Tutto sommato, però, ho preferito la pellicola, forse perché per i film di Tarantino ho un debole, benché questo sia abbastanza convenzionale rispetto agli altri. E, spesso lo fanno, lo attraversano: siano essi ufficiali giudiziari, garanti di cauzione come il Max Cherry di questo romanzo, rapinatori di serie B, strozzini. What’s strange is that many of the adaptations fell flat, except for Steven Soderbergh’s Out of Sight (1998) and Barry Sonnenfeld’s Get Shorty (1995) (undoubtedly the funniest of all of Leonard’s books). Elmore Leonard's "Rum Punch" (which was the basis of Quentin Tarantino's "Jackie Brown") is a page-turner in the truest sense of the word - it's hard to put down.

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Cocktail guru Dale DeGroff, though, uses a mixture of dark and light in his book The Craft of the Cocktail, and the 17th-century recipe quoted in Larousse Cocktails suggests an amber variety.Elmore Leonard's novel "Rum Punch" (1992) tells a tangled tale of crime, violence and double-crossing written in a punchy style with sharp dialogue. But I'll gladly contend that Jackie Brown is Tarantino’s more mature film, thanks in part to how Leonard and the filmmaker share so many considerations for the fleshing out unsavoury characters to make them likeable. As with many old recipes, there is no definitive version – the planter’s is a pleasingly laid-back affair that goes by many names, depending on where you are in the Caribbean … but, however horizontal things get, there are a few non-negotiables. For example, right from the jump we find out Jackie is a crook but you want to get to know her over a drink and find out what brought her to this endgame.

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Rum Punch" is a fast-moving book which works as effective crime fiction and as writing with its characterization and style.SUMMARY - 2 stars: I far prefer Elmore's earlier novels, like "Escape from Five Shadows" and "Moonshine Wars". Fourteen years later, Ordell has become a thief and minor-league gun runner while Louis is fresh out of prison. The story revolves around Jackie Burke (changed to Jackie Brown in the film), an airline stewardess who smuggles money between locations for Ordell Robbie, an arms-dealing hot-talking crook who uses everyone he comes in contact with for his own gain. It has been laminated at some stage which has protected the dj and is adhered to the back of the covers. Leonard also intersperses interesting bits of character introspection, things like Max Cherry's contemplation about his relationship with his wife (with whom he's separated) and Jackie's three ex-husbands (although she only usually says there's two, because two of them were so similar, even in name, that they're hard to tell apart).

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However, when making a large amount, don’t add ice because it will dilute the rum punch before serving. Artist David is "Da-veed" and there is much criticism of him (not too much homophobia on display, but it's there, right beside the mysogyny and xenophobia, but all displayed by the unlikable characters just made that way, like in the story of the spider and the turtle, told here) and his artwork: he does sugarcane fields with people hidden, trying to escape the jungle of 1992! Icy drink mixtures with rum, first identified as swizzles and later as Rum Swizzles, have been mentioned in literature in a variety of locations since the mid 18th century: Fort Ticonderoga, New York (1760), the Caribbean island of Saint Kitts (1838), Bridgetown, Barbados (1841), Great Britain (1862), Bridgeport, Barbados (1908), and the island of Saint Thomas in the U. DeGroff prefers sparkling soda water, and also adds both orange and pineapple juice for good measure, while Regan goes for orange and grapefruit, which, while they point up the bitter notes in his recipe, again distract from the key flavours of rum, lime and sugar. Although golden rum is my usual drink of choice, here I think the dark sort makes more sense; its treacly, molasses quality stands up well to the other ingredients.Ordell has a big score in mind that involves ripping off the leader of a group of white supremacists, and he recruits his old pal Louis to give him a hand, dangling Melanie before him as bait. And in slips Jackie Brown, a lengthy but under-stated film in Tarantino’s portfolio that never turned the heads of Quentin fans as much as the sizzling Kill Bill series of the action heavy Pulp Fiction. It almost seems like Leonard wrote the book with the actors in mind, because the descriptions in the book so closely match the visual on the screen. Leonard's limited third-person narratives work extremely well as both story-telling and character development media.