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L.A. Confidential
L.A. Confidential is a movie of cops that are more corrupt than the criminals
they arrest. Throughout the movie Bud White is portrayed to have a personal
hatred for women abusers despite becoming enraged and hitting Lynn Bracken. At
the beginning of the movie, Bud and two other officers are seen sitting in a
car, observing a man beating his wife. Officer White gets out of the car,
approaches the house, and then pulls the family’s Christmas decorations from
the roof. When the man comes outside to see what is making all the noise is
about, Bud White immediately begins to beat him. Afterwards, Bud handcuffs the
man to a rail.
In another scene from the movie Bud White is seen leaving a bar. When Bud exits
the bar, he notices a woman, with bandages on her nose, sitting in a car with
two men. Bud approaches the car to investigate. In the process, the driver
jumps out of the car and tells him to get lost. Then Bud White beats him up.
Bud is thinking that someone has abused the woman, when in actuality the woman
had been hit in the face with a tennis racket. Throughout the movie Bud is seen
beating the information out of suspects. Such as when he is seen at a bar
squeezing a man’s testicles until the man told him the information that he
wanted to hear. During an interrogation at the precinct, Bud White hears a
suspect confessing to have raped a girl. The officer in the room is having
trouble getting the criminal to tell him where the girl is, so Bud storms into
the room, and pins the guy against the wall and puts a gun in his mouth until
the guy tells him where the girl can be found. He became enraged and lost
control when he found out Exley and Lynn had slept together. He went to Lynn’s
house and overcome by anger hit her. After hitting her he realized that he had
done something he never wanted to do which was hit a woman. Bud White’s hate
toward women beaters seems to have come from seeing his mother beat to death by
his father.
Although White is portrayed as being brainless in the beginning of the movie,
by the end of the movie he had proven himself to be intelligent. He is seen as
being a tough cop with no brains. Throughout the movie other cops mention that
they thought Bud was dumb. White mentions he is not smart when he was talking
to the Veronica Lake look-alike he said, “I’m just the guy they bring in to
scare the other guy.” At another point in the movie, Captain Dudley was talking
to White and said, “I want you to come beat the shit our of a couple guys for
me.” In the movie the coroner mentions, “You know, he is not as dumb as I
thought.” Bud White knew that the three black guys were not responsible for the
Night Owl murders. He knew whoever killed his partner had not been brought to
justice and continued to work on the case. Bud White was always on top of
things and was able to piece together how Lynn Bracken and Patchet were related
to the case. He was also able to figure out how Meeks, the heroine, and Suzanne
fit together in the case.
In L.A. Confidential Bud White believed in taking justice into his own hands to
punish those who abuse women. When they found the Mexican girl the suspects had
mentioned, White shot the guy who was in the house with the girl, and made it
look as if it was necessary to shoot the man. While other characters in the
movie change in the movie, such as Exley who in the beginning does everything
by the book, by the end has been corrupted and will do what it takes to get
what he wants, Bud White stays the same. His hatred for women beaters is constant
throughout the movie.