Well I didn’t write anything yesterday so today I will talk about the movie “The Glass Key” as a whole, combining the two days. The title at first confused me. The original book, written by Dashiell Hammett, is where the movie gets most of its plot lines, with a few exceptions, as what happens with all books-made-into-movies. I am not really a fan of the whodunit genre (I’m more of a romantic comedy girl) so I was expecting to be bored. The movie in fact was actually better than I expected. I really grew attached to Paul Madvig, and throughout the movie I really thought he was the one who killed Taylor. Well I was wrong, which was a nice way to end the movie. Of course, Ned gets the girl, as was expected, but not in the way I thought it would happen. Madvig to just hand her over? It didn’t seem right. Except for him taking the ring back. I loved that.
I just got finished reading the book. Some of the dialogue in the book was exactly the same in the movie, and at some points the movie scrambled scenes around from the book. Overall I liked the book better, because it gave me a chance to reread sections that I didn’t pick up the first time.