Comments on: Killing Them Softly: How A Screenwriter Murdered His Own Protagonist https://www.thestorydepartment.com/25114/ Story. Screenplay. Sale. Wed, 21 Dec 2022 21:58:37 +0000 hourly 1 By: Karel FG Segers https://www.thestorydepartment.com/25114/#comment-374656 Wed, 21 Dec 2022 21:58:37 +0000 https://thestorydepartment.com/?p=25114#comment-374656 In reply to Hugo.

Did you read the full review? Jamie was certainly part of the intended audience, as he says “Having said all that, I actually loved Killing Them Softly.”
He was merely trying to understand why a film with such a high profile cast didn’t make more than $40m.
And I think he hits the nail on the head.
Clearly the two people responding to this review are fans of the source material. But books don’t matter one bit when you are making a movie (which Dominik has reminded us of again more recently).

]]> By: Hugo https://www.thestorydepartment.com/25114/#comment-374655 Wed, 21 Dec 2022 18:48:44 +0000 https://thestorydepartment.com/?p=25114#comment-374655 This is the review of a person who was not part of the intended audience. Killing Them Softly is a gem, and so is it’s source material.

]]> By: Nat https://www.thestorydepartment.com/25114/#comment-335598 Sun, 21 Aug 2016 22:55:53 +0000 https://thestorydepartment.com/?p=25114#comment-335598 You may know proper story structure, but you seem to be missing a lot if the intended content. Your suggestions to improve the story would only turn it into something more comercial and formulaic. This movie, although nowhere near and subtle as its source material, is almost a scene for scene adaptation of Cohan’s Trade by George V Higgins — who is considered by many to have been the greatest crime author in american history.

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