Comments on: [Video]: Andrew Dominik on adapting Killing Them Softly https://www.thestorydepartment.com/video-andrew-dominik-on-adapting-killing-them-softly/ Story. Screenplay. Sale. Wed, 10 Oct 2012 02:14:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Karel Segers https://www.thestorydepartment.com/video-andrew-dominik-on-adapting-killing-them-softly/#comment-1307 Wed, 10 Oct 2012 02:14:00 +0000 https://thestorydepartment.com/?p=25105#comment-1307 In reply to JAMES.

I honestly don’t believe Dominik understands film story. CHOPPER worked despite the story flaws, thanks to Bana’s groundbreaking performance.

It’s been downhill for him since.

I do admire his honesty when he admits he still has a career thanks to Brad Pitt. Then later he says he likes him, adding “as an actor”. Bizarre…

]]> By: JAMES https://www.thestorydepartment.com/video-andrew-dominik-on-adapting-killing-them-softly/#comment-1306 Wed, 10 Oct 2012 02:06:00 +0000 https://thestorydepartment.com/?p=25105#comment-1306 I found this after seeing Killing Them Softly last night, as part of a
burning desire to understand what it was about. I wasn’t sure if it was
deep, lazy, or stupid. After watching this interview I am grimly
shunting my opinion towards the middle option. This is the kind of
writer that makes you think, hey. If this guy gets given money to write
films, then I should be the Space Emperor of Mars by now.

Maybe I’m being overly harsh. Maybe Dominik was still tired from
shooting, or had a migraine, or just got accidentally lobotomized by an
insane dentist and spent the afternoon desperately hunting for his
liberated right hemisphere. But I was a little disappointed with how
apathetic he was about understanding his own film structure.

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