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L.A. Confidential

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L.A. Confidential	comment	Los Angeles, 1953.There is a mass murder at The Nite Owl restaurant, and one of the people killed is a former LAPD officer. Three different LAPD detectives with different personalities, wife-basher-basher Bud White (Russell Crowe), straight cop Edmund Exley (Guy Pearce), and publicity-hungry Jack Vincennes (Kevin Spacey) all get caught up in the case, which turns out be part of the power struggle in organized crime after Real Life mobster Mickey Cohen is imprisoned for income tax evasion.A 1990 novel by James Ellroy, L.A. Confidential was given a 1997 film adaptation directed by Curtis Hanson. Also in the cast are Kim Basinger, James Cromwell, Danny DeVito, and David Strathairn. The screenplay by Hanson and Brian Helgeland greatly condensed the plot and time frames of the book, but was widely praised for keeping almost all of the drama and noir feel.Hanson and Helgeland won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Script, and Basinger won Best Supporting Actress. The film was nominated in several other categories (including Best Picture) but lost every one to the juggernaut that was Titanic.HBO commissioned a pilot for a TV adaptation in 2003, but opted not to go ahead with the series. In 2018 CBS decided to try again and filmed a pilot episode, but the network decided not to pick up the series.For the novel this was adapted from, check out L.A. Confidential.
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L.A. Confidential / int_1237828f	type	Anyone Can Die
L.A. Confidential / int_1237828f	comment	Anyone Can Die: And they do, oh how they do. Specifically, Dick Stensland, Matt Reynolds, Jack Vincennes, Sid Hudgens, Pierce Patchett, and Dudley Smith.
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L.A. Confidential / int_127fc252	type	Creator Cameo
L.A. Confidential / int_127fc252	comment	Creator Cameo: The offscreen voice in the morgue scene ("We're ready with that Nite Owl ID, lieutenant.") belongs to director Curtis Hanson.
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L.A. Confidential / int_1282bf4f	type	No Celebrities Were Harmed
L.A. Confidential / int_1282bf4f	comment	No Celebrities Were Harmed: Badge of Honor and its star Brett Chase are Dragnet and Jack Webb in all but name.
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L.A. Confidential / int_143350c6	type	Officer O'Hara
L.A. Confidential / int_143350c6	comment	Officer O'Hara: Dudley Smith is this complete with James Cromwell providing an off-the-boat accent and stereotypical expressions. He's a rare example that's also a corrupt and ruthless murderer and crime lord.
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L.A. Confidential / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
L.A. Confidential / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: A furious, emotionally-charged Bud lashes out and punches Lynn in the face after discovering her affair with Exley. Realizing that he's become what he despises, he manages to stop himself from hurting her more, before abruptly fleeing the scene. Jack, staring into a bar mirror with his $50 bill for setting up Matt Reynolds with Ellis Loew, and again when finding Reynolds' body that night
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L.A. Confidential / int_146f4e0	type	Blind Without 'Em
L.A. Confidential / int_146f4e0	comment	In the film, Exley sees one Nite Owl suspect bolt into an elevator and quickly jams his shotgun through the doors and fires, without first checking to see if there was anyone else in there with them - and he's not wearing his glasses at the time. He's got to be very lucky that he didn't accidentally shoot an innocent bystander. In fact, any time Exley uses a shotgun or pistol without his glasses qualifies as this. Vincennes takes concern before a raid when Exley can't find his glasses:
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L.A. Confidential / int_1649e053	type	Your Mom
L.A. Confidential / int_1649e053	comment	Your Mom: During Bloody Christmas, one of the Mexican prisoners who was being beaten up by the cops insults both Dick Stensland's (in Spanish) and Bud White's mothers (in English). The latter is especially unwise since White, who was initially trying to break up the fight, instead is provoked into attacking as well. It's mentioned later that White witnessed his mother get beaten to death by his abusive father, making it an especially personal insult for him.
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L.A. Confidential / int_1777688d	type	Genre Savvy
L.A. Confidential / int_1777688d	comment	Genre Savvy: Inez knows that the police will stop at nothing to kill the men who kidnapped and raped her if they think they killed six white people.
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L.A. Confidential / int_1ad42ecd	type	The Glasses Come Off
L.A. Confidential / int_1ad42ecd	comment	The Glasses Come Off: Played straight in the movie with Ed.
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L.A. Confidential / int_1c5002bc	type	The Stoic
L.A. Confidential / int_1c5002bc	comment	The Stoic: LAPD Chief William Parker never raises his voice and never expresses any emotion beyond a low-key anger. Bear in mind the real Parker supposedly was the basis for the character of Spock.
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L.A. Confidential / int_1daa7fce	type	In the Back
L.A. Confidential / int_1daa7fce	comment	In the Back: Captain Smith tells Exley he's not ready for detective work because he's not willing to shoot a suspect in the back. By the end of the movie, Exley has done just that...to Smith.
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L.A. Confidential / int_1f067b97	type	Invented Individual
L.A. Confidential / int_1f067b97	comment	Invented Individual: Rollo Tomasi, the man who killed Exley's father. The killer was never identified, so Exley invented that name for him. Jack, after being fatally shot, uses it to direct suspicion to Dudley, making Rollo an identity for two murders.
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L.A. Confidential / int_1f17e9fe	type	High-Altitude Interrogation
L.A. Confidential / int_1f17e9fe	comment	High-Altitude Interrogation: How Bud gets his answers from D.A. Ellis Loew in the movie.
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L.A. Confidential / int_1f19f198	type	Back-to-Back Badasses
L.A. Confidential / int_1f19f198	comment	Back-to-Back Badasses: Bud and Ed at the climax of the film.
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L.A. Confidential / int_1fd2efc9	type	Byronic Hero
L.A. Confidential / int_1fd2efc9	comment	Byronic Hero: Jack Vincennes. A classic moment for this trope happens when he broods in a bar after the death of Matt Reynolds, looking at himself in a bar mirror, as Lee Wiley's "Oh! Look At Me Now" plays in the background.
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L.A. Confidential / int_20f689e9	type	Adaptational Villainy
L.A. Confidential / int_20f689e9	comment	Adaptational Villainy: Dick Stensland mainly exists in the book to teach Bud White to rein in his own excesses and be the first reminder of how he's sold out to join Dudley's crew. In the film, he is one of Dudley's figurehead enforcers alongside Buzz Meeks, where he murders Buzz over Mickey Cohen's stolen heroin and is subsequently slain by Smith, Breuning and/or Carlisle during the Nite Owl Massacre. The Stens/Meeks murder is tied into the Susan Lefferts thread, alongside writing the original body-under-the-house (Duke Cathcart) and his prostitution thread out of the movie. Buzz Meeks was an Anti-Hero in the novelization and a major character in The Big Nowhere.
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L.A. Confidential / int_214078a2	type	Staredown Faceoff
L.A. Confidential / int_214078a2	comment	Staredown Faceoff: Bud White confronts Ed Exley like this after Exley berates White for shooting dead the unarmed man holding Inez Soto hostage, then making it look like White shot in self-defense.
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L.A. Confidential / int_216dab44	type	Framing the Guilty Party
L.A. Confidential / int_216dab44	comment	Framing the Guilty Party: In a twist, the Negroes suspected of being behind the Nite Owl killings never committed those murders, but at the same time they were guilty of kidnapping and raping a woman.
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L.A. Confidential / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
L.A. Confidential / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: The hole in the floor of the Victory Motel made by Bud after ripping the chair that Sid Hudgens is tied to out of it, is seen again in the final shootout where Bud uses it twice to get the drop on the hitmen, first by dropping through and shooting two hitmen sneaking around the back in the feet through a vent hole, allowing Ed to finish them off, and again when Ed is pinned down by Bruening and another hitman where Bud kills the one hitman from down in the foundation before leaping out and hitting Bruening in the shoulder before finishing him off with a blast to the chest.
