The Love of the Last Tycoon and The Blue Dahlia

19 Março 2018, 14:00 • David Alan Prescott

Analysis of several passages from The Last Tycoon, w. Harold Pinter, dir Elia Kazan, showing how F Scott Fitzgerald saw movies through the eyes of an intellectual novelist and was never able to understand their entertainment value. Explanation of the "nickel" at the end of a scene or sequence. Showing of the beginning of the film The Blue Dahlia, written by Raymond Chandler, ending with a good example of a "nickel" when a loaded gun is left on a chair at the end of a sequence.