As ever this was a joy to read (re-read, rather) - Gilroy has such a wonderfully lively writing style. You can actually enjoy reading his stuff in script form. Lots of dashes, and terrific descriptions, and lively dialogue.
This movie helped popularise the idea of the "fixer" - leading to Ray Donovan, Hail Ceasar and so on. We don't see Clayton do that much fixing - he has a few chats on the phone. In that great scene where he deals with the hit and run guy he basically says "get a local lawyer". He lets Alan escape, and is pretty much behind the eight ball much of the running time - it's Karen and Alan who drive the action really, Alan going crazy and rebelling against his firm (and later arranging for photocopies of the memo to be paid which is how Clayton finds out as opposed to Clayton himself doing much detective work) and Karen arranging for him and then Clayton to be killed.
It all feels real - you sense a larger world going on. The script included scenes which didn't make the final movie - Clayton sleeping with a younger lawyer, scenes with his wife. Good cuts, I think.
Fantastic dialogue, it really moves.
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