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I Don't Speak German

PREVIEW: Backer Bonus Episode L.A. Confidential (1997)

I Don't Speak German

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Politics, News, Currentaffairs, Society & Culture

3.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2021

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

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To start 2022, we chat about Curtis Hanson's 1997 period thriller L.A. Confidential, starring Kim Basinger, James Cromwell, David Strathairn, fetus Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, pre-exposure Kevin Spacey, and Danny DeVito, and based on the James Ellroy novel of the same name.

Content warnings, spoilers for movie and Ellroy's books.

L.A. Confidential (film) - Wikipedia

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0:00.0

I d's G bonus episodes are a regular extra just for Patreon backers of myself or Daniel.

0:06.0

Here's a preview of the new one.

0:08.0

I did admire how well it manages to sort of shift gears, like even if we don't know exactly why we're at any particular location in a even time,

0:16.7

it's sort of re-explained in the scene. A little bit there, there are enough kind of clues that you sort of get the then so you can sort of follow along that an emotional logic even if you're kind of lost in some of the you know you missed exactly what piece of evidence led you know Bud White to Pierce Parchet or whatever, you know, like you're, you're reminded by, you know, sort of subtle dialogue cues in the individual sequences. And I think that's one of the strengths of the film is that it manages to,

0:46.1

you never really lose your place despite the fact that it's, you know, three intricate plot lines that are kind of

0:51.6

intersecting in, you know, complicated ways.

0:54.9

With three, well, really four kind of main characters who each have their own, you know, kind of

1:02.2

of problems and have, you know, moral shades of gray, etc, etc.

1:07.0

So yeah, no, it's very intricate and I think that's what really struck me upon like seeing it the first time because I saw, I would have seen it on like pay-per-view back in you know

1:16.0

97 or 98 when it was when it was out and yeah made a huge impression on me immediately

1:22.0

just just based on its I made a huge impression on me immediately.

1:23.5

Just based on it's,

1:26.5

based on well, everything that's great about it.

1:28.3

I mean, I think this is a, you know,

1:29.9

I think this isn't a kind of an unheralded masterpiece.

1:32.3

I think, I think people have kind of largely

1:33.9

forgotten it today but it is absolutely worth of rewatch. I mean I think this is one of the

1:38.7

better films we've covered in this series so far. Yeah it's certainly it was it was very big at the time. I remember it did very well in in

1:45.9

awards ceremonies you know it did basically get one on her Oscar for it.

1:49.9

Yeah and I think I think it did when best adapted screenplay.

1:55.0

That's adapted screenplay. Yep. Yeah, which fits in very well with what you were just saying because it is a very, it's a it's a master class in a day Despite the fact that there's watching it again now, there's actually

2:08.2

quite a few things in it that jumped out of me, jumped out at me as in retrospect a tad cornball, you know, and even like it starts, it starts with an info, with a massive info dump, with a voice over info dump and a theme dump as well basically it starts with

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