The Untouchables (1987) - 🤯📼First Time Film Club📼🤯 - First Time Watching/Movie Reaction & Review
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My favorite story about this movie is about an actor who isn't in it. Bob Hoskins was taken to lunch by De Palma and told about the film but also that who he really wanted to play Capone was Robert De Niro, but he was iffy. De Palma asked if Hoskins would be his backup and play the part if De Niro was unable/unwilling to do so - and he would have been damn' good too. So Hoskins said sure and forgot all about it until months later when Hoskins read in the trades that Robert De Niro was going to play Al Capone in "The Untouchables." Oh well, easy come easy go, Hoskins thought. Soon after that he got a check from the production for something like $25,000 along with a note thanking him for being De Palma's backup Capone. Hoskins immediately called De Palma and asked, "Do you have any other films you don't want me to be in?" 🤣🤣🤣
Also one of my fav anecdotes.
The intensity of the DeNiro with a baseball bat attack reminds me a little of Bob Hoskins' mob boss with a broken glass attacking an underling in _The Long Good Friday_
@@slowerthinker Lordy, he was extraordinary in “Long Good Friday” - they need to react to that, I think. All kinds of fun surprises in the cast if you don’t know they’re coming. 😊
Was $200,000
Sean Connery has ONE accent - Scottish. However nearly all his roles are something other than Scottish. Always makes me smile.
Most notably a Spanish Egyptian...
Rogue nuclear sub captains from Lithuania apparently sound Scottish too.
One of my favorite historical dramas, but *highly* fictionalized. Three times removed from reality, it's based on a TV series that was loosely based on a book written by Ness himself along with a professional co-writer. In reality:
-The Treasury was already investigating Capone's taxes at the time the squad was formed. The investigation was stymied by all the corruption, local police and judges were all bought off. The purpose of the squad was to disrupt Capone's revenue stream so he'd have less bribe money to throw around. The raids confiscated his inventory and material assets (breweries and distilleries, cars, weapons, etc) arrested his men and just made it generally harder for Capone to make a profit and keep his war chest filled.
-There were some shootouts but the squad suffered no fatalaties. All of the members in the movie are fictional and amalgam characters. IRL The initial group, including Ness numbered seven. Over the course of the investigation, some agents left the squad for various reasons, while others were brought on. Sixteen different men served over the course of their actions.
-Capone was rumored to have killed three of his men with a baseball bat, but that's not confirmed. He lived a big, public, celebrity life as a successful "businessman" despite everyone *sort of* knowing he was a crook, and he was the inspiration for both DC's Penguin and Marvel's Kingpin.
-Capone was convicted of tax evasion in 1931, sentenced to 11 years, served time 1932-39 and was released early due to his failing health. He lived another eight years at his mansion suffering the effects of syphillis which had reduced his mentality to a child's.
-The judge actually did switch jury pools when it was discovered that jurors had been bought off, but this happened before jury selection, not in the middle of the trial.
-Frank Nitti was not thrown off a roof, he was also convincted for tax evasion, although he only served 18 months. He took over Capone's organization, and The Untouchables continued their activities against them.
-Ness was promoted to Chief Investigator of the Prohibition Bureau in 1932 and the squad was effectively disbanded although Ness continued raids until the repeal of prohibition in 1933.
-In 1943, many top members of The Chicago Outfit, including Nitti were indicted for extorting the Hollywood film industry. Nitti shot himself the day before his grand jury appearance.
I don't pretend this movie was historically accurate. It was just a crime drama with characters that shared a name with real people. "Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental."
Also, Ness died near penniless, from what I remember hearing about things. Also, Capone essentially got fucked over by his own defense (albeit they were following his instructions).
I saw this is a kid numerous times but it wasn't until 25 odd years later that I learned it wasn't a true story.
Braveheart is even worse
After his success in Chicago, Eliot Ness went on to serve as director of public safety, a sort of combination police chief/fire chief, in Cincinnati, and arguably achieved even greater success there, though those exploits aren't nearly as renowned.
