Get Shorty

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Adapted from the book jacket: A novel that proves the successful crook has all the job skills required to make it in Hollywood. I like the way Chili responds when he’s in danger, how he quietly talks or doesn’t talk to the threat. Leo's wife Fay identified her husband's luggage in the wreck and the newspapers listed him as a victim, but when Chili visits Fay to confirm it, he's told that Leo lives. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Get Shorty is one of Elmore Leonard's most entertaining novels with a cast populated by a group of great characters.

Bo later meets Yayo at the limo garage and after Yayo threatens to tell the DEA who Bo is, Bo shoots him.Thinking about his life, he feels that he has a great idea for movie and sets out to get it done, the Chilli way. Not long after I moved out here, I ran into a nun who, seconds after she found out what I did for a living, pitched me her movie idea.

During his life Elmore Leonard was long associated with the movie industry and had some serious run-ins with the moguls of the industry. At the time he wrote Get Shorty, nine of Leonard’s novels had been adapted for film, and those adaptations, save for two westerns, ran the gamut from pedestrian to abysmal. That brought the movie star all the way back with questions in his eyes, sitting up, interested in the real stuff. Not only is it very meta being a fictional story written about a fictional story about writing a fictional story, it has an amusing plot full of amusing and stereotypical classic characters.Chili is a big movie buff who thinks he might give up loan sharking for producing, and he sets out to help Harry get a deal with the help of Karen Flores, a former actress known for screaming in Harry’s horror movies who just so happens to be Michael’s ex. Other than Karen mentioning that her father was a rocket scientist, I never felt she had much to offer beyond the image Chili had of her. Even the minor characters are very well-drawn and entertaining--certainly no surprise in a novel by Elmore Leonard. The interactions between Chili and Bo are more developed in the book than the movie, which I appreciated, as well as more insights and discussions about what the movie "Mr.