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🗓️ 15 November 2023
⏱️ 15 minutes
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0:00.0 | The new movie The Killer is a stylish thriller from Director David Fincher and follows Michael Fastbender as an international hitman. |
0:11.0 | When a hit goes wrong, Fast Bender's unnamed killer's very detached |
0:14.6 | and methodical life falls apart. |
0:16.7 | He finds himself throwing his every bedrock professional principle out the window |
0:20.6 | as he sets out on a deeply personal path of revenge. |
0:24.0 | I'm Glenn Weldon and today we're talking about the killer on Pop Culture Happy Hour from |
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0:54.0 | Joining me today is NPR Political Correspondent Danielle Kurtz Laben, welcome back Danielle. |
0:59.0 | Yes, really happy to be here. |
1:01.0 | Also with this is NPR producer Mark Rivers. Hey Mark, good to have you. |
1:03.7 | Thank you so much for having me. In the killer, Michael Fastbender plays an extremely |
1:07.6 | patient stoic and ruthlessly efficient assassin for hire who spends much of the film sharing his thoughts |
1:13.8 | about his methods and his professional ethics with the viewer in voiceover. |
1:17.4 | Stick to the plan. Anticipate, don't improvise. |
1:24.0 | But when a hit in Paris goes badly wrong, he finds himself and his girlfriend targeted by person |
1:28.9 | or persons unknown. |
1:30.9 | He sets off to track down the people who are targeting him, and his quest for a very personal and unprofessional vengeance leaves him open for the first time to feelings of anger, confusion, and even to his horror, empathy. |
1:44.1 | The killer is directed by David Fincher with a screenplay written by Andrew Kevin Walker. |
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