He may be the son of the late, great Walter Matthau, but he has earned his place in Hollywood. Take a look at the great movie "The Grass Harp" if you doubt it. The script is wonderful and should be fun movie.
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i sure hope you are right cause cant just anyone do leonard and get it right. i am the expert on this, okay, and there have only been three done well---
get shorty
jackie brown
out of sight
(and no, i know what you are thinking: no, be cool didn't get it right. it was lame and a waste of film. and 310 to yuma was all shot out for whatever reason, and killshot was lukewarm but nothing great. in truth, it has been over ten years since a good leonard adaptation came out, which is why i am skeptical. but, alas, i press on, hoping they get this one right)
these 3 got the tone correct. allz im sayin is, nothing against mathau (loved his dad) but the proof is in the d@mn pudding, not what else he filmed or walter or anything. either he will get it right, or he won't. i HOPE HE DOES. i sincerely do. (as a fan of leonard's)
personally, i think they shoulda got scott frank to do this script too. but it is what it is. if mathau pulls it off, i will be the first to praise him
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>"i am the expert on this, okay, and there have only been three done well---
get shorty
jackie brown
out of sight "<
Don't forget the novel adaptation Hombre
... and the short story adaptations: The Tall T, 3:10 to Yuma, and - at least interesting to me - The Moonshine War ...
My favorites are 'Jackie Brown' and the original '3:10 to Yuma'.
P.S. - I'm aware that I'm a freak here, going against the master's voice, but I prefer 'Cat Chaser' to 'Out of Sight'. I know 'Chaser' is a hack job with deep flaws, and 'Sight' is the "Soderberg Autuer" confection, whatever - I still think 'Cat Chaser' was a more authentic and vigorous piece of cinema (and I'm not even an Abel Ferrara kind of freak).
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For my money, Hombre is the best adaptation of an EL novel. I think Justified is pretty good too.
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justified wasnt a novel. but nevertheless, it still sux IMO
it just doesn't ring real. i think elmore was just paying bills by selling this. and let's be honest, it was right ob the edge of the end of his life. factor that in.
i did not watch past the first season, but in what i saw it just was poorly written and not even shot well, either
i realise a big fan base has got behind the show. that is hollow praise though, because even more like the kardashians and we know what that's really worth.
i already predict you will disagree with me. i expect that now. nobody has any real savvy in discernment anymore. people argue for, i guess, for the fun of it
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and btw hombre is my favorite elmore movie of all time. in fact it's in my top five of all time all movies, even other writers'
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You're an expert in your own mind I'm sure. Among the other films mentioned, Mr. Majestyk and 52 Pick-Up are also Elmore Leonard done right.
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i'm glad you liked those. but elmore himself indicted them, and declared they didn't get his style properly transferred.
elmore himself cited the three i listed:
get shorty
jackie brown
out of sight
....as having finally gotten it "right"
now, i never heard him comment on be cool or any of the others. but far as i am concerned most of the others are just lame in general, or if not so still done in a bastardised style not reminiscent of leonard's literary voice.
expert, lol so you caught it. good.
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Indicted them? Leonard may have thought Mr. Majestyk was predictable and cartoonish, but it was still an entertaining film with his style of snappy dialogue and clever characters. As for 52 Pick-Up, does this sound like an indictment from Leonard:
“I thought it was really good. I liked Ann-Margret especially, and the bad guys were really good, particularly Clarence Williams III and John Glover.”
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you're absolutely right. they were both good films.
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