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'''''L.A. Confidential''''' is a 1997 American [[neo-noir]] [[crime film]] based on [[James Ellroy]]'s 1990 [[L.A. Confidential|novel of the same title]], the third book in his [[L.A. Quartet]] series. Like the book, the film tells the story of a group of [[Los Angeles Police Department|LAPD]] officers in the year 1953, and the intersection of [[police corruption]] and [[Hollywood]] celebrity. The title refers to the 1950s scandal magazine ''[[Confidential (magazine)|Confidential]]'', portrayed in the film as ''Hush-Hush''. The film adaptation was produced and directed by [[Curtis Hanson]] and co-written by Hanson and [[Brian Helgeland]]. |
'''''L.A. Confidential''''' is a 1997 American [[neo-noir]] [[crime film]] written, produced and directed by [[Curtis Hanson]]. The film is loosely based on [[James Ellroy]]'s 1990 [[L.A. Confidential|novel of the same title]], the third book in his [[L.A. Quartet]] series. Like the book, the film tells the story of a group of [[Los Angeles Police Department|LAPD]] officers in the year 1953, and the intersection of [[police corruption]] and [[Hollywood]] celebrity. The title refers to the 1950s scandal magazine ''[[Confidential (magazine)|Confidential]]'', portrayed in the film as ''Hush-Hush''. The film adaptation was produced and directed by [[Curtis Hanson]] and co-written by Hanson and [[Brian Helgeland]]. |
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At the time, [[United Kingdom|Anglo]]-[[Australia]]n actor [[Guy Pearce]] and [[Australian]] actor [[Russell Crowe]] were relatively unknown in [[North America]], and one of the film's backers, Peter Dennett, was worried about the lack of established stars in the lead roles. However, he supported Hanson's casting decisions and this gave the director the confidence to approach [[Kevin Spacey]], [[Kim Basinger]] and [[Danny DeVito]]. |
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Critically acclaimed, the film holds a 99% rating at [[Rotten Tomatoes]], as well as an aggregated rating of 90 on [[Metacritic]]. It was nominated for nine [[Academy Award]]s, winning two: Basinger for [[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress|Best Supporting Actress]] and Hanson and Helgeland for [[Academy Award for Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay)|Best Adapted Screenplay]]; it lost every other category to ''[[Titanic (1997 film)|Titanic]]''. |
Critically acclaimed, the film holds a 99% rating at [[Rotten Tomatoes]], as well as an aggregated rating of 90 on [[Metacritic]]. It was nominated for nine [[Academy Award]]s, winning two: Basinger for [[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress|Best Supporting Actress]] and Hanson and Helgeland for [[Academy Award for Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay)|Best Adapted Screenplay]]; it lost every other category to ''[[Titanic (1997 film)|Titanic]]''. |
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Directed by | Curtis Hanson |
Screenplay by | Curtis Hanson Brian Helgeland |
Produced by | Curtis Hanson Arnon Milchan Michael G. Nathanson |
Starring | Kevin Spacey Russell Crowe Guy Pearce Kim Basinger Danny DeVito |
Narrated by | Danny DeVito |
Cinematography | Dante Spinotti |
Edited by | Peter Honess |
Music by | Jerry Goldsmith |
Production company | |
Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
Release date |
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Running time | 138 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $35 million |
Box office | $126.2 million |
L.A. Confidential is a 1997 American neo-noir crime film written, produced and directed by Curtis Hanson. The film is loosely based on James Ellroy's 1990 novel of the same title, the third book in his L.A. Quartet series. Like the book, the film tells the story of a group of LAPD officers in the year 1953, and the intersection of police corruption and Hollywood celebrity. The title refers to the 1950s scandal magazine Confidential, portrayed in the film as Hush-Hush. The film adaptation was produced and directed by Curtis Hanson and co-written by Hanson and Brian Helgeland.
