Daniel Yonge từ Dudești , Romania

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2019-03-08 09:30

Truyện Cổ Tích Màu Vàng Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Andrew Lang

Get Shorty was a great film; Be Cool was not. Leonard's novel was a better followup than the resulting Travolta-Thurman flick, and my impressions of it as a sequel are based on having seen Get Shorty but not having read it. Be Cool is standard Elmore Leonard -- 300 pages of crime hijinks, sex, guns, and one badass being more badass than the other badasses and saying badass things while he's at it. Into this mix toss an indictment of the record industry -- the slimy promoters, the mercurial loyalties of talent and management alike, the raw deals that come out of otherwise perfectly reasonable expectations -- some gangster rappers living too close to their own lyrics, and some Russian Mobsters and you've got Be Cool. Good times. On the other hand, some of it echoes Get Shorty (the movie, at least, not that it matters) a bit too strongly -- Chili Palmer runs afoul of a black guy thinks he's bigger fish than he is (Bo Catlett in Shorty, Raji in Cool), who has some muscle (Bear, who used to be in pictures, now Elliott, who wants to be) but whom is won over by Palmer and tosses his former boss off a building. It's striking that these archetypes come right back into Chili's life. It's also weird that Leonard seems to have modeled Elliott directly after Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, who ended up playing the character in the movie: half-black, half-Samoan, and his signature move is the Single-Eyebrow-Raise. Elliott is gay, though, and I don't think Mr. The Rock swings that way. Chili Palmer himself seems to be a sociopath. His every action is motivated by his desire to see how it plays out, can he use the result in a movie? instead of by concern for or interest in the people involved. And he is almost certainly not John Travolta. His apparent badassery is less about confidence and swagger than about a complete lack of interest in consequences. He's a shark.

Người đọc Daniel Yonge từ Dudești , Romania

Người dùng coi những cuốn sách này là thú vị nhất trong năm 2017-2018, ban biên tập của cổng thông tin "Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn" khuyến cáo rằng tất cả các độc giả sẽ làm quen với văn học này.