Downey on Inherent Vice

[Erik T. Burns]

which is not entirely unanalogous to the career arc so far of Rob't Downey
Jr!

(everything connects!)

On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 3:55 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> There are so many mini-journeys that dead-end and have no connections
> with anything else in the book.  Diversions are one thing, but it
> seems the book's trajectory starts with a PI's quest for a dead man
> and ends with a climactic attempted murder and self-defense killing.
> Nearly everything in between seems extraneous dead-ends.
>
> On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 9:00 AM, jochen stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > David, some suggestions, editing-wise? (For the book, I mean; if you
> > make a script out of a novel, say Moby Dick, you don't call it
> > editing. But perhaps you would have edited that book as well.)
> >
> > J
> >
> > 2011/12/9 David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>:
> >> Filmable if the source is heavily edited, as the source should have
> >> been before publishing.
> >>
> >> On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 8:34 AM, Joe Allonby <joeallonby at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>> One of my first reactions to IV was that this was filmable.
>
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