A projectors flicker strobes against the closed curtains. Lynn gives bud white a glass of scotch at her house but it disappears and. Confidential 1997, winner of best picture, the wait, he was in this award, and probably the best script structured around a trio of heroes since the good, the bad and the ugly. November 01, 2007 dont ever try to fucking bribe me or ill have you and patchett in shit up to your ears. Confidential feels like the book that james ellroy has been preparing for and working up to during his entire career up to this point. I watched him beat my mother to death with a tire iron.
Len bracken continues his assault on the powers that be with his new novel, snitch jacket. Where the book and film differ most is the latters contradiction of the. Its implied that bud and lynn have sex several times. Confidential film wikimili, the best wikipedia reader. Every working man can have his own house, and inside every house, a happy, allamerican family. Photos of tract housing, orange groves, and the glamor shot of veronica lake are framed on lynn bracken s wall. Confidential brought him stateside recognition, and many felt he deserved an oscar nomination for his subtle work as a quiet enforcer who falls for highclass prostitute lynn bracken kim. Confidential quickly spins out into an ambitious ensemble piece among the characters who are sucked into this farflung story are lynn bracken kim basinger, a languidly glamorous. Before bud opens the car door, you can see the tree come to a sudden stop in. Ed exley, the golden boy of the police force, willing to do almost anything to get ahead, except sell out.
My favorite scenes are when exley questions the black suspects, and the first encounter of white and lynn margaret bracken, the highpriced call girl who looks like veronica lake. Bud and ed exley, which is transplanted to lynn bracken in the movie. After leaving the liquor store, bud spots pierce patchetts car with what appears to be a very beat up susan lefferts inside. The epigraph is a glory that costs everything and means nothing steve erickson. Confidential quickly spins out into an ambitious ensemble piece among the characters who are sucked into this farflung story are lynn. I found it on my dads night table and read it breathlessly, the stories of reefer parties, multiple divorces, wifeswapping and leading men who liked to wear frilly undergarments. Confidential, in which it appeared as the house of illrepute occupied by veronica lakelookalike lynn bracken played. Confidential if she had feelings for bud and she also knew how much he hated ed. Ellroys style becomes more rapid fire and fragmentary, but still outstanding and impossible to put down. I wanted to hate this movie because i loved the book so much. Kim basinger as a veronica lake lookalike and highclass call girl.
Confidential, in which it appeared as the house of ill repute occupied by veronica lakelookalike lynn bracken played. Confidential was a key magazine of the 1950s, a monthly that sold millions of copies with its seamy exposes of celebrity drugs and sex. Russell crowe as a grunt detective who thinks his ethics are just fine, thank you. See our topranked characters and read their profiles. The film tells the story of a group of lapd officers in 1953, and the intersection of police corruption and hollywood celebrity. In the book creative filmmaking from the inside out, production designer jeannine oppewall said she chose the spanish style home for l. Please use the follow button to get notification about the latest chapter next time when you visit. The screenplay by hanson and brian helgeland is based on james ellroys 1990 novel of the same name, the third book in his l. Whites role in the investigation is complicated when he falls for lynn bracken kim basinger, one of patchetts prostitutes, who is the spitting image of veronica lake. He later said, they preserved the basic integrity of the book and its main theme. When bud white pulls into the driveway at pierce patchetts house to question him about susan lefferts murder, the wind is causing a tree top top center of the frame to sway.
The title refers to the scandal magazine confidential. Confidential hollywood center formosa cafe frolic room pierce patchetts house mrs. White russell crowe and veronica lake lookalike hooker lynn bracken kim basinger, in curtis hansons l. Confidential is one of my favorite movies, based on one of my favorite books by james ellroy, and i think its one of the best bookto. Confidential is a 1997 american crime film directed, produced and cowritten by curtis hanson. The magazine sank in a sea of lawsuits, but it created a genre. Three very different cops are all after the truth, each in their own style. Its okay to take photos from the street but be sure not to trespass or disturb the residents in any way. Here youll find current best sellers in books, new releases in books, deals in books, kindle ebooks, audible audiobooks, and so much more. Confidential, bracken is portrayed by kim basinger, and in the 2003 pilot, she is portrayed by melissa george.
