He attempts to assist Harry in getting the loan sharks off his back while suggesting that he has a great idea for a movie of his own. He's hoping to get Hollywood superstar Michael Weir to agree to star in the film and if he can, he thinks he should have no trouble getting a major studio to do the film. Harry thinks he can use Michael’s name to get a big studio deal to make something better than schlock for a change , but he’s got a problem with a drug dealer name Bo Catlett who usually finances his movies to launder drug money. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

The Folio Society edition of Elmore Leonard’s Get Shorty, illustrated by Gary Kelley, is available at foliosociety. Chili’s pursuit of a mark who’s behind in his payments takes him first to Las Vegas, and then to Hollywood and horror-film producer Harry Zimm. She gave him an ultimatum - get out of the business - so he lied and said he had when they moved to Florida from Brooklyn.Chili does not really enjoy having to show respect to those fully connected because he often saw them be and talk idiotic, but he is content with his permanent lower status with the mafia. Bo soon offers the locker money to Harry as an investment and tells him to send Chili to get the money. All Leonard asked of plot was that it be a serviceable vehicle, but the journey and the people who took it, that was everything.

Chili Palmer is undoubtedly the lovable rouge character - a tough guy who does his best not to resort to violence, a deep thinker, and a guy who takes the big picture into account.Having seen the John Travolta film numerous times and loved it, I was curious how far it strays from the novel. when I got to the locker scene at the airport, because it's tricky what happens in it, but I got it, I understood it, I admired it.

Chili Palmer is a terrific character and would love to see him show up in other stories, though Elmore did bring him back in Be Cool. Firstly, the film had exceptional casting – I cannot unsee John Travolta as Chili Palmer, which helped its case. Heading the group is a Miami loan shark named Chili Palmer who winds up in Hollywood while chasing down a guy who owes him money and who has done a great disappearing act. Chili Palmer loves the movies himself and, once in Hollywood, he decides that he might like to get into the movie business himself.Chili discusses office politics with his bookkeeping partner Tommy Carlo, who drives Chili to visit Bones and pleads with him not to say anything.