At the time, Anglo-Australian actor Guy Pearce and Australian actor Russell Crowe were relatively unknown in North America, and one of the film's backers, Peter Dennett, was worried about the lack of established stars in the lead roles. However, he supported Hanson's casting decisions and this gave the director the confidence to approach Kevin Spacey, Kim Basinger and Danny DeVito.
Critically acclaimed, the film holds a 99% rating at Rotten Tomatoes, as well as an aggregated rating of 90 on Metacritic. It was nominated for nine Academy Awards, winning two: Basinger for Best Supporting Actress and Hanson and Helgeland for Best Adapted Screenplay; it lost every other category to Titanic.
Plot
In early 1950s Los Angeles, Sergeant Edmund "Ed" Exley (Guy Pearce), the son of a legendary LAPD detective, is determined to live up to his father's reputation. His intelligence, insistence on following regulations and cold demeanor contribute to his isolation from other officers. He exacerbates this resentment by volunteering to testify in a police brutality case, insisting on a promotion to Detective Lieutenant against the advice of Captain Dudley Smith (James Cromwell). Exley's ambition is fueled by the murder of his father by an unknown assailant, whom he refers to as "Rollo Tomassi" to give him personality.
Officer Wendell "Bud" White (Russell Crowe), whom Exley considers a "mindless thug", is a plainclothes officer obsessed with violently punishing woman-beaters. White comes to dislike Exley after White's partner, Dick Stensland, is terminated due to Exley's testimony in the Bloody Christmas scandal. White is sought out by Smith for a job in which they harass and beat up out-of-town criminals trying to fill the void left in Los Angeles following the imprisonment of Mickey Cohen for tax evasion. The Nite Owl case becomes personal after Stensland is found to be one of the victims.
Sergeant Jack Vincennes (Kevin Spacey) is a narcotics detective who moonlights as a technical advisor on Badge of Honor, a popular TV police drama series. He is connected with Sid Hudgens (Danny DeVito), publisher of the Hush-Hush tabloid magazine, receiving kickbacks for tipping Hudgens off to celebrity arrests that will attract more readers to the magazine. When actor Matt Reynolds is killed during a scheme in which he is to be caught in a homosexual tryst with the L.A. district attorney, Vincennes is determined to find his killer.
The three men individually investigate the Nite Owl killings, which initially look like a botched robbery resulting in six homicides, and concurrent events which reveal indications of corruption all around them. Exley pursues absolute justice, all the while trying to live up to his family name. White pursues Nite Owl victim Susan Lefferts, which leads him to Lynn Bracken (Kim Basinger), a Veronica Lake look-alike prostitute with ties to the case he and Exley are investigating. White falls for Bracken, who later sleeps with Exley in order to allow Hudgens to take compromising photos of him. Vincennes follows up on a pornography racket with ties to both the Nite Owl and Bracken's wealthy pimp Pierce Patchett, operator of Fleur-de-Lis, a call girl service that runs prostitutes altered by plastic surgery to resemble film stars.
Three African Americans are charged with the killings and later killed in a shootout. It is revealed that they were not the killers but gang rapists, and their Hispanic victim lied in her statement. Captain Smith was behind the Nite Owl killings, in an effort to take over the heroin empire that Mickey Cohen left behind. After killing Vincennes, Hudgens and Patchett, Smith sends hitmen to murder White and Exley. However, while killing Vincennes, Smith had asked Vincennes whether he had any last words. Vincennes replied with "Rollo Tomasi", which arouses Exley's suspicion when Smith asks Exley who that is.
White and Exley, long-time rivals, start working together as they realize the truth of Smith's agenda and that they are at risk. Following Smith's attempt to have them killed, Smith shoots White but then surrenders to Exley. As police arrive, Exley shoots Smith in the back, killing him. The LAPD cover up Smith's crimes and say he died a hero in the shootout while protecting Exley, but Exley demands that he and White be rewarded for their cooperation in the deception.
Exley is praised as a hero and receives medals for his bravery, and the Police Department launch a top-to-bottom investigation of their men. Upon leaving City Hall, Exley sees Bracken, who tells him she has quit being a prostitute and is returning home to Arizona. In the back of her car sits White, who survived his gunshot wounds but is unable to talk. Exley and White shake hands and Bracken drives off into the sunset.
