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1. waitingforthesequel.com › la-confidential-bookL.A. Confidential: Book vs. Film - Summary & Analysis

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   Jan 23, 2024 · Plot Summary of “L.A. Confidential”. “L.A. Confidential” is a complex tale of three police officers – Ed Exley, Bud White, and Jack Vincennes – whose lives converge amidst a web of corruption and murder. The story begins with a brutal massacre at the Nite Owl coffee shop, which sets off a chain of events that exposes the dark ...

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3. ellroy.fandom.com › wiki › LL.A. Confidential | James Ellroy Wiki | Fandom

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   •Dick Carlisle

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4. screenrant.com › la-confidential-movie-rolloL.A. Confidential: The Rollo Tomassi Twist Explained

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   Apr 12, 2024 · L.A. Confidential's is a noir masterpiece but also a very complex story that can be hard to make sense of, including the famous Rollo Tomassi twist explained. Directed by the late Curtis Hanson, L.A. Confidential is an adaptation of James Ellroy's novel of the same name following three separate detectives in 1950s Los Angeles who operate in very different ways.

   • Author: Colin Mccormick
   • Actors: Kevin Spacey

   • Director: Curtis Hanson

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   Is 'LA Confidential' based on a true story?

   • L.A. Confidential is a 1997 American neo-noir crime film directed, produced, and co-written by Curtis Hanson. 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.A. Quartet series.

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   Who adapted 'LA Confidential'?

   • ELLROY APPROVED OF THE MOVIE. To adapt L.A. Confidential for the screen, Hanson and Helgeland condensed Ellroy’s original novel, boiling the story down to a three-person narrative and ditching other subplots so they could get to the heart of the three cops at the center of the movie. Ellroy, in the end, was pleased with their choices.

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   Was 'LA Confidential' a good movie?

   • This was L.A. Confidential, a film so complex that its creator (legendary crime writer James Ellroy) thought it was “unadaptable.” In the end, it was one of the most acclaimed movies of the 1990s, a film noir classic that made its leading actors into even bigger stars, and which remains an instantly watchable masterpiece to this day.

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   How did 'LA Confidential' get made?

   • Here are 10 facts about how it got made. 1. THE SCRIPTING PROCESS WAS TOUGH. Writer-director Curtis Hanson had been a longtime James Ellroy fan when he finally read L.A. Confidential, and the characters in that particular Ellroy novel really spoke to him, so he began working on a script.

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   Sep 19, 2017 · Here are 10 facts about how it got made. 1. THE SCRIPTING PROCESS WAS TOUGH. Writer-director Curtis Hanson had been a longtime James Ellroy fan when he finally read L.A. Confidential, and the ...

7. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › LL.A. Confidential (film) - Wikipedia

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   Contents. L.A. Confidential (film) L.A. Confidential is a 1997 American neo-noir crime film directed, produced, and co-written by Curtis Hanson. 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.A. Quartet series. The film tells the story of a group of LAPD officers in ...

   • Box office: $126.2 million
   • Music by: Jerry Goldsmith

   • Budget: $35 million
   • Produced by: Arnon Milchan, Curtis Hanson, Michael Nathanson

8. www.indiewire.com › features › general5 Things You Might Not Know About ‘L.A. Confidential’

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   Sep 19, 2012 · The book features Dudley Smith and Ed Exley in the lead roles, but neither would have featured in the film, due to the characters being owned by New Regency as part of the “L.A. Confidential ...

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   Jun 1, 1990 · James Ellroy was born in Los Angeles in 1948. He is the author of the acclaimed L.A. Qurtet - The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, LA Confidential and White Jazz, as well as the Underworld USA trilogy: American Tabloid, The Cold Six Thousand and Blood's a Rover. He is the author of one work of non-fiction, The Hilliker Curse: My Pursuit of Women.

   • Author: James Ellroy