Mbdlevin@aol.com
Wed, 27 Oct 1999 01:13:07 EDT
Bill Crider writes:
<< I finally got around to reading that movie edition
paperback of GET CARTER that
I picked up in Milwaukee while at the Bouchercon. It
was certainly as hardboiled
as promised, very bleak, with a setting that mirrored
the plot. Walter Satterthwait
tells me that Slyvester Stallone is doing a re-make of
the movie (which I've
never seen) and that the setting will be changed to
L.A. Sounds like a mistake. >>
Get Carter was one of the more memorable books I've read this
last year (I got the movie edition for a buck, price marked
on with red wax pencil). I saw the film last Friday and
enjoyed it a lot. It's very faithful to the book (except for
a slightly altered ending); it also compresses some areas,
naturally. The Stallone remake seems like it might already be
missing one point. Carter is the boy who's done good--as a
thug--and then returns to his provincial home (of sorts--I
don't want to offend anybody by calling Newcastle provincial)
to clean up/make right. For the Stallone setting, he'd have
to be in L.A., but travel to Fresno or Bakersfield or some
such.
Doug
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