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He can also probably get this done quietly. And Easy can look in places this white man can’t. A woman-named Daphne or Delia Easy can’t keep it straight-needs to be found. Casual, persistent racism is everywhere in Los Angeles it’s part of why Easy lost his job at Champion Aircraft-a problem because he has a mortgage and likes to pay his bills.Įnter this white man with an errand. But now the gates of prejudice are rolling back up, even in so-called paradise. It’s 1948, and Easy (born Ezekiel) Rawlins is home from World War II, where he fought alongside white, Japanese, and other Americans at the Battle of Normandy. So much seethes in that one line: the easiness of its tone and the unease of its content the segregation of the times and the arrival of something new. Mosley was 38, it was his first published novel, and, carried by Easy’s warm, skeptical, brilliant voice, Devil launched one of the best hard-boiled mystery series of the 20th century. That’s how Mosley introduced us to Easy Rawlins 30 years ago in Devil in a Blue Dress. “I was surprised to see a white man walk into Joppy’s bar.” Find more podcasts you will love Frolic.American literature features some killer first lines, and here’s why Walter Mosley belongs right up there with the best spinners of them, from Toni Morrison to F. Movie is part of the Frolic Podcast Network.

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Starring: Denzel Washington (Easy,) Tom Sizemore (DeWitt Albright,) Jennifer Beals (Daphne Monet,) Don Cheadle (Mouse,) Maury Chaykin (Matthew Terrell, Joseph Lattimore (Frank Carter,) Terry Kinney (Todd Carter,) Mel Winkler (Joppy,) Lisa Nicole Carson (Coretta James,) and Jernard Burks (Dupree Brouchard.).

The biggest changes between the book and movie.

Race relations in Los Angeles in post WW2.

Who is Daphne and what secrets does she keep?īetween the original story and the 1995 adaptation–which did we prefer? He is assigned by a man named DeWitt Adams to find a white woman, Daphne Monet, who is fascinated by jazz music and black culture.Īlong the way, several people associated with Easy wind up dead and the Mayor’s office seems to be in on it. The setting is post WW2 in Los Angeles where army veteran Ezekial “Easy” Rawlins (Washington) Easy is a black man dealing with the racism of the era which was more overt. In continuation of African American History Month, the Margos are taking on an old-fashioned mystery with Devil in a Blue Dress, which started as a novel by Walter Mosley & later was adapted into a film starring Denzel Washington. Walter Mosely’s 1990 Novel Vs the 1995 Denzel Washington Film “Devil in a Blue Dress” TriStar Pictures 1995ĭevil in a Blue Dress (1995) TriStar Picturesī ook Vs.