Lost your password? Please enter your email address. You will receive a link and will create a new password via email.
Please briefly explain why you feel this question should be reported.
Please briefly explain why you feel this answer should be reported.
Please briefly explain why you feel this user should be reported.
When a cattle drover losses the bonus his family was counting on to survive, he turns to bounty hunting War Criminals in a Post-apocolyptic Australian Outback.
In order to survive in the chaos of post-apocalyptic Australia, a diffident young man takes the only job available, as a tracker and killer of psychopathic criminals. In a P-A world (post-apocalyptic) world, wouldn't law and justice have broken down? Who would care about normal due process? Wouldn'tRead more
In order to survive in the chaos of post-apocalyptic Australia, a diffident young man takes the only job available, as a tracker and killer of psychopathic criminals.
In a P-A world (post-apocalyptic) world, wouldn’t law and justice have broken down? Who would care about normal due process? Wouldn’t street or vigilante justice be the standard m.o. rather than court justice?
Isn’t that the defining characteristic, the appeal of the P-A genre, a regression to a Hobbesian world of war of all against all, every man for himself, where life is short, nasty and brutish?
See lessLos Angeles, 1956. An ambitious prosecutor wants to know why the police were so eager to close the file on the suspicious death of a wealthy businessman. When his off the books investigation uncovers a link between that case and the murder of a young prostitute twenty years earlier, both his career and his life are endangered.
>>>the detectives were referred to either as officer? or by their rank. Is that accurate or were they addressed as detective? Either is accurate depending: civilians may call cops "officers". Within the department, as in the military, cops address other cops by the title of their rank as matter of hRead more
>>>the detectives were referred to either as officer? or by their rank. Is that accurate or were they addressed as detective?
Either is accurate depending: civilians may call cops “officers”. Within the department, as in the military, cops address other cops by the title of their rank as matter of hierarchy, chain of command, respect for authority; after all, law enforcement agencies are quasi-military organizations.
Thanks for the clarification. The set up for the plot — let alone the plot itself — seems quite convoluted. Certainly quite a challenge to boil down to 30 words. Or even 40.
BTW: given that your story is about the LAPD in the same time period as “L.A. Confidential”, script readers, directors and producers are inevitably going to compare it with that movie. The question your story will be interrogated with is: what makes this different from, as good as — better — than “L.A. Confidential”?
Ain’t fair — but that’s show business. (Can you select another time period? What’s so special about your version of the mid-50’s that sets it apart from the 50’s of “L.A. Confidential”?)
See lessLos Angeles, 1956. An ambitious prosecutor wants to know why the police were so eager to close the file on the suspicious death of a wealthy businessman. When his off the books investigation uncovers a link between that case and the murder of a young prostitute twenty years earlier, both his career and his life are endangered.
>>>the detectives were referred to either as officer? or by their rank. Is that accurate or were they addressed as detective? Either is accurate depending: civilians may call cops "officers". Within the department, as in the military, cops address other cops by the title of their rank as matter of hRead more
>>>the detectives were referred to either as officer? or by their rank. Is that accurate or were they addressed as detective?
Either is accurate depending: civilians may call cops “officers”. Within the department, as in the military, cops address other cops by the title of their rank as matter of hierarchy, chain of command, respect for authority; after all, law enforcement agencies are quasi-military organizations.
Thanks for the clarification. The set up for the plot — let alone the plot itself — seems quite convoluted. Certainly quite a challenge to boil down to 30 words. Or even 40.
BTW: given that your story is about the LAPD in the same time period as “L.A. Confidential”, script readers, directors and producers are inevitably going to compare it with that movie. The question your story will be interrogated with is: what makes this different from, as good as — better — than “L.A. Confidential”?
Ain’t fair — but that’s show business. (Can you select another time period? What’s so special about your version of the mid-50’s that sets it apart from the 50’s of “L.A. Confidential”?)
See less