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From: Jasper
Date: 6/14/03
Time: 8:34:54 PM
Remote Name: 68.73.196.27
Miss Marple,
Fuhrman’s self-portrait didn’t surprise me. All of the “great detectives” have great flaws. It makes them more human. Fuhrman as a rude, arrogant son of a bitch fits the mold.
Look at how it works for him in the scene with Carroll and Weeks (Dr. Watson) in the motel when he is so rude to Carroll that he leaves the room. Weeks lays down a critical fact that Fuhrman missed (great but not infallible). Fuhrman listens reluctantly and admits his error (arrogant but capable of admitting his mistakes). Now here is the good part… Why did Fuhrman miss this important fact? Because he didn’t want to tell Dorothy Moxley that she heard her daughter being killed (a son of a bitch with a tinder heart).
You may not like him at first, even if you have to admire him. Nevertheless, once you get to know him as we do in those tender scenes on the ranch with his beautiful children, on the phone with his loving wife and with the grieving mother of the murder victim, you gotta love him. Deep down he’s a terrific guy who comes off wrong because he’s so competent, so unabashedly honest, and so impatient with those who aren’t.
The genocidal racist crack was a joke. Obviously, anyone who believed that lie about him after the runaway success of his first book, in which he explained everything, was incapable of rational thought like the kid in the coffee shop who hounded him about the n-word. People like that were clearly rude, arrogant sons-of-bitches through and though.
It’s interesting to me that you thought the shoe stepping on blood looked like a Bruno Magli. When you stop the frame you’ll see that it doesn’t. Yet, that’s what you “see.” Some of the most evocative images of the O.J. case appear in flashes like that throughout the movie. The “dream sequence” you mentioned does the same thing. He didn’t point to a bloody glove but you could still “see” him doing it. I would have sworn that he mentioned The French Connection in Murder in Brentwood but he didn’t. He just left that impression. He did mention it in Murder in Greenwich.
The guy in the parole office with the blue knit cap also wore a blue jean jacket. My first thought was what Charlie said about Fuhrman’s inability to let go of evidence that he wanted to demonstrate his brilliance with. Like the stick that nobody else wanted to talk about and Fuhrman turned into a Sherlock Holmes moment in his book, I always believed that he wanted to do the same thing with the blue jean jacket in Nicole’s kitchen. I think he would have if O.J. hadn’t worn it to the airport. If hadn’t, what do you want to bet that it would have disappeared from his closet?
The woman with the cigarette holder was Hildy Southerlyn – a character he made up. You won’t find references to that name or that character in Murder in Greenwich but you will find it in several other movies. Look for composite characters in the Links video with similar names or characteristics. Also note how the woman directing traffic morphs into the male cop “Lancaster.” In the book, “Lancaster’s” character was a woman.
And this stuff just scratches the surface. --Jasper