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. In the book creative filmmaking from the inside out, production designer jeannine oppewall said she chose the spanish style home for l. 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. 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. 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. Its projected on a wall in front of which stands lynn bracken and an older. Its okay to take photos from the street but be sure not to trespass or disturb the residents in any way. Kim basinger as a veronica lake lookalike and highclass call girl. 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. Lynn bracken kim basinger yearns to return to her arizona. Confidential film wikimili, the best wikipedia reader.
Bud white, ready to break the rules to seek justice, but barely able to keep his raging violence. Ed exley, the golden boy of the police force, willing to do almost anything to get ahead, except sell out. Confidential, in which it appeared as the house of ill repute occupied by veronica lakelookalike lynn bracken played. 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. 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.
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. Len bracken continues his assault on the powers that be with his new novel, snitch jacket. 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. I watched him beat my mother to death with a tire iron. Confidential, lynn bracken fits this predetermined mold, but in the end, her character does not turn out to be the protagonists arch nemesis. 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. Jack vincennes kevin spacey is a cop on the take from a tabloid ownerreporter, sid hudgeons danny devito, whose magazine hush hush prominently features jacks recent drug busts. The books homepage helps you explore earths biggest bookstore without ever leaving the comfort of your couch.
The film tells the story of a group of lapd officers in 1953, and the intersection of police corruption and hollywood celebrity. 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. The title refers to the scandal magazine confidential. See our topranked characters and read their profiles. Confidential is a 1997 american neonoir crime film directed, produced and cowritten by curtis hanson.
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 wanted to hate this movie because i loved the book so much. A projectors flicker strobes against the closed curtains. Confidential and the problem of the sung hero paste. Confidential quickly spins out into an ambitious ensemble piece among the characters who are sucked into this farflung story are lynn. I could never underatand why lynn slept with ed exley in l. When i was 12, my old man went after my mother with a bottle.
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. Photos of tract housing, orange groves, and the glamor shot of veronica lake are framed on lynn bracken s wall. With kevin spacey, russell crowe, guy pearce, kim basinger. 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. Every working man can have his own house, and inside every house, a happy, allamerican family. Ask anything you want to know, or answer other peoples questions. The paperboy swooped by, carrier sacks in plain view. Lynn shows quite a bit of cleavage in one of her dresses. Confidential if she had feelings for bud and she also knew how much he hated ed. Some closeups make sure we are on one characters side over another. Please use the follow button to get notification about the latest chapter next time when you visit. 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. Here youll find current best sellers in books, new releases in books, deals in books, kindle ebooks, audible audiobooks, and so much more.
Lynn brackens house is at 501 wilcox avenue in the affluent hancock park neighborhood, overlooking the wilshire country club. The story eventually encompasses organized crime, political corruption, heroin trafficking, pornography, prostitution, and hollywood. A nude woman is seen tied to a bed in the rape suspects house. 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 1990 is a neonoir novel by james ellroy, and the third of his l. 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. Oct, 2007 some closeups make sure we are on one characters side over another. The epigraph is a glory that costs everything and means nothing steve erickson. Confidential 1992 white jazz elmore leonard wrote that reading the black dahlia aloud would shatter wine glasses. 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. Three very different cops are all after the truth, each in their own style. Confidential hollywood center formosa cafe frolic room pierce patchetts house mrs. Before bud opens the car door, you can see the tree come to a sudden stop in.
The house where kim basingers character lynn bracken lives in l. He later said, they preserved the basic integrity of the book and its main theme. 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. 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. Ellroys style becomes more rapid fire and fragmentary, but still outstanding and impossible to put down. Confidential was a key magazine of the 1950s, a monthly that sold millions of copies with its seamy exposes of celebrity drugs and sex. Its here that white first meets lynn bracken kim basinger, the films renewed.
Confidential, in which it appeared as the house of illrepute occupied by veronica lakelookalike lynn bracken played. Photos of tract housing, orange groves, and the glamor shot of veronica lake are framed on lynn brackens wall. Take charactours quiz to get recommendations for thousands of characters, movies, tv shows, books, and games that are high matches for your unique personality. November 01, 2007 dont ever try to fucking bribe me or ill have you and patchett in shit up to your ears.
Their daughter ireland was born in 1995, and basinger returned to work two years later for her most successful role to date. Confidential is a 1997 american neonoir crime film directed, produced and cowritten by. Though thorson was a fan of ellroys novels and was familiar with his dense. 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.
Its implied that bud and lynn have sex several times. 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. Confidential, bracken is portrayed by kim basinger, and in the 2003 pilot, she is portrayed by melissa george. Russell crowe as a grunt detective who thinks his ethics are just fine, thank you. Where the book and film differ most is the latters contradiction of the. We see tabloid photos of lynn and one of her clients in the throes of sex, but no explicit nudity is seen. 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. Great performances all around, especially guy pearce as the new detective learning the ropes in a mileu full of corruption. White russell crowe and veronica lake lookalike hooker lynn bracken kim basinger, in curtis hansons l. The screenplay by hanson and brian helgeland is based on james ellroys 1990 novel of the same name, the third book in his l. Lynn bracken picked the paper up, yawned back inside.