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Nov 29, 2012

Out of Frame: Killing them Softly

Brad Pitt (The Weinstein Company) “He’s gonna get in a whore fight at a hotel that don’t like whore fights.” I mulled over that line from Killing them Softly, written and directed by Andrew Dominick, for days before I fully appreciated it. The movie is based on George V. Higgin’s 1974 crime novel Cogan’s Trade, which runs a slim 200 pages. The source for that line runs for some one hundred words. Dominick whittled…

 
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