Cast
- Kevin Spacey as Det. Sgt. Jack Vincennes
- Russell Crowe as Officer Wendell "Bud" White
- Guy Pearce as Det. Lt. Edmund "Ed" Exley
- James Cromwell as Capt. Dudley Smith
- Kim Basinger as Lynn Bracken
- Danny DeVito as Sid Hudgens
- David Strathairn as Pierce Morehouse Patchett
- Ron Rifkin as District Attorney Ellis Loew
- Graham Beckel as Det. Richard "Dick" Stensland
- Amber Smith as Susan Lefferts
- John Mahon as Police Chief Worton
- Paul Guilfoyle as Meyer "Mickey" Cohen
- Matt McCoy as Brett Chase
- Paolo Seganti as Johnny Stompanato
- Simon Baker as Matt Reynolds
- Shawnee Free Jones as Tammy Jordan
- Darrell Sandeen as Leland "Buzz" Meeks
- Marisol Padilla Sánchez as Inez Soto
- Gwenda Deacon as Mrs. Lefferts
Production
Development
Curtis Hanson had read half a dozen of James Ellroy's books before L.A. Confidential and was drawn to its characters, not the plot. He said, "What hooked me on them was that, as I met them, one after the other, I didn't like them - but as I continued reading, I started to care about them."[1] Ellroy's novel also made Hanson think about Los Angeles and provided him with an opportunity to "set a movie at a point in time when the whole dream of Los Angeles, from that apparently golden era of the '20s and '30s, was being bulldozed."[1] Screenwriter Brian Helgeland was originally signed to Warner Bros. to write a Viking film with director Uli Edel and then worked on an unproduced modern-day King Arthur story. Helgeland was a long-time fan of Ellroy's novels. When he heard that Warner Bros. had acquired the rights to L.A. Confidential in 1990, he lobbied to script the film.[1] However, at the time, the studio was only talking to well-known screenwriters. When he finally did get a meeting, it was canceled two days before it was to occur.[1]
Helgeland found that Hanson had been hired to direct and met with him while the filmmaker was making The River Wild. They found that they not only shared a love for Ellroy's fiction but also agreed on how to adapt Confidential into a film. According to Helgeland, they had to "remove every scene from the book that didn't have the three main cops in it, and then to work from those scenes out."[1] According to Hanson, he "wanted the audience to be challenged but at the same time I didn't want them to get lost".[2] They worked on the script together for two years, with Hanson turning down jobs and Helgeland writing seven drafts for free.[1] The two men also got Ellroy's approval of their approach. He had seen Hanson's films, The Bedroom Window and Bad Influence and found him to be "a competent and interesting storyteller", but was not convinced that his book would be made into a film until he talked to the eventual director.[1] He later said, "They preserved the basic integrity of the book and its main theme. Brian and Curtis took a work of fiction that had eight plotlines, reduced those to three, and retained the dramatic force of three men working out their destiny."[1]
Warner executive Bill Gerber showed the script to Michael Nathanson, CEO of New Regency Productions, which had a deal with the studio. Nathanson loved it, but they had to get the approval from the owner of New Regency, Arnon Milchan. Hanson prepared a presentation that consisted of 15 vintage postcards and pictures of L.A. mounted on posterboards, and made his pitch to Milchan. The pictures consisted of orange groves, beaches, tract homes in the San Fernando Valley, and the opening of the Hollywood Freeway to symbolize the image of prosperity sold to the public.[1]
Then, Hanson showed the darker side of Ellroy's novel with the cover of scandal rag Confidential and the famous shot of Robert Mitchum coming out of jail after his marijuana bust. He also had photographs of jazz musicians Zoot Sims, Gerry Mulligan, and Chet Baker to represent the popular music people of the time.[1] Hanson emphasized that the period detail would be in the background and the characters in the foreground. Milchan was impressed with his presentation and agreed to finance it.
