![]() ![]() The intervening years may explain why the character's age seems to vary from scene to scene and why the plot of the movie isn't that much like the inventive book, a detective novel where the biggest mystery is how the detective's brain works. Norton, who wrote, directed and stars as Lionel, has been planning to make a movie of "Motherless Brooklyn" almost since Jonathan Lethem's novel came out in 1999. And, like a jazz musician, Lionel has found ways to harness his skill, which, coupled with his photographic memory, comes in handy when he's solving cases at a small-time detective agency. Everyone calls him Freakshow, though, because of the Tourette's syndrome tic that finds him reacting to the things other people say by reeling off lists of similar-sounding words.Īn acquaintance who is a Miles Davis-like trumpeter (played by Michael Kenneth Williams) compares Lionel's riffing to jazz, where it feels like the music takes control of the improviser rather than the other way around. The real name of the hero of Edward Norton's "Motherless Brooklyn" is Lionel Essrog, a name that has to be an anagram for something ( good luck!). ![]()
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