>
> I suspect the basic idea (detective hired to find
someone, who turns out
> to be the detective--an earlier self that he has
forgotten, due to
> trauma) is not new. Any other examples? One of the
cool things about
> the movie is the skilful way sympathy is developed
for the protagonist,
> Harold Angel. This is one nice guy (played by Mickey
Rourke, in
> counterpoint to DeNiro's Louis Cyphre), and you hate
to see him fall.
>
There is an old Bill Ballinger novel where a guy whose throat
has been cut survives, but suffers from amnesia. The key is a
certain unsavoury charcter he keeps looking for, but he gets
killedŠ without realising that the aforementioned character
is himself !
> My wife read the book, and found it very
disappointing. One of those
> unusual examples of the movie surpassing the book,
in her opinion. (She
> and I feel the same way about _The Godfather_, but I
suspect we might
> get an argument from some people on that
one!)
>
Not from me. I read the book as a kid and it left no trace,
unlike this Shakespearian trio that Coppola didŠ Definitely
more than just another
"Mafia movie"Š Incidentally, a revered French mystery writer,
Jean-Hugues Oppel, looks exactly like a young Coppola
!!!!!
T.
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