Get Shorty

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And maybe it’s Elmore Leonard’s love letter, at the close of a deliriously productive creative decade, to writing itself. Chili grasped the opportunity to phase himself “out of the shylock business” instead fancied becoming a movie producer. Harry finds Chili Palmer in his study, here as a favor to the Mesa Casino of Las Vegas, which Harry owes one-hundred fifty thousand on a Lakers-Pistons game.

The attempt to reference pop culture as it was in the 1990s seemed forced and a caricature of all things considered “hip” at the end of the 20th century. To Leonard's credit, when Michael Weir comments that Chili's pitch is the best he's ever heard, I'm inclined to agree.Elmore Leonard wrote forty-five novels and nearly as many western and crime short stories across his highly successful career that spanned more than six decades. At the end of the first chapter, Chili inadvertently stumbles upon the fact that a dry cleaner has faked his own death.

Twelve years later, Chili’s boss was killed and Barboni’s boss put Barboni in charge of the loan racket. I tell you this primarily so you will understand that I would never, ever, under any circumstances read a review of a new Elmore Leonard book. From the very first page the reader is plunged headfirst into the action, in the room with mob enforcer Chili Palmer and his cronies.A scene in which Bo and Chili threaten one another on one hand, while, on the other, they debate the finer points of authenticity and character-as-action in the Mr Lovejoy script they both want to lay their hands on is a pitch-perfect distillation of creative collaboration.

Unlike most crime plots there are few if any twists, but they're really unnecessary since this is character driven. He's hoping to get Hollywood superstar Michael Weir to agree to star in the film and if he can, he thinks he should have no trouble getting a major studio to do the film. Una venganza de lo más fina que logra establecer una historia bastante metaficticia, un diálogo muy vibrante (aunque cuesta un poco porque hay mucha jerga de usureros, de mafiosos y de gente del cine) y un personaje principal que actualiza al clásico pícaro con su manera de escapar de las situaciones más peliagudas. One last thing about Elmore Leonard books: there's always some moment in them where you don't understand something. It is very interesting that during the script discussions, all the Hollywood types were rooting for the Leo character.Bo soon offers the locker money to Harry as an investment and tells him to send Chili to get the money. Over the course of just under 300 pages, Get Shorty treats us to a potentially lethal limousine-service-operator-cum-drug-dealer-cum-budding-film producer, his henchman, the henchman’s three-year-old daughter, a hapless Colombian gangster-wannabe stuck at LAX watching a locker that may or may not be staked out by half a dozen DEA agents, a blithely narcissistic movie star, several Miami-based gangsters, and the zippiest (and most meta) satire of Hollywood ever written. Henning Mankell’s Faceless Killers made detective Wallander a household name and catapulted Nordic noir into the mainstream.

The synopsis on the back cover does the storyline justice - Mob-connected loan shark Chili Palmer is sick of the Miami grind—plus his “friends” have a bad habit of dying there.

Mafioso Ernesto “Chili” Palmer is a character right out of mobster central casting except he is the real deal, that is, a character in ‘Get Shorty’ who is a fictional ‘real’ loan shark living in Florida. Adapted from the book jacket: A novel that proves the successful crook has all the job skills required to make it in Hollywood. Chili Palmer is a fascinating character to read and a worthy lead, and everything really works well with the pace pulled off perfectly. Chili attracts a wide variety of waitresses, beauticians or sales clerks at Dadeland Mall with his confidence, but most of them play second fiddle to Chili's real love: movies. A loan shark nicknamed for his temper in the old days but lately for his cool demeanor, Chili was raised in Brooklyn as an Italian, but due to some Puerto Rican blood, can never become a made guy like the upper level Italians in the organization.