In the movie, Ness initially warns the cops that drinking is illegal, that they must refrain from doing so to set an example. In real life, though, he was quite an alcoholic. When he finally died of a heart attack, he was literally found sitting slumped over at his kitchen table with a nearly empty whiskey bottle in one hand and a nearly empty glass in the other hand.
The Untouchables series starred Robert Stack as Elliott Ness. Stack also played Capt Rex Kramer in Airplane!
"What are you prepared to do??" one of the best movie lines ever.
The film technique that was used is called montage. It was invented and developed by Soviet film director Sergei Eisenstein. One of the most famous montage sequences was the stairway scene in the Soviet film Battleship Potemkin (which was directed by Sergei Eisenstein). Brian De Palma was a fan of that film and Sergei Eisenstein, and so he decided to replicate that scene in the Untouchables as an homage to Sergei Eisenstein. Brian De Palma often has used techniques and scenes/shots from earlier directors and films in the films that he directed.
Unfortunately I also saw the naked gun version first. It's impossible to take seriously after that 🤣
They pull a knife. You pull a gun. They put one of yours in the hospital. You put one of theirs in the morgue. That's the Chicago way. I think they quoted it in an episode of supernatural which might be where Emily knows it from.
The train station staircase scene, filmed in Chicago’s Union Station, was based on the iconic staircase scene from the 1925 film Battleship Potemkin.
Best scene in the movie imo. I saw this in the theater and the audience was flipping out.
Right down to the scene with the baby carriage th-cam.com/video/K1Vx3AOpVDo/w-d-xo.htmlsi=EZbe8fg-YQ3Lui81&t=551
The Odessa Steps.
if you want a better perspective on Capone's rise to power, the HBO show Boardwalk Empire goes pretty in depth on how he became.connected and took over the Chicago area
Matthew's fourth-wall-break reaction at 1:40 when Emily says she thinks Pacino is in "The Untouchables" is absolutely priceless 🤣🤣🤣
That being said, this is a great 80's crime drama, despite the sometimes over-the-top acting. So many memorable lines delivered by some of the most talented actors of their time. All of this done with the musical talents of Ennio Morricone's incomparable soundtrack, which shows just how vital the score can be to telling the story on film.
The creepy Man In White was played by Billy Drago. I remember him most from his TV appearances. He appeared in alot of shows, but was a recurring villain in Adventures of Brisco County Jr and Charmed.
It only went the one season, but Brisco remains one of my favorite TV shows. So much fun with that blend of genres, and such a good cast.
In her defense, Robert DeNiro played a young Vito Corleone in The Godfather II, she could have confused that with Pacino in Godfather I.
Billy Drago (RIP) does an amazing job as Frank Nitti. Granted what happened to him in this film unfortunately didn't happen in real life but it was still VERY satisfying.
His son, Darren E. Burrows, played Ed Chigliak in Northern Exposure. In hindsight it’s pretty obvious, they look so much alike, but I didn’t even realize it until years later.
The sharp-faced Nitti is played by Billy Drago, whose son, Darren E Burrows, plays the gentlest character ever, Ed Chigliak, on Northern Exposure (my fav show all time)
Sean Connery took home the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in this movie.
He more than deserved it.
@@richieb7692Yes I agree 👍💯
Didn't kno that! Wow! 😮
Yes, we know. Matthew alreay said so in the video. @dylan should have watched the whole video then.
I did! Just not all at once. I love watching these 2. Been watching for a long time now.
*"Road to Perdition"* and *"Miller's Crossing"* are two great Mafia/Mobster movies.
You may recognize a lot of the actors in both of them...and at least one may come as a real surprise in his role...
Ken Burns did a great documentary about Prohibition that I highly recommend.
The Untouchables is a spectacular film, Sean Connery won a much deserved Oscar for it.
Also, the train station scene is one of the most perfectly choreographed scenes in cinematic history. When Andy Garcia slides in to stop the baby carriage and at the same time tosses the gun to Kevin Costner who in the same motion grabs it and shoots the guy, all in one fluid motion, that had to have taken many, many takes to get right. One of my all time favorite film scenes.
