L.A. Confidential: Difference between revisions

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* [[Good Cop Bad Cop]]: Invoked, [[Crowning Moment of Funny|hilariously]], in the movie.

* [[Groin Attack]]: "What do I get if I give you your balls back?"

* [[Have You Told Anyone Else]]: A slightly subtler variant - "What does Exley make of all this?"

* [[Have You Told Anyone Else?]]: A slightly subtler variant - "What does Exley make of all this?"

* [[Heroic BSOD]]: Bud when he hits Lynn. Ed, in the book, when he finds out {{spoiler|his father and Ray Dieterling covered up the Atherton murders}}.

* [[Hidden Depths]]: The three main cops - Bud, Jack and Ed - in different ways. Also Lynn, who just wants to get out of the hooker life and move back to Arizona to open a dress shop.

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* [[Mistaken Confession]]: The Nite Owl suspects. They think the cops are about to bust them for kidnapping and raping Inez Soto, instead of committing the murders at the Nite Owl.

* [[Missing White Woman Syndrome]]: Inez Soto lampshades it in both the book and the movie.

* [[My God What Have I Done]]: When Bud {{spoiler|hits Lynn in a fit of rage for sleeping with Exley.}}

* [[My God, What Have I Done?]]: When Bud {{spoiler|hits Lynn in a fit of rage for sleeping with Exley.}}

** Also Vincennes when he realizes {{spoiler|he helped set up a young unemployed actor to be murdered}}.

* [[No Tell Motel]]: The Victory Motel, better known as the go-to place to conduct illegal interrogations and set up {{spoiler|fellow cops}} to be killed.

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* [[Reckless Gun Usage]]: In the film, Exley sees the Nite Owl suspects pile into an elevator and quickly jams his shotgun through the doors and fires, without first checking to see if there was anyone else in there with them.

** Bud White's [[False Roulette]], when no one's actually sure how many rounds are in the gun.

* [[Red Oni Blue Oni]]: Bud White (Red) and Ed Exley (Blue) are pretty much textbook examples. In the movie, Jack becomes somewhat of a Red to Ed's Blue.

* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: Bud White (Red) and Ed Exley (Blue) are pretty much textbook examples. In the movie, Jack becomes somewhat of a Red to Ed's Blue.

* [[Retirony]]: Buzz Meeks in the book.

* [[The Reveal]]: The fact that the person responsible for not only the Nite Owl, but the gang killings of Mickey Cohen's lieutenants is {{spoiler|Captain Dudley Smith}}.

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'''Patchett:''' No, Mr. White, Pierce Moorehouse Patchett. }}

* [[Spiritual Successor]]: To ''[[Chinatown]]''. Even though they both have a completely different cast and crew, both are set in Los Angeles, both were made 40 years after the time period in which they are set, and both feature themes of betrayal, corruption of public institutions and officials, and "neo-noir" values. Oh, and both have scores by [[Jerry Goldsmith]].

* [[Star Making Role]]: Crowe and Pearce, but especially Crowe.

* [[Star-Making Role]]: Crowe and Pearce, but especially Crowe.

* [[Treachery Cover Up]]

* [[Turn in Your Badge]]: Bud in both the movie and the book, though the movie gives us the traditional scene.

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* [[Villain With Good Publicity]]

* [[Wife Basher Basher]]: Bud White. He's introduced kicking the crap out of a wife-beater, tying him to his porch with Christmas tree lights to wait for the patrol car to bring him in. Later, to scare the location of a kidnapped and repeatedly raped teenage girl out of the alleged Nite Owl suspects, he rips a solid oak chair in half with his bare hands in front of them and THEN shoves a gun in the face of one of the cowards and played [[False Roulette]] (probably) with him. He continues to play the trope arrow-straight {{spoiler|until he hits Lynn when he finds out she slept with Exley. This was major [[Heroic BSOD]] on his part, however.}}

* [[Well Done Son Guy]]: In the book, Exley would just about bend over backwards to win his father's approval. {{spoiler|Well, until he learns his father let a child-killing psychopath walk because it was his best friend's son, and covered it up.}}

* [["Well Done, Son" Guy]]: In the book, Exley would just about bend over backwards to win his father's approval. {{spoiler|Well, until he learns his father let a child-killing psychopath walk because it was his best friend's son, and covered it up.}}

* [[Wham Line]]: From the book - {{spoiler|"Captain Dudley Liam Smith for the Nite Owl."}}. It's not that we didn't know who the villain was (because if you read the book, the first chapter clues you in), it's that Ed saying it aloud is so powerful. He's about to cross the only man on earth more dangerous than he is.

** {{spoiler|"Rollo Tomasi"}}.