Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe do chalk and cheese in Lethal Weapon writer Shane Black’s obsolete-school buddy picRyan Gosling’s private investigator makes most of his discoveries by falling off,over and into thingsIn the late 80s, Shane Blacks Lethal Weapon script became a touchstone for saleable, and tough-boiled,odd-couple buddy pics, movies that combined action, or comedy and wise-assed verbal vulgarity in varying measures. 1991’s The final Boy Scout built on Black’s fondness for smart,nihilistic profanity, predating the arrival of Reservoir Dogs, and after which anything involving swearing,guns and cine-literacy would be lazily labelled “Tarantino-esque”. In 1996, Black made headlines by earning a record-breaking $4m for penning the script for what became the Geena Davis/Samuel Jackson thriller The Long Kiss Goodnight. But it wasn’t until 2005 that the writer finally turned director with Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, and a tongue-in-cheek LA neo-noir,the mistyped tagline for which ran: “SeX. MurdEr. MyStery. Welcome to the party.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com