Thing is, Andy Garcia sliding to the carriage was unnecessary! The kid had made it to the bottom of the stairs without tipping. He no longer needed to be saved. Garcia could have let him roll forward so he would be less in the way of that last gun shot.
I believe the train scene is an homage to a scene in the film Battleship Potemkin. Which I have never seen, so y'know.
There's a video store (at least, I HOPE there still is) in Portland called Movie Madness, that contains an impressive collection of movie memorabilia. In among the actual miniature of the brick building from the last scene of "Blade Runner" and a Colt Walker revolver wielded by "The Outlaw Josey Wales" is the actual baby carriage from this movie. Most of the collection is behind glass along the area where you wait in line for the register, and while waiting in line one night, I noticed the patch on the bottom of the frame where the squib had gone off when the carriage is hit by a stray bullet in the middle of the scene. It's amazing.
@@shabinglyabsolutely.
me and my sister always watch this movie when it comes on. We also quote Sean Connery's "what are you prepared to do" whenever it's the others turn to do an errand, like after dinner when me or her has to do the dishes.
She's taking a lot of Heat for mixing up AL Pacino and Robert Dinero. The scary guy the says "Nice house" is the late great Billy Drago playing Frank Nitti. Go back and watch him in the dinner scene with the bat, he doesn't flinch like everyone else. I think this is his biggest role, but if you ever see Mysterious Skin he steals his scene. BTW, none of the real Untouchables were injured, much less killed. AL Capone's syphilis moved to the final stage, and he was released early. He was sick for a few years and died. Frank Nitti outlived Capone and took over the Chicago Mob.
The baby in the carriage is an homage to the Odessa Steps scene of Battleship Potemkin.
I was going to say that. "Battleship Potemkin" was a Soviet silent film from 1925. It is the story of a mutiny of sailors on the ship due to mistreatment and spoiled food being served to the crew in 1905 (back when their country was called Russia and it was under the aristocratic government of the Tsar). The people of Odessa, Ukraine, were supporting the mutiny and protesting when the Tsar ordered his Cossack troops to sweep them away. That most famous sequence of the troops marching downward to crush the unruly peasants was one of the early cinema's most famous shots. One of crowd had the baby carriage that started rolling down the steps to its expected doom and various people were being gunned down without pity. Director/co-writer Sergei Eisenstein became world famous from this film and the techniques he pioneered (especially with montage shots).
Dawn Marie is a cute TH-cam reactor in Scotland, and when she reacted to "The Untouchables," it was impossible for her to overlook the fact that Sean Connery's accent is Scottish, not Irish. To reconcile the discrepancy she came up with her own head canon that Malone was actually Scottish, but because (just like in real life how Americans always get the Scots and the Irish mixed up) people kept mistaking him for Irish, so he finally got tired of constantly correcting people and just went along with letting them think he was Irish.
Sean Connery has a Scottish accent in every movie he is in. Ever seen Hunt for Red October? He plays a Russian sub captain guess what he's got a Scottish accent and I don't care either because I like him as an actor, once you get immersed in the movie it doesn't matter.
@@petercofrancesco9812 There's an old joke that when they called Connery about Red October, the one condition they made was that Connery would need to get a Russian accent. Supposedly Connery replied "No. you get a bunch of Russians and have them speak with a Scottish accent."
@@petercofrancesco9812 It just so happens that Dawn Marie did react to "The Hunt For Red October" and didn't bat an eye at "Russian" Sean Connery speaking with a Scottish accent. However, for many Scots and Irish, seeing people's ignorance cause them to confuse Irish things with Scottish things and vice versa is a recurring annoyance that becomes pet peeve, and the "Oh no, not this BS again" factor makes it harder for them to ignore.
Sean NEVER changed his accent. He played an Irish cop, a Spanish nobleman from Egypt and a Russian sub captain, ALL with a Scottish accent.
@@adamskeans2515 The point remains that it's an age old eye rolling pet peeve for many Scottish and Irish people that Americans keep getting everything about the Scots and the Irish, including the accents, mixed up. It's also an annoyance when people don't know the difference between Scot, Scotch and Scottish.
