Marlowe is adapted from the 2014 novel by John Banville, and the film has noticeable differences from the book. We break down the biggest changes.
Marloweis adapted from the 2014 novel, The Black-Eyed Blonde, by John Banville, and there are stark differences between the film and the noir book. Directed by Neil Jordan from a screenplay by William Monahan, Marlowe stars Liam Neeson as Philip Marlowe, the private detective who’s tasked with uncovering a disappearance that begins to unravel a web of conspiracies involving drug lords and the story’s femme fatale.
5 Clare & Dorothy’s Backstories Are Different In Marlowe, Diane Kruger’s Clare Cavendish is an heiress, the wealthy daughter of Dorothy Quincannon, once a popular Hollywood actress. However, in Banville’s book, Clare is a perfume heiress, and her mother, whose name is Dorothy Langrishe, is a first-generation Irish immigrant whose husband died in the Irish civil war. Here, Dorothy wasn’t an actress, and built her fortune through her perfume business.
4 Clare & Marlowe Have A Brief Romance Throughout Marlowe, Clare Cavendish flirts with Philip Marlowe, and she doesn’t try to hide what she’s doing. Marlowe, however, knows it’s because she’s trying to glean information from him about the case and keep him on the path to finding answers regarding Nico Peterson’s disappearance.
2 Nico Gives The Suitcase To Marlowe, Not Clare Marlowe spends most of the film searching for answers regarding Nico’s faked death and his whereabouts, only for Nico to end up finding him instead. He gives the private detective a message to pass along to Clare, and the two end up meeting in the props warehouse where he reveals he has a record of every sale from the Ambassador’s drug business. In the novel, even the contents of the suitcase are different, swapping ledgers for heroin.
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