It was adapted by screenwriter Norman Wexler from Nik Cohn's fictionalNew York Magazinestory "Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night" published on June 7th, 1976.(closeup) If I do not hear from you it will be my next pleasure to kill a Catholic priest or a n----r [the last word isn't read outloud].[This speech single-handedly won the Academy Award for Broderick Crawford.] He identifies himself with the hick audience (composed of farmers, workers, hicks, and red-necks) that is awestruck by his words."However, Ross was shot and killed by sniper fire from London "asset" or assassin Paz (Edgar Ramirez) in the midst of the busy Waterloo concourse.]Two films (amongst many others) that deliberately copied the Hall of Mirrors sequence were Woody Allen'sManhattan Murder Mystery (1993)andJohn Wick: Chapter 2 (2017).