Comments on: The I Can Do It Better blog-a-thon, day 3 http://www.geebobg.com/2008/03/01/the-i-can-do-it-better-blog-a-thon-day-3/ Americlecticintellectica Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:17:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Culture Snob http://www.geebobg.com/2008/03/01/the-i-can-do-it-better-blog-a-thon-day-3/#comment-2840 Culture Snob Mon, 03 Mar 2008 21:37:04 +0000 http://www.geebobg.com/2008/03/01/the-i-can-do-it-better-blog-a-thon-day-3/#comment-2840 Bob: It's interesting that you mention Rollo Tomasi, because that bit is entirely an invention of Brian Helgeland. In an otherwise admirable job of hacking away at James Ellroy's novel -- and it's amazing how he's retained the tone and themes of the book even as he dismembers the plot -- the screenwriter needed some way for Exley to "solve" the mystery. In the book, it's an internal realization; in the movie, it's handed to him by Jack via Dudley Smith. Bob:

It’s interesting that you mention Rollo Tomasi, because that bit is entirely an invention of Brian Helgeland.

In an otherwise admirable job of hacking away at James Ellroy’s novel — and it’s amazing how he’s retained the tone and themes of the book even as he dismembers the plot — the screenwriter needed some way for Exley to “solve” the mystery. In the book, it’s an internal realization; in the movie, it’s handed to him by Jack via Dudley Smith.

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