A Worthy Goal

How The American was a cool movie.

Cool is a committed style. Cool is a discipline. Cool embraces both content and all the elements of execution. In a cool movie, everything other than cool is truly secondary, and ideally non-existent. Cool movies thrive on an existential protagonist. Cool is about the sustain and not the flash.

I didn't like The American, but yes, it was going for cool. Cool is tough. Incredibly easy to fuck it up. But without a doubt, a worthy goal. I always thought a study of cool would make a good basis of a college senior thesis. Also, a senior thesis on nicknames.