Del negro al gris: Howard Hawks en la adaptación de "The Big Sleep"

Abstract

This article analyzes The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks, 1946) as film adaptation. Through a comparative study with Raymond Chandler's novel, it focuses on the narrative aspects that distinguish the film from its literary source. Most of them are related to the director's decision of introducing a central romantic plot in the story, an issue so essential that dilutes the genre in which the film is usually classified. This fact places the film closer to Hawks' lively filmography than to the hopelessness tone of film noir.