TurquoiseB wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <noozg...@...> wrote: > >> ROTFL! You haven't seen the movie have you?. You are reviewing a >> film without having seen it and thus you don't even know how the >> RAF was portrayed. >> > > Shades of someone else here who comments on films > never seen. Did I suggest how hard it was getting > to tell the two of them apart, or what? > > >> Apparently in your puny Texan mind you believe it is pro-RAF. >> Watch the film and then post since you are always dogging >> people that they have to "read the article first" before >> replying. The same goes for films. >> > > And it also goes for giving them a second chance. > I just wanted to weigh in and thank you again for > chiding me into give the new TV series "Justified" > a second chance. > > As you correctly surmised originally, while stuck > in a Texas motel room I caught the first few minutes > of the 2nd episode, without benefit of having seen > the 1st. That error was later rectified thanks to > you, and now I'm an official fanboy. Gracias. > > Timothy Oliphant is as much of presence in this > series as he was in <genuflect> "Deadwood." But > many of the supporting cast is excellent, too > (especially Walton Goggins as Boyd and Joelle > Carter as Ava; the former makes me laugh out loud > repeatedly, and the letter makes my little grew- > up-in-the-South-and-still-a-sucker-for-Southern- > gals-like-her heart go pitty-pat). > > The writing has by now progressed beyond the > Elmore Leonard originals and into the hands of > the screenwriters, but IMO it still has that EL > "look and feel." He has a real knack for dialog > between "real people," and for the ethics of > Dylan's "To live outside the law you must be > honest." US Marshall Raylan Givens proves that > sometimes "To live *as* the law you must be > honest, especially when other lawmen think you > aren't." It's a really good series.
I suspect that Leonard summed up for the writers how to write in his style. To me it's basically writing stories like you hear in bars from lawyers and often from cases they been involved in defending or DA prosecuting. My brother's friends were lawyers and a couple DAs so I used to hear those kind of stories hanging out with them. It's usually always about somebody who is stupid trying to get away with something.
