The Big Sleep Breathless

The Big Sleep casts Humphrey Bogart as Philip Marlowe, Raymond Chandler's cynical private eye. Jean-Paul Belmondo pays homage to Bogie in Breathless. One of the films that cemented his reputation as an icon of cool, Howard Hawks's The Big Sleep casts Humphrey Bogart as Philip Marlowe, Raymond Chandler's cynical private eye who must fend off socialites and sociopaths alike. With Lauren Bacall. (1946; 114 mins.)
As a Parisian petty criminal in love with American films (and American girl abroad Jean Seberg), Jean-Paul Belmondo pays homage to Bogie in Jean-Luc Godard's revolutionary first feature, Breathless. (1959; 89 mins.)