Robert Forster
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Yes, yes, yes.
So the actual scale of the film is really unimportant.
It's the actual making of it and what it does to the characters in the novel.
Right, yeah.
What, you mean the style of the book?
Yes, yes, exactly.
Yeah, no, I agree.
And there's also a little bit of Hitchcock in there as well.
You know, the sort of killing of the heroine and this sort of weird big build.
It's almost a little bit like Psycho or something like that.
You know, that's part of it, yes.
The book?
It did.
I think his strength as a writer is plot.
You know, that's what he's very good at.
And I think the historical novel...
that jumps between time zones is ideal for someone who's a plot writer.
And I think that's his strength, is being able to jump convincingly from Paris, 1890, to Brooklyn, 1910, to Belgium in the First World War,
and then handle Los Angeles in the early 60s well and people are moving through these spaces and that's his strength.
He's a storyteller.