Hitman: No One Is Untouchable | A Video Essay

Who gets to be a target in Hitman? What do the games have to say about them? In this video I break down the narrative and themes of the recently released Hitman games: the world of assassination trilogy. 0:00 Intro 1:55 Plot Summary 6:35 Agent 47 16:15 Power 21:24 Capital C 27:04 Disguises 29:32 Providence 37:09 Conclusion Twitter - @18conorryan Letterboxd - Con83 Bibliography ‘Pandemic Response Sparked ‘Widespread' Wealth Inequality Rise’, Ben Stupples, Marion Halftermeyer, 2021 (https://www.fa-mag.com/news/pandemic-...) ‘Most Americans Say There Is Too Much Economic Inequality in the U.S., but Fewer Than Half Call It a Top Priority’, Juliana Menasce Horowitz, Ruth Igielnik and Rakesh Kochhar, 2020 (https://www.pewresearch.org/social-tr...) ‘The Scale of Economic Inequality in the UK’ (https://www.equalitytrust.org.uk/scal...) Six Days in Fallujah ‘not trying to make a political commentary,’ creator says, Charlie Hall, 2021 (https://www.polygon.com/2021/2/15/222...) ‘The UK’s top-earning CEO bags record $422 million payday’, Vicky McKeever, 2019 (https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/18/uks-t...) ‘The UK's Covid-19 unemployment crisis in six charts’, Richard Parington, 2021 (https://www.theguardian.com/business/...) ‘Prospering in the pandemic: 2020’s top 100 companies’, 2021 (https://www.ft.com/content/f8251e5f-1...) Group of Senate Democrats and Republicans vote to keep $15 minimum wage out of Biden's COVID stimulus bill, Nicholas Wu, 2021 (https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/po...) Video Game Storytelling, Evan Skolnick, 2014 Corporate immunity to the Covid-19 Pandemic, Wenzhi Ding, Ross Levine, Chen Lin, Wensi Xie, 2020