May 25, 2026

The Untouchables (1987)

The Untouchables (1987)
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Season 61987 MoviesDrama

"AL CAPONE. He ruled Chicago with absolute power. No one could touch him. No one could stop him. - Until Eliot Ness and a small force of men swore they'd bring him down." In this episode, we discuss the period crime drama 'The Untouchables.' The movie stars Kevin Costner, Sean Connery, Andy Garcia and Robert De Niro. Directed by Brian De Palma. Loosely based on the memior of Eliot Ness.

The Untouchables - IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094226/?ref_=tttg_ov_bk
The Secret of NIMH - Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/untouchables

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Hello, and welcome to the All Eighties Movies Podcast, the

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podcast where we talked about the blockbusters, the flops, and

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everything in between from one of the precious decades from movies,

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the nineteen eighties. Your host Bill Banton long be on

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his journey revisiting eighties movies. Is my co host Jason Maatsik.

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Hello, Jason, you want to know how to get capone?

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They pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends

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one of yours to the hospital, You send one of

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his to the morgue. That's the Chicago way, and that's

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how you get capone.

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That's right. Listeners, we're discussing with spoils of plenty. The

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nineteen eighty seven gangster drama The Untouchables. It was produced

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by Art Linson and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The movie

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stars Kevin Gostner, Andy Garcia, Robert de Niro, and Sean Connery.

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Directed by Brian de Palma, this movie is rated R

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with a running time of one hour and fifty nine minutes.

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It was based on the nineteen fifty seven autobiographical memoir

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by Elliot Ness of the same name, and later became

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a television series which ran from nineteen fifty nine to

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nineteen sixty three. The movie was nominated for four Oscars,

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winning one. Nominees were for Best Art Direction, Set Direction,

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Best Costume Design, and Best Music Original Score. The win

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was for Best Actor in the Supporting role Sean Connery.

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So what is this movie about? What's on the box?

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If you grew up in the nineteen eighties and went

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to your local video store to read this movie, you

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would find this description on the back of the VHS box.

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It is What's on the box? Take it away, Jason.

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The critics and public agree. Brian De Palma's The Untouchables

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is a must see masterpiece, a glorious, fierce, larger than

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life depiction of the mob warlord who ruled Prohibition era

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Chicago and the law enforcement who vowed to bring him down.

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This classic confrontation between good and evil stars Kevin Costner

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as federal agent Elliot Ness, Robert de Niro as gangland

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kingpin al Capone, and Sean Connery as Malone, the cop

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who teaches Ness how to beat the mob, shoot fast,

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and shoot first, The Untouchables.

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The Untouchables. Wow, that was a quick uh.

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I'm used to these long ones, I know, short and

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sweet you tried to take a sip and whatever you're

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drinking over there, and you just didn't even have time.

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To do that. Wow, all right, The Untouchables. So that

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was what's on the box, Jason. You remember the first

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time you saw The Untouchables.

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I don't, Man, my memory has just been terrible for

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like the last ten movies I feel like we've covered.

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But I probably did see this in the theater. I

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had to have a US But I honestly don't remember

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the first time. But I can safely say I've seen

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it at least a dozen times, maybe more ever since.

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I always adored this film and one little memory I

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just wanted to share, and you can help me a

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little bit with this bill band. In college, of course,

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we befriended Marwan Abdurzak, who's been on this very podcast

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with us, and he worked for that company. Was it

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called Tinsley? Is that correct?

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Yep? Tinsley Advertising, right.

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And they helped promote was it Paramount or.

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Which, Yeah, it was Paramount, Okay.

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So he would give us these promotional like packets that

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were like, you know, promoting films coming out, the current films.

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But he also had gotten his hands on promotional packets

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for slightly older films, and he gave me one from

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The Untouchables and it contains the photo the quote unquote

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the photo from the movie with the group of the

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Untouchables sitting around the table. Man, I don't know why

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I don't have that framed and up on my wall

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right now. Just talking about this movie right now makes

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me want to do that. So I just wanted to

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share that I absolutely love that photo.

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Oh that is funny that you mentioned that, because that

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used to be a thing I would do, and I

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don't know how you were not in one of these photos.

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I would say, hey, let's do an Untouchables photo. I'd

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literally say that, and we would sitting around a table

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and Poe was like, we're Touchables. Absolutely, it's iconic. Man. Yeah,

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we did one for my wedding and sorry you were

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not there, but yeah, we did one in the bar

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and everybody's got the cigars and we're all standing along

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the bar and it's like the Untouchables. Everybody just makes

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a straight face. Yep, And that's what it is. And

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I have like two or three versions of that with

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different friends. But I was thinking about this on the

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drive to work today. I was like, how do I

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not have one with you? Pat, Chris, Marjuan, I mean

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we'd get together. Next time we all get together, we're

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gonna have to do it.

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Untouchables felt absolutely, Yeah, absolutely, Maybe one of our birthday

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get together is will do it at the Island?

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Sounds good? Yeah. So the first time I saw this

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was in the movie theater with three of my friends.

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I remember Daniel Day was one of them. I can't

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remember the other two. Sorry, sorry guys, So you just

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had the good memory, but I can't remember the other

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two people. I was to see this movie, and man,

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as soon as it started, I was certainly hooked into

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that one. So definitely rememberable first time seeing that movie.

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I think it was opening week. There you go. Heck yeah, man, yeah,

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my first time was in the movie theater. Very good.

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All right, so let's talk about the movie. What are

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our impressions of The Untouchables? Jason, what you got?

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Well, Bill Bant, this is what I gotta say. This

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movie's sexy all around. It's got big stars and Connery, Cossner,

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de Niro. We get introduced to Andy Garcia in this.

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It's capone, It's Chicago gangsters. It's Chicago in nineteen thirties

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Prohibition era. It's elliot Ness as a badass forming a

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special cadre or task force of officers to take down

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the big Bat. I mean, come on, what's not to

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like here? Even before watching this again, I was like

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I could see the whole movie in my mind, from

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beginning to end. How many scenes in this film are iconic.

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When I think of the Untouchables, I'm flooded with every

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single scene. I mentioned Garcia's intro we get capone with

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the bat, all Connery's quotes. There's some really emotional moments

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that are just a real bummer in this film, and

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a lot of I'm just thinking, there's a lot of

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smaller scenes that are just really memorable. Not to mention

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these big set pieces obviously, like the Canadian Mounties and

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the Untouchables charging the bridge on horseback, But I'm just

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going to save the rest for our favorite scenes segment.

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But needless to say, this is just one of the

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more memorable movies overall. And speaking of favorites, this is

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one of my favorite scores by Ennio Morricone. I owned

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this soundtrack on cassette, played it to death. I know

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it forward and backward, and also not to mention I'm

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a Chicago guy, of course, and this is one of

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the great Chicago movies. But for me, this movie completely

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holds up today. It's a banger from start to finish.

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I look forward to every scene. I watched it twice

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for this recording, and it was just as enjoyable on

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the second viewing. I mean, right from the start, the music,

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the Dunna Dunn, It's effing classic. What a great title

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card in the beginning, and then you see a credit,

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did you I didn't know the wardrobe was by Giorgio

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ARMANI fancy yep. So some thoughts right off the top.

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And when the movie starts, I mean, anytime a bad

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guy is getting a shave is always great tension.

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I love that.

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I was just thinking about the recent rebooted Roadhouse where

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it happens again. It's been done in a million movies.

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It's a great overhead shot at compone aka de Niro,

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because you're always afraid, like if the bad guy gets

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cut by the razor, he's just going to take out

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the barber. But of course he exercises restraint in this,

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so it's just a great start to the movie and

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then it just keeps rolling from there. I got a

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lot more to say, but I'm gonna let you jump

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in here.

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Man. This is definitely one of those movies from the

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eighties that they can release now. I don't think there's

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much that they need to change. Hmm. Yeah. I think

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the only other movie we've covered so far where I

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could say that was probably Raiders of the Lost Arc

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and Boz Them, probably because it's a period piece, sure,

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but sure it looks makes sense, fantastic. It still looks

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fantastic to me today. It still feels like it was

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nineteen thirty. Cogo and the costumes and just all that stuff.

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I just I love that and the cast, the four

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actors that they put together to form the Untouchables, love them,

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love them. I had no idea who any Garcia was,

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but right away I thought he was great. Charles Martin

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Smith is Oscar Wallace, a little comic relief in there. Yep.

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It was just fun watching him do his thing. Of course,

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Sean Connery, James Bond watch him in a different role,

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and he was just in charge of every scene that

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he was in. And Kevin Constner and I know a

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lot of people complained about Kevin Costner as being too vanilla,

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but I was like, that's who he's supposed to be.

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That's what I liked about him, and everyone just kind

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of played off him, and I really liked it. So

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just the casting of those four was just great, and

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then Robert de Niro would come in and do his thing,

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pop in throughout. Yeah, the music is awesome. Think about this.

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When I was watching the movie, I was like, did

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he only compose maybe like twenty minutes and then they

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just replayed that over and over, which I didn't care

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because the music's awesome and it's all over the place.

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It gets your heart pumping, and it makes your eyes

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well in moments. It's a really, really good score. I

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think it's an underrated score from the eighties. I don't

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think we talked about this one enough, and the fact

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that it was based on a book that was based

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on a television series definitely one of the better adaptions

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that we don't talk about, like, oh, you know movies.

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I mean, technically it's adapted from a book, but this one,

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from beginning to end, it's a good one. It really

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should be mentioned as one of the better films of

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the eighties.

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To me, I think a thousand percent. My friend, I

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was thinking the very same thing. I was just like,

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how is this not higher up on my all time

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eighties movies list? After watching it again? Now, I mean,

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it certainly is. And just going back to the actors

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here again, Andy Garcias, we just keep mentioning. You know,

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he had done did some TV work and he had

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a supporting role in eight Million Ways to Die with

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Jeff Bridges and Rosanna are kept playing a cocaine dealer

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with it this heavy Spanish accent. It's funny if you

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look up a little bit of his role in that

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from YouTube or whatnot, or in the trailer for that.

