I tried to go for a noir-type lighting for this video. The overhead lights are off, but even for a low quality webcam, the amount of detail it captured from two small Ulanzi lights is impressive. I’ll try something else for the next one to get the video to match the mood of the subject matter.
In this video I get to the granddaddy of all hardboiled detective fiction. The template from which all detective fiction is molded going forward, in small or large measure, Red Harvest.
One thing I want to add that I didn’t make clear in the video:
In producing Last Man Standing, Walter Hill and his producers do give credit to Ryuzo Kikushima and Akira Kurosawa as the creators of the story that Hill used to make the film. I stated in the video that Hill made the movie freely, without approaching anyone for the rights. I was wrong. (Though it looks like the Hammett Estate was not contacted. Is the Hammett Estate ok?)
I forgot to mention Rian Johnson’s Brick (2005.) A murder mystery of it’s time, with the interesting choice of having “teenagers” speak in lingo of the 1930s and 40s a la Hammett.
Let me get out of my own way so you can enjoy this amazing book. Till the next post!
