{"id":471,"date":"2012-09-21T10:15:02","date_gmt":"2012-09-21T10:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=471"},"modified":"2024-07-10T15:30:40","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T15:30:40","slug":"the-assassin-who-likes-to-kill-people-softly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=471","title":{"rendered":"The assassin who likes to kill people softly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Killing Them Softly is a black comedy rated 18. George V Higgins\u2019 1974 novel Cogan\u2019s Trade has been adapted and updated from 1970\u2019s Boston to New Orleans in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Brad Pitt plays professional enforcer Jackie Cogan, the assassin who likes to kill people softly, from a distance. He hates his hits begging for mercy so he can\u2019t kill up close and is unable to kill anyone he&#8217;s met. A bit of a flaw in a top rated hit man you may think.<\/p>\n<p>Cogan is hired to target the jerks responsible for robbing a Mob protected card game. However, he subcontracts the job to his old friend Mickey, a boozy, broken old assassin.<\/p>\n<p>Directed by Andrew Dominik, the film cast includes Ray Liotta, Sam Shepard, Ben Mendelsohn, James Gandolfini, Richard Jenkins, Scoot McNairy, Vincent Curatola as well as Brad Pitt.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Killing Them Softly - Official Trailer \" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tDyaNnrgdp4&amp;list=LPW7DaWHtXsfQ&amp;index=1&amp;feature=plcp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Killing Them Softly &#8211; Official Trailer (HD)\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/valcov.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17\" title=\"St Valentine's Day Masquerade\" src=\"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/valcov.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"325\" height=\"467\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Want to hold a mob based murder mystery party with a difference? Set in Chicago in 1923, ITM Games offers a &#8220;Who Didn&#8217;t Do It&#8221; to play at home.<\/h4>\n<div>St Valentine&#8217;s Day Masquerade is a game for 8 Players from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itmgames.co.uk\">ITM Games<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Danny &#8216;Diamond&#8217; Ditali, the infamous rum runner and gang boss has a problem. Last night he ordered 8 hits by eight members of his gang. But now he hears that one of his victims is now in the hands of the FEDs, and squealing like a pig. Yet all his gang reported success, so how can this be?<\/div>\n<div>Who lied to him? Who is still alive? Buy the game from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itmgames.co.uk\">ITM Games<\/a> and find out!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Killing Them Softly is a black comedy rated 18. George V Higgins\u2019 1974 novel Cogan\u2019s Trade has been adapted and updated from 1970\u2019s Boston to New Orleans in 2008. 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He hates his hits begging for mercy so &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=471\">More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The assassin who likes to kill people softly<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[476],"tags":[525,526,527,473,528,529,122,480,530],"class_list":["post-471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-murder-mystery-games","tag-assassin","tag-gangsters","tag-hitmen","tag-itm-games","tag-killing","tag-killing-them-softly","tag-murder-mystery","tag-murder-mystery-games","tag-st-valentines-day-masquerade"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The assassin who likes to kill people softly - City Adventurers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=471\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The assassin who likes to kill people softly - City Adventurers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Killing Them Softly is a black comedy rated 18. 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