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But for me, I always considered this to be his

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breakout role. Most I think feel it's Godfather Part three

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Joey Sasa, But no, I think it's this. This is

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when I really I mean, he just commands when he's

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on screen. And so, yeah, Connery, you know what, we

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can talk about his accent.

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It's not Irish. Does it matter? I don't know.

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We talked about him in our Highlander episode as well,

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with the same issue. But he gets the Academy Award.

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I love him in this playing the mentor, the quote

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unquote tutor, the do gooder that ended up on the

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beat for years because he didn't succumb to the corruption.

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There's little things about his character. I love how he

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he also commands. I mean, obviously Connory has such a presence,

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but the little ticks he has with his character, which

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is so just drawn, where you know he kind of

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softly punches people in the arm or something like that,

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and you know how the first time elliot Ness goes

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to his apartment he approaches the door with a sowd

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off shotgun.

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was like, was he totally right for this? But then

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when I watched it again, I mean, no question, he

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looks fantastic and I think he has some real genuine

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moments in this. I've always thought he was a solid actor.

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Still do he plays the levels in this? And one

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thing that stood out to me Bill bann on this

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rewatch was the portrayal of his morality. It's a real

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through line as to how he's tested throughout. I mean

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we're really watching and watching him, watching and learning from

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Malone how to do the things that need to be

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done to take down to Capone, and it means having

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to cross a line, and he has a real difficulty

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with that, and we see how in the end does

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what it takes, obviously, but he's really having a battle

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with his own moral conscience. It was interesting as an

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adult to kind of watch that a little bit closer.

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Charles Martin Smith, as you said, he's fun man, He's

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just playing fun in this and it just makes it

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all the more tough. You well, I'll see for later.

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I just love the fact how he's really pushing the

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whole tax evasion thing throughout, like really trying to beaten

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Elliott Mess over the head with it, and Elliott finally

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kind of pays attention to him. But it's really kind

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of funny. De Niro is always intimidating to me. I

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mean that scene, it's another iconic scene. I mean, what's

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more intimidating than de Niro's Capone walking around the table

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with the baseball bat And you know what's going to

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happen if you've seen the movie. But it's just like,

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would you DeNiro walking behind you with a baseball bat?

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Kind of swinging around or tapping in his hand, whatever

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it might be. Uh no, thanks, cast is great. The

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direction Brian to Palman, I just wanted to talk about

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that for a second. This is our second film we're

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covering from him, first being blow out right, yeah, correct,

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and then he's directing this in between wise guys, and

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then Casualties of War comes after this. He definitely brings

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his unique style to this without question. It's the camera angles,

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it's the techniques, it's all the POV shots, the pacing,

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the building of tension. I love that split diopter shot.

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And the one we'll call out here right now is

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in you know where the opening quote comes from, of course,

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is the church scene between Malone and Ness where both

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the characters in the background and the foreground are in

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sharp focus, and that's the split diopter. It's a really

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cool effect and it works well, especially in that scene,

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So just calling that out. The writing by David Mammott

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obviously also a famous playwright, maybe most known for the

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play and film of Glengary Glenn Ross. I'm not sure

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if that would be his number one like claim to fame,

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but I felt his writing and his style gave this

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movie a real theatrical aspect, and I mean it feels

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at times like it's written for the theater, with characters

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coming in and out of rooms on Q, the musicality

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of Connery's delivery and moving around talking to different characters

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at times. A lot of the dialogue could be considered

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just you know, maybe on the service tough guy talk,

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whether it's the good guys or the bad guys. But

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the characters are again specifically drawn and really really entertaining.

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I actually really like the writing a lot. How'd you

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feel about both the direction and the writing? Brian de

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Palma just doing his Brian Obama thing.

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It's with the cool camera angles and all that stuff

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that you mentioned. If you didn't know this is directed

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by him and you knew his work, you would know.

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After ten minutes, I'm like, was this directed by Brian Palma? Oh? Yeah,

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it seems like him. And then what's the other part? Sorry?

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Oh yeah, just if you want the writing, yeah Mamott, Yeah, yeah,

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the writing. I mean, there's certainly a ton of liberties

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with the story on how they captured Compone. I mean

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it was through tax evasion, but it's exciting though. It's

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an exciting story. Everybody gets Time to Shine, with which

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I like, Yeah, I mean there's memorable dialogue that here

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we are almost forty years later and I'm still quoting

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this stuff.

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Heck, yeah that Actually I was going to ask in

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our additional Questions segment, but I'll just ask it to

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you now. You may have just answered it was Did

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that bother you at all? That this is basically a

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revised or alternate history of events because it is mostly

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fictional outside characters' names and a couple of things in

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the film. I didn't realize how much of it was

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fictional until doing a little more research for this pod.

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But I can tell you right up front doesn't bother

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me the least.

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This. Yeah, I think for me, it's it's like a

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case by case basism depending on what the movie is,

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because I don't think they're hiding anything and they're more

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just dramatizing, So that doesn't bother me. If they wrote

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stuff that like hide something about the characters so they

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it's going to put them in a bad light, that's

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when it kind of bothers me. But when it's just

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dramatizings to sit there to have a good time, I'm

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not going here for history. Lesson. I'm going here to

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be entertained. I'm not under that falsehood that this is

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a history lesson. All I know is there was a

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group that went after Compone and then got them on

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tax evasion. That's all I need to know.

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Right, Yeah, just a couple thoughts, final few thoughts. This

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made me really think about the Prohibition era, and I'll

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save that for later. It's kind of fascinating to me. Also,

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just a couple other things that stood out to me,

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just the pacing this film, the way that certain scenes

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are juxtaposed, in particular the scenes with elliot Ness versus

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al Capone. When you see al Capone doing something extremely

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violent and then it right very next scene it's elliot

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Ness with Patricia Clark, his wife in some very very

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like peaceful, serene scene, and it, you know, puts him

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in the really like this kind of heroic let you

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where you see he's just you know, trying to do

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what's right and protect his family, et cetera. So I

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like when they put those scenes back to back between

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caponea and elliot Ness and just going back to that,

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Like this movie just comes right out of the gate

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with bangers of scenes and another scene. The scene just

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I know, because we're not going to talk about it

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too much later, it's just the scene with the little

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girl getting blown up is absolutely brutal and seared into

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my mind forever.

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My son walked into that scene and he was like, Dad,

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does that Does that girl just blow up? I'm like, yep.

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It's like, oh my god, what are you watching? Podcast?

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Yeah, it's also it's always in my head. I can

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hear her, hey, miss Missta, wait wait, I forgot your briefcase.

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And then the way it's shot and the iconic just

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you can see the building in your mind's eye and

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under the under.

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The train tracks.

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It's just but that's I'm just mentioning that scene because

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it's one of one hundred in this that are amazing.

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So I had an absolute blast watching this Again, I'm

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glad we're talking about it.

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Speaking of this movie is very violent. It was definitely

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violent for that time for sure. Now it seems somewhat tame.

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But yeah, there's a lot of blood in this movie.

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For sure. We'll be talking about most of those scenes.

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But I remember being in the theater going geez, blood,

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blood and more blood, blood on windows, blood and elevators,

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blood on tables. Yeah, this is a very very violent movie. Yep,

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great point. And I do like this is a classic

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good guys first band guys. You have the Untouchables, then

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you have Copone's crew, and everyone's like everyone else is

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like in a gray era. You really know where the

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cops stand and all this. You don't you know even

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the citizens, because hey, they want to have their drinks,

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so they're gonna do what they can to get their

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hands on liquor. So I found that very interesting too.

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You definitely have a core group of good and a

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core group of bad, and everyone else is really in

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the middle.

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Yeah, it's not complicated. It's very easy to understand, and

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it's very easy to root for the good guys and

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against the bad guys. Good guys when you got Kevin Costner,

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who's basically the Knight in Shining Armor and just always

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trying to do the right thing. And then you got

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Copone on the other side, which is the extreme opposite,

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so lying through his teeth, having a lot of people

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get smashed over that.

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Yeah, Okay, let's move on to favorite scenes. What are

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some of your favorite scenes from the Untouchables? And I

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think Jason, you're starting us off, Yeah, I got a

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couple right off the bat for no pun intended.

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We'll start with Garcia's or should I say Giuseppe's intro.

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This is our introduction to Andy Garcia in the film,

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his character George Stone, which is an alias, and we

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find out, of course his real name is Giuseppe Petrie.

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But always love this, always look forward to it because

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Andy Garcia, a young, sharp looking, wide eyed Andy Garcia

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is all ready commanding. He's just got the gravitas and

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he makes you want to see what he's going to

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do next. And the fact that in the scene he

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actually matches Connery's energy and they obviously recruit him to

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be a member of the Untouchables because that shooting range

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scene is just one of the first things that pop

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into mind my mind because it was the first time

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I recognized Garcia and his total presence.

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Yeah, I love this scene too because the way it ends,

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where Connery's character Malone provokes George and he pulls the

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gun on him. He's like, perfect, let's take him. I

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like him. That's just like yeah, yeah, I guess yeah, okay,

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I like him too. He was just about to shoot you. Yeah,

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but yeah, I aggressive and Garcia right after this movie, Yeah,

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you want to.

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See what he does next. He's just so damn convincing.

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I'm actually uh, I have been watching him in land

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Man season two.

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That's going and.

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Still he's still got it. But moving on to my

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next scene, which I'm just calling it the successful Raid,

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this is a quick one. This is the Untouchables going

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into action and taking care of business. In this one

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moment led by Malone Connery's character, he knows where one

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of these underground illegal alcohol statues are and it happens

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to be right across the street from the police station

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at the post office. And my one of my favorite

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things about this is the leave the police precinct. It

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has the iconic shot of the Chicago Board of Trade building.

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I think it's La Salle Street if I'm not mistaken,

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and you just get any O Morricone's score, that sweeping,

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heroic score as the four of them are walking across

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the glass. It's just that glossy street and you get

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all the classic period cars parked along each side, the

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set dressing, the location, everything is like you just want

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to stand up and like let's go, come on, let's

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go kick ass and they do, and then they go

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in and raid I'm failing, My words are failing me

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at the stash house what do you call that where

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they're holding.