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L.A. Confidential / int_22cfbf14	type	Answers to the Name of God
L.A. Confidential / int_22cfbf14	comment	Answers to the Name of God:
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L.A. Confidential / int_237404cc	type	Ironic Echo
L.A. Confidential / int_237404cc	comment	Ironic Echo: Inez Soto's confession that she lied to Exley about the Nite Owl suspects - "You want to know what the big lie is? You and your precious 'absolute justice'." - is an echo of Ed's most sacred tenet. "Rollo Tomasi" in the movie. "Would you be willing to shoot a hardened criminal in the back"? As Smith kills Sid, he says to him "Hush-hush...".
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L.A. Confidential / int_237f7eeb	type	Missing White Woman Syndrome
L.A. Confidential / int_237f7eeb	comment	Missing White Woman Syndrome: Inez Soto lampshades it. Would anyone have cared if a minority girl was raped if the perpetrators weren't also suspects in the killing of several white people?
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L.A. Confidential / int_25524784	type	No-Holds-Barred Beatdown
L.A. Confidential / int_25524784	comment	Guy Pearce has a masterful selection of these from the very subtle, when Exley lays eyes on the Nite Owl victims, when one of the suspects in said case reveals he kidnapped and raped a woman and when Capt. Dudley Smith unwittingly reveals he killed Jack Vincennes, to wide-eye gawps when he's told the woman he thinks is a hooker cut to look like Lana Turner is actually Lana Turner and, more dramatically, when Bud shows him the pictures of Ed and Lynn sleeping together before launching into his No-Holds-Barred Beatdown. The one with Capt. Smith is particularly good, as Smith is looking Ed straight in the face as they talk, and Ed has to struggle to control his expression as realization dawns.
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L.A. Confidential / int_259d5879	type	Anachronism Stew
L.A. Confidential / int_259d5879	comment	Anachronism Stew: Generally averted in an extremely well-researched film. However, in condensing the time-frame of the story from the source novel, at least one anachronism appeared: The film begins on Christmas 1951 and appears to take place over the course of several months to a couple years from then onward, as none of the cars in the movie have a model year later than 1953. Yet Johnny Stompanato is seen dating Lana Turner, despite the two not meeting until 1957 in real life (the novel covers the entire decade, and features Stompanato and Turner at the appropriate time).
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L.A. Confidential / int_27a42ebc	type	Spiritual Successor
L.A. Confidential / int_27a42ebc	comment	Spiritual Successor: To Chinatown. Even though they both have a completely different cast and crew, both are set in Los Angeles, both were made 40 years after the time period in which they are set, and both feature themes of betrayal, corruption of public institutions and officials, and "neo-noir" values. Oh, and both have scores by Jerry Goldsmith.
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L.A. Confidential / int_2835de61	type	Evil Power Vacuum
L.A. Confidential / int_2835de61	comment	Evil Power Vacuum: Essentially the whole plot revolves around the police captain trying to take over Mickey Cohen's operation. It's noted as Sid Hudgens delivers the opening narration.
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L.A. Confidential / int_2b14367f	type	Bring My Brown Pants
L.A. Confidential / int_2b14367f	comment	Bring My Brown Pants: Exley's interrogation strategy on the three black suspects, tricking them into thinking they're snitching on each other, is enough to make one of them piss in his pants.
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L.A. Confidential / int_2d047747	type	Gossip Evolution
L.A. Confidential / int_2d047747	comment	Gossip Evolution: Two police officers, Helenowski and Brown, are beaten up by a group of Mexican hoodlums. The word about what happened gets more dramatic with each telling: according to Exley, they're on leave from active duty with some bruises, but by the time the assault suspects are brought in, the (incredibly inebriated) cops at the station are claiming that Helenowski is partially blind and Brown is on his death bed. The cops, having already worked themselves into a frenzy, proceed to take it out on the Mexicans.
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L.A. Confidential / int_2d26bfd6	type	Cardboard Box of Unemployment
L.A. Confidential / int_2d26bfd6	comment	Cardboard Box of Unemployment: Vincennes' box containing his desk possessions isn't yet unpacked when he's settling down at his desk in Vice for his temporary stint there.
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L.A. Confidential / int_2d50bb66	type	Perp Sweating
L.A. Confidential / int_2d50bb66	comment	Perp Sweating: A Moment of Awesome for Ed Exley, with his interrogation of the three Nite Owl suspects.
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L.A. Confidential / int_2dc0d2bf	type	Hidden Depths
L.A. Confidential / int_2dc0d2bf	comment	Hidden Depths: The three main cops - Bud, Jack and Ed - in different ways. Also Lynn, who just wants to get out of the hooker life and move back to Arizona to open a dress shop.
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L.A. Confidential / int_2dff6b95	type	Two Guys and a Girl
L.A. Confidential / int_2dff6b95	comment	Two Guys and a Girl: Bud, Lynn, and Ed.
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L.A. Confidential / int_2e338ce4	type	The Cavalry Arrives Late
L.A. Confidential / int_2e338ce4	comment	The Cavalry Arrives Late: In the climactic showdown at the Victory Motel, Bud is already wounded and Ed cornered before the cavalry shows up. Even then, the cavalry doesn't realize that one of their own has been behind the entire thing.
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L.A. Confidential / int_2f3cf3a2	type	Stoic Spectacles
L.A. Confidential / int_2f3cf3a2	comment	Stoic Spectacles: Exley.◊ He wears them to look a lot more serious on the job.
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L.A. Confidential / int_30adeff3	type	Defective Detective
L.A. Confidential / int_30adeff3	comment	Defective Detective: Jack has completely forgotten why he wanted to be a cop in the first place, having chosen show-business over the law.
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L.A. Confidential / int_32976084	type	Destination Defenestration
L.A. Confidential / int_32976084	comment	Destination Defenestration: When Exley and Carlisle confront the Nite Owl suspects, Exley shoots one of them so that he’s blown out a window.
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L.A. Confidential / int_33029735	type	Dies Wide Open
L.A. Confidential / int_33029735	comment	Dies Wide Open: Vincennes dies this way. Subverted with Matt Reynolds - whose hooded stare got a great close up and made such a terrific silent accusation against Jack Vincennes when he found the body.
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L.A. Confidential / int_33d5b7f2	type	Adapted Out
L.A. Confidential / int_33d5b7f2	comment	Adapted Out: Most notably Preston Exley, the Frankenstein killer, Dieterling, and Karen Morrow.
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L.A. Confidential / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
L.A. Confidential / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: A literal example, to show how nasty one of the three Nite Owl suspects is.
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L.A. Confidential / int_38d02d44	type	Batman Gambit
L.A. Confidential / int_38d02d44	comment	Batman Gambit: Dudley Smith is a master at manipulating his officers into doing what he wants, including sending Exley on a wild goose chase in his desire for glory and manipulating Bud into wanting to kill him later to tie up loose ends. It's his underestimation of Bud's ability to think for himself that proves to be Dudley's undoing. Jack Vincennes said "Rollo Tomasi" to Dudley Smith before dying because he was betting Dudley would throw it into the investigation to bait Ed. He does.
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L.A. Confidential / int_3a1c2171	type	The Man Behind the Man
L.A. Confidential / int_3a1c2171	comment	The Man Behind the Man: It's Captain Dudley Smith who controls the dirty racket in L.A..
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L.A. Confidential / int_3bebfcc0	comment	Living Lie Detector: Ed, in the book more than the movie.
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L.A. Confidential / int_3c111ce6	comment	Pistol-Whipping: When Bud tries to kill Exley for sleeping with Lynn, Exley is able to get an opening by pulling Bud’s revolver out of his jacket and knocking him upside the head.
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L.A. Confidential / int_3c88d6c2	comment	Flat "What": An excellent example from Vincennes when Exley asks him, "Do you make the Negroes for the Nite Owl killings?".
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L.A. Confidential / int_3e084baf	type	Only Bad Guys Call Their Lawyers
L.A. Confidential / int_3e084baf	comment	Only Bad Guys Call Their Lawyers: The Nite Owl suspects are not quite a straight example. They don't call their lawyers (though Ray Collins at one point declares an intent to get one) and are indeed innocent of the Nite Owl murders, but they are guilty of a separate, unrelated (but quite heinous) crime. Pierce Patchett is a straight example: while he's a cool customer and is too confident (and rich) to be intimidated into talking, he still tells Bud White at their first meeting that any further attempts to get information out of him will be met with his lawyer.
