Get Shorty

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There is a complex web, multiple storylines which weave together, but all revolve around Chili Palmer, and they all get wrapped up at the end. This was my first venture into Leonard’s work. Despite the shortcomings I felt the book had, it will be one I remember, if for nothing else, for the fantastic characters, of which I only mentioned Chili but just about all of them were iconic. McClurg, Jocelyn and Carol Memmott (August 20, 2013). "Author Elmore Leonard dies at 87". USA Today. Archived from the original on November 15, 2020 . Retrieved May 21, 2019.

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. A secondary plot involved Ray Bones who caused problems for Chili. Chili arranged a problem for Ray, but the reader didn't get to see it. I wanted to watch Ray suffer or watch him get out of it some how. I was disappointed. I don't want to make up my own endings.

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There are times when you come across something you honestly where not expecting - and this book I have to say is one of them. This novel is the first appearance (to my knowledge) of “Chili Palmer” who also appears in Elmore Leonard’s novel Be Cool. Acocella, Joan (September 24, 2015). "The Elmore Leonard Story". The New York Review of Books. Archived from the original on November 1, 2019 . Retrieved December 2, 2018.

Penzler, Otto, ed. (2001). Murderers' Row Original Baseball Mysteries (Firsted.). CA: New Millennium Entertainment. ISBN 978-1893224254. Quentin Tarantino has optioned the right to adapt Leonard's novel Forty Lashes Less One (1972). [39] Television [ edit ] When I was in my teens, I took subways all over Boston to search out Leonard’s novels in used bookstores. This was before he became popular, so finding one of his novels was no easy thing. But I was already voice-obsessed by that age and Leonard had a voice like no other. That voice was the outgrowth of the most finely tuned ear for urban speech that American letters has produced. No one ever wrote American dialogue as well as Leonard. And that dialogue wasn’t just pitch-perfect and often hilarious and profane (although it was all those things), it also advanced the story and gave you a full glimpse into the interior lives of characters who lived several zip codes away from anything resembling introspection.

That last comment was written ironically, of course, because aren’t most books always better than the movie? One of the genius elements, of GET SHORTY, of course, is the author creating his work of fiction as if it were in real time even as the characters use their lives in real time to create a movie – or maybe movies – about their unfolding lives. One could even imagine Leonard envisioning the unfolding stories to become a movie. Chili is a wise guy loan shark. He doesn't use a gun. His style of intimidation is quiet, making the victim imagine bad things will happen if he doesn't pay. Before he makes a loan, Chili tries to talk the borrower out of it saying you really don't want to borrow from me. But they are desperate and do it. After being seduced by Doris, Harry drunkenly calls Bones, insults him, and asks for another investment; he also reveals that Chili has Leo's money. Bones flies to Los Angeles and brutally beats Harry. When Ronnie interrupts them, Bones shoots him dead and plants the gun on Harry. Bear has a change of heart about the plan to kill Chili, but Bo threatens him and his young daughter. Chili and Karen give in to their mutual attraction and take a badly injured Harry to a lunch meeting with Martin.

I'm not connected to those people anymore. Not since I walked out of a loan-shark operation in Miami." From 'Get Shorty' to 'Glitz:'10000000002 USC acquires collections of crime novelist Elmore Leonard". October 15, 2014. Archived from the original on December 4, 2014. A secondary plot involved Ray Bones who caused problems for Chili. Chili arranged a problem for Ray, but the reader didn’t get to see it. I wanted to watch Ray suffer or watch him get out of it some how. I was disappointed. I don’t want to make up my own endings. I didn't find it necessary to know "Get Shorty" before reading this book, but it is important to know that "Be Cool" is a sequel, featuring the same main character, Chili Palmer, a former loan shark from Florida and Brooklyn who has managed to evade criminal prosecution and made a life for himself in Hollywood in the movies. His first film, "Get Leo" was a success but its sequel, "Get Lost" failed. Chili is looking for ideas for a third movie. There is a mirroring in Leonard's novel as it too is a sequel to an earlier successful novel and film.

Chili ‘look at me’ Palmer, the ex-wise guy (okay so he was ‘loosely connected’) ex-loan shark from Brooklyn by way of Miami Beach, is in Los Angeles now where he has re-invented himself as a movie producer whose in dire need of material for a new film project. And he gets one; at a lunch meeting with a shady record producer which opens the book with a bang. a b Stasio, Marilyn (August 20, 2013). "Elmore Leonard, Who Refined the Crime Thriller, Dies". Books. The New York Times. Archived from the original on November 15, 2020 . Retrieved August 20, 2013. I directed Throw Momma from the Train and Barry Sonnenfeld was my cinematographer. We got along really well. Afterwards I started my production company, and said to him: “Let’s look for something for you to direct.” Barry called one day and said: “I’m at an airport and I bought an Elmore Leonard book called Get Shorty. I’ve just started it but I love it and think it’s the one.” I had so much faith in him that right away I got a guy on the phone, made a deal and got an option on the book. I had somebody go out and get a copy of it so I could take a look because I hadn’t read it.