The scene on the stairs was paying homage to a classic 1925 Russian silent movie The Battleship Potemkin which also had a scene with a baby carriage falling down the stairs intercut with different scene shots. It was an influential early example of editing different scenes and camera angles together. There's also a very funny parody of the stair shootout in Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult.
At that year’s Oscar ceremony Denzel was nominated in the same category as Sean Connery, and early in the ceremony Sean was brought out to present an award. Not accept an award, present. As he walked to the podium the entire audience gave him a standing ovation. When Denzel saw that he said “well ain’t no way I’m winning tonight.”
The key was to Malone's callbox. The callbox contained a telephone by which a beat cop (walking a beat) could call the station. Before portable radios, they had "call lights" strung over the streets at certain locations. If there was a call for the beat cop, the light would illuminate. The beat cop would go to a callbox, call the station, and receive the assignment.
I age myself, but I sure do remember those callboxes---asking my mom what it was. Yes, there were beat cops on patrol in the Bronx back in the 1960's---I knew ours, as my mom introduced me to him. A good man, I knew if I ever saw or had trouble to find him.
Armani did the wardrobe The Canada scene, those coats. Unreal And a CRAZY good film from the 80’s as well, almost forgotten; “Runaway Train” With John Voight and Eric Roberts. It’s almost entirely a two actor film. Amazing script and cinematography to boot. Super highly recommended
The movie is mostly fiction. Outside of Ness, the characters weren't based directly on real people. There were over 10 actual Untouchables. The raid at the border didn't happen, nor did the train station shootout. Frank Nitti wasn't killed at the courthouse. He ended up taking over for Capone when he went to prison, then killing himself after he snitched on a bunch of other people and knew they were coming for him.
Al Capone served time on Alcatraz as well as the Northeast Penatentiary in Philadelphia. He died from several diseases, including syphilis at his home in Florida. His henchman frank Nitti did not die from a fall at the courthouse. He continued a life of crime for several years.
Ennio Morricone composed the score for this as well as "The Good The Bad And The Ugly" which he is most famous for. Also a great movie with criminal content to react to. Stellar reaction Cami as usual
The key that Sean Connery's character was carrying was for Police Call boxes that were located all around the city. Cops didn't have radios on them back then. The call boxes had a direct phone line to the police department to call for backup.
clarification: If I remember well, the photographer took their picture but it was just for them so it wasn't published on the newspapers. There was no link between Al Capone and the crimes committed but he was living on a luxurious hotel for months... without income! so they caught them on that.
Great reaction Cami like always, love this movie, what makes this movie memorable is Brian De Palma's ability to create brilliant screen tension, and David Mamet's violent screenplay. There are some fun-facts about it, Bob Hoskins was Brian de Palma’s second choice for al capone. Bob Hoskins recalled meeting de palma and being told that the production was expecting De Niro would agree to play capone. But if not, they were really hoping Hoskins would step in. Robert de Niro insisted on getting fat, for his role. Acclaimed playwright, screenwriter, and director David Mamet is responsible for the combustible dialogue in this movie, but not everyone was a fan. According to Mamet, Paramount executive Ned Tanen thought the script “was a piece of dreck.” Producer Art Linson insisted they stick with Mamet, who based the film in some part on Ness’s autobiography. To help evoke the 1930s for modern audiences, director of photography Stephen Burum tried to convince De Palma to allow him to shoot the picture in black and white. De Palma’s response was to shake his head, telling Burum, “Don’t break your heart, Steve. They won’t let us do it.” The baseball bat dinner scene actually happened, In May 1928, after getting word several of his associates were plotting to murder him, Capone invited them all to a dinner, got them drunk, and then proceeded to beat each man to death with a baseball bat. In the film, the earnest Ness is tutored by gruff Chicago cop Jimmy Malone (Sean Connery). In real life, Malone and Ness never crossed paths: as part of the Treasury department, Malone was getting his hands dirty trying to infiltrate Capone’s organization to uncover evidence of suspected tax evasion. To help capture the camraderie and characterizations of Ness’s U.S. Justice lawmen, producers turned to Al “Wallpaper” Wolff at 85, the lone surviving member of his team. As a form of reciprocation, Paramount gave Wolff 160 free tickets to the premiere. (In 1987, Wolff who got his nickname for combing over everything during a room toss but the wallpaper said that sometimes raids would result in empty rooms. He imagined one of the “Untouchables” had leaked the information.) Despite starring in dozens of features over a 30-year (at the time) career, Connery was nominated for an Academy Award only once. Fortunately, it was also a win. Connery took home a Best Supporting Oscar in the spring of 1988 for his portrayal of Ness’s mentor, Jimmy Malone. Keep up the good work.