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L.A. Confidential / int_3e31f01e	type	Fleur-de-lis
L.A. Confidential / int_3e31f01e	comment	Fleur de Lis: The name of the escort service run by Pierce Patchett. It's also their logo, and Vincennes gets drawn into the case when he finds one of their cards during the "Movie Premiere Pot Bust", then discovers their symbol on a dossier during his first case in Vice.
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L.A. Confidential / int_3f11ef74	type	Parental Substitute
L.A. Confidential / int_3f11ef74	comment	Parental Substitute: Dudley Smith serves as this for Exley and White in the film, in different ways. Bud sees him as more of a traditional father-figure, where Ed admires his police career. The ending reveals how expendable they really are to him.
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L.A. Confidential / int_3f45f1e6	type	Adaptational Heroism
L.A. Confidential / int_3f45f1e6	comment	Adaptational Heroism: Played with for Dudley Smith. In the book, we know from the beginning—from the previous booknote The Big Nowhere , actually—that he's rotten. In this movie, it's a big Wham Shot when he kills Jack, revealing himself to be the villain. In the film, the most extreme torture methods Bud uses are False Roulette, pummelling men tied to a chair, and dangling DA Ellis Loew out of a window. In the book, there is a scene in which Bud shoves a man's hand down a garbage disposal to extract information from him. In the book, Exley tracks the three Nite Owl suspects to the apartment of their accomplice Roland Navarette and shoots all four men dead, despite the fact that they were unarmed and not resisting. In the film, Exley is accompanied by Carlisle who fires the first shot during a tense moment, and Navarette and the three Nite Owl suspects immediately return fire. Badge of Honor star Brett Chase is stated to be a child molester in the novel. The film doesn't mention this aspect of his character at all.
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L.A. Confidential / int_44f5d199	type	Pretty in Mink
L.A. Confidential / int_44f5d199	comment	Pretty in Mink: Lana Turner is wearing a white fox wrap in her scene in the movie, helping indicate she's the actual movie star, and not one of the Fleur de Lis girls.
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L.A. Confidential / int_4655ec83	type	Important Haircut
L.A. Confidential / int_4655ec83	comment	Important Haircut: Lynn in the end cuts her hair to show her rejection of her former life.
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L.A. Confidential / int_4668be6f	type	Distinguishing Mark
L.A. Confidential / int_4668be6f	comment	Distinguishing Mark: While Bud White immediately recognizes Susan Lefferts' body by sight as the woman he saw in the car when he detained Buzz Meeks, her mother cannot initially identify her daughter at the morgue due to the girl's extensive plastic surgery. The coroner prompts her with Ed Exley and Bud White hanging on her every word: The scene won the 1998 Skinny Award for "Best birthmark used to further the plot".
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L.A. Confidential / int_466ccbb4	type	Gayngst
L.A. Confidential / int_466ccbb4	comment	Gayngst: Matt Reynolds, in the movie, could lose his career getting caught sleeping with a man, that is if he didn't get killed by being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Yet even that has issues, as Jack notes that Homicide won't help him on the case due to the gay aspects.
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L.A. Confidential / int_46ec76fb	type	Working the Same Case
L.A. Confidential / int_46ec76fb	comment	Working the Same Case: All of the detectives, but most notably Exley, Vincennes, and White.
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L.A. Confidential / int_4733b5a5	type	Saying Too Much
L.A. Confidential / int_4733b5a5	comment	Saying Too Much: How both Jack Vincennes and Sid Hudgens find themselves on the wrong end of Dudley Smith's gun.
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L.A. Confidential / int_48081842	type	The Stinger
L.A. Confidential / int_48081842	comment	The Stinger: Halfway through the credits there's an old-timey shot of Brett "Badge of Honor" Chase in a parade with DA Ellis Loew. Then after the credits are finished there's a scene of a family watching the opening credits of "Badge of Honor", which end with an In Memoriam, "Dedicated to Sergeant Jack Vincennes." (There is of course ironic contrast between the rah-rah copaganda of shows like "Badge of Honor" and the deepset corruption and criminality of the movie's LAPD.)
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L.A. Confidential / int_48c8fcbc	type	Kosher Nostra
L.A. Confidential / int_48c8fcbc	comment	Kosher Nostra: Mickey Cohen.
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L.A. Confidential / int_48c99e19	type	Death by Adaptation
L.A. Confidential / int_48c99e19	comment	Death by Adaptation: Dudley Smith. Preston Exley, too or at least the timing of it.
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L.A. Confidential / int_49f20c6a	type	Gory Discretion Shot
L.A. Confidential / int_49f20c6a	comment	Gory Discretion Shot: We only get to see the shocked expression on Exley's face when he stares at the (presumably very) gory results of the Nite Owl suspect he just blew away with a shotgun at point-blank range in an elevator.
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L.A. Confidential / int_4aaffbd5	type	I Never Said It Was Poison
L.A. Confidential / int_4aaffbd5	comment	I Never Said It Was Poison: Dudley Smith, after briefing the detectives on Vincennes's death, pulls Exley aside and tells him that he's trying to find a lead on an associate of Vincennes' named Rollo Tamasi. Exley immediately realizes this means Dudley is Vincennes' killer, because "Rollo Tomasi" is a name that Exley invented to personify the mugger who murdered his father, a secret he has only confided to Vincennes. Played with for the Nite Owl suspects. When Exley has finished interrogating Sugar Ray Collins, he notes that, even though he mentioned the death penalty and the gas chamber, Sugar Ray had yet to actually ask him what crime he was being charged with. Exley takes this as evidence that the three suspects are guilty, since if they were innocent they would have presumably asked what they were being charged with when they're being warned of being executed. The twist is that, indeed they are guilty of a crime, but it is not the Nite Owl murders, but the equally heinous crime of kidnapping and raping a girl.
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L.A. Confidential / int_4c21a018	type	Virgin in a White Dress
L.A. Confidential / int_4c21a018	comment	Virgin in a White Dress: Inverted. As a high-class hooker Lynn is anything but virginal, but in most subsequent appearances, especially in the iconic scene where she seduces Ed, she wears a white dress.
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L.A. Confidential / int_4cacfcc3	type	Honey Trap
L.A. Confidential / int_4cacfcc3	comment	Honey Trap: Pierce Patchett is able to break ground on the freeway project by blackmailing a local politician with compromising photos of him cavorting with Lynn Bracken. This is later done with Exley kissing Lynn and Dudley leaving them for Bud to find.
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L.A. Confidential / int_4e7f703c	type	Wham Shot
L.A. Confidential / int_4e7f703c	comment	Wham Shot: Literally; the first indication that Captain Dudley Smith is evil is when he shoots Jack Vincennes in the chest.
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L.A. Confidential / int_4ef92d0b	type	The Atoner
L.A. Confidential / int_4ef92d0b	comment	The Atoner: Jack Vincennes genuinely tries to help Matt Reynolds. He feels guilty for going along with Sid's desire for headlines, and ruining Matt's life in the process.
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L.A. Confidential / int_50b9b3d0	type	Crazy Jealous Guy
L.A. Confidential / int_50b9b3d0	comment	Crazy Jealous Guy: Bud towards the end of the film, due to finding out Lynn slept with Exley.
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L.A. Confidential / int_540eb459	type	The Killer Becomes the Killed
L.A. Confidential / int_540eb459	comment	The Killer Becomes the Killed: The fate of Dudley Smith, shotgunned in the back by Exley.
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L.A. Confidential / int_548bd053	type	Guns Akimbo
L.A. Confidential / int_548bd053	comment	Guns Akimbo: Ed wields a Colt Detective Special in one hand and a Colt M1911 semi-automatic handgun in the other during the Victory Motel shootout.
