Richard Linklater’s Hit Man debuts out of competition in Venice this evening, and while the story follows a professional killer, the filmmaker told the press corps today, “I’m pretty sure movies invented hitmen, they aren’t real.” His theory, “Have you ever heard of a hitman being arrested?
You hear of people soliciting hitmen all the time, but they don’t exist. Mobs, drug cartels yes… but this idea, that couldn’t be more clear.
Like, there’s no such thing that you meet someone that you’ve never met that you just pay like you’re paying them to mow your lawn to kill someone… It would be so easy to arrest them.” The film aims in part to deconstruct the notion of the gun for hire.
Linklater added, “The more interesting thing is why we love that character so much. It goes with cinema, there’s so many great hitmen.
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