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Sep 16, 2022 · After a bloody massacre where six people, including a police officer, are killed at the Nite Owl coffee shop, the lives of three officers are irreparably entangled. Ed Exley, played by Guy Pearce, is intelligent and boldly ambitious.
Sep 18, 2022 · L.A. Confidential - TráilerPelícula de Curtis Hanson protagonizado por Russell Crowe y Kim Basinger que cumple ¡25 años! este 19 de septiembre de 2022. Revie...
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- What Is L.A. Confidential About?
- Racism Permeates L.A. Confidential as It Has Throughout Los Angeles’ History
- L.A. Confidential Nails Los Angeles' Obsession with Celebrity
The plot ofL.A. Confidential revolves around one of L.A.’s inconvenient truths: crooked cops and politicians. The story follows a trio of detectives, including Bud White (Russell Crowe’s big break), Ed Exley (Guy Pearce), and Jack Vincennes (Kevin Spacey), as they unravel a city-wide corruption scheme. It’s a dense plot (typical of James Elroy, aut...
In the opening scene, a group of drunk cops assaults three unarmed Latinx men in custody in the basement of the precinct. Later, after a shooting spree in the Nite Owl Diner, Exley and Vincennes arrest three Black men for the crime despite flimsy evidence. When those same men escape custody, Bud White and Exley pursue them, and no one asks question...
But even with all of that, one aspect of Los Angeles L.A. Confidential nails most: the city’s obsession with celebrity and the frequent abuse and exploitation of those who come to L.A. to pursue it. Two minor characters, Matt Reynolds (Simon Baker) and Susan Lefferts (Amber Smith), are both forced to use their sexuality to book acting work, and bot...
May 6, 2024 · L.A. Confidential, Curtis Hanson's 1997 neo-noir crime thriller, is based on the book of the same name by James Ellroy (who, ironically enough, hated the movie). The story is set in 1953 Los Angeles, capturing the City of Angels at the intersection of police corruption and Hollywood celebrity.
Sep 19, 2022 · It’s in this light that we take a look at Curtis Hanson’s criminally underrated noir thriller L.A. Confidential, released 25 years ago. Hanson started off his filmmaking career with the 1973...
Sep 19, 2022 · The basic premise involved stolen heroin from real-life mobster Mickey Cohen, and a series of murders related to the theft and a war to replace Cohen within the city’s criminal hierarchy. The ...
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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, the third book in his L.A. Quartet series.