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L.A. Confidential / int_56515a39	type	Artistic License â€“ History
L.A. Confidential / int_56515a39	comment	Artistic License – History: It's the early 1950s and yet almost none of the police or civilians are wearing fedoras outdoors, except for Smith in one scene and some of his mooks. Word of God is that this was to avoid making the actors look like they were in costume so that the film could focus on them as characters. In reality, everyone would have been wearing fedoras outside.
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L.A. Confidential / int_58ee8b0d	type	Celebrity Impersonator
L.A. Confidential / int_58ee8b0d	comment	Celebrity Impersonator: Played straight with the various whores in Pierce Patchett's stable. Also subverted in the example of Your Costume Needs Work, when Ed Exley mistakes the real Lana Turner for a lookalike hooker.
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L.A. Confidential / int_5a40d6a	type	Adaptation Distillation
L.A. Confidential / int_5a40d6a	comment	Adaptation Distillation: The movie takes an insanely complex book and boils it down to the absolute bare essence of the story, which is still plenty complicated on its own. And in doing so it manages to weave in plot points from three different James Ellroy books, all while still qualifying as Adaptation Distillation. The writers actually wrote every plot point on index cards and laid them all on a table, so that whenever they took something out, they could try to rearrange everything else until it all made sense again.
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L.A. Confidential / int_5b565147	type	Meaningful Background Event
L.A. Confidential / int_5b565147	comment	Meaningful Background Event: After Bud shoots Inez Soto's rapist, you can see the other cops heading to the house in response to the gunshot.
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L.A. Confidential / int_5bc2106	type	Your Costume Needs Work
L.A. Confidential / int_5bc2106	comment	Your Costume Needs Work: Exley thinks Lana Turner is just one of Pierce Patchett's hookers dressed up to look like a star. When they get back in the car, Exley actually chuckles in embarrassment at his mistake.
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L.A. Confidential / int_603f1a80	type	Pragmatic Adaptation
L.A. Confidential / int_603f1a80	comment	Pragmatic Adaptation: The film trims and condenses the very complicated plot of the book in order to make it work as a movie.
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L.A. Confidential / int_60492b98	type	Have You Told Anyone Else?
L.A. Confidential / int_60492b98	comment	Have You Told Anyone Else?: A slightly subtler variant when Dudley Smith asks Vincennes, "What does Exley make of all this?" When Vincennes replies that he hasn't spoken to Exley yet and just came from the records room, Smith shoots him.
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L.A. Confidential / int_60fa92ac	type	Names to Run Away from Really Fast
L.A. Confidential / int_60fa92ac	comment	Names to Run Away from Really Fast: 'Shotgun Ed'.
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L.A. Confidential / int_6168d81c	type	Mistaken Confession
L.A. Confidential / int_6168d81c	comment	Mistaken Confession: The Nite Owl suspects. They think the cops are about to bust them for kidnapping and raping Inez Soto, instead of committing the murders at the Nite Owl.
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L.A. Confidential / int_678b0fa9	type	Fair-Weather Friend
L.A. Confidential / int_678b0fa9	comment	Fair-Weather Friend: While they're quite chummy with each other, it's obvious that Vincennes and Sid Hudgens are just using each other to further their own careers. This is exemplified by Sid's reaction to Jack's death.
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L.A. Confidential / int_68cf9795	type	Ironic Nickname
L.A. Confidential / int_68cf9795	comment	Ironic Nickname Played with in the case of Exley's nickname. He's despised by the men until he guns down the Nite Owl suspects, and is nick-named 'Shotgun Ed' by Captain Dudley (who finally approves of him) for his display of brutal street justice. Later, when Dudley is willing to play ball (after Exley gets the drop on him) and offers to get them both off clean, Exley serves up the justice Dudley wanted by shooting him in the back with the shotgun.
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L.A. Confidential / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
L.A. Confidential / int_6b2b3b59	comment	The Reveal: The fact that the person responsible for not only the Nite Owl, but the gang killings of Mickey Cohen's lieutenants is Captain Dudley Smith.
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L.A. Confidential / int_71329e49	type	Turn in Your Badge
L.A. Confidential / int_71329e49	comment	Turn in Your Badge: Bud, though the movie gives us the traditional scene after Bloody Christmas. For Bud, it's a 10-Minute Retirement, as Smith quickly returns it to him a scene later after some witnesses recant their testimony. Stensland also is shown doing the traditional scene, though his termination is permanent, as the LAPD seek to use him as the scapegoat for the media. The film makes Stens' termination even more permanent, but in a different way.
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L.A. Confidential / int_725a80b2	type	Mistaken for an Imposter
L.A. Confidential / int_725a80b2	comment	Mistaken for an Imposter: Ed Exley thinks the woman with Johnny Stompanato is a hooker who has had plastic surgery to look like Lana Turner. It turns out to be the real Lana Turner who tosses her drink in his face.
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L.A. Confidential / int_72c8b35c	type	When She Smiles
L.A. Confidential / int_72c8b35c	comment	When She Smiles: Exley at the very end of the movie.
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L.A. Confidential / int_733e007a	type	Unwitting Pawn
L.A. Confidential / int_733e007a	comment	Unwitting Pawn: Ed Exley and Bud White are manipulated to further the main villain's plans several times throughout the movie while they try to figure out the truth behind the Night Owl murders. It's only when they team up that they start making real progress against the villain.
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L.A. Confidential / int_740f59b4	type	ColorCodedForYourConvenience
L.A. Confidential / int_740f59b4	comment	Color-Coded for Your Convenience: Lynn Bracken's wardrobe reflects a lot about her character. She wears black when she first meets Bud and is a suspect in Susan Lefferts' death, she wears soft greens and blues during her domestic scenes with Bud, she wears all white during the scene where she seduces Ed, and when she shows up at the end ready to leave for Arizona, she's dressed in a bright yellow amid the sea of blue at Ed's ceremony.
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L.A. Confidential / int_744e3311	type	Police Brutality
L.A. Confidential / int_744e3311	comment	Police Brutality: "Bloody Christmas" occurs when Dick Stensland gets intoxicated at a party and beats up some arrested Mexicans who assaulted two officers. Things escalate out of control when White tries to intervene, only to get caught up in the melee as well. This was based on a real incident that happened around this time. Although the movie's Bloody Christmas is much milder than the real one, which was a 95 minute No-Holds-Barred Beatdown.
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L.A. Confidential / int_7453bc5b	type	Spared by the Adaptation
L.A. Confidential / int_7453bc5b	comment	Spared by the Adaptation: Inez Soto, who in the novel killed herself upon learning that her employer Raymond Dieterling and his business partner Preston Exley murdered Dieterling's son years earlier.
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L.A. Confidential / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
L.A. Confidential / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: "Rollo Tomasi", in the movie.
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L.A. Confidential / int_77063cd7	type	Hooker with a Heart of Gold
L.A. Confidential / int_77063cd7	comment	Hooker with a Heart of Gold: Lynn Bracken is very loveable and caring, and has mutual romantic feelings with Bud White.
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L.A. Confidential / int_7b6e47a5	type	Armor-Piercing Question
L.A. Confidential / int_7b6e47a5	comment	Armor-Piercing Question: Exley asks Vincennes why he became a cop in the first place. Vincennes appears genuinely stricken to realize he has no earthly idea.
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L.A. Confidential / int_7d34f23a	type	Reckless Gun Usage
L.A. Confidential / int_7d34f23a	comment	Reckless Gun Usage: In the film, Exley sees one Nite Owl suspect bolt into an elevator and quickly jams his shotgun through the doors and fires, without first checking to see if there was anyone else in there with them - and he's not wearing his glasses at the time. He's got to be very lucky that he didn't accidentally shoot an innocent bystander. In fact, any time Exley uses a shotgun or pistol without his glasses qualifies as this. Vincennes takes concern before a raid when Exley can't find his glasses: Bud White's False Roulette, when no one's actually sure how many rounds are in the gun. William Carlisle is oh-so trigger-happy when confronting the Nite Owl suspects. During the first round up of the suspects, he tries to shoot one of them, but Exley stops him by blocking his gun up, deflecting a blast into the ceiling. The second time he's shot dead by Roland Naverette when a bottle falling off a table provokes him into shooting Lewis Fontane.
