Did you go out and buy the book?' And Granny invariably says, 'Well, no, I didn't.' And I say to Granny, 'Then what the fuck good are you to me?'" His response? “'Listen, Granny: You love the movie.
Ellroy is still approached by fans declaring their fondness for the film. It was beaten to a few Oscars by Titanic but its popularity has endured. It’s a beautiful, fast-paced piece of cinema that fulfils all of your film noir expectations while still providing rich, nuanced characters and an intricately woven storyline. Confidential digs into the deep-seated corruption of the Los Angeles Police Department of the early 1950s. Confidential is the opposite.īased on the novel of the same name by James Ellroy, the greatest (and by extension, most nihilistic) crime scribe of our age, L.A. The late, great Curtis Hanson’s 1997 hit L.A. Ruben Fleischer’s 2013 shoot-em-up Gangster Squad is a good example of that. The genre – if you see it as such – relies on well-trodden conventions and tropes, and the directors who abide by them can too often veer into pastiche. There are many pitfalls that come with shooting a mid-century film noir in the here and now. In the first 38 days of release, Jaws sold 25 million tickets, and changed everything. "The film went from a Japanese Saturday matinee horror flick to more of a Hitchcock," he reflected later. The mechanical shark Steven Spielberg was hoping to shoot eating those people kept conking out, so by necessity he had to start shooting from the shark's point of view. Or it might be a film about a shark that keeps eating people. Depending on who you listen to, the shark that terrorises the beaches of Amity Island stands for communism, or Watergate, or sexual liberation, or American disillusionment, or the knowledge of death itself, or terrorism, or a hundred other things. After Jaws – and ever since – big movies opened in the summer, as wide as possible, and could make it bigger than anyone thought possible.
MURDER SET PIECES SCENES MOVIE
Before Jaws, a hit movie came out around Christmas and opened in a few cinemas before going bigger. The original blockbuster, and a turning point in cinema history.
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