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Re: Road to Perdition
On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, The Mattrix wrote:
> Listening to Letterman effusively praise Tom Hanks and his newest
> offering, "Road to Perdition" reminded me to ask, is anyone going to see
> it?
Caught a press screening of it last week. Liked a lot of it, but wondered
if certain scenes made being a bank-robber/hit-man look too easy.
> The graphic novel by Max Allan Collins was fantastic, as I remember it.
They've re-issued the graphic novel with the film's poster art on the
cover. I was flipping through it at a bookstore yesterday and thought it
looked good, and might be worth getting -- it appears to be more rooted in
the *history* surrounding Capone, Nitti, Ness etc. than the movie is.
> Did he also write a prose version for this film?
Not that I'm aware of. The film's screenplay is credited to David Self,
who also wrote _Thirteen Days_ (one of my ten favorite movies of 2001 --
it's technically a 2000 film, but it wasn't released in Vancouver until
January 2001, and I go by local release dates). He's also responsible for
the 1999 remake of _The Haunting_, starring Liam Neeson and Owen Wilson.
> I thought the "Powerpuff Girls" were going to be the biggest movie of my
> summer, but I was kinda let down by it.
Haven't seen this one yet. It's one of four movies in Vancouver right now
that I haven't seen (not counting IMAX films, which are a whole other
thing).
> Honestly 31,
Me too. :)
--- Peter T. Chattaway --------------------------- peter at chattaway_com ---
"I detected one misprint, but to torture you I will not tell you where."
Winston Churchill to T.E. Lawrence, re Seven Pillars of Wisdom
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