00:00Shane, I mean, you have a history of, like, saving your characters at the end of your stories.
00:05And I'm curious just about the conversations that you had about that dark ending.
00:10I think the character in the books, and to be true to it, necessitated that.
00:15We can have nods in the movie to the sort of more comic aspect of Westlake's books, the wry humor.
00:22But ultimately, Parker's a different character.
00:24He's a guy who goes by a code, a very specific one.
00:26And it's interesting, because even in our preview audiences, when people watch that, some of them are shocked, but they
00:34all knew why he did it.
00:36The fact that it happens offscreen, is that kind of your way of understanding the audience's appreciation for her?
00:43I think it's because you don't want to be there for it.
00:48It's like in that Dirty Harry, the great shot where he's on the football field torturing a suspect, and the
00:53camera just goes,
00:54We don't want to be here anymore, and it just goes out and out and out into the sky, and
00:58just leaves this horrific scene out of, you know, Dante's Inferno down on the field.
01:03Yeah, you can step outside while he takes care of business.
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