12/3/2023 0 Comments Movie guy![]() (It’s a good thing the script makes this clear, because some viewers may think from the start that this sure looks like textbook entrapment.) He has to walk a fine line and get the prospective client, who contacted the imaginary hitman through various underworld contacts, to say they want Gary to kill someone in order to avoid the case being thrown out because of police entrapment. (The real Johnson lived in Houston, but Louisiana makes for an atmospheric location without once featuring Bourbon Street or any of the other cliché landmarks.) When Jasper (Austin Amelio), the skeevy undercover cop who usually pretends to be an assassin for hire, fails to show up at the last minute, the police officers Gary works with most of the time (Retta and Sanjay Rao, a wry double act) persuade him to step in because he’s already “perfectly forgettable”-looking.īut this act of desperation turns out to be inspired casting when Gary proves to be a natural, good at thinking fast on his feet and adept at sinking into a character. In his spare time, Gary helps the New Orleans Police Department out with the equipment they need for undercover work, like the wires used to record conversations from afar and such. In fact, he’s first met giving a lecture on identity, a slightly on-the-nose gesture toward the film’s core theme: How much can people truly change? Does pretending to be someone long enough effectively make you that person in some way? It’s a question surely every actor, whether they’re deep into the Method or not, ponders at some point. With the help of cheap-looking glasses, a listless hairdo and the trademark chinos of defeated masculinity, the naturally handsome Powell passes convincingly in the opening sequence as the sad-sack nudnik, a divorced professor who owns two cats, Id and Ego, and teaches psychology and philosophy. Screenwriters: Richard Linklater, Glen Powell based on an article by Skip Hollandsworthīased on what the opening titles describe as a “somewhat true story,” the film casts Powell as a real guy named Gary Johnson who was profiled by Skip Hollandsworth for a Texas Monthly article in 2001. ![]() ![]() Venue: Venice Film Festival (Out of Competition)Ĭast: Glen Powell, Adria Arjona, Austin Amelio, Retta, Sanjay Rao, Molly Bernard, Evan Holtzman
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