· It won Oscars and accolades as the best film of , but the crime writer James Ellroy has a different recollection of the adaptation of his novel LA Confidential. “It is about as deep as a Estimated Reading Time: 3 mins. "During the period portrayed in screen adaptation of L.A. Confidential, the LAPD was a notoriously corrupt institution. Ellroy’s novel, fictionalizes ill-favored facets of that history in an expansive, seventy-eight chapter masterstroke that covers a wide array of characters and Seller Rating: % positive. · LA Confidential is a big, powerful novel and is the third in Ellroy’s LA Quartet. It has been adapted into a highly acclaimed film. It has been adapted into a highly acclaimed film. Christmas , Los Angeles: a city where the police are as crooked as the bltadwin.ruted Reading Time: 7 mins.
Miraculously, L.A. Confidential has both and, although it's not perfect, ranks among the ten or fifteen best crime movies ever made. The setting is Los Angeles as Ellroy sees that time and place. Helgeland/Hanson boil the novel down to three characters — tender hard-guy Bud White (Russell Crowe), careerist Ed Exley (Guy Pearce), and. The Oscar-winning screenplay is actually based on several titles in James Ellroy's series of chronological thriller novels (including the title volume, The Big Nowhere, and White Jazz)--a compelling blend of L.A. history and pulp fiction that has earned it comparisons to the greatest of all Technicolor noir films, Chinatown. James Ellroy says film adaptation of LA Confidential was 'as deep as a tortilla' This article is more than 2 years old Speaking at Hay festival, the American crime writer has few kind words for.
Miraculously, L.A. Confidential has both and, although it’s not perfect, ranks among the ten or fifteen best crime movies ever made. The setting is Los Angeles as Ellroy sees that time and place. James Ellroy's L.A. Confidential is film-noir crime fiction akin to Chinatown, Hollywood Babylon, Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, and Jim Thompson. LA Confidential is a big, powerful novel and is the third in Ellroy’s LA Quartet. It has been adapted into a highly acclaimed film. It has been adapted into a highly acclaimed film. Christmas , Los Angeles: a city where the police are as crooked as the criminals.
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