| 词条 | The Killer Inside Me |
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|name = The Killer Inside Me |image = File:KillerInsideMe.jpg |caption = Original paperback cover |author = Jim Thompson |cover_artist = |country = United States |language = English |genre = Crime novel |publisher = Fawcett Publications |release_date = 1952 |media_type = Print |pages = 356 pp |isbn = }}The Killer Inside Me is a 1952 novel by American writer Jim Thompson published by Fawcett Publications.[1] In the introduction to the anthology Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1950s, it is described as "one of the most blistering and uncompromising crime novels ever written."[2][3] Plot summaryThe story is told through the eyes of its protagonist, Lou Ford, a 29-year-old deputy sheriff in a small Texas town. Ford appears to be a regular, small-town cop leading an unremarkable existence; beneath this facade, however, he is a cunning, depraved sociopath with sadistic sexual tastes. Ford's main outlet for his dark urges is the relatively benign habit of deliberately needling people with clichés and platitudes despite their obvious boredom: "If there's anything worse than a bore," says Lou, "it's a corny bore." Despite having a steady girlfriend, Ford falls into a sadomasochistic relationship with a prostitute named Joyce Lakeland. Ford describes their affair as unlocking "the sickness" that has plagued him since adolescence, when he sexually abused a little girl, a crime for which his elder foster brother Mike took the blame to spare Lou from prison. After serving a jail term, Mike died at a construction site. Lou blamed a local construction magnate for Mike's death, suspecting he was murdered. To exact revenge, Lou and Joyce blackmail the construction magnate to avoid exposing his son's affair with Joyce. However, Lou double-crosses Joyce: He ferociously batters her, and shoots the construction magnate's son, hoping to make the crimes appear to be a lovers' spat gone wrong. Despite the savage beating, it's revealed that Joyce survives, albeit in a coma. Ford builds a solid alibi and frames other people for the double homicide. However, to successfully frame others when the evidence starts to go against him, he has to commit additional murders. These only increase suspicion against him however, and his mask of sanity begins to crumble under the pressure. Film adaptationsIn 1976, the novel was adapted into a film of the same title, directed by Burt Kennedy and starring Stacy Keach as Lou Ford and Tisha Sterling as Amy Stanton. A 2010 version written by John Curran, directed by Michael Winterbottom and starring Casey Affleck and Jessica Alba premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2010, and was released in theaters later that year.[4] In popular cultureThe novel is referenced in the Dead Milkmen song "Sri Lanka Sex Hotel", on their 1988 LP, Beelzebubba. The song "The Killer Inside Me" by experimental hip-hop artist MC 900 Ft. Jesus is based on the novel. Filmmaker Stanley Kubrick, who worked with Thompson on the script for the 1956 movie The Killing, praised the novel, stating that it was "probably the most chilling and believable first-person story of a criminally warped mind I have ever encountered."[4] The post-punk/alternative-country rock band Green on Red titled their 1987 album "The Killer Inside Me" after the book. Bruce Springsteen has stated that the idea for his 1995 song "My Best Was Never Good Enough" (on the album The Ghost of Tom Joad) came from this book, specifically Ford's penchant for speaking in cliches. In 2013, the Norwegian band The Launderettes released their album Getaway, which was inspired by the novel. The band uses the album as a "means to end the story differently." [5] See alsoLou Ford later appears in Thompson's novel Wild Town (1957). The Lou Ford character in Wild Town is a mirror image of the one in Killer Inside Me. In Wild Town Lou Ford is also a sheriff, he also plays the fool, and he is also smarter and more capable than anyone else in the small town although he keeps it well hidden. He also prefers, and is usually able, to manipulate events rather than directly intervene. However, whereas in Killer Lou Ford manipulates events to further his own greed and lust, in Wild Town he manipulates events to bring about justice, to help people, and even to play matchmaker. References1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.neh.gov/humanities/2009/novemberdecember/feature/soul-writer|work=Humanities|title=Soul of a Writer|author=David Geffner|date=November–December 2009}} 2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.loa.org/volume.jsp?RequestID=2|title=Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1950s|work=The Library of America}} 3. ^Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1950s, by Literary Classics of the United States, Inc. 1997. New York: The Library of America. {{ISBN|1-883011-49-3}} 4. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://www.ifcfilms.com/films/the-killer-inside-me|work=IFC Films|title=The Killer Inside Me}} 5. ^http://www.wickedcoolrecords.com/shop/bands/the-launderettes-getway-vinyl.html External links
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