el3so wrote:"Now I know you think you're D.A. number one hot-shot, but here's the juice: if I take you out, ten more lawyers will take your place tomorrow. They just won't come on the bus, that's all."
Nice quote. LA Confidential. A very respectable attempt at converting book to film and as I suggested in the other thread about westerns, Guy Pierce seems quite astute in the films he picks to appear in,Ive never see him in a film I didn't enjoy. But then I always enjoy reading James Ellroy books and the Smith trilogy, which includes LA confidential, is the best.
Sorry for going off at a tangent onto books but if it is the first words of a book that catch you then I think the opening paragraph is as good as any you will find in any of the classics -
An abandoned auto court in the San Berdoo foothills; Buzz Meeks checked in with ninety-four thousand dollars, eighteen pounds of high-grade heroin, a 10-gauge pump, a .38 special, a .45 automatic and a switchblade he'd bought off a pachuco at the border—right before he spotted the car parked across the line: Mickey Cohen goons in an LAPD unmarked, Tijuana cops standing by to bootjack a piece of his goodies, dump his body in the San Ysidro River.
"If you sit still the birds shit on you, even Buddha, life's short so get out there and do something"
"My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I’m happy. I can’t figure it out. What am I doing right?" Snoopy