“I think I’ll have a drink.” Didn’t refer to Ness not being on the job. The reporter said there’s word that they’re going to repeal Prohibition. The whole movie was about the rise of organized crime during Prohibition. Prohibition was about the government of the U.S. declaring that alcohol consumption was illegal. Al Capone and organized crime rose to power selling alcohol. Elliot Ness said he would have a drink if they repealed Prohibition because alcohol would be legal again.
This generation doesn't know anything about historical things. That's why they fall for anything they're told and it's miseducation of this era. We are the most technically advanced that we've ever been to find and research things but people are too lazy
Not sure how old these ladies are but you can field that question to any young person now they would not know either I know due to history and saw this when I was young!
It's an indictment on the education system that you don't know who Capone is and what Chicago was like during prohibition. Other than some names, very few things in this movie were accurate. Frank Nitti was so changed they might as well have used a different name instead of the actual man's name. He actually took over for Capone when he got locked up for tax evasion. Ness got so famous that he ended up becoming mayor of Cleveland. He also became a big alcoholic. One really good thing Capone did was, during the depression, he opened a lot of food kitchens in Chicago to feed the many thousands of people who couldn't afford food. Mainly did it for PR but still. He was one of the most famous prisoners ever in Alcatraz. He died a free man in Florida with his brain so eaten away by syphilis that it looked like Swiss cheese. A major misconception about prohibition is that drinking alcohol was illegal. It wasn't. The manufacturing, distribution and transportation and sale of alcohol was illegal, not the consumption. Same way with Cuban cigars. Only the importation and sale was illegal until the last decade, not the actual smoking.
The stair scene with the baby stroller is a reference to a famous scene from Sergei Eisensteins "Battleship Potemkin." Also, Elliot Ness (Costner) hadn't changed his principles in that final exchange with the reporter. From the beginning he had said that they had to follow the law, now if prohibition was being repealed, then it would no longer be law. And drinking liquor would be completely legal, hence " I think I'll have a drink."
I was an usher at a movie theater when this film was released. The audience was so involved with the film from start to finish. You were watching a Hollywood heavyweight at the top of his game.. DeNiro at his finest. You were also watching a young actor who after so many years got his title shot if you will...and he ran with it. Kevin Costner on his rise to stardom was truly something to watch. Be sure to watch his next films after this: No Way Out with Gene Hackman, and his finest hour: Dances with Wolves. Enjoy, Ladies!
Ness did not retire. He finished the job and went on to his next assignment. He wasn't a Chicago cop, he was a federal officer. When he said he would have a drink, it wasn't because he would no longer be a cop. It's because they were going to repeal prohibition, and drinking would be legal again. I would love to see the 2 of you watch The Sting. Great movie. Great cast. Oh and BTW, Elliott Ness and Al Capone were real people in history. This all really happened. "Thus endeth the lesson for today". ; ))
Sean Connery was a coffin polisher and he worked many odd jobs on his way to stardom. He was also a competitor in the Mr. Universe contest before landing his career changing role as James Bond in 1962. He had been a Hollywood heavyweight for over 20 years before he won his best supporting actor for his role in this film. His career had a renaissance following this role and he was even named the sexiest man alive, one of the oldest actors to be named. You were watching two Hollywood heavyweights at the top of their game with two young actors on the rise...Andy Garcia and of course, Kevin Costner.
They can't teach it otherwise more people would know why the War on Drugs was destined to fail from its inception, same as a total ban on abortion, firearms, and anything else. Organized crime was because of Prohibition. The best way to handle recreational drugs is to decriminalize, regulate, and tax.
Remember folks, it was an accountant who ultimately took down Capone, with that said never under-estimate the power of those society label as math nerds.
Al Capone became the template for every gangster film all the way to Scarface in 1983. He was the quintessential gangster people found themselves rooting for and also being afraid of at the same time.
@@calebharvey8979 I wouldn't go that far. It's part and parcel of being a reactor. But you do have to make sure you're watching carefully. It may be a Reject obligation.