I agree with you Emily, Brian de Palma has a particular way of directing that is unique. I think I had the same kind of reaction when i first watched his movies. But then i learned something about him and i came to understand his vision and have a better appreciation for his movies. He is heavily influenced by Alfred Hitchcock and tries to create suspense and intrigue in as many of his shots as he can. Once I understood that, I looked at his films differently and have a better appreciation for his style.
It seems they have reacted to Hitchcock's Psycho, but that is it. Of Hitchcock's other films, I think Em and Matt would react best to North By Northwest, The Man Who Knew Too Much (2nd version), and The Trouble With Harry.
Yeah with the oversaturation of content that we have now, I actually learned to appreciate directors that have their own style, because they shoot differently than all the TV shows and Marvel movies I'm watching right now. It's sort of a palette cleanser from the norm.
He definitely likes suspense over action, as the very first Mission Impossible movie shows.
Costner was just killing it with his films for almost a decade before Waterworld
Billy Drago, real name William Burrows, is the father of Darren E. Burrows, who played Ed on Northern Exposure. Darren had to dye his blond hair black for the role of Ed.
In the TV show, Robert Stack played Eliot Ness and played him as a tough, no nonsense fed.
Stack became friends with Ness' widow, studied Ness & became an expert,
but Costner also played this like the real Ness
Ennio Morricone was a master at his craft. A lot of his scores are simply masterpieces. This movie included. The Thing, a lot of westerns, you name it.
The long stare into the camera and the rueful shaking of the head at 'Al Pacino' was peak Matthew.
I have a pet peeve with Andy Garcia's character, specifically 'Guiseppe Petri' becoming George Stone. Petri to Stone makes sense because the petr- root means stone in Romance languages (Spanish piedra is a cognate). But George is all wrong. The English version of Guiseppe is Joseph. George corresponds to Giorgio.
The other bad guy who killed Sean Connery's character also played the Demon of Fear in the original "Charmed".
One of the best gangster movies around, great choice.
One of the character subtleties of the long stairway scene is "Testing of Elliot Ness." It was test of his moral character:
1.)IF Elliot did NOT HELP the woman and baby (GOOD nature), then the security detail would have spotted him, outnumbered him, and gunned him down before the accountant or Giuseppe even arrived.
2.)WHEN Elliot HELPED the woman and baby, the security detail mistakenly saw an innocent father, mother, and child. Elliot being a good man saved his own life that day.
Another one is both Untouchables who are killed are both seen to take a drink
And it was parodied in the opening of *Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult*
A truly great film. I saw it at the cinema back in '87 and it instantly became one of my all time faves. The cast are all brilliant but this is Connery's flick. Give that man an Oscar... Oh yeah, they did. Here endeth the lesson. 😁
It's just a shame he didn't make it to the end of the film.
Now you're ready for... Body Double !
I love that movie!
4:42 The Volstead Act made the manufacture, sale and possession of alcohol illegal. But it still allowed the consumption of alcohol.
Yes, exactly! Basically the business of alcohol was outlawed, but the law had nothing to say about your existing liquor cabinet.
How do you consume alcohol if you can't possess it ?
@@davidladjani108 That's my point. The Volstead Act did not outright ban the possession of alcohol. You just couldn't make it, transport it, or sell it.
@@dansdiscourse4957 the person I was answering to mentionned possession, but ok
Al Capone being send to jail for just 11 years, was basically a death sentence.
You should absolutely react to these other Brian De Palma classics: Carrie (1976), Dressed to Kill (1980) and Blow Out (1981). Each is a master class and all are just damn great films. There’s also an earlier cult film of his that I think you would absolutely get a kick out of: Phantom of the Paradise (1974).
*Did he sound anything like this* ? I have rarely heard such a positive audience reaction.
So I live in New Jersey; across the river from Philly PA which has it's own association with Al Capone in the late 1920's. Al served several months in Eastern State Penitentiary for an unlicensed weapons charge; where during his stay he was treated like an honored guest rather than an inmate. His cell looked more like an apartment, and he had free phone access to continue to manage his business.