This was a great movie and your facial mannerisms along with the way you react, make your reviews more relatable. It truly is fun watching just for your reactions and your smile.
Capone was released from prison in 1938 he died of syphillis at his home in Miami and Frank Nitti committed suicide in 1943 rather than go back to prison.
You're right... the police captain "Mike" (Richard Bradford) is corrupt and working for Capone, but he still has a conscience and wanted to keep his old friend Malone safe. So in effect, he's playing both sides. But when push came to shove, obviously he ratted Malone out in order to save his own butt, and got Malone killed.
The movie is great but it bears little resemblance to what really happened. While the film is based on historic events, most of the film is fictionalized or inaccurate. The raid at the Canada-United States border never happened, and neither did the courthouse or railway station shootouts. Ness did not kill Nitti, who died in 1943, 12 years after the Capone trial, by suicide (the day before Nitti himself was scheduled to be in court). In reality, Ness's unit had very little to do with Capone's final tax evasion conviction, which was orchestrated by U.S. Attorney George E. Q. Johnson and IRS Agent Frank J. Wilson (who inspired the character of Oscar Wallace, but was never part of the Untouchables). The scene where Al Capone beats a lieutenant to death with a baseball bat is based on an urban legend, albeit one that historians doubt actually happened: after discovering that John Scalise, Albert Anselmi, and Joseph Guinta were planning to betray him, Capone reportedly invited the trio to a dinner party and beat them to death. In the film, Ness' wife is called Catherine and they have a young daughter. In real life, Ness' wife at the time was named Edna and the couple had no children at the time, though Ness would later adopt a son, Robert.
In real life, Capone went into prison with untreated syphilis that advanced during his sentence so badly that he suffered brain damage. According to a contemporary he was nuttier than a fruitcake when he got out and he was never the power he once was.
If I’ve learned anything from reaction videos, it’s that young people don’t do action sequences. But they do want a movie to last as long as an entire TV series. (I saw someone literally say _Crocodile Dundee_ ended with too many unanswered questions. 🤣🤣🤣.)
The key is to a police callbox - believe it or not, there are still some scattered throughout Chicago, and yes, they work. My grandmother (who is Jewish) lived next door to Capone in Cicero - they were good friends. My great-uncle worked for Capone as an enforcer. My uncle (her son) went on to work for the Cicero Police, and he married a beautiful Italian woman. Growing up I lived only a ew blocks away from Frank Nitti - the bad guy in this movie! So, until the 1980's many Jews (like myself) were heavily discriminated against, just like the Italians. When I was young, a lot of my friends were Italian, since the Irish Catholic kids weren't allowed to even talk to me. So I made friends with Italian kids, and their families experienced just as much discrimination, so it was natural for us underdogs to pair up. Needless to say I spent a lot of time with Italian people, and, I'm a Jew who can cook an authentic and delicious Italian meal! When I was 16 I came out as lesbian, and my Italian friends were like, "we have the perfect girl for you to date" - she was the gay daughter of a street enforcer in Cicero! That year I got a job working at an Outfit-owned Burger King in Cicero, and then they got me a job driving the mob wives around and making sure they were safe. Years later after my relationship with that first women ended another Italian friend set me up on a blind date with an Italian woman. She was awesome - and stunningly gorgeous; and she was the daughter of a made Outfit member, so meeting dad was a bit scary!