There's something wrong with these two. Seriously. And they're not reactors. No one reacts to films like this. These aren't about the movie, they think its about them. Don't quit your day jobs girls.
Fun fact: in real life, the assassin in the white suit who gets thrown off the roof? He's the guy that took over Capone's outfit after he went in the joint.
Great reaction ladies! Al Capone died in prison from syphilis. Prohibition was repealed so with liquor being legalized (like weed is now in many states) - organinized crime had to find other illegal sources of money. Here endeth the lesson. Old school mob movie is "The St. Valentine's Day Massacre" . Al Capone was behind that criminal act against a rival "liquor cartel" in Chicago. The movie uses narration to educate the viewers which inspired the script format of "Goodfellas".
Capone died at his Miami house after being released from prison his brain was eaten by syphillis; he used to sit at his swimming pool with a fishing pole trying to catch fish that weren't there
The scene where Capone hits the guy with the baseball bat, that actually happened in real life. In real life, Elliot Ness stayed in Chicago for a while after he got Capone. Unfortunately, Elliot Ness didn't have to lovey-dovey sweet marriage in real life as it was portrayed in the movie.
Sadly, Elliot Ness did not have a full and happy life after this period. He had a pretty good career in law enforcement through his 40s, but slowly became an alcoholic (sad irony there) and died nearly penniless of a heart attack at 54.
The iconic train station shoot out is an homage to the silent film BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN. The film is based on the popular 1959-63 TV series starring Robert Stack (prob. better known later for his role in AIRPLANE). Excellently executed by master filmmaker Brian DePalma at the top of his game with a fantastic cast making Costner a movie star, Connery an Oscar-winner and DeNiro adding another role to his rogue's gallery of villains. It's 100% true that Capone went to prison for tax evasion ; everything else is fictitious (but Ness was indeed a real life fed agent who was in the task force against Capone). I knew you ladies would love this (loved your reactions as always :D ). And Ennio Morricone's epic score and Armani's wardrobe are *chef's kisses*. RE: DePalma - seek out pretty much everything - CARRIE, CASUALTIES OF WAR, BLOW OUT, BODY DOUBLE off the top of my head) and Costner you need to see NO WAY OUT. Charles Martin Smith - Oscar - is best known for George Lucas' AMERICAN GRAFFITI (another must see with a cavalcade of stars-to-be including Ron Howard, Richard Drefyfuss, and Harrison Ford).
A spectacular movie and Sean Connery won a much deserved Oscar for it. As with The Fugitive this was a movie based on a very popular television series. Both The Fugitive and The Untouchables tv series were based on real events
They enjoyed the movie with absolutely no historical context. For the ladies...Prohibition was the outlawing of alcohol. That's why Ness said he would have a when the law was repealed...not because he was done in Chicago.
This is just a masterclass of film making right here, as I rarely get to say a film was just about flawless, but this is one of those rare situations. Everyone involved brought their "A" game and then some, Connery was amazing, and glad he got his due here, but he didn't have to carry anyone, as several others could have won awards as well. One of my favorite films of the last 40+ years, as by the end, the lines are very blurred in regards to who is right and who is wrong(as what are you prepared to do?).
Brian de Palma, the director, made over thirty films in his long career and is famous for his slow motion scene sequences (like the train station baby carriage on the stairs) and other unique cinematography features.
THE UNTOUCHABLES was originally a TV series and in his memoir A POUND OF FLESH producer Art Linson wrote how he took David Mamet, who had just won the Pulitzer Price for his play, GLENGERRY GLEN ROSS, out to dinner and a the precise moment said to Mamet, "Don't you think the write career move for a playwright who just won the Pulitzer would be to take an old TV show and make it into a movie for a sh*t load of money?" Mamet replied, "Yes!"