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All the liquor there? But yeah, yeah, the warehouse.

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Yeah, and Connery's got some great lines after he punches

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the the you know, the gangster that's running the show

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there in the stomach with his shotgun. I think he

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belts him in the stomach regardless, as you know, how

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do they how do you think he feels now better

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or worse?

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It's lines like that. I love in this from him, so.

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Yeah, heroic seeing it gets my blood pump in every time.

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Yeah, I love that. Here they are in the office

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and Malone it's like, okay, let's start this, let's get

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compone and they literally cross the street to do it.

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Right ed ness the whole time is like wait, wait,

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are you sure about this? Are you sure he's nervous

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because if he's already got a bad mark against him,

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and if he f's this up, he's probably done. And

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sure enough, right under the police noses. Yeah, clickers.

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Malone's got a great line too. This is also a

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great scene in the way where this is where there

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Malone makes this point clear is that there's no going

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back after this, So this is committing to the action.

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And he has that line, mister ness. Everybody knows where

455
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the booze is. The problem isn't finding it. The problem

456
00:22:43.279 --> 00:22:45.960
is who wants to cross Compone. There you go, and

457
00:22:46.000 --> 00:22:49.119
then we're really off after this scene. It's very theatrical

458
00:22:49.160 --> 00:22:50.960
on Triumphant. So that's kind of what I'm talking about

459
00:22:51.000 --> 00:22:54.119
with the writing too, about the very theatrical nature of it.

460
00:22:54.240 --> 00:22:57.200
So, oh yeah, what do you got next? I mean,

461
00:22:57.240 --> 00:22:59.480
this got me as a kid and it still gets

462
00:22:59.519 --> 00:23:03.279
me today. And that's Oscar Wallace's death. So Oscar Wallis

463
00:23:03.359 --> 00:23:07.480
is played by Charles Martin Smith and in the beginning

464
00:23:07.519 --> 00:23:09.079
of the movie we kind of he's like the nerdy

465
00:23:09.119 --> 00:23:12.200
type who's trying to get Compone through tax evasion, and

466
00:23:12.279 --> 00:23:14.400
they kind of thrust him into more of an action

467
00:23:14.599 --> 00:23:16.559
role and he steps up and there is a scene

468
00:23:16.599 --> 00:23:19.359
early in the movie and the border patrol we think

469
00:23:19.400 --> 00:23:23.000
he's going to die and he somehow survives it, so okay,

470
00:23:23.039 --> 00:23:27.480
he's untouchable. Nothing's going to happen. And he's supposed to

471
00:23:27.640 --> 00:23:32.200
escort this bookkeeper and he's in the elevator with which

472
00:23:32.240 --> 00:23:34.200
he thinks is a police officer and the bookkeeper, and

473
00:23:34.200 --> 00:23:35.880
the bookkeeper's like, you gotta protect me, you got to

474
00:23:35.880 --> 00:23:37.519
protect me. He's like, ah, I don't worry, don't worry,

475
00:23:37.559 --> 00:23:40.039
don't worry. And of course the police officer ends up

476
00:23:40.039 --> 00:23:43.880
being one of Compone's right hand man Eddie and turns

477
00:23:43.880 --> 00:23:45.920
around and points a gun in his head, and you're like,

478
00:23:46.240 --> 00:23:50.119
this isn't going to happen. Boom dead. I couldn't believe that,

479
00:23:50.240 --> 00:23:51.880
you know. It's like, oh my god, the good guy's

480
00:23:51.960 --> 00:23:55.920
dying sure enough alone and Ness get down to him

481
00:23:55.920 --> 00:23:59.160
and he's hung up in the elevator and that was crushing.

482
00:23:59.200 --> 00:24:01.759
That was crushing minut because it almost felt like he

483
00:24:01.799 --> 00:24:05.440
was the least supporting of the four, but now his

484
00:24:05.519 --> 00:24:06.680
death was very impactful.

485
00:24:07.039 --> 00:24:08.720
If you want to be mad at this movie for

486
00:24:08.759 --> 00:24:11.160
a reason, it's because they really set you up for

487
00:24:11.240 --> 00:24:14.920
a fall here, and man, I fell when Wallace died

488
00:24:15.359 --> 00:24:18.319
because they make him so. He's the feel good, like

489
00:24:18.359 --> 00:24:22.000
you said, comic relief character. He's just kind of a

490
00:24:22.359 --> 00:24:24.599
seems to be just a really upbeat dude with a

491
00:24:24.599 --> 00:24:27.599
great disposition, is always smiling and he's chewing on his pipe.

492
00:24:27.839 --> 00:24:30.039
Love the scene when he first comes into the office

493
00:24:30.359 --> 00:24:32.440
with the books and he's wanted to talk to Ness

494
00:24:32.440 --> 00:24:34.880
about the tax evasion and they're getting ready to go

495
00:24:34.920 --> 00:24:37.640
on this raid with their shotguns and Malone walks over

496
00:24:37.680 --> 00:24:41.119
to him says, you carry badge. He's like, yep, carry gun.

497
00:24:41.400 --> 00:24:41.960
Just gives him the.

498
00:24:42.000 --> 00:24:44.480
Shotgun and it's like okay, And he's still got the

499
00:24:44.480 --> 00:24:47.319
pipe in his mouth the whole time, yep, going across

500
00:24:47.319 --> 00:24:47.599
the street.

501
00:24:47.680 --> 00:24:50.119
So then when he dies, it's like, no, you can't.

502
00:24:50.480 --> 00:24:53.160
He's the Oh no, I loved him.

503
00:24:53.599 --> 00:24:57.160
You just really really he's so likable and it's awful

504
00:24:57.400 --> 00:24:58.039
the way he goes on.

505
00:24:58.160 --> 00:25:01.839
You called it super violence. Super violent?

506
00:25:02.359 --> 00:25:07.160
No, definitely that when he shoots the uh the bookkeeper

507
00:25:07.200 --> 00:25:09.839
or whatever that character is who is our haits that

508
00:25:09.920 --> 00:25:11.359
actor from he was.

509
00:25:11.279 --> 00:25:13.519
Her head set actor from a funny farm, right.

510
00:25:13.680 --> 00:25:18.519
Yeah, yeah, it's it's awful. And then he actually hangs

511
00:25:18.880 --> 00:25:21.640
Wallace up like on the clipboard by his jacket.

512
00:25:21.720 --> 00:25:24.640
He somehow hangs him into the in the elevator and.

513
00:25:24.599 --> 00:25:28.359
The word in blood reads touchable. So it's great, but

514
00:25:28.440 --> 00:25:32.079
it's awful. Yeah, all right, I've got the next one.

515
00:25:32.079 --> 00:25:37.160
In this one I call an operatic death This also

516
00:25:37.240 --> 00:25:40.279
is gut wrenching. May have seen this coming a little

517
00:25:40.319 --> 00:25:46.319
more than Wallace's death. However, this is wonderful cinematography and direction.

518
00:25:46.920 --> 00:25:50.160
We've got a POV tracking shot. It's a one take

519
00:25:50.240 --> 00:25:52.440
shot from the from the research.

520
00:25:52.480 --> 00:25:53.480
This is good. I like this.

521
00:25:53.519 --> 00:25:58.400
It's the peeping tom perspective of gangster who is breaking

522
00:25:58.440 --> 00:26:01.880
into Connery or Malone's apartment and he's watching him from

523
00:26:01.880 --> 00:26:05.920
the window, climbing along like the ledge outside the windows,

524
00:26:05.960 --> 00:26:09.599
and then finally goes in and lures Connery out to

525
00:26:09.640 --> 00:26:14.039
that stoop out back and man every time like I'm

526
00:26:14.119 --> 00:26:16.720
just every time, I'm like, oh no, don't go out there,

527
00:26:16.799 --> 00:26:20.920
don't go out there. And of course that shot of

528
00:26:21.000 --> 00:26:23.480
when he looks up in the realization that he's basically

529
00:26:23.519 --> 00:26:26.240
been set up and Nitdi is standing on the staircase

530
00:26:26.839 --> 00:26:29.440
and just blows him away with that Tommy gain. This

531
00:26:29.480 --> 00:26:32.359
is the shit that is seared into my mind from

532
00:26:32.359 --> 00:26:35.079
this movie. The number of bullets that he gets hit

533
00:26:35.160 --> 00:26:39.759
with always, he gets hit in the chest, flips around,

534
00:26:39.839 --> 00:26:43.799
gets hit multiple times in the back, blood everywhere. So

535
00:26:44.000 --> 00:26:48.960
this whole scene combined with then after he shot the

536
00:26:49.400 --> 00:26:51.599
song I'm going I hope I don't butcher this, but

537
00:26:51.759 --> 00:26:57.720
vesti la giuba or giuba from Palliacci the opera, that

538
00:26:57.799 --> 00:27:02.079
particular song which is very famous is playing, and Capone

539
00:27:02.119 --> 00:27:04.039
is at the theater and then he's got like tears

540
00:27:04.039 --> 00:27:06.119
of joy when he hears the news from Nitty that

541
00:27:06.720 --> 00:27:10.279
Malone has been taken out. Everything from this, the Malone

542
00:27:10.319 --> 00:27:14.200
grabbing the train schedule, the emotional basically farewell from great

543
00:27:14.240 --> 00:27:18.119
emotional moment from Costner. But Garcia on his knees with

544
00:27:18.160 --> 00:27:21.079
his head hanging down and he's like crying, Yeah, puts

545
00:27:21.079 --> 00:27:24.599
his hand out to touch Malone's hand. It's awful, But

546
00:27:25.119 --> 00:27:29.720
really it's gut wrenching when Connor dies.

