seems to result from his feeling that they are all intently judging his masculinity, and it leads affects his relationships with them. He can appreciate the sexiness of femme fatale characters like the young and wealthy Carmen Sternwood and the
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