THE BORE
General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: Polari on August 20, 2013, 11:25:00 AM
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Wrote Get Shorty, Rum Punch (adapted as Jackie Brown), Out of Sight, 3:10 to Yuma, the Raylan Givens books that Justified is based on. One of the most underrated American novelists in my book, great writer.
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I enjoyed Rum Punch. RIP
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One of my favorite writers.
RIP
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Great author and wrote the basis for some fantastic film/TV too (Justified is so good). RIP.
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I really appreciated the way he wrote black characters. He just had an amazing touch and ear for dialogue.
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Sounds like a white blues singer.
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Going off my somewhat fuzzy memory: Earlier in his career Hollywood kept having trouble adapting his stuff for the screen, despite him writing crime and western stuff that you'd think would make the transition pretty well. There was an anecdote about Leonard visiting the set of a film based on one of his books, and one of the actors came over during a break and asked him "How's it feel to hear people fucking up all the dialogue you wrote?" His experiences dealing with Hollywood inspired Get Shorty (the Danny DeVito character was based on Dustin Hoffman) which became the first of his stories to become a successful movie, after which he had better luck.
I haven't read anything of his in a while. In his honor I'll add a couple of them to my increasingly speculative to-read list.
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I saw Jackie Brown before I read Rum Punch. And at the time I was really taken with Samuel Jackson's performance and that character. I thought wow he probably ad-libbed a lot of that material and Sam Jackson'ed it up. But when I read the book I was shocked by how relatively little of it was Ad-libbed and came right off the page. And I think the character as written was actually better than what Jackson delivered. That takes a hell of a writer to do stuff like that.
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One of my favorite authors. I feel like the best thing about his books are just how natural all the characters sound. Like they're living breathing people and not attempts at portraying a person.
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Elmore Leonard wasn't under-appreciated; he's considered one of the finest crime and western novelists ever, and a master of dialog by a lot of people. I suspect there are going to be a lot of joiners to his parade now that he's passed. We've lost another amazing writer; 2013 is not my favorite year, so far.
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Miley Cyrus>Elmore Leonard.