547
00:27:29.920 --> 00:27:32.279
Because I remember when I saw in the movie and

548
00:27:33.160 --> 00:27:36.839
after he gets shot and the cuts a Capone and

549
00:27:36.880 --> 00:27:39.920
then they cut back to the apartment and Connor's crawing

550
00:27:39.960 --> 00:27:42.920
against the floor. There was people in the theater grown like, oh,

551
00:27:43.000 --> 00:27:46.359
come on, there's no way he survived. But then the

552
00:27:46.440 --> 00:27:49.400
death scene, the theater was silent. You could hear a

553
00:27:49.440 --> 00:27:52.359
pin drop, and then the what are you but bad

554
00:27:52.440 --> 00:27:56.759
to do? That was tough. Yeah, I kind of turned

555
00:27:56.759 --> 00:27:59.599
away from the screen for a little bit. Yeah, I

556
00:27:59.640 --> 00:28:02.559
regard this is one of the iconic death scenes in cinema.

557
00:28:02.920 --> 00:28:07.480
It's just no, definitely, and then just getting frustrated when

558
00:28:07.839 --> 00:28:10.920
he's trying to tell Ness to get the train schedule.

559
00:28:11.319 --> 00:28:13.599
It's like, you want this, you want this, like you

560
00:28:13.839 --> 00:28:16.400
stupid son of a bitch, because you could tell you.

561
00:28:16.519 --> 00:28:20.079
Like He's literally saved his final moments, his last breath

562
00:28:20.720 --> 00:28:24.119
to have enough energy to grab that train schedule, but

563
00:28:26.160 --> 00:28:27.119
he barely gets it.

564
00:28:27.519 --> 00:28:31.400
Yeah, speaking of training schedules, Definitely, one of the most

565
00:28:31.759 --> 00:28:36.839
iconic scenes of the movie is the gunfight on the steps,

566
00:28:37.319 --> 00:28:42.440
and this is pretty much taken from a battleship but Tanken,

567
00:28:42.759 --> 00:28:44.799
did you ever see that Jason find a chance? You know?

568
00:28:45.039 --> 00:28:47.480
I want to say I did in film school, but

569
00:28:47.880 --> 00:28:50.440
I couldn't tell you anything about it to be honest,

570
00:28:50.920 --> 00:28:53.640
But I'll just say yeah that this Union State, the

571
00:28:53.720 --> 00:28:56.880
Chicago Union Station shootout is this is the scene.

572
00:28:57.200 --> 00:28:59.559
This is the scene from the movie I think most

573
00:28:59.599 --> 00:29:04.400
people identify with. Yeah. It's amazing because you have Costner

574
00:29:04.559 --> 00:29:07.240
and George and they're trying to get to the train

575
00:29:07.279 --> 00:29:10.279
station before the bookkeeper gets there so they can pick

576
00:29:10.319 --> 00:29:13.359
him up and use his information to prosecute Compone because

577
00:29:13.720 --> 00:29:15.160
they realize the only way they're going to get to

578
00:29:15.200 --> 00:29:18.519
get him is through this tax evasion, and they're waiting.

579
00:29:19.200 --> 00:29:20.759
Ness is waiting at the top of the steps, and

580
00:29:20.759 --> 00:29:23.000
this lady's pulling up the baby carriage and he goes

581
00:29:23.079 --> 00:29:25.200
runs down help and by the time he gets up

582
00:29:25.200 --> 00:29:28.359
to the top of the carriage there's components men. One

583
00:29:28.359 --> 00:29:32.400
of them of course recognize Ness. Gunfight ensues and then

584
00:29:32.480 --> 00:29:34.759
here goes the baby carriage. Boom boom, boom, boom boom.

585
00:29:34.799 --> 00:29:37.440
Down the steps. People are shooting at the baby carriage.

586
00:29:37.640 --> 00:29:40.720
Here comes Stone coming in. He's just picking everyone off

587
00:29:40.799 --> 00:29:45.200
left and right, and then Stone slides stops the carriage.

588
00:29:45.720 --> 00:29:48.559
The last of components Men as the bookkeeper's hostage, basically

589
00:29:48.640 --> 00:29:52.119
tells Ness he's going to kill the bookkeeper or they're leaving,

590
00:29:52.240 --> 00:29:56.480
one of those two alternatives, and then Boomstone shoots components

591
00:29:56.519 --> 00:29:59.519
men right between the eyes and a scene so awesome.

592
00:29:59.640 --> 00:30:01.920
If you watch Battleship the Tank and with this is

593
00:30:01.960 --> 00:30:04.319
based on. It's a Russian movie. It's so much shot

594
00:30:04.319 --> 00:30:08.279
for shot, but it works for both, and it's so

595
00:30:08.400 --> 00:30:11.000
much fun. And I was I couldn't believe when I

596
00:30:11.039 --> 00:30:12.559
saw this in film school. And this, of course, this

597
00:30:12.640 --> 00:30:14.480
is after I saw this movie and I was like,

598
00:30:14.559 --> 00:30:17.200
holy shit, it's the same thing. I gotta go back

599
00:30:17.240 --> 00:30:21.359
and see it. Effect of though in this setting, it's

600
00:30:21.359 --> 00:30:23.960
so much fun. Yeah, this is definitely one of the

601
00:30:23.960 --> 00:30:27.400
best scenes from eighties movies. Yeah, I would say, yeah,

602
00:30:27.400 --> 00:30:30.319
I would definitely say top ten act scenes without it

603
00:30:30.480 --> 00:30:35.720
eighties movies without a doubt. It's just really really well crafted.

604
00:30:36.200 --> 00:30:38.920
I love the conflicting music in the beginning with the

605
00:30:39.920 --> 00:30:42.640
lullaby in the background. Oh yes, and then you have

606
00:30:42.680 --> 00:30:46.160
Marconi's score a little bit more, you know, foreboding in

607
00:30:46.200 --> 00:30:49.400
the foreground. All the different players, whether it's the navy

608
00:30:49.440 --> 00:30:52.400
guy or the suspicious character wearing the suit who then

609
00:30:52.599 --> 00:30:55.079
is just met by his girlfriend and walks off. There's

610
00:30:55.079 --> 00:30:58.119
so many different players in this and you just you

611
00:30:58.200 --> 00:31:02.119
called it all out, but it's all it's using all

612
00:31:02.119 --> 00:31:05.880
film techniques, all film techniques to build tension, and depaulm

613
00:31:05.960 --> 00:31:07.920
is a master at it. It's the pacing, it's the

614
00:31:08.000 --> 00:31:12.240
vertigo shots looking downward, the editing, the time constraint when

615
00:31:12.240 --> 00:31:14.599
you keep hearing the announcement of the train is going

616
00:31:14.680 --> 00:31:17.000
to be leaving at twelve oh five I believe or

617
00:31:17.039 --> 00:31:21.799
whatever it is. So there's just you're anticipating the entire time,

618
00:31:22.319 --> 00:31:27.640
the slow motion. But come on, it's Garcia, it's George Stone.

619
00:31:27.720 --> 00:31:30.240
Ji Setie is such a badass in this man. When

620
00:31:30.240 --> 00:31:32.559
he comes riding around the Glarner double fisted with the

621
00:31:32.680 --> 00:31:35.640
little snubnosed pistols and just tosses one to Nests and

622
00:31:35.640 --> 00:31:39.119
then being the marksman that he is, talk about another

623
00:31:39.319 --> 00:31:44.480
really violent scene because when what he's the bad guy's

624
00:31:44.480 --> 00:31:47.920
counting to three, right, and on two he barely opens

625
00:31:47.920 --> 00:31:51.119
his mouth and Stone puts a bullet right through him.

626
00:31:51.519 --> 00:31:53.920
M And you get that blood splatter on the back

627
00:31:54.160 --> 00:32:01.359
and that great music in the background, and you're just like, damn, yeah.

628
00:32:01.160 --> 00:32:04.559
Yeah, just that look that Stone is giving compone Sky,

629
00:32:05.720 --> 00:32:08.680
just waiting for Ness to just say just shoot shoot

630
00:32:09.079 --> 00:32:11.599
m hm. And he knows as soon as Nest says it,

631
00:32:11.640 --> 00:32:14.559
I got him. That's awesome. And then he finishes it off.

632
00:32:14.559 --> 00:32:17.079
He actually finishes the count right, he's about because the

633
00:32:17.079 --> 00:32:19.400
bad guy's about to say two, but one of them does.

634
00:32:19.480 --> 00:32:19.680
Yeah.

635
00:32:19.759 --> 00:32:26.759
Stone then goes two after he shoots him. Yeah, thank

636
00:32:26.799 --> 00:32:28.720
you for saying that. That's what that's what you should

637
00:32:28.839 --> 00:32:30.359
That's a scene you study in class.

638
00:32:30.440 --> 00:32:34.359
Yeah, for sure, definitely uh. And finally, for me, another

639
00:32:34.400 --> 00:32:36.920
famous scene or or even moment, what I would say

640
00:32:36.960 --> 00:32:40.599
scene too, is when Ness realizes that Nitty is the

641
00:32:40.640 --> 00:32:43.559
one that killed Malone and they had the rooftop chase.

642
00:32:44.160 --> 00:32:46.680
There's two moments that I really like. There's one when

643
00:32:46.680 --> 00:32:49.799
we think Ness falls off the roof and Nitty goes

644
00:32:49.839 --> 00:32:53.880
to check and Ness shoots him but hits his hat

645
00:32:54.079 --> 00:32:56.880
and the way he just flies back and flops and

646
00:32:56.920 --> 00:32:59.000
then gets up and starts running again, and then he

647
00:32:59.079 --> 00:33:01.640
tries to escape and Ness catches him and Ness is

648
00:33:01.680 --> 00:33:05.519
going to escort him back, and Nitty is just playing

649
00:33:05.559 --> 00:33:07.440
with him like, oh yeah, I'm alone. It's like a

650
00:33:07.519 --> 00:33:11.160
pig when I killed him and you think Ness is

651
00:33:11.200 --> 00:33:13.279
a good guys. He's going to take him, just arrest

652
00:33:13.319 --> 00:33:15.720
him like he's supposed to, and just tosses him off

653
00:33:15.759 --> 00:33:18.559
the roof and goes, does he sound like that? And

654
00:33:18.640 --> 00:33:21.000
then he lands in the car and that stone later

655
00:33:21.480 --> 00:33:23.599
the Nitty I left him in the car and it's

656
00:33:23.640 --> 00:33:25.680
just awesome, and you just see his dead body all

657
00:33:25.720 --> 00:33:29.359
smashed up in the car. It's like awesome when Nitty's

658
00:33:29.359 --> 00:33:30.799
body just hits that car.

