핸드건

핸드건 (1983)

Handgun

"그녀는 법을 믿었다. 이제는 총을 믿는다"

보스턴에서 텍사스 댈러스의 고등학교로 부임해 온 젊은 교사 캐슬린 설리번. 낯선 도시, 총이 일상처럼 받아들여지는 문화 속에서 그녀는 매력적인 변호사이자 총기 애호가인 래리 킬러를 만난다. 그러나 호의로 시작된 저녁 식사는 악몽으로 끝나고, 래리는 총구를 겨눈 채 그녀를 짓밟는다. 용기를 내어 경찰을 찾아가지만, 돌아오는 것은 법정에서 이길 수 없다는 체념 섞인 조언뿐이다. 법도, 교회도, 주변 누구도 그녀의 편이 되어주지 못하는 현실 앞에서 캐슬린은 서서히 다른 사람이 되어간다. 머리를 자르고, 사격장에 등록하고, 자신을 무너뜨린 바로 그 무기를 손에 쥐는 법을 익히기 시작한 그녀. 침묵을 강요받은 한 여인의 차갑고 집요한 반격이 시작되는데...

개봉일
1983-05-12
TMDB
5.8 / 10 (18)
상영 시간(분)
1시간 41분
장르
드라마, 액션, 범죄
감독
Tony Garnett

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흥미로운 사실

Handgun is a 1983 American vigilante film starring Karen Young, Clayton Day, and Suzie Humphreys. It was written and directed by Tony Garnett.

Production

After a successful career in British television, Tony Garnett moved to the United States in 1980, wanting a new challenge. He was assisted in the move by a development deal from the Ladd Company. Garnett wanted to make a film about gun violence, inspired as he was by the murder of John Lennon. He went to Dallas, Texas, to research and write the film.

Garnett found Karen Young in New York City, and the actors who played her parents in Boston. The rest of the cast were from Dallas. He used techniques he had developed in British drama, rehearsing and improvising with the actors for several months. "I didn't come here to make pat judgements about American culture", said Garnett. "I came to try to understand." Filming took place in 1981 in Dallas.

Karen Young said she was never given a script, and worked through improvisation. She called it "a personally gruelling experience but one I would not want to have missed. The rape scene took 14 hours to film in one day and it took me a long time to recover from it."

Garnett said EMI were "hands-off" until the final edit, but that changed once they saw the film. "The problem was that I had made a slow, thoughtful, and I hope considered character study, and they were expecting a commercial hit—an action movie with some sexy rape scenes. I hadn't delivered.

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