I didn't know about the play. The movie was done long after I
wrote my book, I liked it but but I thought it was too
fanciful. I read the real trial transcripts, letter, all
there was, and the trial happened shortly before, so it was
fresh in my mind. I certainly wouldn't call the movie
"noir." Nor did they capture the true crazy imaginativeness
of Hulme, now Anne Perry. It was a major crime, and the movie
didn't go into the girls' personalities in any depth, not
their home situation, homosexuality etc. It was too light for
my taste.
I did base many of my stories on true crime. Whisper His Sin,
was the Fraden-Wepman cyanide cocktail case, for example and
Dark Don"t Catch Me was Emmett Till case....Packer
Paul Farrell <
pm_farrell@hotmail.com>
> Yes, the film Heavenly Creatures was also about the
Parker-Hulme case.
> Here in New Zealand it's an infamous murder. Trivia
note: The film's
> director was Peter Jackson, whose latest movies are
the Lord of the
> Rings films. I suppose Heavenly Creatures could be
called a noir
> fantasy (especially the final section). It's an
excellent film, one of
> the best that New Zealand has produced.
>
> There has also been a play written about the murder.
It's by Michaelanne
> Forster, and is called Daughters of
Heaven.
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