659
00:33:31.359 --> 00:33:35.519
Yeah, and the fall off the roof isn't bad actually,

660
00:33:35.559 --> 00:33:37.400
and there's just that they had to do the one

661
00:33:37.440 --> 00:33:39.559
close up that looked bad with the special effects.

662
00:33:39.559 --> 00:33:40.480
But outside of that.

663
00:33:41.039 --> 00:33:43.519
It was a pretty good, pretty well filmed stunt and

664
00:33:43.519 --> 00:33:48.400
and pretty well edited great chase across the rooftops. Nitty

665
00:33:48.440 --> 00:33:52.519
is a real bad dude. Another memorable quote screamed like

666
00:33:52.519 --> 00:33:53.680
a stuck Irish pig.

667
00:33:54.440 --> 00:33:55.279
It's awful.

668
00:33:56.039 --> 00:34:01.119
And this is the time when Ness finally he crosses

669
00:34:01.160 --> 00:34:04.079
the line. He's been pushed too far and this guy

670
00:34:04.119 --> 00:34:07.519
needs to go down, and he really goes down.

671
00:34:08.480 --> 00:34:16.559
Yeah, okay, moving on to swiss cheese and complaints apartments

672
00:34:17.000 --> 00:34:19.639
and what do we call it swiss cheese? Because although

673
00:34:19.679 --> 00:34:23.360
this movie is delicious, it does have Tommy gun holes. Yeah,

674
00:34:23.440 --> 00:34:25.599
so it doesn't have any of those Tommy gun holes.

675
00:34:25.719 --> 00:34:28.519
We just file a complaint. What's a complaints apartment? So, Jason,

676
00:34:28.519 --> 00:34:31.039
do you have anything for swiss cheese or complaints?

677
00:34:31.599 --> 00:34:34.320
I got a few, uh kind of like questions.

678
00:34:34.400 --> 00:34:34.639
Yeah.

679
00:34:34.719 --> 00:34:42.320
Yeah. After the very first raid gone wrong, when Ness

680
00:34:42.400 --> 00:34:48.440
gets oh yes, okay, he has his photo taken by

681
00:34:48.599 --> 00:34:54.880
you know, reporter photographer and then is skulking on the

682
00:34:54.920 --> 00:34:57.679
bridge where we are then introduced to Malone. They have

683
00:34:57.679 --> 00:35:00.679
a scene together on the bridge, but he's already got

684
00:35:00.719 --> 00:35:05.079
the newspaper with the photo of him failing in the

685
00:35:05.079 --> 00:35:07.719
headline of the raid gone wrong, that was a failure.

686
00:35:08.000 --> 00:35:09.840
I was like, how did that already? How is it

687
00:35:09.840 --> 00:35:10.679
published already?

688
00:35:11.360 --> 00:35:14.199
It seemed like that was the night of the same

689
00:35:14.320 --> 00:35:16.880
night of the raid. I didn't He says, I'm alone

690
00:35:16.880 --> 00:35:19.400
that he had a really rough day, and I got

691
00:35:19.400 --> 00:35:21.360
a little confused as to how that paper came out

692
00:35:21.360 --> 00:35:21.880
so quickly.

693
00:35:22.199 --> 00:35:25.760
I'm assuming it's the next day. Yeah, I mean, yeah,

694
00:35:25.880 --> 00:35:27.519
I guess it has to be. And he had to

695
00:35:27.519 --> 00:35:29.760
explain all that all day long, like what the hell

696
00:35:29.840 --> 00:35:33.199
went wrong? Yeah? But yeah, I think my question is,

697
00:35:33.360 --> 00:35:36.159
like they make such a big deal about the informant

698
00:35:36.239 --> 00:35:40.519
and then Ness says, don't touch the informant, but once

699
00:35:40.559 --> 00:35:42.719
you still want to arrest him, just to kind of

700
00:35:43.159 --> 00:35:44.079
keep up with the act.

701
00:35:44.639 --> 00:35:46.679
I had that written down to before. I don't know

702
00:35:46.719 --> 00:35:49.920
why I didn't have it here thousand percent? What was

703
00:35:49.960 --> 00:35:52.559
the deal with the informant? Bad intel? And was he

704
00:35:53.199 --> 00:35:57.239
I'm assuming then that Capone's people got to him first

705
00:35:58.119 --> 00:36:01.440
or got it. How to interrogate the inform You gotta

706
00:36:01.440 --> 00:36:02.079
find that guy?

707
00:36:02.480 --> 00:36:05.440
Yeah, At that point, the guy would know like, oh,

708
00:36:05.480 --> 00:36:07.559
we've been set up, or he's been set up and

709
00:36:07.599 --> 00:36:10.360
it's not liquor. I guess compose the whole thing is

710
00:36:10.480 --> 00:36:13.639
just just embarrass him and he'll go skulking home. But

711
00:36:13.719 --> 00:36:17.119
that's not the case. Yeah, go ahead. I mean, it's

712
00:36:17.119 --> 00:36:19.480
one of my favorite scenes that I mentioned. But you know,

713
00:36:19.519 --> 00:36:22.480
with Oscar Wallace's desk, how did Nitty find time to

714
00:36:22.480 --> 00:36:25.880
write and touchables or touchables and blood? Right? I want

715
00:36:25.880 --> 00:36:26.559
to get out of there.

716
00:36:27.000 --> 00:36:29.760
Yeah, he put in some work there, and he did

717
00:36:29.800 --> 00:36:32.000
take him a lot more time than it took for

718
00:36:32.880 --> 00:36:34.760
Ness and Malone to get down there and get into

719
00:36:34.760 --> 00:36:35.239
the elevator.

720
00:36:35.320 --> 00:36:35.760
Yeah.

721
00:36:35.960 --> 00:36:39.519
Yeah, I hear you on that one. For sure, effective

722
00:36:39.760 --> 00:36:41.920
but maybe not quite realistic.

723
00:36:41.960 --> 00:36:44.559
Right because there's two cops waiting down at the elevator.

724
00:36:44.679 --> 00:36:47.480
Malone and Ness hear that gunshot, so they're on their

725
00:36:47.519 --> 00:36:50.320
way down. Yeah, I don't think i'd be taking time

726
00:36:50.360 --> 00:36:54.960
to And it's not little print, it's big. Oh yeah,

727
00:36:55.119 --> 00:36:58.639
two foot tall letters all across the elevator for sure.

728
00:36:59.320 --> 00:37:01.719
Good call, man, good call. I question.

729
00:37:02.480 --> 00:37:07.719
We we love Oscar Oscar Wallace. Now during the Canadian

730
00:37:07.719 --> 00:37:12.400
Mounty scene when they take over the shipment of Canadian whiskey.

731
00:37:12.079 --> 00:37:12.639
On the bridge.

732
00:37:12.800 --> 00:37:16.199
Do we This is where just gets a little maybe

733
00:37:16.239 --> 00:37:18.079
a little far fetched for me. Did you buy the

734
00:37:18.119 --> 00:37:22.960
fact Wallace takes out more cronies than anybody else? He like,

735
00:37:23.000 --> 00:37:25.880
shoots at least three guys with his shotgun and takes

736
00:37:25.880 --> 00:37:27.639
out the fourth by knocking him out with the butt

737
00:37:27.639 --> 00:37:30.199
of his shotgun. I was like, I don't know if

738
00:37:31.599 --> 00:37:34.360
Oscar Wallace was quite capable enough to take out all

739
00:37:34.400 --> 00:37:34.880
those guys.

740
00:37:34.880 --> 00:37:39.199
I don't know how you felt about that. He's been trained, Okay.

741
00:37:39.719 --> 00:37:44.039
I always loved that because the least likely of the

742
00:37:44.079 --> 00:37:46.719
four was able to pull that off. I mean, most

743
00:37:46.719 --> 00:37:48.400
of it was fear and some of it was probably

744
00:37:48.440 --> 00:37:49.800
just training instinct.

745
00:37:50.519 --> 00:37:54.079
Yeah, as an accountant with the Bureau. He I mean,

746
00:37:54.159 --> 00:37:56.039
he's with the Bureau. He had to have some training

747
00:37:56.039 --> 00:37:58.400
at some point. Yeah, I mean, okay, See that's why

748
00:37:58.400 --> 00:38:00.199
I've just formed it was just a question uestion.

749
00:38:00.719 --> 00:38:04.079
No, it's okay. It bothers you, that's fine, didn't bother me.

750
00:38:04.280 --> 00:38:08.679
Sense during the Union Station shootout, that gangster that takes

751
00:38:08.679 --> 00:38:12.360
the bookkeeper hostage and starts moving up the staircase to

752
00:38:12.400 --> 00:38:14.920
the exit, here's a question for you, But why doesn't

753
00:38:14.920 --> 00:38:18.599
he just continue moving up the staircase. He's got the

754
00:38:18.599 --> 00:38:21.440
bookkeeper hostage at gunpoint, he stops.

755
00:38:22.039 --> 00:38:24.360
That's a good question. I have no idea, you know

756
00:38:24.360 --> 00:38:25.679
what I mean, Like, what is he what is he

757
00:38:25.719 --> 00:38:29.320
trying to negotiate? Just get out of there. Yeah, it's

758
00:38:29.320 --> 00:38:31.360
your typical bad guy telling the good guys what your

759
00:38:31.400 --> 00:38:32.079
plan is and.

760
00:38:32.920 --> 00:38:36.599
Yeah, right, monologuing or something. Yeah, did you have more?

761
00:38:36.960 --> 00:38:38.239
I just have two more quick ones.