Sean Connery was a perfect casting for this movie, and received his only Oscar for his performance. Denzel also received his first nomination that year, and he knew he had no shot at winning early on in the show when Sean was presenting and got standing ovation the moment came on stage. Denzel was like “well, I’m going home empty handed tonight.”
The Bartender in the beginning of the movie that got blown up ..was my Summer School Teacher around the time that movie was shot..he taught at Lakeview H S in Chicago
"You got 'im?"
"Yeah, I got 'im."
"Take him." Is always awesome. 👏
One of my favourite films of all time! Superb writing, great cast, top-class score and memorable set-pieces. I saw this as a little kid and fell in love with it - there's just something about it that's timeless. And it won the poll by literally one percent which was lucky lol!
If you want to see Brian De Palma's mastery over suspense then watch the ending of "Carlito's Way" (1993). A great movie starring Al Pacino.
Or Robert Deniro if you were to ask Emily.
This is a master class in film making, the acting, the story telling the music and everyone brought their "A" game to this film, it's one of my all time favorites. One of the best good Vs. evil movies out there, as it's great to see Ness and how far he'll go to make things right, but at what cost?
A couple of things - Capone didn't have territory just in Chicago. He had alot of action on the Mississippi River towns between St. Louis and Davenport. He'd hide out there when the heat got too big in Chicago. Grew up on the river in Iowa, my grandfather worked for him as a bouncer, and there was one of Capone's liquor houses about a mile from where he lived. Alot of the big old homes on Grand Ave and not a few local businesses in Keokuk IA were built on the wealth of bootleg liquor. Keokuk was one of his main hole ups he operated out of.
And 'Tommy' guns are still made. Semi-auto of course, .45 caliber like the originals with the drum magazine by Thompson Arms. Set you back $2K.
DEEP RISING is the greatest creature feature ever made rip trent Williams he died in a motorcycle crash caused by the car driver he was 71 I highly recommend it I've seen it over times the cast is A+
One of the unintended consequences of prohibition was that states lost a lot of tax revenue from liquor sales so they had to increase income taxes to cover the loss.
The girl who got blown up is Ariana Richards, who played Lex in Jurassic Park.
Throwing my two cents in for another Brian de Palmer movie. Phantom of the Paradise
I LOVE Al Cappucino movies! 😋
The "helium" voice for "sum" sections🤣 "Is that my voice? Is that MY voice?" 😂 "I've never seen anyone picked up by their testicles before."
Okay, y'all NEED to see the 1967 film "The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre" directed by the greatest B movie director of ALL time, Roger Corman. It's one of his most well financed films, and shows what a great director he really was, and what he could do given a decent budget. That film covers more of the entire story of the Chicago Beer Wars between Capone's South Side Outfit and his arch rivals on the North Side of Chicago, led by various fellows who kept meeting untimely ends, finishing up with George "Bugs" Moran one Saint Valentine's Day in February. This film has the added benefit of being MUCH more historically accurate than "The Untouchables". Also you may want to watch "The Battleship Potemkin", a black and white, silent, Russian film by Sergei Eisenstein to see where De Palma got the idea for the staircase in the train station scene.
One of my favourite music scores. Ennio Morricone was one of the GOATs.
Because Capone was guilty of a Federal crime, he was sent to prison in Atlanta as an attempt to remove him from his base in Chicago and his holdings/employees in other areas of Illinois, Indiana, etc. However, he almost literally "ran the place" through bribes, and his cell was more like a fancy hotel room. He had direct access to the Warden, and kept large sums of cash on-hand (his net worth was around placed at $62,000,000 - equivalent to a Billionaire in today's money). When Alcatraz opened as a maximum-security prison on the island, as Public Enemy #1 he was transferred there. He tried his tricks there but they didn't work and he had no such privileges. He served 4-1/2 years there then was sent to Terminal Island Prison in Southern California and was released in November of 1939. He died January 25, 1947 as a syphilitic invalid, as Matthew mentioned.
