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Slate Money Goes to the Movies: The Bonfire of the Vanities

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Hollywood Didn't Have the Capacity to Translate What Were Saying

Bonfire of the valanties feels to me like a very, like, epic, big budget los angeles hollywood movie. There's something that taffy's mentioned a few times, which is, like this la money valet bucking scene a,. I know that a bunch of this movie was shot in ala ah. It has a lushness to it, a visual lushness that, a, you don't really see in new york movies. If you look at it with the sound off and all you see is the visuals, it just doesn't feel new york. And i bet if we went back and read wolf's book, we would be like

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