Ha. No, this is not anywhere close to being accurate. They did get Capone on tax evasion and he did famously bash someone's head in with a baseball bat at a dinner table but most everything else is just Hollywood. The movie is based on an old TV series, it's not unlike The Adamms Family or Brady Bunch movies. I remember how much of a disappointment it was when it came out; we figured with De Niro as Capone it was going to be something on par with The Godfather. Instead we got a good little Hollywood formula job. A few years later we got "Goodfellas" so we ended up getting our wish for something on par with "The Godfather"! This movie would have been so much better with a different lead actor, lol. Mr. Bland. The guy with the personality of a number 2 pencil. Also can't stand the music, Morricone or not.
I believe Costner was consciously trying to play Ness the same way Robert Stack played him in the TV series. Just a guess, of course. Yeah, in real life Capone killed two people with a bat in one sitting. Two of the four who had previously wiped out the Bugs Moran gang for him in the St Valentine's Day Massacre. He heard that they were plotting against him. Better safe than sorry.
@@DougRayPhillips If he was trying to channel Robert Stack, then he failed! lol Costner is ok, he's a warm body to stick in a movie, a himbo that you can have run around or fall on the floor or whatever is required...... he's not exactly new teachings in acting! lol. He was good in Fandango, and Silverado, his early stuff when he still had a personality. To be honest, my favorite Kevin Costner role is as Alex in "The Big Chill"! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😆😆😆😆🤣
Well, I remember the TV show from when I was a kid. And when I first saw this film in theatrical release, it hit me with a sense of verisimilitude. Starting with the opening music, which is different enough from the TV show theme that it's not a copyright infringement but similar enough that it's a callback. Other things thruout, including choosing to do a 4-man team. And yes, my impression is that Costner was being restrained in his manner here, partly as an imitation of early '60s TV acting in general and therefore of the Stack interpretation in particular. That's just my personal sense of it.
@@DougRayPhillips Except he doesn't have any of the humor or the charisma. And what is Costner's excuse in every other movie he ever did? You're acting like Costner was making some kind of considered acting choice. That is just hilarious beyond all words. Sorry, dopey: I think you're just projecting what you'd LIKE his shallow, unexceptional performance to be like. "He's trying to channel Robert Stack", LOL.....For the record, I've never heard Costner or De Palma or anyone say anything like that. And PS: yeah, now you're just saying what I already said in my original comment: this is a movie version of a TV series. And that's the way it feels. LIke a dopey, shallow, unrealistic TV show. Very 80s. A totally overrated movie. I saw it in the theatre too so spare me the "I was there" bullsh*t. I vividly remember the expectations of this movie were high and it being a disappointment. Very typical of mainstream movies from the second half of the 80s. Maybe you didn't notice, maybe you were part of the problem during that absolutely idiotic decade of mediocrity and dumbing down., lol. "The Untouchables, LOL. Imagine that's what you get all excited about, the hack job that is "The Untouchables". 🤣
The scene on the stairs was paying homage to a classic 1925 Russian silent movie The Battleship Potemkin which also had a scene with a baby carriage falling down the stairs intercut with different scene shots. It was an influential early example of editing different scenes and camera angles together. There's also a very funny parody of the stair shootout in Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult.
At that year’s Oscar ceremony Denzel was nominated in the same category as Sean Connery, and early in the ceremony Sean was brought out to present an award. Not accept an award, present. As he walked to the podium the entire audience gave him a standing ovation. When Denzel saw that he said “well ain’t no way I’m winning tonight.”
The key was to Malone's callbox. The callbox contained a telephone by which a beat cop (walking a beat) could call the station. Before portable radios, they had "call lights" strung over the streets at certain locations. If there was a call for the beat cop, the light would illuminate. The beat cop would go to a callbox, call the station, and receive the assignment.
I age myself, but I sure do remember those callboxes---asking my mom what it was. Yes, there were beat cops on patrol in the Bronx back in the 1960's---I knew ours, as my mom introduced me to him. A good man, I knew if I ever saw or had trouble to find him.
