Rum Punch: A Novel

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In Get Shorty, Miles Daly works as muscle for a murderous crime ring in Nevada. For the sake of his daughter, he attempts to change professions and become a movie producer, laundering money through a Hollywood film. But instead of leaving the criminal world behind, he accidentally brings it with him to Los Angeles. Rzepka, Charles (2013). Being Cool: The Work of Elmore Leonard . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. p.21. ISBN 9781421410159.

The novel's opening line: "Sunday morning, Ordell took Louis to watch the white-power demonstration in downtown Palm Beach." ----- A gripping scene right from the start; not a prologue or mention of the weather in sight. Impossibile non fare il confronto tra libro e film considerato che il film è firmato Quentin Tarantino. King, Stephen (February 10, 1985). "What went down when Magyk went up". The New York Times. Archived from the original on December 7, 2018 . Retrieved December 2, 2018. Most powerful is Get Shorty, accurately described by Martin Amis as "a masterpiece" and surely one of the greatest novels of the century, the American If on a Winter's Night a Traveller. A dry cleaner fakes his own death and flees to Las Vegas, then LA, with the insurance payout. The protection man who has been fleecing him for years follows him, dropping in first on a Hollywood director who owes a fat wad to a casino. The protection man thinks it's a good story, and, in the middle of the night, starts pitching it to the director. The novel revolves around at least three film scripts and an enormous extended pitch, and clearly loves its own consideration of the narrative structure. Scenes begin, repeatedly, "Now they were having a drink," like someone retelling, or telling in advance, a film. Scenes occur in reality then re-occur, mildly or fundamentally jigged, in the pitch and the pitchee's response – "the scene in the casino … should build a certain amount of tension. The audience is thinking, Jesus, here it comes. They know you're a tough guy, they want to see how you handle the bodyguard."Quentin Tarantino has optioned the right to adapt Leonard's novel Forty Lashes Less One (1972). [39] Television [ edit ]

Twenty-six of Leonard's novels and short stories have been adapted for the screen (19 as motion pictures and another seven as television programs). NEW YORK — Jim Harrison, the fiction writer, poet, outdoorsman and reveler who wrote with gruff affection for the country’s landscape and rural life and enjoyed mainstream success in middle age with his historical saga “Legends of the Fall,” has died at age 78. I don’t have a trade,” he told CNN. “I don’t teach or anything. I just love to make up characters and gradually build up a story around them.” For example, he said, the “Out of Sight” character Karen Sisco, later the lead of a TV series, was inspired by a newspaper photograph of a shotgun-toting Miami marshal. The characters Ordell Robbie, Louis Gara and Melanie Ralston first appeared in Leonard's novel The Switch, which itself has also been adapted as a film, Life of Crime, first shown at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival, with Robbie played by Mos Def and Gara portrayed by John Hawkes.I read it and I changed my style somewhat,” he told CNN. “Just somewhat. I started to use expletives where they belonged. I started to open my scenes with dialogue. Higgins set me free.”

All this came just in time. He’d written one crime novel, “The Big Bounce,” in 1966. Despite Leonard’s bona fides, it was rejected 84 times and didn’t see the light of day until being made into a 1969 movie.Elmore John Leonard Jr. (October 11, 1925–August 20, 2013) was an American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter. His earliest novels, published in the 1950s, were Westerns, but he went on to specialize in crime fiction and suspense thrillers, many of which have been adapted into motion pictures. Mitgang, Herbert (October 23, 1993). "Novelist discovered after 23 books". The New York Times. Archived from the original on November 25, 2018 . Retrieved December 2, 2018. His style went down easy but could be hard to imitate. The writers on the TV show “Justified,” based on a Leonard character, wore wristbands with the initials “WWED” stamped on them, for “What Would Elmore Do?” Raylan is unmistakably a late-period work; its texture is spare, even by Leonard's standards, and it cuts to the chase laconically. The hero-marshal, Raylan, has cropped up before: Leonard likes to save himself time by repeating not just the type of character, but the same character under the same name. Raylan is a drily witty cop who, in another life, might have been a useful and charming armed robber. Like the western sharpshooters of Leonard's first books, his speciality is shooting several villains more or less simultaneously without blinking an eye. This novel, too, carries on with Leonard's trademark energy, including some memorable members of the repulsive Crowe family who have previously turned up as pathetic villains; one here has an unbelievable collection of Elvis memorabilia; the other lives in a house so dirty that he entertains himself by shooting the rats in the kitchen and discussing whether it's worth cooking and eating them afterwards. Like pretty well every Leonard novel, it is a delight. E personaggi femminili fuori dalla convenzione, di solito i migliori, di solito sono i suoi personaggi più coraggiosi.