Casting
Hanson had seen Russell Crowe in Romper Stomper and found him "repulsive and scary, but captivating".[1] The actor had read Ellroy's The Black Dahlia but not L.A. Confidential. When he read the script, Crowe was drawn to Bud White's "self-righteous moral crusade".[3] Crowe fit the visual preconception of Bud. Hanson put the actor on tape doing a few scenes from the script and showed it to the film's producers, who agreed to cast him as Bud.[4] Guy Pearce auditioned like countless other actors, and Hanson felt that he "was very much what I had in mind for Ed Exley."[1] The director purposely did not watch the actor in The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, afraid that it might influence his decision.[4] As he did with Crowe, Hanson taped Pearce and showed it to the producers, who agreed he should be cast as Ed. Pearce did not like Ed when he first read the screenplay and remarked, "I was pretty quick to judge him and dislike him for being so self-righteous ... But I liked how honest he became about himself. I knew I could grow to respect and understand him."[5]
Milchan was against casting "two Australians" in the American period piece (Pearce wryly commented in a later interview that while both he and Crowe grew up in Australia, he is British by birth, while Crowe is a New Zealander). Besides their national origins, both Crowe and Pearce were relative unknowns in North America, and Milchan was equally worried about the lack of film stars in the lead roles.[1]
However, Milchan supported Hanson's casting decisions and this gave the director the confidence to approach Kim Basinger, Danny DeVito and Kevin Spacey. Hanson cast Crowe and Pearce because he wanted to "replicate my experience of the book. You don't like any of these characters at first, but the deeper you get into their story, the more you begin to sympathize with them. I didn't want actors audiences knew and already liked."[6]
Hanson felt that the character of Jack Vincennes was "a movie star among cops", and thought of Spacey, with his "movie-star charisma," casting him specifically against type.[4] The director was confident that the actor "could play the man behind that veneer, the man who also lost his soul," and when he gave him the script, he told him to think of Dean Martin while in the role.[4] Hanson cast Basinger because he felt that she "was the character to me. What beauty today could project the glamor of Hollywood's golden age?"[6]
Pre-production
To give his cast and crew points and counterpoints to capture Los Angeles in the 1950s, he held a "mini-film festival," showing one film a week: The Bad and the Beautiful, because it epitomized the glamorous Hollywood look; In a Lonely Place, because it revealed the ugly underbelly of Hollywood glamor; Don Siegel's The Lineup and Private Hell 36, "for their lean and efficient style";[4] and Kiss Me Deadly, because it was "so rooted in the futuristic '50s: the atomic age."[1][4] Hanson and the film's cinematographer Dante Spinotti agreed that the film would be shot widescreen, and studied two Cinemascope films from the period: Douglas Sirk's The Tarnished Angels and Vincente Minnelli's Some Came Running.
Before filming took place, Hanson brought Crowe and Pearce to Los Angeles for two months to immerse them in the city and the time period.[6] He also got them dialect coaches, showed them vintage police training films, and introduced them to real-life cops.[6] Pearce found the contemporary police force had changed too much to be useful research material and disliked the police officer he rode along with because he was racist.[7] The actor found the police films more valuable because "there was a real sort of stiffness, a woodenness about these people" that he felt Exley had as well.[6] Crowe studied Sterling Hayden in Stanley Kubrick's The Killing "for that beefy manliness that came out of World War II".[4] For six weeks, Crowe, Pearce, Hanson and Helgeland conducted rehearsals, which consisted of their discussing each scene in the script.[8] As other actors were cast they would join in the rehearsals.[4]
Principal photography
Hanson did not want the film to be an exercise in nostalgia, and so had Spinotti shoot it like a contemporary film, and use more naturalistic lighting than in a classic film noir.[9] He told Spinotti and the film's production designer Jeannine Oppewall to pay great attention to period detail, but to then "put it all in the background".[4]
Music
Jerry Goldsmith's score for the film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic Score, but lost to James Horner's score for Titanic.[10]
Reception
The film was screened at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival.[11] According to Hanson, Warner did not want it shown at Cannes, because they felt that there was an "anti-studio bias ... So why go and come home a loser?"[4] However, Hanson wanted to debut the film at a high-profile, international venue like Cannes. He and other producers bypassed the studio and sent a print directly to the festival's selection committee, which loved it.[9] Ellroy saw the film and said, "I understood in 40 minutes or so that it is a work of art on its own level. It was amazing to see the physical incarnation of the characters."[1]
Box office
L.A. Confidential was released on September 19, 1997 in 769 theaters, grossing $5.2 million on its opening weekend. On October 3, it was given an expanded release in 1,625 theaters. It went on to make $64.6 million in North America and $61.6 million in the rest of the world, for a worldwide total of $126.2 million.[12]
Critical response
L.A. Confidential scored very high with critics, presently sporting a rare 99% "Certified Fresh" approval rating at Rotten Tomatoes with 107 out of 108 reviews being positive. The site's critical consensus states, "Taut pacing, brilliantly dense writing and Oscar-worthy acting combine to produce a smart, popcorn-friendly thrill ride." On Metacritic the film received a score of 90 out of 100, based on 28 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".
