"The Killing" is a very faithful adaptation of Lionel White's
novel, but the dialogue is distinctly Thompson's. Jim
Thompson's biography "Sleep with the Devil" breaks down what
Thompson + Kubrick both did for this screenplay (Thompson
wrote it - Kubrick put it into screenplay format, and put his
name on the credits!).
Hell, The Grifters is also a very faithful adaptation of
Thompson's book, but that didn't stop Donald Westlake for
winning an Oscar for it.
-Dave Z.
--- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "Al Guthrie"
<allanguthrie@u...> wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jay Gertzman"
<jgertzma@e...>
> To: "rara avis" <
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com>
>
> > I have been reading about Jim Thompson's
collaboration with
Stanley
> > Kubrick on the latter's 3rd film, _The
Killing_. Kubrick said
he wanted
> > Thompson's hard boiled dialogue, but the film
clearly shows the
> > novelist's influence in other ways. For
example, the well
thought out
> > plan to steal millions from the race track
unravels due to
common
> > people's uncommon obsessions and desires: a
wife's disloyalty,
her
> > husband's masochism, a hit man's
bigotry.
>
> Jay, if you check out the excellent source material,
the
novel "Clean
> Break", I think you'll agree that you're attributing
to Jim
Thompson what is
> rightfully Lionel White's.
>
> Al
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