L.A. Confidential: Difference between revisions

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* [[Adaptation Distillation]]: The movie takes an insanely complex book and boils it down to the absolute bare essence of the story, which is still plenty complicated on its own. The writers actually wrote every plot point on index cards and laid them all on a table, so that whenever they took something out, they could try to rearrange everything else until it all made sense again.

* [[Affably Evil]]: {{spoiler|Dudley Smith}}, which is what makes him so chilling.

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* [[Everyone Is a Suspect]]

* [[Evil Power Vacuum]]: Essentially the whole plot revolves around {{spoiler|the police captain}} trying to take over Mickey Cohen's operation. Lampshaded in the opening narration.

* [[Fake American]]: The two leads are actually Aussies.

** In the 'Making of' featurette, the producer relates his reaction to the casting decision.

{{quote|''You want to make a period crime film, set in Los Angeles, starring two Australians?''}}

* [[Fake Irish]]: James Cromwell as Irish-American Dudley Smith, with a pretty decent accent.

* [[False Roulette]]: Played straight during the interrogation of the Nite Owl suspects, when Bud realizes the suspects have kidnapped and raped a woman who's still being held hostage. However, in the film we never actually see if Bud takes the last round out of his .38.

* [[Film Noir]]