Film critic Roger Ebert gave the film four out of four stars and described it as "seductive and beautiful, cynical and twisted, and one of the best films of the year."[13] Later, he included it as one of his "Great Movies" and described it as "film noir, and so it is, but it is more: Unusually for a crime film, it deals with the psychology of the characters ... It contains all the elements of police action, but in a sharply clipped, more economical style; the action exists not for itself but to provide an arena for the personalities".[14] In her review for The New York Times, Janet Maslin wrote, "Mr. Spacey is at his insinuating best, languid and debonair, in a much more offbeat performance than this film could have drawn from a more conventional star. And the two Australian actors, tightly wound Mr. Pearce and fiery, brawny Mr. Crowe, qualify as revelations."[15] Desson Howe, in his review for The Washington Post, praised the cast: "Pearce makes a wonderful prude who gets progressively tougher and more jaded. New Zealand-born Crowe has a unique and sexy toughness; imagine Mickey Rourke without the attitude. Although she's playing a stock character, Basinger exudes a sort of chaste sultriness. Spacey is always enjoyable."[16]
In his review for The Globe and Mail, Liam Lacey wrote, "The big star is Los Angeles itself. Like Roman Polanski's depiction of Los Angeles in the '30s in Chinatown, the atmosphere and detailed production design are a rich gel where the strands of narrative form."[17] USA Today gave the film three and a half stars out of four, saying of the screenplay, "It appears as if screenwriters Brian Helgeland and Curtis Hanson have pulled off a miracle in keeping multiple stories straight. Have they ever. Ellroy's novel has four extra layers of plot and three times as many characters ... the writers have trimmed unwieldy muscle, not just fat, and gotten away with it."[18] In his review for Newsweek, David Ansen wrote, "L.A. Confidential asks the audience to raise its level a bit, too—you actually have to pay attention to follow the double-crossing intricacies of the plot. The reward for your work is dark and dirty fun."[19] Richard Schickel, in his review for Time, wrote, "It's a movie of shadows and half lights, the best approximation of the old black-and-white noir look anyone has yet managed on color stock. But it's no idle exercise in style. The film's look suggests how deep the tradition of police corruption runs."[20]
In his review for The New York Observer, Andrew Sarris wrote, "Mr. Crowe strikes the deepest registers with the tortured character of Bud White, a part that has had less cut out of it from the book than either Mr. Spacey's or Mr. Pearce's ... but Mr. Crowe at moments reminded me of James Cagney's poignant performance in Charles Vidor's Love Me or Leave Me (1955), and I can think of no higher praise."[21] Kenneth Turan, in his review for Los Angeles Times, wrote, "The only potential audience drawback L.A. Confidential has is its reliance on unsettling bursts of violence, both bloody shootings and intense physical beatings that give the picture a palpable air of menace. Overriding that, finally, is the film's complete command of its material."[22] In his review for The Independent, Ryan Gilbey wrote, "In fact, it's a very well made and intelligent picture, assembled with an attention to detail, both in plot and characterisation, that you might have feared was all but extinct in mainstream American cinema."[23] Richard Williams, in his review for The Guardian, wrote, "L.A. Confidential gets just about everything right. The light, the architecture, the slang, the music ... a wonderful Lana Turner joke. A sense, above all, of damaged people arriving to make new lives and getting seduced by the scent of night-blooming jasmine, the perfume of corruption."[24]
Accolades
