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Storyline Edit. Captain Malcolm 'Mal' Reynolds is a former galactic war veteran who is the captain of the transport ship "Serenity". Mal and his crew, ensign Zoe Alleyne Washburne; Zoe's husband, pilot Hoban 'Wash' Washburne; muscular mercenary Jayne Cobb; young mechanic Kaylee Frye; former Alliance medical officer Simon Tam; his disturbed teenage sister River both on the run from the interplanetary government "The Alliance" ; the beautiful courtesan Inara Serra; and preacher Shepherd Book do any jobs, legal or illegal, they can find as the Serenity crew travels across the outskirts of outer space.

Meet the most spaced-out crew in the galaxy. Did you know Edit. Goofs The Chinese characters for "Blue Sun" change from throughout the series. In ancient China, as well as Japan, green and blue were seen as different shades of the same color. The character Qing was used to represent both green and blue. In modern China, Lan is the character used for blue. On the television episodes, instead of their names, a wireframe model of Serenity fades up.

User reviews Review. Top review. Could have been great. As with BtVS, the world is divided into people who get Firefly and people who don't. In this series Joss Whedon created one of the most realistic post-war visions of the future ever committed to tape, that at the same time spoke about yesterday and today.

Maybe a little too much today for its own good. The series is anti-corporate, anti-government and, while it takes the stand that some things are worth fighting for, it is largely anti-war. No wonder FOX did everything in its power to kill it off, including airing episodes out of order, skipping weeks after airing only three eps and, inevitably canceling the show without even airing episodes 12, 13 and 14 out of This was particularly damaging, as Firefly had a greater sense of ongoing plot than any other Whedon series in its first year.

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Confidential" is the third installment in James Ellroy 's "L. Quartet" series. When he read the script, Crowe was drawn to Bud White's "self-righteous moral crusade". Pierce Patchett's business is based on the long-time rumor that there really was a house of prostitution in Hollywood that supplied ladies meticulously dressed and made up to resemble famous movie stars. Also in the DVD special features documentary "Off the Record," author James Ellroy states: "Nat Sobel, my agent, and I laughed like hell, because we thought this fucker was movie adaptation-proof.

It was big, it was bad, it was bereft of sympathetic characters; it was unconstrainable, uncontainable, and unadaptable! He found him "repulsive and scary, but captivating". Confidential in , he lobbied hard to script the film. At the time, however, the studio was only interested in using established writers. Nathanson was bowled over by the screenplay, but knew he would have to get approval from his company head, Arnon Milchan.

He got Curtis Hanson to prepare a presentation that included pictures of orange groves, beaches, and the opening of the Hollywood Freeway to symbolize how prosperous the area appeared to be at the time. Then Hanson would show the darker side of Hollywood at the time, with scandal rags and the famous shot of Robert Mitchum coming out of jail, following his drug bust.

Hanson took great pains to emphasize that the period detail would be in the background, with the characters fully in the foreground. Milchan was immediately impressed with his presentation, and agreed to finance the film. For her work on this film, casting director Mali Finn so impressed Curtis Hanson that she ended up casting four of his next five movies. The photos seen during the vice squad briefing were copies of photos taken by fetish artist John Willie during his Los Angeles period.

One of his models was murdered by a serial killer and was mentioned in James Ellroy 's "My Dark Places". Lana Turner's private life posed a serious problem for the studios. Her eight marriages were one element. Another was her relationship with Johnny Stompanato. This film is set five years before Turner's most notorious incident during which Stompanato attacked her. Turner's daughter stabbed and killed him in defense of her mother. The trial and acquittal provided a great deal of gossip for several years to come.

White encounters Stompanato at the Formosa restaurant. Established in and located at the corner of Santa Monica Boulevard and North Formosa Avenue in West Hollywood, is still in business and its interior is virtually unchanged. Photos on the restaurant's web site include some of the same angles seen in the film, along with the exact same celebrity photos arranged around the top of the walls.

