And I said to them, 'I don't want people walking out of the theater wanting to be Frank Castle.' I said, 'We've gotta get it in the script. In playing the anti-hero, Stevenson explained, "That's what intrigued me. It's strange to have the sort of lead or hero of a film that you don't actually want to be." You need that extreme violence as the foil to Frank's dark, bleak existence. In fact, the extreme violence - if you water it down and try and make it a bit less - you wouldn't get the same stakes as far as the moral issues and the price that's paid. It was his writing that then brought me in. He will throw it in there and commit to it. "It does raise moral issues and psychological issues and he doesn't pull away from it. I thought, 'My god, he doesn't shy away,'" Stevenson told Collider in 2009. What the hell is this?' But very quickly Garth Ennis' writing sucked me right in. "When I first read it, I thought, 'This is just extremely violent.
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