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Mathew Jackson\u00a0and Mental Floss<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0present 10 Hush-Hush Facts About L.A. Confidential<\/em><\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0 Here are three of my favorites…<\/p>\n 1. THE SCRIPTING PROCESS WAS TOUGH.<\/span><\/strong> “He would turn down other jobs; I would be doing drafts for free,\u201d Helgeland said. \u201cWhenever there was a day when I didn’t want to get up anymore, Curtis tipped the bed and rolled me out on the floor.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n <\/p>\n 3. JAMES ELLROY DIDN\u2019T THINK THE BOOK COULD BE ADAPTED.<\/span><\/strong> \u201cIt was big, it was bad, it was bereft of sympathetic characters,\u201d Ellroy said. \u201cIt was unconstrainable, uncontainable, and unadaptable.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n <\/p>\n 10. ELLROY APPROVED OF THE MOVIE.<\/span><\/strong> <\/p>\n \u201cThey preserved the basic integrity of the book and its main theme, which is that everything in Los Angeles during this era of boosterism and yahooism was two-sided and two-faced and put out for cosmetic purposes,\u201d Ellroy said. \u201cThe script is very much about the [characters’] evolution as men and their lives of duress. Brian and Curtis took a work of fiction that had eight plotlines, reduced those to three, and retained the dramatic force of three men working out their destiny. I’ve long held that hard-boiled crime fiction is the history of bad white men doing bad things in the name of authority. They stated that case plain.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Mathew Jackson\u00a0and Mental Floss\u00a0present 10 Hush-Hush Facts About L.A. Confidential.\u00a0 Here are three of my favorites… 1. THE SCRIPTING PROCESS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,52,17,51,54,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-books","category-celebs","category-crime","category-movies","category-trivia","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15186"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15265,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15186\/revisions\/15265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
\nWriter-director Curtis Hanson had been a longtime James Ellroy fan when he finally read L.A. Confidential<\/em>, and the characters in that particular Ellroy novel really spoke to him, so he began working on a script. Meanwhile, Brian Helgeland\u2014originally contracted to write an unproduced Viking film for Warner Bros.\u2014was also a huge Ellroy fan, and lobbied hard for the studio to give him the scripting job. When he learned that Hanson already had it, the two met, and bonded over their mutual admiration of Ellroy\u2019s prose. Their passion for the material was clear, but it took two years to get the script done, with a number of obstacles.<\/p>\n
\nThough Wolper was intrigued by the idea of telling the story onscreen, Ellroy and his agent laughed at the thought. The author felt his massive book would never fit on any screen.<\/p>\n
\nTo adapt L.A. Confidential<\/em> for the screen, Hanson and Helgeland condensed Ellroy\u2019s original novel, boiling the story down to a three-person narrative and ditching other subplots so they could get to the heart of the three cops at the center of the movie. Ellroy, in the end, was pleased with their choices.<\/p>\n