Mickey cohen has just been sentenced to ten years in federal prison for failure to pay income tax. Just beneath the glamorous veneer of hollywood gossip and movie stars lies a crimeridden city corrupt to its core. Jack vincennes is a highprofile cop who greatly benefits from hudgens busts of movie stars and political figures. The screenplay by hanson and brian helgeland is based on james ellroys 1990 novel of the same name, the third book in his l. Confidential 1990 is a neonoir novel by james ellroy, and the third of his l. If you have any question about this novel, please dont hesitate to contact us or translate team. Jones as lynn, alana arenas as june, and shea whigham as dick stensland. Three very different cops are all after the truth, each in their own style.
The action is driven along by his breakneck writing style, and his staccato style shows its first signs in the head of jack vincennes. But exley, whose shiny reputation conceals a dark secret,and vincennes, who goes showbiz with a vengeance, reflect parts of ellroy, too. Masterfully adapted from james ellroys novel of the same name, l. Confidential the movie posted on march 1, 2016 by emma young firstly, apologies for my fourmonth absence, but i have been doing some editing for a friend and it sucked up a fair bit of blogging time. Confidential quotes and see why the film is one our favorites. San diego uniontribune was quoted as saying, ellroy will soon be as well known as hammett and chandler, and l. White comes to dislike exley after whites partner, dick stensland, is fired due.
The title refers to the 1950s scandal magazine confidential, portrayed. Confidential quotes showing of 3 some men get the world, some men get ex. Confidential is epic noir, a crime novel of astonishing detail and scope. Open library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published. The epigraph is a glory that costs everything and means nothingsteve erickson. Confidential script at the internet movie script database. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Sowohl white als auch stensland sehen in exley einen verrater. Hanson played the songs hed already chosen for the soundtrack on set, to establish mood. The screenplay by hanson and brian helgeland is based on james ellroy s 1990 novel of the same name, the third book in his l. The director confessed to disliking the characters for too long into the.
The books zigzag the trope all over the place, though. Confidential drenched in the tawdry glamour of hollywood in the early 1950s and up to its ears in the delirious corruption of police and city politics, l. Confidential is a 1997 american neonoir crime film directed, produced and. See more ideas about movies, james ellroy and kim basinger. There is a mass murder at the nite owl restaurant, including a former lapd officer. The epigraph is a glory that costs everything and means nothing steve erickson. Confidential is a 1997 american crime film directed, produced and cowritten by curtis hanson.
Confidential is filling out its cast, adding three more to the drama pilot mark webber and shea whigham will both play detectives in the spin on the noirish 1997 oscar. Maybe i missed it, but is it explained why stensland was killed at the night owl. Confidential feels like the book that james ellroy has been preparing for and working up to during his entire career up to this point. So that would explain why they are in both trying to keep things in. Ive looked in a book i read long ago, by john truby, called the anatomy of story.
Specifically, dick stensland, matt reynolds, jack vincennes, sid hudgens, pierce patchett, and dudley smith. Hes introduced kicking the crap out of a wifebeater, tying him to his porch with christmas tree lights to wait for the patrol car to. You will definitely want to read the rest after finishing it though. Confidential is a 1997 american neonoir crime film directed, produced and cowritten by curtis hanson. The book explains that when white first came on the force, stensland was the one who taught him how to channel his rage into police work, particularly when going after men who abused women. Come visit sometime to read the latest chapter of l. As the opening voiceover narration kicks in we see a montage of gorgeous southern california shots. Not only does it have excellent medical potential, its also a great smoke for recreational users as well. Ed exley recommends that the lapd shift the blame for bloody christmas to men whose pensions are secured, and he names bud white and richard stensland as two such men. Fiction, crime, ficcion, detective and mystery stories, police corruption, delitos.
Bud white, ready to break the rules to seek justice, but barely able to keep his raging violence. A supernatural speakeasy cozy mystery by lily harper hart 4. Three different lapd detectives with different personalities, wifebasherbasher bud white russell crowe, straight cop edmund exley, and publicityhungry jack vincennes kevin spacey all get caught up in the case, which turns out be part of the power struggle in. And three lawmen are caught in a deadly spiral, a nightmare that. Dudley knew if he killed stensland seperately the police would start looking into why they would want to kill a cop. Witch confidential a supernatural speakeasy cozy mystery book 2 book 2 of 2. Historical novels about pioneer life, devotionals, cookbook, farm life,poetry, norwegian flavor in many of the writings. Ellroys 1990 novel of the same name, the third book in his l. With kevin spacey, russell crowe, guy pearce, kim basinger. The expartner of officer white russell crowe, implicated in a scandal rooted out by exley, was one of the.
