L.A.
confidential
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Discussion
questions:
1.
As you have read in the biography,
Ellroy has lead quite an interesting
life so far. Ellroy says about crime
fiction "Hard boiled crime
fiction is about white men doing bad
things in name of
authority".The authority on
which Ed Exley, Bud White and Jack
Vincennes act, is that they are all
cops.
Why did each one of them become a
cop in the first place?
2.
LA Confidential is about how far
cops can bend rules in an acceptable
fashion. Which cop - Ed Exley, Bud
White, Jack Vincennes- has the best
morals? Which one has the worst? Why
do you think that?
3.
There are always people who see
parallels between stories and
classic tales. Some of them claim
for instance that LA Confidential is
in fact the Wizard of Oz story, with
Lynn Bracken as Dorothy. What do you
think?
4.
Because we get a lot of different
opinions about the book, I want to
ask......to the people who like the
book: what is it, that made you read
it to the end? What did you like
about the book? (Language, mood,
action, characters etc.)
...to the people who didn't like it:
why did you stop reading it? What
didn't you like? (Language, mood,
action, characters etc.)
I
think we all agree the film is good.
What is it about the film we like?
What is the difference with the
book? (Language, mood, action,
characters etc.)
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