Adaptation
Author Francis Scott Fitzgerald did not live to finish The Last Tycoon, so that the version published in 1941, edited by Edmund Wilson with Fitzgerald's notes, is technically a fragment. Nevertheless, it's a very complete satisfying fragment; a quality that the film preserves through an abrupt kind of editing style and a narrative that flows without conventional shape.
In one of his final notes for The Last Tycoon, Fitzgerald wrote in capital letters: "Action Is Character". The same objective Kazan, Pinter and De Niro reached out for, to be able to transfer much of Monroe Stahr to the film. Jeanne Moreau and Tony Curtis make brief appearances as idols of the old times silver screen.
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