My grandfather played on a fast-pitch softball team that used to play the Atlanta Penitentiary team a couple of times a year. At one point, Capone was on the prison team when they played them, but he was reputedly too fat to actually play. Just sat in the dugout.
Yep, you definitely need to watch The Road to Perdition one of these days, a great gangster film. Incidentally, the baby carriage scene was borrowed from a 1925 silent film called The Battleship Potemkin. 🙂
AT my best friend's wedding, all the groomsmen/best man/groom sat around one round table, with a white tablecloth. I immediately started saying "Enthusiasms.... Enthusiasms" We all busted up laughing.
Ha - at a sales meeting once, my very annoying manager was going on and on about "teamwork," and I guess the look on my face was talking too loud. She asked me if I had any thoughts, and I said, "I'm sorry, I can't help it. Every time you say 'teamwork', all I can think of is that scene in 'The Untouchables' where that guy at the banquet is saying 'Teamwork, teamwork', right before Al Capone caves his skull in with a baseball bat." She just blinked at me and shook her head. 😆
Connery and Costner are so great together in this movie. Had a lot of fun with your reaction :D
This is one of my favorite films from the entire 1980s. Connery and DeNiro were both superbly good. Oh and Cinematic Knowledge Cyclone #title #name.
Mabel Willebrandt apparently came up with the idea of prosecuting bootleggers for income tax evasion. Interesting person to read about.
The two guys who drank alcohol in the movie, Sean Connery and the accountant guy, both died in the movie.
Thank for reacting to this film guys.
I'm a big fan of director Brian De Palma and a couple of years later he would team with composer Ennio Morricone for the underrated but hard to watch Vietnam War Drama CASUALTIES OF WAR.
Very few react to that film but I highly recommend it.
Ness went on to (unsuccessfully) investigate a Cleveland serial killer called the Torso Killer.
THAT"S BILLY DRAGO. What a Great Name.
The story goes that BIlly Drago who plays Nitti (in the white suit) came across two Chicago gangs who were about to have a fight. He intervened and talked them out of fighting. Apparently the gangs were so stunned to see what looked like an actual 20's gangster, in suit, fedora and all, that they listened and went home.
yes i love that haha
Whenever I watch a historical movie, I always check after to see if the TH-cam channel History Buffs has a video on it. His work is so good. I believe he has one on this movie
The man you are referring to was Frank Nitti who was Capone’s no.1 lieutenant(aka assassin, hit man). In real life this man was ruthless and terrifying.
The dinner/teamwork scene with the baseball bat is the most extreme version of Duck, Duck, Goose I've ever seen.
Al Chapino really should have won an Academy Award for his performance in "The Godmother".
My dad was in the FBI for twenty five years and on the police force for twenty. He knew two of the men depicted in this movie. He said the actual guys were much meaner drunks, but very good at their jobs.
Al Capone's business card read simply "Al Capone, Used Furniture". Al Capone is known for orchestrating the Saint Valentine's Day massacre where seven members of his rival gang were lined up in a garage and shot.
If you want to know more about prohibition, Oversimplified has an amazing video about it.......
The baby in the carriage bouncing down the stairs goes a long way back, to silent films.
He he I simply can't unsee the stairscene, every time I see it, that reminds me of the brilliant Naked Gun spoof of that scene... its just brilliant made.
Everytime Mathew looks at the camera when they talk about taxes.
I live near Chicago and did a "Mob Tour" - in some buildings, you can still see bullet holes from assassinations! And, the craziest part of the tour, for me, was seeing "the wall" from the St. Valentines Day Massacre (don't want to ruin anything, in case Emily sees this). Capone was considered a hero to the people of Chicago because all of this took place during the Depression and he would give free food (soup kitchens), etc. Btw, a FUN take on prohibition & the Massacre in Chicago is Some Like it Hot! PLEASE watch this comedy classic!!!
Is one of my favorite scenes? Capone says you talk like that in front of my kid and then curses in front of his child how funny it gets there.
I’ve seen the lead guy in other movies.