Armani did the wardrobe
The Canada scene, those coats.
Unreal
And a CRAZY good film from the 80’s as well, almost forgotten;
“Runaway Train”
With John Voight and Eric Roberts.
It’s almost entirely a two actor film.
Amazing script and cinematography to boot.
Super highly recommended
well, Armani got the credit, which made a ton of people unhappy
The movie is mostly fiction. Outside of Ness, the characters weren't based directly on real people. There were over 10 actual Untouchables. The raid at the border didn't happen, nor did the train station shootout. Frank Nitti wasn't killed at the courthouse. He ended up taking over for Capone when he went to prison, then killing himself after he snitched on a bunch of other people and knew they were coming for him.
And also don't forget, it's a MOVIE!!!
Ness was also a real d-bag in real life, nothing like the goody two shoes Costner portrayed him as.
yeah, there was no prohibition in Canada, so i dunno if they would help like that
Al Capone served time on Alcatraz as well as the Northeast Penatentiary in Philadelphia. He died from several diseases, including syphilis at his home in Florida.
His henchman frank Nitti did not die from a fall at the courthouse. He continued a life of crime for several years.
Ennio Morricone composed the score for this as well as "The Good The Bad And The Ugly" which he is most famous for. Also a great movie with criminal content to react to. Stellar reaction Cami as usual
The key that Sean Connery's character was carrying was for Police Call boxes that were located all around the city. Cops didn't have radios on them back then. The call boxes had a direct phone line to the police department to call for backup.
clarification: If I remember well, the photographer took their picture but it was just for them so it wasn't published on the newspapers.
There was no link between Al Capone and the crimes committed but he was living on a luxurious hotel for months... without income! so they caught them on that.
Great reaction Cami like always, love this movie, what makes this movie memorable is Brian De Palma's ability to create brilliant screen tension, and David Mamet's violent screenplay. There are some fun-facts about it, Bob Hoskins was Brian de Palma’s second choice for al capone. Bob Hoskins recalled meeting de palma and being told that the production was expecting De Niro would agree to play capone. But if not, they were really hoping Hoskins would step in. Robert de Niro insisted on getting fat, for his role. Acclaimed playwright, screenwriter, and director David Mamet is responsible for the combustible dialogue in this movie, but not everyone was a fan. According to Mamet, Paramount executive Ned Tanen thought the script “was a piece of dreck.” Producer Art Linson insisted they stick with Mamet, who based the film in some part on Ness’s autobiography. To help evoke the 1930s for modern audiences, director of photography Stephen Burum tried to convince De Palma to allow him to shoot the picture in black and white. De Palma’s response was to shake his head, telling Burum, “Don’t break your heart, Steve. They won’t let us do it.” The baseball bat dinner scene actually happened, In May 1928, after getting word several of his associates were plotting to murder him, Capone invited them all to a dinner, got them drunk, and then proceeded to beat each man to death with a baseball bat. In the film, the earnest Ness is tutored by gruff Chicago cop Jimmy Malone (Sean Connery). In real life, Malone and Ness never crossed paths: as part of the Treasury department, Malone was getting his hands dirty trying to infiltrate Capone’s organization to uncover evidence of suspected tax evasion. To help capture the camraderie and characterizations of Ness’s U.S. Justice lawmen, producers turned to Al “Wallpaper” Wolff at 85, the lone surviving member of his team. As a form of reciprocation, Paramount gave Wolff 160 free tickets to the premiere. (In 1987, Wolff who got his nickname for combing over everything during a room toss but the wallpaper said that sometimes raids would result in empty rooms. He imagined one of the “Untouchables” had leaked the information.) Despite starring in dozens of features over a 30-year (at the time) career, Connery was nominated for an Academy Award only once. Fortunately, it was also a win. Connery took home a Best Supporting Oscar in the spring of 1988 for his portrayal of Ness’s mentor, Jimmy Malone. Keep up the good work.
Thanks, Marco! Love your knowledge!
Great trivia! Bob Hoskins would have need great too! Truly an underrated actor!
