Their ambition, privileged above all else (including peer relations), earns them derision within their respective departments. The two are political animals obsessed with cracking the big case and rising through the ranks. Apart from the height difference (Cromwell is a massive 6’7”), and Dudley’s extracurricular activities, the two are a spot-on match.Ĭlose parallels can be drawn between both protagonists: Confidential’s Edmund Exley and Noire’s Cole Phelps. Donnelly, with his clearly enunciated “boyos,” is an obvious nod to James Cromwell’s Captain Dudley Smith. It has a number of characters and themes which were drawn directly from Ellroy’s pen and Hanson’s celluloid.
Noire’s opening cinematic (see above quote). The similarities are so blatant that I fully expected to hear Danny Devito narrate L.A.
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