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L.A. Confidential / int_7e577db	type	Slashed Throat
L.A. Confidential / int_7e577db	comment	Slashed Throat: "The proof had his throat cut" (referring to Matt Reynolds).
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L.A. Confidential / int_7e95adeb	type	High-Class Call Girl
L.A. Confidential / int_7e95adeb	comment	High-Class Call Girl: Lynn and the other girls at Fleur de Lis who are cut to look like movie stars.
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L.A. Confidential / int_7ef70048	type	Big Bad Friend
L.A. Confidential / int_7ef70048	comment	Big Bad Friend: Dudley Smith wants to take the niche left by Mickey Cohen and will not share it with any possible collaborator like Pierce Patchett or Sid Hudgens.
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L.A. Confidential / int_8042e814	type	Actually Pretty Funny
L.A. Confidential / int_8042e814	comment	Actually Pretty Funny: When Ed Exley mistakes Lana Turner for a lookalike hooker, Jack Vincennes is trying hard not to laugh, but finally cracks up in laughter after they leave. After a few moments, an embarrassed Ed starts laughing as well.
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L.A. Confidential / int_81c4faa3	type	Entertainingly Wrong
L.A. Confidential / int_81c4faa3	comment	Entertainingly Wrong: Bud and Exley's views on each other turn out to be pretty inaccurate. Exley thinks Bud is a major part of the Nite Owl massacre, while Bud thinks Exley is just an Obstructive Bureaucrat getting in the way of his investigation.
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L.A. Confidential / int_82169238	type	Conversation Casualty
L.A. Confidential / int_82169238	comment	Conversation Casualty: Dudley Smith shoots Jack Vincennes mid-conversation without so much as a word of warning.
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L.A. Confidential / int_829b958e	type	Embarrassing First Name
L.A. Confidential / int_829b958e	comment	Embarrassing First Name: Bud White isn't really fond of his first name "Wendell". Although Edmund isn't so much better.
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L.A. Confidential / int_8411ab92	type	Red Oni, Blue Oni
L.A. Confidential / int_8411ab92	comment	Red Oni, Blue Oni: Bud White (Red) and Ed Exley (Blue) are textbook examples. In the movie, Jack becomes somewhat of a Red to Ed's Blue.
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L.A. Confidential / int_8531772	type	False Roulette
L.A. Confidential / int_8531772	comment	Bud White's False Roulette, when no one's actually sure how many rounds are in the gun.
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L.A. Confidential / int_856a425a	type	TheFifties
L.A. Confidential / int_856a425a	comment	The guys brought in for the Nite Owl killings are convenient for the case, as they are guilty of other crimes and are black suspects in The '50s.
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L.A. Confidential / int_85cc4dbc	type	Sex as Rite-of-Passage
L.A. Confidential / int_85cc4dbc	comment	Sex as Rite-of-Passage: Played horribly straight. The three black men kidnap a girl and rape her in order so that the youngest among them can 'become a man'. She is then left tied up in an apartment for days and only rescued because the kids were framed for the Nite Owl hit.
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L.A. Confidential / int_8741b74	type	Playing with a Trope
L.A. Confidential / int_8741b74	comment	Played with for Dudley Smith. In the book, we know from the beginning—from the previous booknote The Big Nowhere , actually—that he's rotten. In this movie, it's a big Wham Shot when he kills Jack, revealing himself to be the villain.
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L.A. Confidential / int_87bb6874	type	Villain with Good Publicity
L.A. Confidential / int_87bb6874	comment	Villain with Good Publicity: Dudley Smith.
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L.A. Confidential / int_8a9eb844	type	Perspective Flip
L.A. Confidential / int_8a9eb844	comment	Perspective Flip: The film switches between Jack, Bud, and Exley's points of view.
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L.A. Confidential / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
L.A. Confidential / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: Lots of characters, including all of Mickey Cohen's lieutenants,Dick Stensland, Buzz Meeks, Sugar Ray Collins, Ty Jones, Lewis Fontane, Sylvester Fitch, Roland Navarette, William Carlisle, Sid Hudgens, Pierce Pattchet, and Dudley Smith. DA Loew isn't killed, just dangled out a fifth story window to the point of hysterics as part of an interrogation by Bud and Ed. Mickey Cohen, as he is sent to prison for income tax evasion.
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L.A. Confidential / int_90d44f44	type	Karmic Death
L.A. Confidential / int_90d44f44	comment	Karmic Death: Capt. Dudley in the film adaptation.
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L.A. Confidential / int_928ca2cc	type	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness
L.A. Confidential / int_928ca2cc	comment	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Dudley Smith regularly eliminates anyone who's become a liability for him or is no longer of use for him.
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L.A. Confidential / int_94e7d8f	type	Shoot Him, He Has a Wallet!
L.A. Confidential / int_94e7d8f	comment	Shoot Him, He Has a Wallet!: During the hunt for the Nite Owl suspects, the sound of a beer bottle falling off the table startles Carlisle and results in a Blast Out that kills everyone but Exley and one Nite Owl suspect.
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L.A. Confidential / int_95af2c0c	type	Standard Cop Backstory
L.A. Confidential / int_95af2c0c	comment	Standard Cop Backstory: Both Bud White and Ed Exley. Bud's father was an abusive drunk who eventually murdered Bud's mother and chained him to a radiator next to her corpse, while Ed's father (also a cop) was murdered by an unknown assailant. Ed names the latter "Rollo Tomasi" in his head to give him some personality, which becomes relevant later on, when Captain Smith mentions it to him when discussing Jack's murder and Ed knows that only he (Ed) and Jack knows about Rollo Tomasi.
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L.A. Confidential / int_95b7c400	type	Faux Affably Evil
L.A. Confidential / int_95b7c400	comment	Faux Affably Evil: Dudley Smith, which is part of what makes him so chilling.
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L.A. Confidential / int_95d5fa51	type	Torture for Fun and Information
L.A. Confidential / int_95d5fa51	comment	Torture for Fun and Information: Bud White gives DCI Hunt a run for his money. First, he plays False Roulette with a murder suspect to find out where he stashed a rape victim, then he dangles Ellis Loew out a 10-story window just to scare him.
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L.A. Confidential / int_95f2d65e	type	DefrostingIceKing
L.A. Confidential / int_95f2d65e	comment	Defrosting Ice King: Exley starts off the movie seemingly emotionless and concerned with nothing but getting promoted to a higher position. It doesn't matter that no one on the entire force seems to like him, he does his job and climbs the ladder. By the end, his morals have begun to shift to the point where he agrees to continue to lie for the police department to protect Bud and Lynn, in addition to cleaning out the department of corruption from the inside.
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L.A. Confidential / int_96ecc67e	type	Shotguns Are Just Better
L.A. Confidential / int_96ecc67e	comment	Shotguns Are Just Better: The LAPD exclusively uses these as their long arms. Ed uses one against the Nite Owl suspects and Bud uses one during the Victory Motel shootout.
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L.A. Confidential / int_985e118a	type	Odd Couple
L.A. Confidential / int_985e118a	comment	Odd Couple: For different reasons, Exley's partnering up with Jack Vincennes and later with Bud White.
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L.A. Confidential / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
L.A. Confidential / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: You'll notice that Vincennes gets a spot of blood on his shirt during the Bloody Christmas brawl. Cracked points out that it's near the spot where he's going to get shot by Dudley Smith in the third act. Early in the film, Captain Smith asks Exley "Would you be willing to shoot a hardened criminal in the back?" After Exley dispatches the three Nite Owl suspects, he acquires the department nickname "Shotgun Ed". Guess how he kills Dudley.
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L.A. Confidential / int_9dfb8296	type	This Is Gonna Suck
L.A. Confidential / int_9dfb8296	comment	This Is Gonna Suck: When the cops rush to the jail cells upon being told the Mexicans who attacked two of their own have been brought in, so as to give them their beating, Vincennes, aware that Stensland is leading them whilst intoxicated and not in a good state of mind, approaches Bud White and tells him, "White, you'd better put a leash on your partner before he kills somebody."
