Very entertaining + clever movie, and what I liked most about
it was the way it made fun of all the cliches and conventions
found in most hardboiled PI novels.
--Dave Z.
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rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "Jeff Vorzimmer"
<jvorzimmer@...> wrote:
>
> Finally got around to seeing Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. An
interesting
homage to
> film noir, pulp fiction and 50s PBOs. Starting with
the opening
scene with
> Robert Downey Jr standing at the edge of a swimming
pool in L.A.
and
> narrates the opening of the film in a style that
echoes Sunset
Boulevard,
> there are allusions and references to pulp fiction
and film noir
through
> out. The story itself is based on the Brett Halliday
book Bodies
Are Where
> You Find Them. The movie itself is divided in
chapters with names
of Raymond
> Chandler books. The reference to a paperback series
character
called Johnny
> Gossamer is based on Mike Shayne and Shell Scott
and, in fact, the
> paperbacks they show are redesigned Mike Shayne
novels with the
name Johnny
> Gossamer on them instead.
>
> Very funny movie and well worth renting.
>
> Jeff
>
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