At the "Killing Them Softly" Premiere Deidre Schoo for The New York Times BRAD PITT stood on the red carpet with Andrew Dominik, the director of "Killing Them Softly," which had its premiere Monday night at the SVA Theater in Chelsea. A few questions were lobbed about the film ("I've never said yes to anything so quickly in my entire life," Mr. Pitt said about the project). But mostly, reporters wanted to know about everything else. What on earth was he saying in those Chanel No. 5 ads? "Wait until you see the French version," Mr. Pitt said with a laugh. I have no idea. Had he seen the "Saturday Night Live" impersonation? "No," said Mr. Pitt, who was wearing a black leather jacket and a V-neck T-shirt. But it's fair play. Fair enough. Was he finally going to marry Angelina Jolie? "I'm getting some pressure from my kids," he said, without going into detail. And it's something I want to do within their lifetime. Inside the theater, cast members, including James Gandolfini and Ray Liotta, took their seats next to a crowd that included Russell Simmons and the supermodel Doutzen Kroes. Also there, in the back, was Lloyd Blankfein, the chairman of Goldman Sachs. Mr. Blankfein apparently hadn't gotten the memo that the gangster story, based on the 1974 novel "Cogan's Trade" by George V. Higgins, was actually redone by Mr. Dominik as a parable for the financial crisis. "I'll watch it and let you know if I find myself," he said. At around 7:40 p.m., Harvey Weinstein walked up to the front of the theater, where he introduced the cast and crew, and commended Mr. Pitt for doing acting in the film that "he hasn't done" before. The audience laughed and grimaced its way through the film, which had lots of off-color sexual humor and enough violence to rival "Pulp Fiction" (much of it inflicted by Mr. Pitt, who plays a hit man). At the Cinema Society's after-party at No. 8, some of the guests were still reeling from the violence. "That was so intense," said Francisco Costa, the Calvin Klein designer. It was filmed perfectly, but you could not take one more second. "I had to put my head down," said the actress Lorraine Bracco, referring to a particularly gory scene in which Mr. Liotta gets beaten to a pulp in a parking lot. Ms. Bracco played the wife of Mr. Liotta's character, Henry Hill, in "Goodfellas," so for her, there was an extra bit of unease. "I was like, "They can't hurt my Henry," " she said. Sitting in a banquette nearby was Vincent Curatola, another "Sopranos" alum, who plays another gangster in this film. Still, Mr. Curatola said nothing quite prepared him for his big scene with Mr. Pitt. It took two nights of filming, he said, referring to a scene, shot on location, in which he is gunned down by Mr. Pitt's character: "People were screaming out of windows because of Brad. So they had to keep quieting them down. I think some cash might have helped.