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White Jazz was written from the start in the clipped prose. L.A Confidential was the one that got chopped down after being written too big
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* BeigeProse: Originally 700 pages long, the publisher asked Ellroy to make it shorter. He responded by removing every word that could be considered the slightest bit superfluous.
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* BeigeProse: Originally 700 pages long, the publisher asked Inspired by having to trim L.A Confidential down to a more manageable length, Ellroy pushes his shirt, clipped style to make it shorter. He responded by removing the absolute limit in White Jazz. Almost every superfluous word that could be considered the slightest bit superfluous.is left out.
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* HowTheMightyHaveFallen: Mickey Cohen is no longer the feared gangster he used to be despite being out of prison. He only holds a few small gambling businesses and is firmly under Dudley Smith's control.
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* HowTheMightyHaveFallen: HowTheMightyHaveFallen:
** Mickey Cohen is no longer the feared gangster he used to be despite being out of prison. He only holds a few small gambling businesses and is firmly under Dudley Smith'scontrol.control.
** Dudley Smith ends up [[spoiler: a brain damaged mental patient cared for by a variety of nurses.]]
** Mickey Cohen is no longer the feared gangster he used to be despite being out of prison. He only holds a few small gambling businesses and is firmly under Dudley Smith's
** Dudley Smith ends up [[spoiler: a brain damaged mental patient cared for by a variety of nurses.]]
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* FateWorseThanDeath: [[spoiler: Dudley Smith ends up with brain damage severe enough that it renders him non-lucid for long periods of time and no longer a threat to anyone. He ends up cared for by nurses and the subject of various biopics.]]
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* BigotWithABadge: Dudley Smith, of course, but it is especially noteworthy in ''White Jazz'' as the majority of his EvilPlan is designed around exclusively marketing heroin to the black population of Los Angeles in hopes of keeping them "contained."
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* KudzuPlot: Even by the standards of an Ellroy novel, there's a vast series of interlocking corrupt conspiracies and side plots.
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* BittersweetEnding: Dudley Smith finally gets some consequences to his actions but David Klein is forced to flee to Brazil. Given the amount of crimes David committed, though, the fact he escaped is actually enough to make it a full DownerEnding.
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* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Dudley uses drugs to have David Klein kill Johnny Duhamel while catching the act on film to blackmail him.
* BittersweetEnding: Dudley Smith finally gets some consequences to his actions but David Klein is forced to flee to Brazil. David also kills the Kafesjians on the way out of LA before vowing to return and get revenge. Given the amount of crimes David committed, though, the fact he escaped is actually enough to make it a full DownerEnding.
* BittersweetEnding: Dudley Smith finally gets some consequences to his actions but David Klein is forced to flee to Brazil. David also kills the Kafesjians on the way out of LA before vowing to return and get revenge. Given the amount of crimes David committed, though, the fact he escaped is actually enough to make it a full DownerEnding.
