Another director might say, ‘No, we can’t have a scene every five minutes in which the Hot-Tempered Cop is dragged screaming from a fight by the Even-Tempered Cop. No, we can’t do all our exposition in bars. No, we can’t have the top brass call the protagonist the Best Damn Cop on the Force. No, we can’t give his best buddy a gambling problem. No, we can’t have a scene where someone is confronted over unpaid parking fines with the line, “You’ve got parking tickets up the ass.” No, we can’t have his childhood friend go into organised crime.’ Not Barreto. Barreto says ‘Yes’ to all these things.
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