Today’s selection began showing in theaters on May 20th. The Nice Guys, starring Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling.
Plot:
Set against the backdrop of 1977 Los Angeles, The Nice Guys opens when single father and licensed PI Holland March (Gosling) is hired to investigate the apparent suicide of famous porn star Misty Mountains. As the trail leads him to track down a girl named Amelia (Margaret Qualley), he encounters less licensed and less hands-off private eye Jackson Healey (Russell Crowe) and his brass knuckles, both hired by the young hippie. However, the situation takes a turn for the worse when Amelia vanishes and it becomes apparent that March wasn't the only party interested. As both men are forced to team up, they'll have to take on a world filled with eccentric goons, strippers dressed as mermaids and even a possible government conspiracy.
Trivia:
• The project was initially proposed as a TV series but was re-tooled as a film after the pilot seemed to be going nowhere.
• One of the film's nods to "The Rockford Files" is the yellow pages ad for Gosling's detective agency. It is almost a complete copy of the ad used for Jim Rockford, like fellow PI Jim Rockford, Gosling keeps his gun in a cookie jar.
• While Ryan Gosling's character is often shown carrying or lighting a cigarette, he is never shown smoking. The closest he comes is a single puff required to start a cigarette burning.
• Most of the interjected humor for the plot are based on the true events of Jay Joseph, a Marine Corps veteran who also worked as a private investigator and mole while stationed in Beaufort, South Carolina in the mid-to-late 1990s. Producer Joel Silver had briefly met Joseph while he was performing contract work at Silver's Auldbrass Plantation estate in 1999. Joseph's adventures as a young, new investigator, paralleled with his tenacity as a Marine, seemed to always lead to him being placed in comical - albeit dangerous - situations. Silver always thought that some of these events would be great fodder for a detective plot. Some of these stories, simply through word of mouth, were also used in the 2005 film Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, written by Shane Black, who also wrote The Nice Guys. One quote in particular for this movie, ''You're the world's worst detective'', was a line that was actually spoken by Joseph's younger sister after he told her a story about sleeping with a woman that he was supposed to be conducting surveillance on for adultery. This was one of many missteps in Joseph's private investigation career, and most of these are the integral points of humor for the film. Joseph, now the Executive Director for the USMC-themed company Born On Parris Island, still openly discusses and contributes his past experiences to writers. It was recently discovered that the upcoming Martin Scorcese mob film, The Irishman, based around the life and times of Frank Sheeran, a Philadelphia Union leader and reputed mob hit man who is suspected of assassinating Jimmy Hoffa, is also Joseph's great uncle. Today, Joseph lives in New Hope, Minnesota, where he still works actively within the Organized retail crime (ORC) industry.
• When Jackson and Holland are driving at night, you can see movie posters for Airport '77' (1977) which came out the year this movie takes place in and Jaws 2 (1978) which came the year after.
Goofs:
• The song Escape (The Piña Colada Song), by Rupert Holmes was released in September of 1979, but the movie is set in 1977. It would not have been available for play in 1977.
• Captain Morgan's Spiced Rum was not introduced in the US until 1984.
• Holly's bedroom has posters of the band Blondie on the wall. Although Blondie existed in 1977, they were virtually unknown in the US outside of the New York punk/new wave scene. They did not become widely known and popular until their breakthrough single, "Heart of Glass" released in January, 1979. The logo used appears to be post-1979.
• Despite this film taking place in 1977, a poster for Jaws 2 can be seen; even though the movie didn't really come out until next year, plus advertisements wouldn't have been feasible for a movie that's not yet been released during that same time.
• Cavalier magazine never had "fold-out" 3-page centerfolds.
This is billed as an action comedy and crime movie and is rated “R”. If you go see it, please post your review in the remarks. I’d love to see what you think about it.
Have a fangtastic Monday my friends! <3 Brock V"""V
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