![]() Lethem’s book was set in the 1980s, but Norton has transposed the tale to 1959, which makes Lethem’s playful, retro-tough-guy, Dashiell Hammett/ Raymond Chandler affectations seem more organic, while unfortunately making the film’s feel conceptually less odd and special. Along the way, Lionel uncovers a conspiracy that criticizes the gentrification of New York City during the last part of the 20th century. Jonathan Lethem’s National Book award-winning novel focused on a Lionel Essrog (Norton), a detective with Tourette’s Syndrome posing as a reporter to investigate the murder of his boss and surrogate father ( Bruce Willis’ Frank Minna), who plucked him and several other boys from a Catholic orphanage and trained them to be hard-boiled gumshoes. ![]() ![]() The most surprising thing about director/writer/star Edward Norton’s “Motherless Brooklyn” is how drastically it departs from its source. ![]()
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