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L.A. Confidential / int_9e0c3153	type	Punctuated! For! Emphasis!
L.A. Confidential / int_9e0c3153	comment	Punctuated! For! Emphasis! : "WHERE..IS..THE..GIRL?!"
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L.A. Confidential / int_9e1e14ea	type	Ambition Is Evil
L.A. Confidential / int_9e1e14ea	comment	Ambition Is Evil: Averted with Exley.
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L.A. Confidential / int_a07afea2	type	Random Events Plot
L.A. Confidential / int_a07afea2	comment	Random Events Plot: Subverted: Roger Ebert noted that the film features so many disparate and seemingly unrelated plot threads that for a lot of the movie it feels largely episodic, and more of a mood and character piece than a narrative one. It's only near the end of the film when the protagonists realize they're Working the Same Case that the underlying plot becomes apparent.
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L.A. Confidential / int_a0d9c2f3	type	Final Speech
L.A. Confidential / int_a0d9c2f3	comment	Final Speech: Exley gets a second Medal of Valor award.
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L.A. Confidential / int_a11f8240	type	Bad Cop/Incompetent Cop
L.A. Confidential / int_a11f8240	comment	Bad Cop/Incompetent Cop: Despite the squeaky clean image that the LAPD tries to maintain, most of the cops are stupid, violent thugs who do little more than pay lip service to the spirit and ideals of the law. The senior cops controlling them (save for Exley) are criminally corrupt.
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L.A. Confidential / int_a18fda9c	type	Dumb Muscle
L.A. Confidential / int_a18fda9c	comment	Dumb Muscle: Bud White, or at least what Exley initially thinks of him. More importantly, it's what Dudley Smith thinks of White and why he drags him into his scheme. It's one of Dudley's few, but vital, mistakes: while Bud may have muscle, he's not dumb and actually proves to be a fairly competent investigator on several occasions. Dick Stensland and Buzz Meeks, until they aspire to a bigger slice of the pie. Unfortunately for them, they're still dumb in comparison to the man they chose to cross. If they'd really got smart, they'd have figured that it was better to just do as Dudley Smith told them to.
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L.A. Confidential / int_a1b0c1c2	type	Revealing Cover-Up
L.A. Confidential / int_a1b0c1c2	comment	Revealing Cover-Up: Attempting to cover up Stensland's death by making it one part of a robbery gone bad eventually leads to the conspirators incriminating themselves trying to cover their tracks.
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L.A. Confidential / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
L.A. Confidential / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: When Bud hits Lynn in a fit of rage for sleeping with Exley. Vincennes when he realizes he helped set up Matt Reynolds to be murdered.
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L.A. Confidential / int_a31c79f3	type	Paparazzi
L.A. Confidential / int_a31c79f3	comment	Paparazzi: Sid Hudgens is a particularly nasty flavor of paparazzi scumbag, taking sadistic delight in ruining the lives and careers of other people, from which he then profits.
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L.A. Confidential / int_a4be7043	type	Da Chief
L.A. Confidential / int_a4be7043	comment	Da Chief: Dudley Smith. He's one of the rare villainous examples.
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L.A. Confidential / int_a5f168ab	type	Let Me at Him!
L.A. Confidential / int_a5f168ab	comment	Let Me at Him!: Bud White's Berserk Button is triggered as he listens to a black suspect confessing to the incidental crime of kidnapping and raping a Mexican woman. He shatters the back of the chair he is leaning on, storms into the interrogation room, violently pushes the suspect against the wall, and places the barrel of his gun into his mouth.
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L.A. Confidential / int_a621882	type	The Bad Guys Are Cops
L.A. Confidential / int_a621882	comment	The Bad Guys Are Cops: Captain Dudley Smith and a large group of his men are setting themselves up as the new LA drug kingpins after Mickey Cohen goes to prison.
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L.A. Confidential / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
L.A. Confidential / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: Rollo Tomasi, the purse snatcher who killed Exley's father was never captured, nor was his true identity even discovered. Exley just called him "Rollo Tomasi" to give him character and as a symbol for all crooks who thought they could get away with it. Ultimately, it keeps Dudley Smith from getting this trope because Vincennes feeds the name to him even as he's dying from a gunshot wound, hoping that Smith will slip up.
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L.A. Confidential / int_a754fa9a	type	Instant Death Bullet
L.A. Confidential / int_a754fa9a	comment	Instant Death Bullet: An interesting aversion in which Jack Vincennes appears to be shot straight through the heart but has time to whisper some (carefully chosen) Last Words and have a final chuckle before expiring.
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L.A. Confidential / int_a8896b94	type	Leave No Witnesses
L.A. Confidential / int_a8896b94	comment	Leave No Witnesses: Dudley Smith does this to everyone who could rat him out, including the Night Owl patrons and staff, Matt Reynolds, Pierce Patchett, Jack Vincennes, and Sid Hudgens. His fatal mistake is thinking Bud is stupid and brutish enough to eliminate Ed Exley for him.
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L.A. Confidential / int_a89efdf8	type	Wife-Basher Basher
L.A. Confidential / int_a89efdf8	comment	Wife-Basher Basher: Bud White. He's introduced kicking the crap out of a wife-beater, handcuffing him to his porch to wait for the patrol car to bring him in. Later, to scare the location of a kidnapped and repeatedly raped teenage girl out of the alleged Nite Owl suspects, he rips a solid oak chair in half with his bare hands in front of them and THEN shoves a gun in the face of one of the cowards and played False Roulette (probably) with him. He continues to play the trope arrow-straight until he hits Lynn when he finds out she slept with Exley, which prompts a big Heroic BSoD once he composes himself.
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L.A. Confidential / int_aabe2fb	type	Deliberate Values Dissonance
L.A. Confidential / int_aabe2fb	comment	Deliberate Values Dissonance: Racism, homophobia, and Police Brutality are portrayed as just a normal way of life. Inez Soto specifically tells the cops that the men who raped her are the main suspects for the Nite Owl killings because she knows the cops wouldn't care at all about minority suspects raping another minority, but will stop at nothing if they think the suspects killed six white people.
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L.A. Confidential / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
L.A. Confidential / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Guy Pearce has a masterful selection of these from the very subtle, when Exley lays eyes on the Nite Owl victims, when one of the suspects in said case reveals he kidnapped and raped a woman and when Capt. Dudley Smith unwittingly reveals he killed Jack Vincennes, to wide-eye gawps when he's told the woman he thinks is a hooker cut to look like Lana Turner is actually Lana Turner and, more dramatically, when Bud shows him the pictures of Ed and Lynn sleeping together before launching into his No-Holds-Barred Beatdown. The one with Capt. Smith is particularly good, as Smith is looking Ed straight in the face as they talk, and Ed has to struggle to control his expression as realization dawns. The john whose wife White threatens to call, and later turns out to be the councilman that Patchett blackmails with compromising photos. Notice that the moment Stensland and some of the other cops decide to abandon the Christmas party to go beat up the Mexicans who assaulted fellow cops, Exley is alarmed and tries to block them, and Vincennes's first reaction is to find Bud and tell him, "Hey, White? You better put a leash on your partner before he kills somebody." Sid Hudgens starts panicking once he realizes Dudley is, in fact, going to kill him.
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L.A. Confidential / int_aec3e0b8	type	Glory Hound
L.A. Confidential / int_aec3e0b8	comment	Glory Hound: Jack Vincennes has become one over the years. It takes getting an innocent man killed to snap him out of it.
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L.A. Confidential / int_aed29b5c	type	Die Laughing
L.A. Confidential / int_aed29b5c	comment	Die Laughing: Vincennes laughs at himself after he's shot by Dudley, moments before dying after being shot point-blank range.
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L.A. Confidential / int_afc6df04	type	What You Are in the Dark
L.A. Confidential / int_afc6df04	comment	What You Are in the Dark: Bud is horrified to find out he's capable of hitting a woman he cares about, just like his abusive father did to his mother.
