People generally denounce the glut of Marvel movies, remakes, serious Christopher Nolan movies, etc., claiming that there aren’t any original “grown-up” movies that don’t insult your intelligence. Maybe it’s some kind of adult version of the instinctive dislike of things your parents like or are likely to like. “Honestly, I don’t know why people don’t like Cameron Crowe more, or at least don’t want him to be successful. “Alex Ross Perry (‘Listen Up Philip’) Talks Cameron Crowe’s ‘Aloha'”: The acclaimed filmmaker offers his take on the criticized image to The conversation. So Hitchcock stole from Stevenson and I stole from Hitchcock while stealing from Stevenson. When I finally read Treasure island, I loved it and found it had the same beginning as “The Man Who Knew Too Much”, where a dying pirate gives the hero a treasure map. It was my first meeting with Robert Louis Stevenson. So I resented the book and only read two pages of it. My mother bought me a copy of Kidnapped, and said, “Read this, this is good literature”, implying that James Bond was not. I was at the height of my Bond obsession when I was Brian’s age, and I only read James Bond. Maybe it was unconscious, even though by then I hadn’t read the real book by Treasure island. As I was writing, I started to realize that Jack Silver looked a lot like Long John Silver, and that’s when I realized that I had given my character the same name. In a way the book is also like Treasure island with spies instead of pirates. The last half hour of ‘Octopussy’ could have been solved with a phone call. In my opinion, cell phones are ruining spy novels. I played around with the setting in the ’80s, because that’s when I was there, and you’ll notice the very first thing I do is pick up Brian’s cell phone.
Then I wondered what would happen if I found him dying a few minutes later, and that’s how the story began.
When I was on the Kapellbrücke in Lucerne, I walked past a guy who was wearing a trench coat and a mustache, and I was absolutely certain he was a spy. The two cities that surprised me how much I ended up loving them were Barcelona and Lucerne. I was very excited to visit London and Paris, where we spent our last two days, and had a blast in both cities. “I took a three-week school-sponsored trip to Europe when I was 16, and it was one of those go-everywhere trips. “Jeffrey Westhoff on ‘The Boy Who Knew Too Much’”: Veteran Chicago Film Critic In Conversation With Independent perspectives about his excellent first novel.
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