Love in the time of treachery
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David Lodge compares two little-known film treatments by Graham Greene
Saturday October 1, 2005
The Guardian
Graham Greene belonged to the first generation of British writers who
grew up with the movies, and his work, like that of his contemporaries,
Evelyn Waugh, Henry Green and Christopher Isherwood, was deeply
influenced by the new medium. What Greene learned from cinema was how
to hold his readers in the coils of a suspenseful plot while exploring
unsettling moral and metaphysical themes, and how to evoke character
and milieu with the verbal equivalent of cinematic close-ups and pans.
His literary imagination, however, did not easily translate in the
opposite direction. Nearly every novel he wrote was eventually made
into a film, but very few have been good films, and only one is a
classic: The Third Man (1949), directed by David Lean, which Greene
scripted himself.
Graham Greene
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