I don't know if you've seen them but I'd like to recommend MILLER'S CROSSING (1990), L.A. CONFIDENTIAL (1997) and THE USUAL SUSPECTS (1995). : )
@@The_Bermuda_Nonagon All three are on the docket!
Love your comments and insight always Marco!! Thank you!!!
This was a great movie and your facial mannerisms along with the way you react, make your reviews more relatable. It truly is fun watching just for your reactions and your smile.
Brian de Palma also directed Scarface whit Al Pacino check it next. ❤
I haven’t seen that! So would be a good one:) thanks for watching!
Capone was released from prison in 1938 he died of syphillis at his home in Miami and Frank Nitti committed suicide in 1943 rather than go back to prison.
The baby stroller shootout scene is one of the best in movie history. Stone shoots the guy in his opened mouth!
You're right... the police captain "Mike" (Richard Bradford) is corrupt and working for Capone, but he still has a conscience and wanted to keep his old friend Malone safe. So in effect, he's playing both sides. But when push came to shove, obviously he ratted Malone out in order to save his own butt, and got Malone killed.
Great movie. I saw it in the theater when it came out.
These are the kind of monsters for whom the media encouraged the public to be enthralled.
They should have had a small part for Robert Stack. For those too young to know why google him.
you need to check out the French connection from 1971 with Gene Hackman outstanding criminal content!
You look like rachel mcadams mixed with rose byrne
The movie is great but it bears little resemblance to what really happened. While the film is based on historic events, most of the film is fictionalized or inaccurate. The raid at the Canada-United States border never happened, and neither did the courthouse or railway station shootouts. Ness did not kill Nitti, who died in 1943, 12 years after the Capone trial, by suicide (the day before Nitti himself was scheduled to be in court). In reality, Ness's unit had very little to do with Capone's final tax evasion conviction, which was orchestrated by U.S. Attorney George E. Q. Johnson and IRS Agent Frank J. Wilson (who inspired the character of Oscar Wallace, but was never part of the Untouchables).
The scene where Al Capone beats a lieutenant to death with a baseball bat is based on an urban legend, albeit one that historians doubt actually happened: after discovering that John Scalise, Albert Anselmi, and Joseph Guinta were planning to betray him, Capone reportedly invited the trio to a dinner party and beat them to death.
In the film, Ness' wife is called Catherine and they have a young daughter. In real life, Ness' wife at the time was named Edna and the couple had no children at the time, though Ness would later adopt a son, Robert.
Ennio Morricone what are complete Rockstar 🎻🎻🎻🔊🎶🎵🎶🎵🎼
The Ennio Morricone score is unmatched! He is the best!
In real life, Capone went into prison with untreated syphilis that advanced during his sentence so badly that he suffered brain damage. According to a contemporary he was nuttier than a fruitcake when he got out and he was never the power he once was.
Capone would sit at his pool in Miami & fish in his pool,
thinking he was at the beach or ocean or whatever...
...yeah his mind was gone
❤❤❤ I love your reactions to videos. It’s great. I don’t know if you’ve done tombstone yet but you gotta see it if you have it.❤❤❤❤❤
Not yet!
If I’ve learned anything from reaction videos, it’s that young people don’t do action sequences. But they do want a movie to last as long as an entire TV series. (I saw someone literally say _Crocodile Dundee_ ended with too many unanswered questions. 🤣🤣🤣.)
You should consider
Erin Brockovich movie
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Oooooh that's a great recommendation!
Love that soundtrack!
