Original sentence: In the Coen brothers' avante-garde film The Big Lebowski, the main character, The Dude, drinks white russians, a reference to Hammett's short story "The Gutting of Coufignal," which features a White Russian general.The Coen brothers are big fans of detective fiction in general and Hammett in particular-- one of their films, Blood Simple, is named after dialogue uttered by the narrator in the novel Red Harvest: "This damned burg's getting me
Edited sentence: In the Coen brothers' avante-garde film The Big Lebowski, the main character, The Dude, drinks white russians, an obvious reference-- in a detective story of this sort-- to Hammett's short story "The Gutting of Coufignal," which features prominently a White Russian general.The Coen brothers are big fans of detective fiction in general and Hammett in particular-- one of their films, Blood Simple, is named after dialogue uttered by the narrator in the entertaining if flawed novel Red Harvest: "This damned burg's getting me