But I don’t know if there’s such a thing as the criminal mind, other than sociopaths or psychopaths, you know? I think with those two very large exceptions - whoa, did you see that?! - that people go into crime for a whole variety of reasons. And they wait until the movie comes on, when it’s dark, and you can see them move from seat to seat, looking for the woman whose bag is open, or the guy sitting like me, with the wallet in his pocket. Those are the ones you need to look out for, the pros. They’re usually middle-aged guys who are well-dressed. Well, they behave in very particular ways, and they’re not who you think they are. How do you spot a pickpocket? And did observing criminals help you in writing crime novels, to get inside their minds? One of your jobs was to find pickpockets at movie theaters. When you lived in New York, you worked as a private investigator.
days, the drug war, sex and violence in Savages, and the porn writer with whom he’s often confused. Walking along a mini-boardwalk by the volleyball players and sun worshippers, he chatted with Vulture about his P.I. Winslow, a former private investigator who previously chronicled the drug war in The Power of the Dog, also wrote the Savages screenplay along with his frequent collaborator Shane Salerno and the director, so we went to the source to ask about his process - and he took us to the very beach spot that inspired both the books and provided scenes in the movie. The Kings of Cool provides the backstory of Laguna Beach, California, drug dealers Ben and Chon, their mutual girlfriend O, the Baja Cartel, and a two-faced DEA agent - as well as a whole host of other characters, some of whom were intended for the film (Uma Thurman’s Real Housewife of Orange County wannabe Paqu, for instance), and some who never made the grade. In this case, though, author Don Winslow thought ahead and provided a prequel in advance of the film’s release. With almost any film adaptation of a book, there’s tons of plot that is shuffled off to the side. There’s more to the story than Oliver Stone’s new movie Savages could tackle.
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