Its here that white first meets lynn bracken kim basinger, the films renewed. The film enhances the traditional definitions of the noir genre by weaving in themes of fame and romance, broadening the relatively tight scope of noir to. Confidential 1992 white jazz elmore leonard wrote that reading the black dahlia aloud would shatter wine glasses. Bud white, ready to break the rules to seek justice, but barely able to keep his raging violence. The same goes for the moment when pearces political animal, exley, gives into lynn brackens purposeful seduction, showing his true colors as a man just as much ruled by base desires as. He takes all of the themes he explored in previous novels and packs them into a book thats an even larger, more epic tale of crime, perversion, and hollywood corruption than any of his previous books. Mel gibsons conspiracy theory started off perfectly fine with a paranoid cabbie, suddenly lurched into manchurian candidate territory, and wound up with one of those villains who has innumerable opportunities to kill mel. Confidential, 1997kim basinger two sleeveless fulllength gowns of ivory satin, with swags of ivory chiffon draped from the shoulders, crossing round the body to form a bow at the base of the lowcut back. Take charactours quiz to get recommendations for thousands of characters, movies, tv shows, books, and games that are high matches for your unique personality. Lynn bracken kim basinger yearns to return to her arizona. You expect feature films to have problems with jane austen or henry james, but whats depressing in recent times is the way they seem to have difficulty.
I could never underatand why lynn slept with ed exley in l. The house where kim basingers character lynn bracken lives in l. Confidential is a 1997 film about a group of lapd officers in the 1950s, and the intersection of police corruption and hollywood celebrity. Lefferts house movie premiere pot bust nite owl cafe victory motel sid hudgens office lynn brackens house navarettes holeup city hall bidwells house nicks liquor fitch house tv spots showest nite owl action hollywood theatrical trailer. We see tabloid photos of lynn and one of her clients in the throes of sex, but no explicit nudity is seen. Oct, 2007 some closeups make sure we are on one characters side over another. A nude woman is seen tied to a bed in the rape suspects house. Though thorson was a fan of ellroys novels and was familiar with his dense. Their daughter ireland was born in 1995, and basinger returned to work two years later for her most successful role to date. Confidential 1997 successfully reestablishes the gritty, dark, suspenseful atmosphere of film noir that tells a hardboiled crime story with all the conventions of classic melodrama. The story eventually encompasses organized crime, political corruption, heroin trafficking, pornography, prostitution, and hollywood. If you want to catch the tenor of the times, from opiated subversive sects to hubristic national security forces, with a generous tempo of eros and rage, this is the book for you. Great performances all around, especially guy pearce as the new detective learning the ropes in a mileu full of corruption. Confidential is a 1997 american neonoir crime film directed, produced and cowritten by curtis hanson.
Ask anything you want to know, or answer other peoples questions. Lynn brackens house is at 501 wilcox avenue in the affluent hancock park neighborhood, overlooking the wilshire country club. The paperboy swooped by, carrier sacks in plain view. It is first featured in the scene when bud white, while picking up some liquor for a christmas party, first lays eyes on veronica lake lookalike lynn bracken. Confidential and the problem of the sung hero paste. Its projected on a wall in front of which stands lynn bracken and an older. Confidential is a 1997 american neonoir crime film directed, produced and cowritten by. Some closeups make sure we are on one characters side over another. Lynn shows quite a bit of cleavage in one of her dresses. Lynn bracken picked the paper up, yawned back inside. When i was 12, my old man went after my mother with a bottle. Photos of tract housing, orange groves, and the glamor shot of veronica lake are framed on lynn brackens wall. The film enhances the traditional definitions of the noir genre by weaving in themes of fame and romance, broadening the relatively tight scope of noir to modern viewers. Hanson also chose studio photos of two lesserknown 1950s actors aldo ray and guy madison to show to guy pearce and russell crowe what he envisioned as models for the characters ed exley and bud white.
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