L.A. Confidential was nominated for nine Academy Awards and won two, Kim Basinger for Best Actress in a Supporting Role and Curtis Hanson and Brian Helgeland for Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay). It was also nominated for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Production Design, Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing, Best Original Dramatic Score and Best Sound Mixing (Andy Nelson, Anna Behlmer and Kirk Francis), but lost all the categories to Titanic.[25][26] Basinger tied for the Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role - Motion Picture with Gloria Stuart from Titanic at the 4th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards.[27]
Time magazine ranked L.A. Confidential as the best film of 1997.[28] The National Society of Film Critics also ranked it as the year's best film and Curtis Hanson was voted Best Director.[29] The New York Film Critics Circle also voted L.A. Confidential as the year's best film in addition to ranking Hanson as best director, and he and Brian Helgeland with the best screenplay.[30] The Los Angeles Film Critics Association and the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures also voted L.A. Confidential as the year's best film. As a result, it is only the third film to sweep the "Big Four" critics awards.[29]
It was also voted as the best film set in Los Angeles in the last 25 years by a group of Los Angeles Times writers and editors with two criteria: "The movie had to communicate some inherent truth about the L.A. experience, and only one film per director was allowed on the list."[31] In 2009, the London Film Critics' Circle voted L.A. Confidential one of the best films of the last 30 years.[32]
- AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies—Nominated[33]
- AFI's 100 Years...100 Thrills – Nominated[34]
- AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition)—Nominated[35]
Home media
A DVD was released April 21, 1998. In addition to the film, it included two featurettes, an interactive map of Los Angeles, a music-only track, a theatrical trailer, and three TV spots.[36]
A two-disc Special Edition was released on DVD and Blu-ray on September 23, 2008.[37] Both sets contain the same bonus content. In addition to the features from the original DVD, included are four new featurettes, the 1999 pilot of the proposed TV series starring Kiefer Sutherland, and film commentary by critic/historian Andrew Sarris, James Ellroy, Russell Crowe, Kevin Spacey, Guy Pearce, James Cromwell, Ruth Myers, David Strathairn, Kim Basinger, Brian Helgeland, Jeannine Oppewall, Dante Spinotti and Danny DeVito. Some sets included a six-song sampler from the film's soundtrack.[36]
See also
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Further reading
- Dargis, Manohla (2003). L.A. Confidential. BFI Modern Classics. British Film Institute. ISBN 0-85170-944-3.
External links
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- L.A. Confidential at IMDb
- L.A Confidential (2003 television pilot) at IMDb
- L.A. Confidential at the TCM Movie Database
- L.A. Confidential at AllMovie
- L.A. Confidential at Rotten Tomatoes
- L.A. Confidential at Metacritic
- Press Conference at the Toronto International Film Festival
- L.A. Confidential Shooting Locations
- 1997 films
- 1990s crime films
- American films
- American crime films
- American mystery films
- Edgar Award winning works
- English-language films
- Fictional portrayals of the Los Angeles Police Department
- Film scores by Jerry Goldsmith
- Films about organized crime in the United States
- Films based on mystery novels
- Films directed by Curtis Hanson
- Films featuring a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award winning performance
- Films featuring a Best Supporting Actress Golden Globe winning performance
- Films set in Los Angeles, California
- Films set in 1952
- Films set in 1953
- Films whose writer won the Best Adapted Screenplay Academy Award
- Neo-noir
- Police detective films
- Regency Enterprises films
- Warner Bros. films