‘Hit Man’ — I Contain Multitudes
Richard Linklater’s ace crime rom-com is a big hit, man
In his 2007 film I’m Not There, director Todd Haynes employs five different actors to portray Bob Dylan — Heath Ledger, Cate Blanchett, Richard Gere, Christian Bale and Marcus Carl Franklin-a Black teenager.
Shrewd. How could any one actor, one race, one gender possibly hope to embody a figure as protean as Bob Dylan? Five actors are still not enough. How did Whitman put it — “Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)”
Caterpillar today, butterfly tomorrow, every person is far more than what they were or what they will be.
Inside every Bruce Banner is a Hulk. Underneath every stately Wayne Manor is a bat cave.
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Identity morph is at the heart of director Richard Linklater’s smashing new film Hit Man, which tells the true (ish) story of Gary Johnson (Glen Powell) a mild-mannered philosophy professor who moonlights for the New Orleans Police Department as a fake hit man.
Impersonating a badass while wearing a wire, Gary lures perps into giving him envelopes full of cash if he promises to take out their inconvenient human trash. It’s a challenging acting gig requiring frequent drastic…