It is basically a policedetective crime story but it is beautifully constructed with a film noir style. Confidential is epic noir, a crime novel of astonishing detail and scope written by the bestselling author of the black dahlia. James elroys novel, from which the movie was taken, is chock full of 1940s cop. Dick stensland, the cop killed at the nite owl, got his name from the character of a. Confidential and had tried unsuccessfully to turn it into a miniseries for network tv. A horrific mass murder that invades the lives of victims and victimizers on both sides of the law three cops treading quicksand in the middle. Detective lieutenant exley guy pearce, the son of a murdered detective, is out to avenge his fathers killing. Confidential is actually the third book in a series of four books called the l. Now, while investigating a brutal murder, three very different police detectives will rediscover a common bond of integrity in the blockbuster film noir thriller l. Ellroy is a master of crime, seamlessly weaving three narratives in his deliciously dark. Confidential is a 1997 neonoir film based on james ellroys 1990 novel of the same title, the third book in his l. And three lawmen are caught in a deadly spiral, a nightmare that tests loyalty and courage, and offers no mercy, grants no survivors. Confidential, he was poised to make the leap from workmanlike director to filmmaker par excellence. Rolo tomasi was the name given to the man who killed eds.
A shrewd, elegant film with a flawless ensemble cast and style to burn. The high is very psychedelic and heady, but also induces powerful physical euphoria and relaxation which becomes more pronounced with every hit. Confidential holds enough plots for two or three books. Energetic, sprawling and often stylistically irritating police procedural that follows three lapd members over a tenyear period, beginning in 1950. Ed exley, a patrician who venerates his herocop father, presumably holds high ideals and unassailable standards.
Two policemen are drawn together by an obsession with the same woman and the. The title refers to the 1950s scandal magazine confidential, portrayed in the film as hushhush. It seems that the killers were taking a lot of risk killing stensland there. Ellroy is a master of crime, seamlessly weaving three narratives in his deliciously dark version. 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. A horrific mass murder invades the lives of victims and victimizers on both sides of the law. Confidential by brian helgeland based on the novel by james ellroy november 16, 1995 minor revisions fade in.
Jun 06, 20 1950s hardboiled detective noir that goes deeper and darker than any other book in the genre, l. Detectives bud white, edmund exley, and jack vincennes all get caught up in the case, which turns out be part of the power struggle in organized crime after real life mobster mickey cohen is convicted the book by james ellroy was later adapted into a film starring russell. A horrific mass murder that invades the lives of victims and victimizers on both sides of the law three cops treading quicksand in. To get rid of stensland and take over the drug racket. The film tells the story of a group of lapd officers in 1953, and the intersection of police corruption and hollywood celebrity. It seems that the dirty cops could have killed him at his home alone or some place else. Confidential, based on james ellroys 1990 noir novel that spawned curtis hansons oscarwinning 1997 film.
If he was the only target, youd think they would want to avoid the unnecessary body count. The film tells the story of a group of lapd officers in 1953, and the intersection of police. A confidential complete score 1997 i dont own this track all material in this video. Confidential is one of my favourite books of all time, and my favourite james ellroy book. Killing him and everyone at the nite owl then making it look like a robbery would just make it look like stensland was in the wrong place at the wrong time, but as we find out later it was set up to look like that. Ed exley, the golden boy of the police force, willing to do almost anything to get ahead, except sell out. Confidential is also a 1990 novel by american crime writer james ellroy. Only in the book does exley send stensland to the gas chamber, vincennes get married and mickey cohen feature more prominently. Over the opening strains of i love you, california, a montage. Confidential by brian helgeland based on the novel by. Youre like santa claus with that list, bud, except everyone on its been naughty. In the incontinent mayhem that masquerades as a james ellroy novel, the. Fiction, crime, ficcion, detective and mystery stories, police corruption, delitos, novela policiaca estadounidense, corrupcion policiaca. Officer bud white, on the other hand, is brutal, violent, vengeful and jack trashcan vincennes.