Not Pynchon but A MOVIE! a Calif " detective" one

[kelber at mindspring.com]

I've never seen it, but I definitely want to now.

Speaking of California detectives, has anyone seen the new show Aquarius, about cops investigating Manson in around '68 or '69 (highly fictionalized). Anyway, to put it succinctly , it sucks.
It's a standard-issue police procedural that's more Mod Squad than anything else. Very disappointing!

Laura


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>From: Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
>Sent: Jun 14, 2015 7:51 AM
>To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: Not Pynchon but A MOVIE! a Calif " detective" one 
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>Saw Bullitt again last eve for the first time since the Victorian Age.  greatness in it, esp McQueen, but not
>Totally, lame girlfriend non-role---just another and badly done "a cop's life ruins relationships cause they see evil all the time"---with however a verbal exchange which ought to be as famous as the great exchange which IS: " You work your side of the street and I'll work mine" .
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>That exchange with Bissett is, She: " what does this mean for the future of our relationship?" 
>McQueen: " that time starts now"....
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>But the lame reason I'm posting this is to ask our group mind THIS: 
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>Do you think the Rbt  Vaughn character is presented as possibly part of "the plot conspiracy"?  Mcqueen, of few words,  asks "Who else knew (of mobster in SF).  They used your name" and
>" What kind of a deal did you make with him?" .....neither of which questions are answered.....but we see Mc queen as always right as he pursues his hunches and clues so......
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>And then when mobster Ross is shot at the airport, Vaughn simply leaves...gets in back of the police car with the symbolic words---Support your Local Police---and opens his WSJ, the paper for an ambitious DA's hopeful " success" ...saying nothing more to McQueen or anyone. Why not?.....and that last scene of McQueen at the bathroom mirror?.
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>( evidently the novel upon which it is based offers no answer) 
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>Ms Renata Adler, praising( in NYT) it for being a movie with " the way people talk and how organizations work"--as well as praising McQueen, says that the ending will please even those who like Camus ( resonantly mysterious ) ......but what might she be hinting at? ..
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>Anyway, talk amongst yourselves out loud and O yes, is the Mc Queen character in this movie one of the best embodiments of " Keep Cool, but Care" that you have ever seen ( or read)? 
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