Director Curtis Hanson noted that L. Beyond this, there is so much film and television production going on in the area that many places, such as the old Spanish-style apartment buildings refuse to cooperate. The Formosa, having been in continuous operation for 48 years by the time of filming, was one of the classic sites that retained the ambiance of bygone times. In preparation for this film, Hanson had the cast watch a number of classic L. It was during their visit there that he told the cast that it would be one of the shooting locations.

The project was pitched twice to television. First, producer David L. Wolper wanted to produce the project as a mini-series, and later, it went into development as a weekly series by HBO.

A very poorly-executed pilot that starred Kiefer Sutherland as a completely unrecognizable Jack Vincennes was produced, but the series was not picked up afterwards. When he heard that Curtis Hanson had been hired to direct the film, Brian Helgeland met him on the set of The River Wild and pitched himself as his collaborator. Simon Baker 's big screen debut.

Curtis Hanson deliberately did not watch Guy Pearce 's performance in The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert , as he felt it would adversely affect his decision to cast the young actor. Kim Basinger 's Oscar winning performance in this film is her only Academy Award nomination. This was voted as the best film set in Los Angeles in the last 25 years by a group of Los Angeles Times writers and editors with two criteria: "The movie had to communicate some inherent truth about the L.

Jerry Goldsmith , who got an Academy Award nomination for this movie's score, replaced Elmer Bernstein. Jerry Goldsmith based the main motif of L. Confidential's score on the main motif in Leonard Bernstein's score for On the Waterfront. The title of the film as well as James Ellroy's novel is based on a popular series of books by Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer: New York Confidential , Chicago Confidential , Washington Confidential , and USA Confidential , which purported to expose the dirty underside of the title locales, focusing specifically on corruption, organized crime, and sex - the three elements of the crime plot in L.

A magazine named Confidential, fictionalized in the novel and film as Hush-Hush, began publication in December and also took its name from that book series but focused largely on celebrity gossip. Over the next few decades many other films have reused the title format of Lait and Mortimer's series - Kansas City Confidential , High School Confidential , etc, but most of these have made no attempt to follow the primary themes of the original book series and none have done so as closely as L.

Jack Vincennes moonlights as technical advisor on Badge of Honor, from which the chief suspends him following Bloody Christmas. Badge of Honor is clearly modeled after Dragnet.

In real life, W. Parker, the chief of police, was himself the actual technical advisor. The film has eighty speaking parts. In the exterior shots of the Frolic Room, the movie shown on the marquee of the Pantages theater next door is The Bad and the Beautiful It premiered in Los Angeles on December 25, , which provides a date for "L. Confidential"'s setting. At the end of the opening credits, where you see a copy of Hush-Hush Magazine, before Curtis Hanson 's director credit appears, the magazine's main cover story is an interview with mob boss Mickey Cohen.

The other front-page story is "Ingenue Dykes in Hollywood. Jack introduces Sid to his dance partner, Karen, who walks away. Jack then asks what's wrong, and Sid explains, "We did a piece on ingenue dykes, and her name got mentioned. The film is included on Roger Ebert 's "Great Movies" list.

It was big, it was epic, it was huge; it was a book for the whole family, if the name of your fucking family is the Charles Manson family. Kim Basinger stated that when she was preparing for her role she had to dye her long hair blonder than usual, but the intense chemical procedure in short time destroyed her natural hair entirely and she had to cut it short days before shooting starts, making make up team rush to find a wig made with real hair that could fit to the character.

The haircut she uses at the Oscars is the result of that. The role of Bud White was supposedly offered to Michael Madsen. Curtis Hanson and Dante Spinotti shot the film in 2. Kim Basinger 's first film in three years. Much has been made about the fact that this Los Angeles-based, and inspired film, stars two Australians in two of its most prominent roles.

Actually, that should be three, for further down the cast list, in the smaller part of the actor who gets busted, is a young Simon Baker.