Not exact matches
Allied is unusually linear, after the initial setup: Max is told he married a German spy in Marianne; against orders and behind Marianne's back, he sets out to disprove it.2 The apologist urge is to call it a maturation of Zemeckis's style, to tell a story so simply and economically (even if we've kind of been here before with Cast Away), but the
film feels conspicuously underdeveloped as opposed to streamlined, to the extent that the big reveal seems as if it was decided on a coin toss; it's
easy to imagine the opposite outcome without any sort of retrofitting to
accommodate it.
Although a great deal of Ellroy's novel had to be pared down in order to
accommodate a feature length
film, credit the screenwriting team of Brian Helgeland (Conspiracy Theory, The Postman) and Curtis Hanson (The Bedroom Window, The Silent Partner) for being able to tie up all of the loose ends of the original story and make it not only
easy to understand, but also to deliver a powerhouse
film in the process.
Filming at night, when there is no sunlight coming through the windows, makes it
easier to adjust the camera to
accommodate indoor lighting.