Hit Man And What's Making Us Happy

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🗓️ 7 June 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Netflix's entertaining dark comedy Hit Man is not about a hired killer. It's about a guy who pretends to be a hired killer. Director Richard Linklater co-wrote this film with movie star of the moment, Glen Powell. Based very loosely on a real guy, Powell plays a mild-mannered professor who also works undercover for the police as a fake hitman.

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0:00.0	What does it mean to be black in America?
0:04.3	And NPR's Black Stories, Black Truths,
0:07.3	a collection of stories as varied, nuanced, and dynamic as the Black experience, you'll hear it means everything.
0:15.0	Search NPR, Black Stories, Black Truths, wherever you get your podcasts. casts. not about a hired killer, it's about a guy who pretends to be a hired killer.
0:34.6	In fact, he pretends to be a great many different things, a great many different people,
0:39.8	who are all to be clear, hired killers.
0:42.6	The film stars Glen Powell as a mild-mannered professor who also works for the police
0:47.8	as an undercover fake hitman.
0:50.4	I'm Stephen Thompson.
0:51.8	And I'm Linda Holmes, and today we're talking about hitman on pop culture happy hour from NPR
0:56.8	Here with me and Stephen is our fellow co-host Iisha Harris. Hey Iisha
1:01.6	Hey Linda.
1:03.0	And also with us his podcast, producer and film and culture critic Kate,
1:06.7	Kate Yonge.
1:07.7	Hey Kate, always good to see you.
1:08.8	Hi again.
1:10.1	HitMan is directed by Richard Linklator, the quintessentially Texan filmmaker who did the Before trilogy
1:16.6	and Dazed and Confused, and Bernie,
1:18.7	which is maybe the most direct relative of Hitman.
1:21.4	He co-wrote the screenplay with movie star of the moment, Glenn Powell, who stars as Gary Johnson. Based pretty loosely on a real guy who was written up in Texas Monthly, Gary is a professor of philosophy who moonlights undercover for the police.
1:36.7	His specialty is pretending to be a hired killer.
1:40.4	When the police learned that somebody has been trying to hire a hitman they send in
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