![]() ![]() This piques Crowe’s interest the thought of a woman being abused is enough to send him flying into the interrogation room, where he throws the suspect against the wall, empties all but one bullet from his pistol, shoves the pistol into the subject’s mouth, and begins firing, all the while screaming “WHERE IS THE GIRL? WHERE IS SHE?” A violent, intensely dramatic scene…and when it was all over (the suspect, fearing for his life, reveals the location of the woman and Russell Crowe rushes out to rescue her) I just sat there, completely in awe of the acting I’d just witnessed.īut it’s the love story with Kim Basinger’s character that really allowed me to see how versatile an actor he is. ![]() Guy Pearce has handled the bulk of the interrogation, which unexpectedly reveals that the guy being questioned didn’t have anything to do with the murders–instead, he starts to give information about a woman he knows about that’s being held captive. One of the most powerful scenes in the movie is during the questioning of a man suspected of perpetrating the murders at the diner. This drives his desire to be a cop, and his physical strength and violent temper is leveraged by Captain Dudley (Cromwell) to extract information and confessions out of suspects. But once the movie was over, I was convinced no other actors could have played the parts–particularly Russell Crowe, who portrays Bud White, a cop with a temper whose mother was killed at the hands of his father, and whose number one cause in life is finding men who beat women…and making them pay. This was my first experience with Russell Crowe, and when I first saw the movie, I thought it was interesting that two Australian actors had been chosen to play the two lead L.A. Aside from her flawless beauty and the gorgeous 1950’s-era hair, make-up, and costumes, she displays such softness and vulnerability as she falls in love with Officer White, played by… existence to open up a dress shop in her Arizona hometown. Whoever cast this movie is a gosh darn genius.īut then there’s Kim Basinger, more beautiful than she’s ever been as a high-class call girl who looks exactly like Veronica Lake (her resemblance of Veronica Lake is part of the bizarre storyline if you’ve seen the movie, you know what I mean) and who dreams of leaving her troubled L.A. And James Cromwell (the farmer from Babe) is incredibly convincing as the police captain, who encourages some of his cops to beat information out of suspects. Danny Devito expertly portrays the publisher of a Hollywood gossip rag who pays people to get movie stars in compromising positions so he can secretly photograph them. Kevin Spacey is pitch-perfect as a cop who moonlights as a consultant on a Dragnet-type television show, and whose inadvertent involvement in the murder of a young actor drives him to do everything he can to solve the crime. The cast is nothing short of miraculous: Guy Pearce (another favorite Aussie actor) plays the ambitious son of a slain cop with a zero-tolerance policy for police corruption. The story centers around a multiple homicide at a diner, and the circumstances surrounding the homicide–and who the responsible parties are–are slowly revealed throughout the film. Based on the James Elroy novel, the movie is set in 1950’s Los Angeles and weaves a tale of police corruption and crime against a backdrop of Hollywood glamor that’s so authentically portrayed, I’m completely lost in the era every time I watch it. Okay, now that that’s out of the way, let me see if I can adequately describe to you the deliciousness of L.A. But if you haven’t, please go watch it before the day is up. If you haven’t seen it, I don’t want to know. Let me ask you a question, and the answer is very important: have you ever seen L.A. ![]()
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