762
00:38:38.239 --> 00:38:39.599
I know we're only supposed to have a few, but

763
00:38:39.679 --> 00:38:42.360
they're very quick. This is my big one. This is

764
00:38:42.559 --> 00:38:45.000
kind of disappointing, all right. So we have Elliotts and

765
00:38:45.000 --> 00:38:47.199
we have Copone. There's very few scenes of the two

766
00:38:47.239 --> 00:38:49.239
of them together. Base of the one, the staircase, and

767
00:38:49.280 --> 00:38:51.760
then in the courtroom, and then at the very end,

768
00:38:51.840 --> 00:38:55.079
when pretty much we know Capone's going to jail and

769
00:38:55.199 --> 00:38:58.079
Ness makes his way over to talk to him, I'm

770
00:38:58.119 --> 00:39:02.920
thinking for some big dialogue moment, and then he drops

771
00:39:02.920 --> 00:39:07.000
that never stop fighting until the fight is I'm like, really,

772
00:39:08.239 --> 00:39:10.559
all these great lines in the movie, and that's what

773
00:39:10.599 --> 00:39:16.239
we dropped with the conclusion of the nes Capone saga. Yep, yeah,

774
00:39:16.239 --> 00:39:18.079
I was really bummed with that. That didn't do it

775
00:39:18.119 --> 00:39:18.639
for me at all.

776
00:39:19.480 --> 00:39:24.000
Never stop, never stop fighting until the fight is done here. Okay,

777
00:39:24.039 --> 00:39:27.639
it didn't work for you. That is weak sauce, gotcha. Okay,

778
00:39:28.079 --> 00:39:31.199
didn't bother me as much. But I can understand your

779
00:39:31.199 --> 00:39:33.079
point of view there for sure. They don't have many

780
00:39:33.079 --> 00:39:39.039
scenes together, really, Okay, that the big climactic moment for

781
00:39:39.079 --> 00:39:42.719
the two of them, a little of a letdown, kind

782
00:39:42.719 --> 00:39:45.320
of takes the air out a little bit. Yeah, okay,

783
00:39:45.440 --> 00:39:49.000
all right, here's one for you. The photo, the iconic

784
00:39:49.039 --> 00:39:51.679
photo we talked about at the top, a photo that's

785
00:39:51.719 --> 00:39:53.239
taken in the middle of the movie is not the

786
00:39:53.280 --> 00:39:55.519
same movie photo we see at the end of the movie.

787
00:39:55.760 --> 00:39:57.760
Oh yeah, it's just weird to me.

788
00:39:57.880 --> 00:39:59.840
I don't know why they did that, because it's clear

789
00:39:59.840 --> 00:40:02.000
as in the middle of the movie, what the the

790
00:40:02.400 --> 00:40:04.920
you know, we see a freeze frame of the photo itself,

791
00:40:05.159 --> 00:40:07.400
and at the end, I'm like, that's not the same picture.

792
00:40:07.920 --> 00:40:09.559
I mean, it's the four of them sitting together, but

793
00:40:09.599 --> 00:40:13.360
they're in like a slightly different I forget, I apologize.

794
00:40:13.360 --> 00:40:15.639
I don't know specifically why. I just know it's different

795
00:40:15.639 --> 00:40:18.800
because it looks if they're one's expression is different. I

796
00:40:18.840 --> 00:40:20.639
don't know if their hands are placed in different places,

797
00:40:20.639 --> 00:40:21.480
but it's just different.

798
00:40:21.800 --> 00:40:26.000
It's weird. It'd be funny if they lost the one, like, ah,

799
00:40:26.280 --> 00:40:28.239
all right, we're gonna shoot another one. Do you remember

800
00:40:28.239 --> 00:40:33.119
where you guys were sitting? I love it, I love it. Yeah,

801
00:40:34.639 --> 00:40:35.320
two copies.

802
00:40:37.119 --> 00:40:39.280
This is my last quick one. Did you think that

803
00:40:39.360 --> 00:40:42.519
after Frank Nitty's situation outside the court room at the

804
00:40:42.599 --> 00:40:45.480
end when he shoots the officer, you know, he gets

805
00:40:45.559 --> 00:40:47.320
dragged out of the cart and shoots the officer and

806
00:40:47.360 --> 00:40:49.679
then the whole thing goes down obviously between Ness and

807
00:40:50.039 --> 00:40:53.280
Nitty on the rooftop your favorite scene. Wouldn't the trial

808
00:40:53.360 --> 00:40:56.039
be paused at that point when they're just been a

809
00:40:56.079 --> 00:40:59.639
shooting outside? Do they continue that?

810
00:41:00.719 --> 00:41:04.360
Yeah? You would think they would have to clear the courts. Yeah,

811
00:41:04.400 --> 00:41:06.920
there's a gunfight in the building. Everyone's got to get out,

812
00:41:08.719 --> 00:41:12.840
shut everything down. Yeah, it seems so weird when that

813
00:41:12.920 --> 00:41:15.119
the bailiffs gets shot in the way, he's just like,

814
00:41:15.239 --> 00:41:18.519
take my gun. Such a weird line delivery.

815
00:41:19.199 --> 00:41:22.480
Yeah, yeah, it's a real quick, weird moment. Well that's

816
00:41:22.480 --> 00:41:23.039
all I got.

817
00:41:23.239 --> 00:41:27.239
Let's move on to Hey it's that actor all right.

818
00:41:27.400 --> 00:41:30.159
So in this segment with spotlight a character actor you

819
00:41:30.159 --> 00:41:32.639
have seen in many other films, an actor making their

820
00:41:32.719 --> 00:41:36.079
big screen debut. Who an actor makes an uncredit cameo,

821
00:41:36.559 --> 00:41:39.280
it's hey, it's that actor. Who do we choose this week?

822
00:41:39.639 --> 00:41:42.719
This week we choose four Hour Hats That actor Don

823
00:41:43.000 --> 00:41:48.679
Harvey as Officer Prazuski. He was one of the Flying Squad.

824
00:41:49.000 --> 00:41:51.440
It's near the beginning of the film, right before the

825
00:41:51.440 --> 00:41:54.519
the raid that is a giant failure for Elliott. Ness

826
00:41:54.840 --> 00:41:58.400
Ness gets into the car with Prazuski and they have

827
00:41:58.440 --> 00:42:01.920
a little conversation and basically Prazuski is just replying yes, sir, yes, sir,

828
00:42:02.000 --> 00:42:04.719
yes sir. But Ness asks him if he's married and

829
00:42:04.800 --> 00:42:07.039
makes a comment like it's it's nice to be married.

830
00:42:07.280 --> 00:42:10.360
But I recognize that actor's face right away. He's very

831
00:42:10.400 --> 00:42:14.199
young in this. He is an American character actor from Michigan.

832
00:42:14.480 --> 00:42:16.960
Here's his eighties. This is gonna be quick. He did

833
00:42:17.000 --> 00:42:19.679
a couple episodes of soap operas early on. He did

834
00:42:19.719 --> 00:42:21.760
After School Special in eighty five, had a role in

835
00:42:21.800 --> 00:42:24.440
Creep Show two in eighty seven, does this in eighty

836
00:42:24.480 --> 00:42:27.679
seven as well? Then now wait for it. He played

837
00:42:27.679 --> 00:42:31.440
the role of Alan Beeks in an episode of Miami Vice.

838
00:42:31.679 --> 00:42:34.840
This was season four, episode seventeen. The name of the

839
00:42:34.880 --> 00:42:37.400
episode was hell Hath No Fury. That was in nineteen

840
00:42:37.440 --> 00:42:40.559
eighty eight. He plays the role of Swede Risburg in

841
00:42:40.679 --> 00:42:44.280
Eight Men Out in eighty eight, then plays the role

842
00:42:44.320 --> 00:42:48.320
of another DePalma film after this, Casualties of War in

843
00:42:48.360 --> 00:42:52.639
eighty nine. But I think I actually know him best

844
00:42:53.079 --> 00:42:57.519
as the bad guy named Garber from Diehard two. He

845
00:42:57.599 --> 00:43:00.360
has the line near the beginning when he puts is

846
00:43:00.360 --> 00:43:02.719
the TV camera out of the way, He puts his

847
00:43:02.760 --> 00:43:05.320
hand on it, and forgive my language here, listeners, but

848
00:43:05.679 --> 00:43:08.400
his quote is no pictures, you pinko bitch?

849
00:43:09.320 --> 00:43:11.360
Do you remember that character? I don't know.

850
00:43:11.480 --> 00:43:14.079
That just seems to be a memorable moment from that film.

851
00:43:14.119 --> 00:43:17.440
That's what I know our guy Don Harvey from. But

852
00:43:17.760 --> 00:43:20.920
other notables after Yeah, we're already into the nineties and

853
00:43:20.960 --> 00:43:23.400
so on and so forth here. But he's in Hudson Hawk,

854
00:43:23.519 --> 00:43:25.840
Tank Girl. He's been a ton of episodic TV. Just

855
00:43:25.880 --> 00:43:28.719
look him up. He was in Taken three. In recent years,

856
00:43:28.719 --> 00:43:30.840
he was an episode of Lethal Weapon, the TV series.

857
00:43:30.880 --> 00:43:33.559
He was an episode of Yellowstone, a couple episodes of

858
00:43:33.599 --> 00:43:36.159
Better Call Saul. He plays Anthony Pellicano in a couple

859
00:43:36.239 --> 00:43:39.440
episodes of the TV mini series Pam and Tommy. Don

860
00:43:39.480 --> 00:43:43.119
Harvey still Working Today recognized him right away.

861
00:43:43.360 --> 00:43:46.039
When they did the lineup. When Nes goes to see them,

862
00:43:46.039 --> 00:43:51.239
he stood out, yeah, good, oh for sure. Wait second, yeah,

863
00:43:51.320 --> 00:43:53.119
there he is in the in the cor scene. And

864
00:43:53.159 --> 00:43:55.159
then as soon as you started mentioning all those movies,

865
00:43:55.239 --> 00:43:57.519
I saw him in everything that you were talking about, saying,

866
00:43:57.519 --> 00:44:01.079
oh yeah, oh yeah. Let's move on to facts and trivia.

867
00:44:01.199 --> 00:44:04.239
What are some facts and trivia we have about the Untouchables.

