'Shindig'
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A CLOCKWORK ORANGE and FULL METAL JACKET both have surviving narrators (Kubrick had other narrated films, but they were 3rd-person omniscient ones).
As does APOCALYPSE NOW.
Oh, TAXI DRIVER, GOODFELLAS and MEAN STREETS too (although that last one only has it near the beginning).
And Black-Irish O'Hara, from The Lady from Shanghai. Film noir is full of narrators (since a lot of the novels were in the first-person), and one film noir is even shot as if the camera were the eyes of the main character (memfaulting on the title, based on a Westlake novel IIRC). That was one of those honorable-failure movies, that they had to do to prove that, although it could be done, it couldn't be done in a way that didn't look silly.
I'm not sure if it's what you're thinking of, since it's certainly not Westlake, but The Lady in the Lake is shot from Marlowe's POV.
Yeah. And then have the characters stand around, not sure what to do.
That happens in Sondheim's "Into the Woods."
It's Michael Caine narrating The Quiet American, right? Not Brenden Fraser. Because Brenden Fraser was the floater in the beginning.
The novel is from the Caine character's POV, so I'm assuming the narration is Caine. I really need to see that movie - I love the book.
and one film noir is even shot as if the camera were the eyes of the main character (memfaulting on the title, based on a Westlake novel IIRC)
Chandler - it was THE LADY IN THE LAKE, and directed by Robert (I think) Montogmery, who also starred (at least when the character looked in anything where there was a reflection).
Heh, inevitable x-post due to delay.
one film noir is even shot as if the camera were the eyes of the main character (memfaulting on the title)
Also the first half of Dark Passage, before the main character has plastic surgery and ends up looking like Humphrey Bogart. Which is a good thing, because the main character was played by Bogart.
Also the first half of Dark Passage, before the main character has plastic surgery and ends up looking like Humphrey Bogart. Which is a good thing, because the main character was played by Bogart.
That one actually worked better than LitL, probably because they only kept the style up for a portion of the movie. A movie I just picked up, coincidentally, in a BOGIE & BACALL boxed set (it also has TO HAVE & HAVE NOT, THE BIG SLEEP [both versions] and KEY LARGO).
That one actually worked better than LitL
It's also hard to go wrong when you have Bogie, Bacall, and Agnes Moorhead.