![]() Finally, though, the screenplay is completed, and a deal is put in place for good. and falls apart, and is put in place again, and falls apart again. Eventually, as Chinaski and Sarah embark on a quest for home ownership inspired by the visit of a forceful tax accountant, the screenplay edges closer to completion, and a deal to produce the film is put in place. On every conceivable occasion, large amounts of alcohol are consumed. ![]() There are conversations with potential star actors, meetings with various producers, agreements that get made and then broken. The hard-drinking Chinaski, reluctant to turn his talents to a form of writing he believes to be less substantial than the forms in which he usually works (poetry and fiction), eventually agrees, and starts work on an autobiographical narrative inspired by his experiences as a young alcoholic writer.Īs Chinaski writes (with the support of his patient wife Sarah), he receives repeated telephone calls from Pinchot updating him on the search for financing to make the film. The narrative begins in the aftermath of a telephone conversation between Chinaski and producer/director Jon Pinchot, who is desperate to make a film based on a screenplay, any screenplay, written by the renowned and respected author. ![]() As it satirizes Hollywood's excesses, attitudes and self-obsessions, the novel also explores themes related to the nature and craft of writing and the differences between reality and fiction. Bemused screenwriter Hank Chinaski observes and narrates the story of a group of ambitious individuals with big personalities and even bigger dreams striving to gain control in an industry where control is a greater illusion than what plays out on the screen. This novel is a barely fictionalized memoir of the writing and production of the Hollywood film "Barfly".
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