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L.A. Confidential / int_afcc92c4	type	Self-Defense Ruse
L.A. Confidential / int_afcc92c4	comment	Self-Defense Ruse: Bud White tracks down Sylvester Fitch, one of the men involved in the abduction and rape of Inez Soto. White enters Fitch's house and shoots him dead while he is sitting in his underwear, eating cereal and watching television. White then uses a second gun to fire a round into the door frame, and places the gun in Fitch's hand to make it look like White killed him in self-defence. Exley lampshades the implausibility of the plan:
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L.A. Confidential / int_b034d333	type	Film Noir
L.A. Confidential / int_b034d333	comment	Film Noir: The period's gotten down correctly, and in brutally unglamorous detail. However, the film is shot like any other 1990s film, making this a Neo-Noir.
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L.A. Confidential / int_b3fc9d55	type	An Ass-Kicking Christmas
L.A. Confidential / int_b3fc9d55	comment	An Asskicking Christmas: Some of the plot takes place around the holiday season. This is exemplified during Bud's Establishing Character Moment — after he witnesses a husband beating his wife inside a house, Bud rips the Christmas decorations off of it, then proceeds to beat and handcuff the enraged husband when he steps outside.
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L.A. Confidential / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
L.A. Confidential / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: The perp who gets beaten up by Dick Stensland in the jail. Bud White goes to pull Stensland off him, you'd expect the perp to quiet down and be thankful that he didn't get beaten to death. Instead, he gets up behind White and starts insulting Stensland's mother in Spanish. When White tells the perp to get back, the perp responds in English, "Oh yeah?! And fuck your mother!" White, with a shout of "Fuck you!" proceeds to slam the perp into the walls, starting off Bloody Christmas; even Jack Vincennes gets a hit on the same perp, for bloodying his suit in the process.
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L.A. Confidential / int_b7e0c5ff	type	Love Triangle
L.A. Confidential / int_b7e0c5ff	comment	Love Triangle: Bud, Lynn, and Ed. Lynn chooses Bud.
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L.A. Confidential / int_b8e3f20a	type	Demoted to Extra
L.A. Confidential / int_b8e3f20a	comment	Demoted to Extra: Inez Soto, the woman gang-raped by the three Nite Owl suspects, is a major character in the novel: after being rescued from Sylvester Fitch, she becomes the Girl Friday to Exley's father Preston and his business partner Raymond Dieterling, and gets romantically involved with Exley and White. In the film she appears in three (very brief) scenes.
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L.A. Confidential / int_bb0a2242	type	No-Tell Motel
L.A. Confidential / int_bb0a2242	comment	No-Tell Motel: The long-abandoned Victory Motel, better known as the go-to place to conduct illegal interrogations and set up fellow cops to be killed.
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L.A. Confidential / int_bb8f2da3	type	Cop Killer Manhunt
L.A. Confidential / int_bb8f2da3	comment	Cop Killer Manhunt: With ex-cop Stensland killed at a diner massacre, the suspects do get treated somewhat aggressively while in custody, and eventually all end up dead. The whole "Bloody Christmas" incident is a cross between this and Gossip Evolution. A trio of suspects who assaulted a pair of cops are brought into the lockup with the cops in question suffering some minor bruising. By the time Stensland has heard about this, the rumours of the cops' injuries have escalated to the point where it's being said that one cop lost an eye and the other is on his deathbed, which causes Stensland to lead a bunch of cops down to the lockup to administer a heavy beating to the suspects.
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L.A. Confidential / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
L.A. Confidential / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: Do not mistreat women in the presence of Bud White. Vincennes is hanging around the periphery of the Bloody Christmas beatdown, generally trying to keep things calm. When one of the Mexican prisoners — already beaten bloody by Stensland and company — is shoved into Vincennes, resulting in a bright red stain on Jack's pure white suit, Jack loses it and throws a punch. He ends up throwing one more after essentially the same thing happens again a few seconds later.
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L.A. Confidential / int_bdd7fd6b	type	These Hands Have Killed
L.A. Confidential / int_bdd7fd6b	comment	These Hands Have Killed: Exley is in shock after blowing away the perp in the elevator with a shotgun.
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L.A. Confidential / int_be009bbc	type	Alliterative Name
L.A. Confidential / int_be009bbc	comment	Alliterative Name: Ed Exley, Pierce Patchett and Wendell "Bud" White.
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L.A. Confidential / int_be15f78c	type	Any Last Words?
L.A. Confidential / int_be15f78c	comment	Any Last Words?: Said by Dudley Smith to Jack Vincennes.
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L.A. Confidential / int_be977433	type	Good-Times Montage
L.A. Confidential / int_be977433	comment	Good-Times Montage: Takes place after Ed kills the Nite Owl suspects. Ed gets his medal of valor and is finally accepted by his colleagues, Jack returns to the Badge of Honor set and Bud grows weary of his muscle duty, driving him to Lynn.
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L.A. Confidential / int_beb9a361	type	Anti-Hero
L.A. Confidential / int_beb9a361	comment	Buzz Meeks was an Anti-Hero in the novelization and a major character in The Big Nowhere.
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L.A. Confidential / int_bedd799b	type	Blunt "Yes"
L.A. Confidential / int_bedd799b	comment	Blunt "Yes": Just after Exley has agreed to testify against his fellow police officers in exchange for a sizeable promotion, Dudley has a private word with him.
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L.A. Confidential / int_c181a846	type	Dies Differently in Adaptation
L.A. Confidential / int_c181a846	comment	Dies Differently in Adaptation: In the film, Ed Exley's father Preston gets shot dead by a mugger prior to the events of the film. In the book he commits suicide before Ed can expose him as a murderer. In the film, Jack Vincennes gets shot dead by Dudley Smith. In the book, he gets killed during a raid on a train carrying numerous prison inmates. In the film, Sid Hudgens gets strangled to death by Dudley Smith. In the book, he gets dismembered by one of the "Dr. Frankenstein" killers.
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L.A. Confidential / int_c19bdbe1	type	Good Cop/Bad Cop
L.A. Confidential / int_c19bdbe1	comment	Good Cop/Bad Cop: Invoked, hilariously, in the movie in the scene where Bud and Ed dangle Ellis Loew out of a very high window by his ankles.
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L.A. Confidential / int_c2339e22	type	Identifying the Body
L.A. Confidential / int_c2339e22	comment	Identifying the Body: For Susan Lefferts' identification, her mother is brought in to verify her identity. While she's changed a lot appearance-wise because of cosmetics, the mother confirms it's her daughter because of a birthmark. This also causes Bud White to realize that he'd seen her right before Bloody Christmas, which he keeps to himself as he pursues his own line of investigation.
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L.A. Confidential / int_c45e0fea	type	Adaptational Timespan Change
L.A. Confidential / int_c45e0fea	comment	Adaptational Timespan Change: The events of the book ran from Christmas 1951 to April 1958. The film opens on Christmas 1952 and ends sometime in 1953 note based on the fact that none of the cars in the movie have a model year later than 1953, and Jack Vincennes's description of Fleur-de-Lis as "the great jerk-off case of '53" is the latest explicit reference to the date.
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L.A. Confidential / int_c4c4004a	type	Treachery Cover-Up
L.A. Confidential / int_c4c4004a	comment	Treachery Cover Up: The department does this to Dudley Smith at the end, giving a public statement saying that he died a hero in the line of duty.
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L.A. Confidential / int_c95ea95f	type	Can Always Spot a Cop
L.A. Confidential / int_c95ea95f	comment	Can Always Spot a Cop: When Bud first impulsively wishes Lynn a Merry Christmas while they're standing in a liquor store, despite there being no outward sign that Bud is a cop, she almost immediately replies "Merry Christmas, officer", much to Bud's chagrin.
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L.A. Confidential / int_ca87e3ec	type	No Name Given
L.A. Confidential / int_ca87e3ec	comment	No Name Given: The LAPD Police Chief is never named, but it's pretty obviously supposed to be William Parker, the real chief at the time the movie takes place.
