Richard Linklater

理查德·林克莱特

Monocle on Culture

社会与文化

2024-06-10

28 分钟
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Richard Linklater is known for both small-budget, big hitting films like ‘Dazed and Confused’ and box-office hits such as ‘School of Rock’. His latest film, ‘Hit Man’, is a comedic thriller starring Glen Powell as the mild-mannered Gary Johnson. He is a college professor who leads an extraordinary double life working undercover for the police as a fake hitman. We meet director Richard Linklater and hear from ‘Monocle on Culture’ regular Hannah Strong for her take on the film.      See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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  • Hello and welcome to Monocle on Culture.

  • I'm Robert Bound.

  • On today's show, we're hearing from the beloved American film director and auteur Richard Linklater.

  • Linklater's slew of small budget, big fan base indie movies such as Dazed and Confused, the before trilogy and Boyhood have cemented his status as a movie maker extraordinaire.

  • And that's not even mentioning smash hits at the box office like School of Rock.

  • Well, Linklater's latest film on its surface diverges from the quieter coming of age themes that he's mostly known for.

  • Hitman is a comedic thriller starring and indeed a star turn from Glen Powell.

  • It's a riotous modern twist on the screwball genre and a lot of fun.

  • As well as hearing from Linklater himself, we'll catch up with Monocle on Culture regular Hannah Strong for her take on whether Hitman is indeed a hit.

  • Stay tuned, that is all.

  • Coming up, Hitman tells the story of Gary Johnson, a tale that was first told by writer Skip Hollingsworth in Texas monthly back in 2001.

  • Mild mannered Gary is a college professor and does stints helping out the police with their tech on sting operations.

  • Well, everything changes one day when he's asked to fill in for a cop posing as a hitman.

  • Gary realizes he's an expert at embodying the person someone's dreamed up when they've searched out the services of a hitman aided by some camp new outfits and disguised voices.

  • But things get heated when he dissuades potential client Madison from taking out a hit on her abusive husband and begins to fall for her himself.

  • In the following clip, you'll hear the voice of Gary as he reflects on his new vocation.

  • And the second voice is also Gary's, under the guise of one of his many hitman aliases.

  • You know, I was always too shy to go out for the high school play, but I had somehow found my stage and each arrest was like a standing ovation.

  • We're about to go into the deep end of the pool here.

  • This is serious.