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This is the first 1,000 characters of 2262 words (9.05 pages) in the essay titled deee David Strathairn as Pierce Patchett,Paolo Seganti as Johnny Stompanato, Screenplay by Brian Helgeland and Curtis Hanson. Brian Helgeland and Curtis Hanson have won for Outstanding Adapted Screenplay. Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, and Kevin Spacey have won L.A. Confidential starts as an exposé, told by scandal magazine columnist Sid Hudgeons. It s stylized, and also stylish, to the point of being a gently funny self-parody. It s so determinedly immersed in 50 s Los Angeles that we re always partly enjoying the time travel to this tasty milieu and partly laughing at the film and ourselves for our extravagance. At the same time, L.A. Confidential is something much more serious, a post-morality play in shades of dark and light. The novel on which it is based is the third volume in James Ellroy s L.A. Quartet, quintessentially expressing the author s vision, at once bleak and promising. It is a journey to the end of a night of near total destruction. The only thing that s left afterwards is what the characters are able, of themselves, to salvage. But what they are able to salvage is something of value, a life maybe better than the daydream that they started out to achieve. Brian Helgeland and Curtis Hanson have earnestly taken on the job of adapting James Ellroy s book. It is inevitable that they have simplified it. A book can have a more intricate plot than a film because it is experienced under different circumstances: the reader is able to stretch it out over sever... |
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Keywords: curtis hanson, johnny stompanato, david strathairn, guy pearce, quintessentially, james ellroy, l a confidential, screenplay, quartet, novel, kevin spacey, match, intricate plot, paolo seganti, s vision, morality play, self parody, magazine columnist, sid hudgeons, brian helgeland