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L.A. Confidential / int_ce6555f0	type	Lighter and Softer
L.A. Confidential / int_ce6555f0	comment	Lighter and Softer: As strange as it may seem for a dark Film Noir which deals unflinchingly with heroin dealing, racism, prostitution, pornography, police brutality and so on, the film significantly tones down the most extreme content from the book. The book's copious incidences of child rape and murder are omitted, the protagonists are less morally ambiguous (see Adaptational Heroism above), and the violence is less brutal (e.g. Sid Hudgens dies by strangulation in the film, whereas in the book he gets dismembered).
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L.A. Confidential / int_d4ba9971	type	Deceased Fall-Guy Gambit
L.A. Confidential / int_d4ba9971	comment	Deceased Fall-Guy Gambit: The Negroes get framed for the Nite Owl killings. Breuning, Carlisle and Dudley Smith frame Sugar Ray Collins, Ty Jones and Lewis Fontane because they are black and have records. The reason why Breuning and Carlisle are already present when Exley and Vincennes show up to bust Ray Collins' place is because they've already planted the shotguns they used at the Nite Owl in the back of Ray's car. The two crooked detectives would've outright killed the three black men had Exley and Vincennes not shown up, knowing that no questions would be asked if it looked like the Negroes were killed resisting arrest.
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L.A. Confidential / int_d55108a1	type	Horrible Hollywood
L.A. Confidential / int_d55108a1	comment	Horrible Hollywood: Hollywood is depicted as a miserable den of drug abuse, prostitution and backstabbing populated by muckraking journalists and corrupt investors.
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L.A. Confidential / int_d6519b1b	type	Rabid Cop
L.A. Confidential / int_d6519b1b	comment	Rabid Cop: Most of the cops are stupid and/or violent thugs. Ed is an exception, but even Exley reaches a Rage-Breaking Point at the end of the movie.
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L.A. Confidential / int_d84b22a5	type	Immoral Journalist
L.A. Confidential / int_d84b22a5	comment	Sid Hudgens, LA's premier Immoral Journalist.
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L.A. Confidential / int_db71d717	type	Thanatos Gambit
L.A. Confidential / int_db71d717	comment	Thanatos Gambit: Jack's last words are "Rollo Tomasi", a meaningless name that Dudley might think of as a person of interest that needs to be eliminated down the road, but is actually a Dying Clue meant for Exley.
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L.A. Confidential / int_e003c829	type	History Repeats
L.A. Confidential / int_e003c829	comment	History Repeats: Mickey Cohen is brought down the same way Al Capone was.
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L.A. Confidential / int_e116fedc	type	Play-Along Prisoner
L.A. Confidential / int_e116fedc	comment	Play-Along Prisoner: For the "interrogation" of Sid Hudgens at the Victory, Breuning is pulling his punches whenever he strikes Sid, though not good enough for Sid's liking.
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L.A. Confidential / int_e431c24c	type	Not Quite Dead
L.A. Confidential / int_e431c24c	comment	Not Quite Dead: After being shot by Smith twice, Bud suddenly recovers and stabs Dudley in his leg while he's distracted with Ed, and is immediately shot through his right cheek. Kind of an Heroic Sacrifice to buy his friend some valuable time. Granted, he doesn't die, but presumably ends up with some degree of speech impediment.
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L.A. Confidential / int_e4965307	type	Composite Character
L.A. Confidential / int_e4965307	comment	Composite Character: Matt Reynolds is a combination of Tammy Reynolds and Rock Rockwell (the kids Jack busts for smoking pot in the beginning) and Timmy Valburn (tragic young gay actor, whose life is ruined by one of the main detectives - Jack in the movie, Ed in the book). Dudley Smith and Detective Bruening take David Mertens' place as the person responsible for killing Sid Hudgens. The Dudley Smith of the movie is a combination of the this character as well as Preston Exley. Much of the latter's dialogue is given to Dudley, establishing a fatherly mentoring relationship with Edmund Exley that doesn't exist in the book.
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L.A. Confidential / int_e567510d	type	Determinator
L.A. Confidential / int_e567510d	comment	Determinator: Bud White. It rubs off on Exley by the end.
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L.A. Confidential / int_e8cae797	type	Freudian Trio
L.A. Confidential / int_e8cae797	comment	Freudian Trio: Ed is the Superego, Bud is the Id, and Jack is the Ego. His death is what forces the other two to team-up and start forming the thoughts that normally develop from the Ego partner of the trio. Ellroy loves to subvert the trope by having one member die, forcing the other two to find balance. In this case it's Vincennes the ego.
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L.A. Confidential / int_eab212a8	type	Period Piece
L.A. Confidential / int_eab212a8	comment	Period Piece: The film goes very far in recreating the atmosphere of The '50s.
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L.A. Confidential / int_eaf5a1ac	type	Groin Attack
L.A. Confidential / int_eaf5a1ac	comment	Groin Attack: Bud White interrogates Johnny Stompanato by squeezing his testes and asking, "What do I get if I give you your balls back?"
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L.A. Confidential / int_eb251937	type	Dirty Cop
L.A. Confidential / int_eb251937	comment	Dirty Cop: Every variation imaginable is in here somewhere.
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L.A. Confidential / int_eb8ec7c8	type	Jerkass
L.A. Confidential / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Jerkass: Sid Hudgens, LA's premier Immoral Journalist. Sugar Ray, one of the Nite Owls suspects, is shown to be a dog-kicking sociopath. Buzz Meeks is pretty gruff and hostile during his brief screen time.
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L.A. Confidential / int_f12c6fb1	type	Surprisingly Sudden Death
L.A. Confidential / int_f12c6fb1	comment	Surprisingly Sudden Death: Jack Vincennes. Doubles as a Wham moment since it also reveals that Captain Smith is the Big Bad.
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L.A. Confidential / int_f23c26ab	type	Food Slap
L.A. Confidential / int_f23c26ab	comment	Food Slap: Ed Exley thinks the woman with Johnny Stompanato is a hooker who has had plastic surgery to look like Lana Turner. It is the real Lana Turner. She tosses her drink in his face.
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L.A. Confidential / int_f6698528	type	Vigilante Execution
L.A. Confidential / int_f6698528	comment	Vigilante Execution: In the movie, Ed executes Dudley Smith, rather than let him be arrested and use his position to cover everything up and escape justice. Serves as a callback to the beginning of the movie where Dudley said Ed was unsuitable as a detective for not being willing to do exactly the above.
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L.A. Confidential / int_f863e840	type	Dying Smirk
L.A. Confidential / int_f863e840	comment	Dying Smirk: Jack's famous line after he gets shot. He's chuckling because he knows what's in store for his killer.
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L.A. Confidential / int_fc451ba4	type	Follow the Leader
L.A. Confidential / int_fc451ba4	comment	Follow the Leader: invokedThis is discussed in the opening narration, when Mickey Cohen is brought down the same way Al Capone was (tax evasion), and it's compared to how films in Hollywood like to copy each other.
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L.A. Confidential / int_fc9b6be5	type	Foe Romance Subtext
L.A. Confidential / int_fc9b6be5	comment	Foe Romance Subtext. Half the characters are convinced there's something more to Bud and Ed's rivalry than just hatred.
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L.A. Confidential / int_fcd9b657	comment	Gallows Humor: When Bud and Ed have barricaded themselves in the Victory Motel after being tricked into meeting there by Dudley, just before they open fire on the sneaking hitmen, they have this exchange.
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L.A. Confidential / int_fe0330fb	type	Brick Joke
L.A. Confidential / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: The box of heroin stolen from Mickey Cohen's lieutenant in the opening montage is barely mentioned for a large chunk of the movie, but then turns out to be the key MacGuffin that sets off the entire plot.
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L.A. Confidential / int_fe614133	type	Beauty Is Never Tarnished
L.A. Confidential / int_fe614133	comment	Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Averted big time with Lynn and Exley after Bud completely loses it. Both of them have visible, ugly-looking swellings, scrapes, and bruises on their face that last for the rest of the film.
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L.A. Confidential	hasFeature	Die Laughing / int_b1170177
L.A. Confidential	hasFeature	Distinguishing Mark / int_b1170177
L.A. Confidential	hasFeature	Dying Smirk / int_b1170177
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