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This chapter will investigate these three components – ▇▇▇▇▇’s characterization of ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, the depiction of Vienna, and the unusual filmic language – as they are established in Come, Sweet Death and combine to create a funny, dark film that both stands on its own as an entertaining and artistic accomplishment and inaugurated what has become an enduring series.
However, without a successful Come, Sweet Death there could have been no Silentium! and no The Bone Man, no upcoming Das Ewige Leben/The Eternal Life72 film and possibly no English translations of the novels, either.
Brenner has not kicked any of his addictions since Come, Sweet Death; he continues to drink Stiegl, pop headache pills, and chain smoke throughout the film.
The film Come, Sweet Death adapts ▇▇▇▇’ novel of the same name into an Austro-comedy featuring two of the most prominent elements of the genre, a sympathetic anti-hero protagonist (played by ▇▇▇▇▇) and his less-than-gorgeous milieu (in this case, a working- 72 Austrian Film Institute website: Das Ewige Leben ▇▇▇▇://▇▇▇.▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇.▇▇/de/dasewigeleben/.
Former police detective and ambulance driver Simon Brenner’s fortunes have not improved since the end of Come, Sweet Death.
As ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ says, for the film version of Come, Sweet Death, the story was simplified and the plot streamlined.
In response to her request to be distracted, Brenner offers a story about Leberkäse and Knackwurst, two questionable Austrian meat products best enjoyed drenched in mustard, if at all (though the ambulance drivers in Come, Sweet Death do, of course, depend on Rosi’s Spenderleber).
Come, Sweet Death both made a wider audience aware of the books and marked existing readers’ first opportunity to see these popular books onscreen: the first chance to see how ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ would be characterized by ▇▇▇▇▇, how Vienna would be depicted, and how the peculiarly entertaining voice of ▇▇▇▇’ narrator would be translated into the grammar of film.
Wolfgang Murnberger: Even in Come, Sweet Death Berti was the character who talked to Brenner more than anyone.
First, as in Come, Sweet Death, Brenner’s characterization and milieu are typical for an Austro-comedy and contrast sharply with the people and places he encounters in high- brow, tourist-friendly parts of Salzburg.