[ SECRET POST #2546 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2546 ⌋

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[fscom]

03. http://i.imgur.com/zhVA9y6.png

Secret 3 - L.A. Confidential (film)

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[Picture is Lynn Bracken, as portrayed by Kim Basinger, and Edmund J. Exley, as portrayed by Guy Pearce? from the film "L.A. Confidential". She is a woman with light skin, wavy blond hair and wearing a tan-colored hat and raincoat. She is sitting in an office next to Edmund, who has light olive skin and short black hair neatly parted and combed to the side. He is wearing a blue suit and eyeglasses. He is looking to her attentively as she rubs the back of her hand against her chin in a thoughtful pose.]

I wish they had ended up together. I really hated Bud.

[(Anonymous)]

Well, I wasn't so hot on Bud either, but I'm not sure Ed would have been the best choice for Lynn regardless. So much of what he felt for her was bound up in getting one over on Bud, and later it seemed to veer more towards friendship than loving her. And at the end of the day, no outside relationship was ever going to matter more to Ed than the job and what he was trying to do with it, so she'd probably have gotten shafted either way.

That said, pretty much everyone in that movie was sort of a shitty person (it's neo-noir, that's sort of the point), so she didn't exactly have a lot of good choices. Both Ed and Bud (and Lynn herself) were working on being better people, all in their own screwed-up sort of ways, so perhaps it was more a matter of which of them she wanted to try being better with. And maybe it was just that Bud was the one who would focus on her, on escaping with her and building a life together, while Ed was always going to be attached to the job?

Of course, it's possible that my interpretations are a little skewed/biased, because I came out of this movie mostly shipping Ed/Jack ;)

[(Anonymous)]

Hmm, I came here to comment that "I didn't like Bud, either - I thought he was a troglodyte"; however, your comment is a lot more nuanced and thoughtful. Especially this part:

"Both Ed and Bud (and Lynn herself) were working on being better people, all in their own screwed-up sort of ways, so perhaps it was more a matter of which of them she wanted to try being better with. And maybe it was just that Bud was the one who would focus on her, on escaping with her and building a life together, while Ed was always going to be attached to the job?"

Really insightful! :)

[blueonblue]

The subplot about Exley's relationship with his girlfriend was not in the movie - he wasn't good at relationships.

[(Anonymous)]

I prefer them as an OT3.

[(Anonymous)]

I hated bud too. He just seemed so much like the typical 'Male Feminist'.

"Oh womens rights are so important to me until a woman talks back to me than I'll beat the hell out of her."