868
00:44:04.559 --> 00:44:07.239
Well, we talked about Oscar. We're going to talk about

869
00:44:07.280 --> 00:44:09.239
him a little more. The character of the IRS agent

870
00:44:09.320 --> 00:44:12.679
Oscar Wallace was partially based on Frank J. Wilson, the

871
00:44:12.719 --> 00:44:16.039
IRS criminal investigator who spent years keeping tabs on copone's

872
00:44:16.039 --> 00:44:20.119
financial dealings before laying charges. Unlike Wallace, Wilson was not

873
00:44:20.280 --> 00:44:23.280
killed during the investigation and was later involved in the

874
00:44:23.360 --> 00:44:25.000
Lindberg kidnapping case.

875
00:44:25.440 --> 00:44:29.599
Interesting. So, Andy Garcia was originally considered for the Frank

876
00:44:29.719 --> 00:44:33.920
Nitty role, but he insisted on reading for George Stone instead.

877
00:44:34.400 --> 00:44:38.000
Good move, mister Garcia, yueh, no kidding.

878
00:44:38.880 --> 00:44:41.000
We were talking about de Niro of course, and let's

879
00:44:41.000 --> 00:44:43.719
continue on with some casting trivia. Robert d Niro was

880
00:44:43.719 --> 00:44:45.920
Dipalma's first choice to play al Capone, but it was

881
00:44:45.960 --> 00:44:47.480
uncertain if he could appear in the film because of

882
00:44:47.519 --> 00:44:50.400
his appearance in the Broadway play Cuba and His Teddy Bear.

883
00:44:50.880 --> 00:44:53.920
He also wanted to gain about thirty pounds to play Capone,

884
00:44:54.280 --> 00:44:56.880
and according to DiPalma, Daniro was very concerned about the

885
00:44:56.880 --> 00:44:59.559
shape of his face for the part. Di Palma then

886
00:44:59.679 --> 00:45:02.480
met with with Bob Hoskins to discuss the role in

887
00:45:02.559 --> 00:45:04.960
case Daniro could not appear. When de Niro took the part,

888
00:45:05.639 --> 00:45:09.000
de Palma mailed Hoskins a check for I Think It's

889
00:45:09.039 --> 00:45:13.079
twenty thousand pounds with a thank you note, which prompted

890
00:45:13.559 --> 00:45:15.760
Hoskins to call up to Palma and ask him if

891
00:45:15.760 --> 00:45:17.639
there are any more films he didn't want him to

892
00:45:17.639 --> 00:45:17.880
be in.

893
00:45:18.119 --> 00:45:22.519
I love that. Yeah, So the Great Union Station Shootout.

894
00:45:22.559 --> 00:45:25.280
So the baby in the character of the train is

895
00:45:25.320 --> 00:45:29.480
the film stunt coordinator's son stunt quarter named Gary Hymes,

896
00:45:29.559 --> 00:45:34.639
and the sun is Colin. Yeah. It was eighteen months wow.

897
00:45:35.280 --> 00:45:37.840
As mentioned earlier, While the film is based on historic events,

898
00:45:37.920 --> 00:45:41.000
most of the film is fictionalized are inaccurate. The raid

899
00:45:41.199 --> 00:45:43.920
at the Canada United States border never happened, neither did

900
00:45:43.920 --> 00:45:47.079
the courthouse or railway station shootouts. Ness did not kill

901
00:45:47.079 --> 00:45:50.800
Frank Nitty, who died in nineteen forty three, twelve years

902
00:45:50.840 --> 00:45:54.760
after the Capone trial, by suicide, the day before Nitty

903
00:45:54.840 --> 00:45:57.480
himself was scheduled to be in court. In reality, Ness's

904
00:45:57.559 --> 00:46:00.360
unit had very little to do with Capone's final tax

905
00:46:00.400 --> 00:46:04.599
evasion conviction, which was orchestrated by US attorney George E. Q.

906
00:46:04.840 --> 00:46:09.760
Johnson and IRS agent Frank J. Wilson, aforementioned who inspired

907
00:46:09.800 --> 00:46:11.920
the character of Oscar Wallace as I said, but was

908
00:46:12.000 --> 00:46:14.159
never actually a part of the Untouchables.

909
00:46:14.800 --> 00:46:17.719
In the original script, the final gunfight had Elliot Nass

910
00:46:17.800 --> 00:46:21.239
and George Stone battling Compone's gunman on a stop train.

911
00:46:21.559 --> 00:46:24.039
Brian to Palma conceived the gunfight on the steps of

912
00:46:24.119 --> 00:46:27.440
Chicago's Union Station when Paramount decided that staging the scene

913
00:46:27.480 --> 00:46:31.360
and finding a nineteen thirties period train would be too expensive.

914
00:46:32.119 --> 00:46:33.920
That sometimes would costs to actually save you.

915
00:46:35.159 --> 00:46:37.440
It was reported on July second of two thousand and

916
00:46:37.440 --> 00:46:41.119
four that Antoine Fuquah would direct an Untouchable spin off

917
00:46:41.400 --> 00:46:45.480
titled The Untouchables Mother's Day, which was later changed to

918
00:46:45.840 --> 00:46:49.880
Capone Rising. The film script, which was written by Brian

919
00:46:49.960 --> 00:46:55.320
Koppelman and David Levian, with later revisions by David Robe

920
00:46:55.440 --> 00:46:57.960
or Rob excuse me if I mispronounced that, focused on

921
00:46:58.000 --> 00:47:00.719
the rise of Chicago mob Kingpin K in the years

922
00:47:00.760 --> 00:47:03.159
before the Encounter with Ness and his Lawman and June

923
00:47:03.159 --> 00:47:06.880
of the following year, original director Brian de Palma replaced

924
00:47:06.920 --> 00:47:10.159
Fuquah on the film. According to DiPalma, the film went

925
00:47:10.159 --> 00:47:14.639
into development several times, with Nicholas Cage, Gerard Butler, and

926
00:47:14.679 --> 00:47:19.360
Benicio del Toro all attached to play Capone at different stages.

927
00:47:19.920 --> 00:47:23.000
M I don't think I want to see that one. Yeah,

928
00:47:23.039 --> 00:47:24.960
I don't know how that would have worked, yea. So

929
00:47:25.119 --> 00:47:29.079
Albert H. Woolfe, the last survivor of the real life Untouchables,

930
00:47:29.119 --> 00:47:31.920
was a consultant on this movie and helped Kevin Costner

931
00:47:31.920 --> 00:47:34.920
with his portrayal of Elliot Ness. Cool. Let's move on

932
00:47:35.000 --> 00:47:38.400
to box office. So The Untouchables hit theaters on June third,

933
00:47:38.480 --> 00:47:42.199
nineteen eighty seven, opening in oneenty twelve screens nation wide.

934
00:47:42.400 --> 00:47:45.840
Made an estimated budget of twenty five million dollars The

935
00:47:45.840 --> 00:47:48.679
film went on to earn seventy six point two million

936
00:47:48.880 --> 00:47:51.719
at the North American box office. When it debuted, the

937
00:47:51.840 --> 00:47:54.639
movie landed in the number two spot, behind Beverly Hills

938
00:47:54.679 --> 00:47:58.000
Cop two. Even with that tough competition to Untouchable stayed

939
00:47:58.000 --> 00:48:00.280
in the top ten for another five weeks. By the

940
00:48:00.400 --> 00:48:03.760
end of its theatrical run, it ranked as the sixth

941
00:48:03.920 --> 00:48:08.360
highest grossing movie of nineteen eighty seven. Interestingly enough, both

942
00:48:08.360 --> 00:48:12.360
The Untouchables and Moonstruck finished the year in the top ten,

943
00:48:12.639 --> 00:48:15.639
even though neither movie reached number one at the box office.

944
00:48:15.800 --> 00:48:18.239
Moving on to reviews. When growing up in the eighties,

945
00:48:18.280 --> 00:48:20.199
we would watch at the movies with Gene Siskell and

946
00:48:20.280 --> 00:48:22.639
Roger Eber to hear their reviews and watch clips of

947
00:48:22.840 --> 00:48:27.320
upcoming movies. Their review of The Untouchables was split. Roger

948
00:48:27.400 --> 00:48:31.360
called it a respectable film that lacks the fire, the passion,

949
00:48:31.519 --> 00:48:34.760
and even the humor we might expect from this material.

950
00:48:35.119 --> 00:48:37.519
Jeene thought it was one of the best gangster movies

951
00:48:37.679 --> 00:48:41.239
he had seen in a long time. They both enjoyed

952
00:48:41.360 --> 00:48:44.079
Sean Connery's performance in the movie. Rotten Tomatoes gives it

953
00:48:44.119 --> 00:48:46.880
a Tomatometers score of eighty three percent, with a Popcorn

954
00:48:46.920 --> 00:48:49.519
Meter score of eighty nine percent. It also has an

955
00:48:49.559 --> 00:48:52.840
IMDb rating of seven point nine. So this takes us

956
00:48:52.880 --> 00:48:55.599
two additional thoughts and questions. What are some additional thoughts

957
00:48:55.679 --> 00:48:57.719
and questions we have about the untouchables?

958
00:48:57.960 --> 00:49:01.440
Well thought I had was just the general idea of prohibition.

959
00:49:01.519 --> 00:49:03.920
I you know, I of course knew of it, and

960
00:49:04.039 --> 00:49:05.519
I just didn't know a lot about it. So I

961
00:49:05.599 --> 00:49:08.400
just looked it up real quick on Wikipedia, and it's

962
00:49:08.440 --> 00:49:10.440
just crazy the fact that this was a real thing

963
00:49:10.519 --> 00:49:13.840
for thirteen years. Man In our history, the Prohibition era

964
00:49:13.960 --> 00:49:16.239
was from the period of nineteen twenty nineteen thirty three,

965
00:49:16.239 --> 00:49:19.840
when the US prohibited the production, importation, transportation, and sale

966
00:49:19.840 --> 00:49:24.239
of alcoholic beverages. The alcoholic industry was curtailed by a

967
00:49:24.280 --> 00:49:28.440
succession of state legislatures, and prohibition was formally introduced nationwide

968
00:49:28.760 --> 00:49:32.920
under the Eighteenth Amendment, ratified on January sixteenth, nineteen nineteen.