The key is to a police callbox - believe it or not, there are still some scattered throughout Chicago, and yes, they work. My grandmother (who is Jewish) lived next door to Capone in Cicero - they were good friends. My great-uncle worked for Capone as an enforcer. My uncle (her son) went on to work for the Cicero Police, and he married a beautiful Italian woman. Growing up I lived only a ew blocks away from Frank Nitti - the bad guy in this movie! So, until the 1980's many Jews (like myself) were heavily discriminated against, just like the Italians. When I was young, a lot of my friends were Italian, since the Irish Catholic kids weren't allowed to even talk to me. So I made friends with Italian kids, and their families experienced just as much discrimination, so it was natural for us underdogs to pair up. Needless to say I spent a lot of time with Italian people, and, I'm a Jew who can cook an authentic and delicious Italian meal! When I was 16 I came out as lesbian, and my Italian friends were like, "we have the perfect girl for you to date" - she was the gay daughter of a street enforcer in Cicero! That year I got a job working at an Outfit-owned Burger King in Cicero, and then they got me a job driving the mob wives around and making sure they were safe. Years later after my relationship with that first women ended another Italian friend set me up on a blind date with an Italian woman. She was awesome - and stunningly gorgeous; and she was the daughter of a made Outfit member, so meeting dad was a bit scary!
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Non of the untouchables actually died movie mostly fiction but still goid
You should watch DePalma’s masterpiece Scarface and I also highly recommend Dressed To
Killl.
Scarface is garbage and disrespectful to Cubans as myself.
@@rangelfamily4047 said no one ever
Ha. No, this is not anywhere close to being accurate. They did get Capone on tax evasion and he did famously bash someone's head in with a baseball bat at a dinner table but most everything else is just Hollywood. The movie is based on an old TV series, it's not unlike The Adamms Family or Brady Bunch movies. I remember how much of a disappointment it was when it came out; we figured with De Niro as Capone it was going to be something on par with The Godfather. Instead we got a good little Hollywood formula job. A few years later we got "Goodfellas" so we ended up getting our wish for something on par with "The Godfather"! This movie would have been so much better with a different lead actor, lol. Mr. Bland. The guy with the personality of a number 2 pencil. Also can't stand the music, Morricone or not.
I believe Costner was consciously trying to play Ness the same way Robert Stack played him in the TV series. Just a guess, of course.
Yeah, in real life Capone killed two people with a bat in one sitting. Two of the four who had previously wiped out the Bugs Moran gang for him in the St Valentine's Day Massacre. He heard that they were plotting against him. Better safe than sorry.
@@DougRayPhillips If he was trying to channel Robert Stack, then he failed! lol Costner is ok, he's a warm body to stick in a movie, a himbo that you can have run around or fall on the floor or whatever is required...... he's not exactly new teachings in acting! lol. He was good in Fandango, and Silverado, his early stuff when he still had a personality. To be honest, my favorite Kevin Costner role is as Alex in "The Big Chill"! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😆😆😆😆🤣
Well, I remember the TV show from when I was a kid. And when I first saw this film in theatrical release, it hit me with a sense of verisimilitude. Starting with the opening music, which is different enough from the TV show theme that it's not a copyright infringement but similar enough that it's a callback. Other things thruout, including choosing to do a 4-man team. And yes, my impression is that Costner was being restrained in his manner here, partly as an imitation of early '60s TV acting in general and therefore of the Stack interpretation in particular. That's just my personal sense of it.
@@DougRayPhillips Except he doesn't have any of the humor or the charisma. And what is Costner's excuse in every other movie he ever did? You're acting like Costner was making some kind of considered acting choice. That is just hilarious beyond all words. Sorry, dopey: I think you're just projecting what you'd LIKE his shallow, unexceptional performance to be like. "He's trying to channel Robert Stack", LOL.....For the record, I've never heard Costner or De Palma or anyone say anything like that. And PS: yeah, now you're just saying what I already said in my original comment: this is a movie version of a TV series. And that's the way it feels. LIke a dopey, shallow, unrealistic TV show. Very 80s. A totally overrated movie. I saw it in the theatre too so spare me the "I was there" bullsh*t. I vividly remember the expectations of this movie were high and it being a disappointment. Very typical of mainstream movies from the second half of the 80s. Maybe you didn't notice, maybe you were part of the problem during that absolutely idiotic decade of mediocrity and dumbing down., lol. "The Untouchables, LOL. Imagine that's what you get all excited about, the hack job that is "The Untouchables". 🤣
Nice