Is there an inside connection between George V. Higgins Character Jackie Brown and Tarantino changing the Rum Punch Character into Jackie Brown. Is this QT tipping his hat at Higgins while adapting a great book and a major influence?
Welcome to The Dutch Forum. I am not quite following you here. Would you rephrase your question?
I know EL has said Higgins is a writing style inspiration.
That’s right. Higgins showed Elmore in The Friends of Eddie Coyle how you could move a book with dialogue alone. This was a collateral influence on EL’s books from Fifty-Two Pickup forward. Of course Higgins took things to an extreme, but Elmore likes to say that the late, great writer from Boston, “loosened him up.” Elmore wrote the Introduction to a recent paperback of Eddie Coyle. Check it out. He talks about the influence at length.