969
00:49:33.360 --> 00:49:36.280
Prohibition ended with the ratification of the twenty first Amendment,

970
00:49:36.360 --> 00:49:40.719
which repealed the Eighteenth Amendment. In nineteen thirty three, a

971
00:49:40.800 --> 00:49:46.679
wide coalition composed of mostly Protestants prohibitionists first attempted to

972
00:49:46.920 --> 00:49:50.000
end the trade in alcoholic drinks during the nineteenth century.

973
00:49:50.360 --> 00:49:53.320
They aimed to heal what they saw as an ill

974
00:49:53.360 --> 00:49:58.199
society beset by alcohol related problems such as alcoholism, domestic violence,

975
00:49:58.280 --> 00:50:00.599
and saloon based political corruption.

976
00:50:00.880 --> 00:50:03.119
And here's something interesting that I found about this too,

977
00:50:03.480 --> 00:50:06.039
because throughout the movie, we see Malone have a drink,

978
00:50:06.239 --> 00:50:08.840
we see Oscar have a drink, and you're like, ooh,

979
00:50:08.880 --> 00:50:13.079
they're breaking lag even totally. Ness tells the police do

980
00:50:13.199 --> 00:50:16.880
not take a drink. That actually was not illegal. You

981
00:50:16.880 --> 00:50:19.840
could drink as long as yours if you had alcohol

982
00:50:19.840 --> 00:50:22.280
when this band started, you could still drink it. You

983
00:50:22.400 --> 00:50:24.880
just couldn't buy it, sell it, or manufacture it. So

984
00:50:24.920 --> 00:50:27.360
whatever you had left you could finish, right, So what

985
00:50:27.440 --> 00:50:30.159
they were doing was not illegal. Huh. There you go.

986
00:50:30.639 --> 00:50:32.800
Anything else on thoughts and questions.

987
00:50:32.639 --> 00:50:35.079
I just because I spoke a couple of times on

988
00:50:35.159 --> 00:50:39.400
the theatrical theatricality of this movie. I know this might

989
00:50:39.880 --> 00:50:42.119
sound out of left field, but I could see this

990
00:50:42.360 --> 00:50:46.760
as a theater production in musical form actually, and I

991
00:50:46.760 --> 00:50:51.199
think it could be pretty cool. And I'm surprised that

992
00:50:51.599 --> 00:50:53.440
I did not see that in the research, that it

993
00:50:53.480 --> 00:50:57.519
hadn't even been entertained as such. But I just think

994
00:50:57.519 --> 00:51:01.519
with Mammett's style, and obviously he is a playwright. It

995
00:51:01.519 --> 00:51:04.239
could be done, maybe not necessarily as a musical.

996
00:51:04.639 --> 00:51:09.559
Yes, a musical Coon Capone, let's go get copon, we

997
00:51:09.599 --> 00:51:14.000
won't do it a love worthy Untouchables love it perfect?

998
00:51:14.239 --> 00:51:17.639
That's it sold. Yeah, I could see it being a play.

999
00:51:18.039 --> 00:51:20.800
Mm hmmm, yeah, yeah, let's go with that. It'd be

1000
00:51:20.800 --> 00:51:23.039
interesting mull it over thinking about it.

1001
00:51:23.199 --> 00:51:25.559
But that's uh. I think that's pretty much all I got.

1002
00:51:25.599 --> 00:51:27.639
We covered my other thoughts and questions earlier.

1003
00:51:27.840 --> 00:51:30.159
All right, Yeah, I don't think I really have anything

1004
00:51:30.159 --> 00:51:35.480
else for additional thoughts and questions. Jumping in rating already? Well,

1005
00:51:35.519 --> 00:51:37.880
I know that seemed real quick, isn't it. Yeah, it

1006
00:51:38.039 --> 00:51:39.920
is all right, So let's move on to our rating. So,

1007
00:51:40.079 --> 00:51:43.039
on a scale of one to five police badges, what

1008
00:51:43.119 --> 00:51:46.039
do you give the Untouchables? Like?

1009
00:51:46.159 --> 00:51:48.199
After just talking about this and I feel like this

1010
00:51:48.280 --> 00:51:50.039
has just gone by way too fast. I feel like

1011
00:51:50.079 --> 00:51:52.119
we could talk about this movie for days, probably just

1012
00:51:52.159 --> 00:51:55.119
go through every single scene. This is up there, man,

1013
00:51:55.360 --> 00:51:57.880
I'm going between four point five and five. I just

1014
00:51:57.920 --> 00:52:00.159
don't know what to do here, because is it is

1015
00:52:00.199 --> 00:52:03.159
it perfect? It's pretty pretty close to being one of

1016
00:52:03.159 --> 00:52:05.519
the all time greats. I'm going for it. I'm going

1017
00:52:05.559 --> 00:52:09.039
with five five badges, man, police badges, all the badges.

1018
00:52:09.079 --> 00:52:11.360
I'm giving it all. I freaking love this movie. I

1019
00:52:11.480 --> 00:52:13.679
just from beginning to end. I mean, it's just under

1020
00:52:13.719 --> 00:52:18.199
two hours. It's got so many iconic moments. I love

1021
00:52:18.239 --> 00:52:22.280
all the performances. Say what you will about Connerie's accent.

1022
00:52:23.280 --> 00:52:27.199
It just I think is is is it?

1023
00:52:27.559 --> 00:52:27.760
Yeah?

1024
00:52:28.599 --> 00:52:32.360
What else can you say? Any Morricone score, The action

1025
00:52:32.559 --> 00:52:36.280
is great. It's just so well shot and interesting to

1026
00:52:36.400 --> 00:52:37.559
watch at all times.

1027
00:52:37.719 --> 00:52:39.519
It moves me. It's got a lot of levels.

1028
00:52:39.559 --> 00:52:42.719
I'm emotional at different points and real highs and lows

1029
00:52:42.719 --> 00:52:45.440
where I literally want to just jump up to that

1030
00:52:45.559 --> 00:52:47.079
sweeping score by Morricone.

1031
00:52:47.199 --> 00:52:48.960
And and you know, let's.

1032
00:52:48.719 --> 00:52:52.599
Go the set dressing the way it you know, Chicago

1033
00:52:52.719 --> 00:52:56.039
looks in this film. I just there's really no downside

1034
00:52:56.039 --> 00:53:00.440
to the Untouchables. It's an exhilarating movie and good guys

1035
00:53:00.440 --> 00:53:03.400
winning the end. I'm happy that's true, good versus evil,

1036
00:53:03.480 --> 00:53:05.360
and the good guys do win at the end. I'm

1037
00:53:05.360 --> 00:53:07.920
giving this four and a half badges. Yes, the music

1038
00:53:08.000 --> 00:53:12.079
is great. Our Untouchables are great. DeNiro, I don't know

1039
00:53:12.119 --> 00:53:13.079
he he kind of.

1040
00:53:13.239 --> 00:53:15.480
I don't know. For some reason, he felt like it

1041
00:53:15.519 --> 00:53:17.800
was in a different movie. At some points, you just

1042
00:53:17.840 --> 00:53:21.119
feel I felt so separate. Yeah, it did feel like, hey,

1043
00:53:21.360 --> 00:53:23.360
we have him for three days, let's just shoot his

1044
00:53:23.440 --> 00:53:25.639
scenes and get him out of here, right, And then

1045
00:53:25.719 --> 00:53:29.440
it was just that whole final confrontation thing. But this

1046
00:53:29.599 --> 00:53:33.639
is a guy's guy movie. For great point, this is

1047
00:53:33.679 --> 00:53:35.679
if you have a man cave, this poster should be

1048
00:53:35.960 --> 00:53:39.079
down in your room. This movie certainly needs to be

1049
00:53:39.760 --> 00:53:44.960
part of your collection. I really like Kevin Costerers betraying this.

1050
00:53:45.079 --> 00:53:47.400
I know you know he was getting beat up, but

1051
00:53:47.679 --> 00:53:50.320
I think it works. I just like all four of

1052
00:53:50.320 --> 00:53:54.719
the Untouchable characters, and some great actions have pieces. It's

1053
00:53:54.760 --> 00:53:58.159
a lot of fun. It should be spoken out more

1054
00:53:58.280 --> 00:54:02.599
as fun action movies from the abies. And yes, it

1055
00:54:02.719 --> 00:54:06.840
is one of the least historical movies that will probably

1056
00:54:06.840 --> 00:54:10.760
cover that's supposed to be based on actual facts. It's

1057
00:54:10.800 --> 00:54:13.719
just that doesn't bother me for this one. I don't

1058
00:54:13.719 --> 00:54:16.440
know why. I do enjoy it a lot. It definitely

1059
00:54:16.440 --> 00:54:20.519
deserves its high accolades. I don't know what Roger Ebert

1060
00:54:20.559 --> 00:54:20.960
was watching.

1061
00:54:22.519 --> 00:54:27.199
Yeah, not sure either. Not entirely agreement there with Roger.

1062
00:54:27.679 --> 00:54:30.320
Yeah, yeah, you can't get them all right. Yeah, he's

1063
00:54:30.440 --> 00:54:34.239
entitled to his opinion too, exactly. So that wraps up

1064
00:54:34.280 --> 00:54:37.119
for the Streek's episode. Thank you so much for hanging

1065
00:54:37.159 --> 00:54:40.079
out with us, We really appreciate it. If you enjoyed

1066
00:54:40.079 --> 00:54:42.440
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1068
00:54:45.519 --> 00:54:47.840
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1069
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1070
00:54:52.000 --> 00:54:54.639
everything you need to know about the show. We'll catch

1071
00:54:54.679 --> 00:54:57.719
you next time as we jump into another unfregettable gem

1072
00:54:57.920 --> 00:55:01.119
f in the Greatest Decade of All Time to nineteen years.

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Until then, stay awesome and have an excellent day.

1074
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First rule of law enforcement, make sure when your shift

1075
00:55:06.880 --> 00:55:08.559
is over, go home alive.

1076
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Thanks for staying up with us. Good night, Quarrel.