In Reservoir Dogs he chose ex-criminal and writer Edward Bunker and the famously volatile 40s noir thug Laurence Tierney for their evocative qualities and chequered personal histories.
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One concerns Georges Figon, the criminal-turned-writer who helped to lure the Moroccan political activist Mehdi Ben Barka to the meeting that would result in his death; the other has to to with Jacques Tati and the making of his masterwork, "Playtime," in which Lennon turns out to have been deeply involved.
"Enjoying a woman...That warm desire, which is implanted in human nature, can't be criminal," he quoted writer Mathew Tindal.
Contemplating true crime, and true criminals, allows the writer to up the ante (this really happened! I'm not making it up! Well, bits of it I am), or, to put it a little more cynically, to give the imagination a leg-up to a position the writers could not reach themselves.
Writer contrasts criminal action & civil disobedience saying it would be neither correct nor wise to equate the two.
They would hardly consider taking out a case of criminal libel against the writer of a novel such as, say, The Buddha of Suburbia, which in part describes the life of a small local retailer, filling his shelves only with titles which laud supermarket shopaholics.
By Evan Hughes June 24, 2016 The Netflix true-crime series "Making a Murderer" has performed a public service by highlighting conflicts in the criminal-justice system, the writer Bill James says.
Turkish authorities have so far opened 38 criminal investigations into journalists, writers, politicians and human rights lawyers who took part in the solidarity action, but Zana Kaya, the editor of Özgür Gündem, said support has since increased.
Often these writers explore criminal or deviant behaviour, while recognising their own problematic identifications or complicity with their subjects, as in masterpieces such as Mailer's The Executioner's Song or Truman Capote's In Cold Blood.
