![]() ![]() Petievich was a 15-year veteran of the Secret Service on the verge of retiring from the agency to become a full-time novelist. But for a quirk of fate, they might have been criminals.”įriedkin had read Gerald Petievich’s novel in galley form and immediately wanted to make the movie. The best cops are the ones who are able to think like criminals. There is a thin line between the policeman and the criminal. And also, the thin line that exists in each and every one of us. “All of the films.I have chosen to make,” Friedkin said, “are about the thin line between good and evil. But the real attraction for Friedkin was the underlying tension between the two sides and the shades of grey created by shifting sympathies and motivations, in particular the growing corruption of the agents. The plot deals with Secret Service agents on the trail of a deadly Los Angeles counterfeiter. (1985) one of the few films that came closest to his original vision. Director William Friedkin has called To Live and Die in L.A. ![]()
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