Man his acting is BLAND. 😂
I think my favorite “mobster” movies are two more recent ones. The Road to Perdition with Tom Hanks and The Highwaymen with Kevin Costner and Woody Harrelson. Lawless with Tom Hardy, Shia Leboef, and Jason Clarke playing the Bondurant brothers is another prohibition era movie that I enjoyed. However, The Road To Perdition is special. It has a great cast, a good story, and is touching.
The night chicago died a song said, and it was pretty accurate. On both sides. A lot of gangsters and a lot of cops died. I love the accountant. I love the guy who some invisible and finds the stuff within him.
I think maybe the train station sequence bothered you because the whole sequence is almost a shot-for-shot homage to the Odessa Steps sequence of the Battleship Potemkin, and it was an older, hyper-stylized, almost melodramatic style of filmmaking. There's other sequences that are highly influenced by Hitchcock, so there was definitely an intentional "retro" style to this film.
I really hate that they made the judge crooked when the truth of the matter is that the judge was an honest man and saw that the jury was fixed, and it was that judge that had the jury changed.
Something I read years ago was that Ellot Ness and Capone never personally met.
Can you change jurys like that? I've always wondered if that was allowed.
Well, the walking through the house/Apartment Knife scene was meant to be like that since Capone and his Henchmen were seen/Viewed as Blood Thirsty Wild Animals so with that it represents a Predator stealthily hunting it's prey and for the Baby Train Station scene it was set up to have the Viewers feel and experience what Law Enforcement Officers experience when they know a shootout is most likely going to go down and when someone innocent is in the area like the Mother trying to get the Baby carriage/stroller up the stairs Time seems to slow down and that is the pure Anxiety and Fear that causes the brain to focus more on the problem/issue and time seems to just stand still and take forever.
Like Anthony Hopkins in "Silence of the Lambs," Robert DeNiro is only in a few minutes of this overall film. But he is a dominating force. Unforgettable.
Love the music score in this movie.
Ennio Morricone - a genius composer.
The jury at Capone's trial was switched but it was the judge's idea, whio was honest
Good reaction as always, just popping in to say I 100% agree with Emily, this is a movie I like but can't quite love, despite it having some of my favorite actors in it. DePalma gooses his shots a bit too much for my taste, it goes past 'lots of tension' to 'okay, this is ridiculous' a couple times, especially in the train station scene near the end. I appreciate DePalma more than I vibe with him, certainly an accomplished film maker regardless of my opinion lol.
What's truly funny about the Canada boarder scene is that there was no prohibition in Canada, meaning by Canadian law those men weren't breaking any laws. There is no way Mounties would be involved with this operation.
Connery's line "What are you prepared to do?!" gasped out as he's dying is reminiscent of the same line in "Kung-Fu Hustle" as one of the 3 Kung-Fu masters dies after drawing a lollipop on the floor.
I grew up in & around the city of Chicago.
The Untouchables is one of my favorite films.
Well, Capone eventually went crazy after contracting syphilis in real life.
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In honour of Matthew's glances to camera whenever Emily makes a prediction about a plot point...
'Fourth-wall Fracturing Foreman of Film'
$2,000 in 1932 is worth almost $45,000 today. Elliott Ness's salary was maybe $3,400 a year.
One of the most brilliantly entertaining movies of rhe 80s. Action, Funny, Great music and cinematography and a great cast....Sean Connery was so good in this, so likeable, fully deserved that Oscar.
the shootout on the stairs was filmed in Chicago’s union station . there are two stairways that look like that. they did this on the north stairway
Train Station was a bit long to me as well. I however had no problem with the guy going into Connery's place, there was this thrill factor and well said when you said lit was like Michael Meyers stalking. Maybe that's why it didn't bother me.
Billy Drago was a fantastic villainous scary baddie as the killer Frank Nitti.
Great Movie, Great Cast & Great Performances By Everyone In This Movie 😊
The most I'd heard about Eliot Ness before I saw this movie was him being in one of the lines of California Love: "A state that's untouchable like Eliot Ness".
Saw Untoucha-beans coming a mile away.
I still quote the "Enough of this running shit" line to this day. 😂