Definitely consider watching 1997s COPLAND, from directed James Mangold, who went on to directed Walk The Line and Logan. Sylvester Stallone, Robert Deniro, Ray Liotta, and Harvey Keitel star in it. It's a great crime thriller when amazing performances.
The script originally called for the final shootout on the train but the studio wouldn't pay for a period train car so Brian DePalma hastily wrote the shoot-out in the train station which he based on a famous scene in BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN. When screenwriter David Mamet saw the new scene at the premier he began to squirm in his seat. Producer Art Linson saw him and said, "What are you squirming for? You were bought and paid for."
I hope you ladies found out about the history of Elliot Ness. There was a tv series about him in the 1960’s played by actor Robert Stack the host of Unsolved Mysteries. Unsolved Mysteries did a documentary on this case. In fact the same killer who killed 11 people in Chicago moved to Los Angeles and committed the same crime by sawing her in half nice and slow to perfection. The person this killer killed is what is known in LA as The Black Dahlia. It’s all connected.
'You're just a lot of talk and a badge.' The screenwriter is pulitzer prize winning playwright David Mamet. He wrote poetry with brass knuckles. A duel muse here for Quentin Tarantino as Mamet was an early influence on Quentin's dialogue and the director Brian De Palma who was Tarantino's guy, his absolute biggest inspiration for stylized violence and heightened reality as well as explorations of perversity and themes of grey areas and silver linings within morality plays and monkey paws. All under the guise of being American tragic dark comedies and revisionist history in the style of a modern ash-fault neo-noir western. TRANSLATION: These masterpiece theatre cinematic opus's are dope-ass sh*t cool as Hell!
That staircase shot is actually based on one of the original films from the early 1900s. A Russian film of similar take, w/ a baby carriage tumbling down the stairs. The frame speed, lighting and shadows. And camera angles were, and continue to be, used to elicit emotional responses in film. It's eerily effective. And worth researching.
@3Kings_Industries Yes, Serguei Eisentein's 1925 masterpiece "Battleship Potemkin", the staircase scene has been paid homage to in several movies from "The Godfather" to Terry Gilliam's "Brazil" or "Naked Gun 33 1/3".
Thank you for pointing it out. Others have mentioned the director and name of the film, a masterpiece of the silent era. The "Odessa steps" sequence is a landmark in cinema history. And De Palma (a occasionally flawed but often virtuoso director) has a genuine passion for film and its history, he just had to include a nod to the past.
Is it cute or weird that a major story in American history, AL Capone (FAMOUS! American gangster) taken down by Elliot Ness (FAMOUS! for doing so), is not known by some.❤ I learned this story in history class....in Canada!
If people knows films and TV they would know him he was everywhere in films and tv in the 80's and 90's great actor never thought he got the recognition he should have!
Billy Drago was one of those actors who was almost always the best thing in the film. And he was fantastic in "The Adventures of Brisco County Jr" with Bruce Campbell.
In addition to all of the production elements that you pointed out, you didn't mention the great Ennio Morricone's fantastic score. From the music played over the opening credits and throughout the movie, it enhances every scene. This score is a masterpiece!
I lived with my grandmother growing up - she raised me. One day I came home from school where we learned about the Chicago Outfit (our teacher said they were brutally violent, etc, especially Capone) and when I mentioned this to my grandmother, she replied, "we do not speak ill of Alphonse Capone in this house - he's a good man, and has been there for our family since the beginning - not to mention all he does to help people in Chicago". My grandmother lived next door to Capone in Cicero, IL. She said he used to walk with her the store, etc and always helped her. She told me, "he said no woman should ever have t walk alone someplace - unless she wants to". She said he was a gentleman, and insisted that he didn't have any involvement in the Valentine's Day Massacre. My Great Uncle was a street enforcer for him, and continued in that line of 'work' until his death in the 1970's (he had a heart attack - he was around 6'6" tall, and at least 500lbs - he would always pick me up, and I remember being so high up I could touch the ceiling. My uncle was involved too, as were nearly all of my friend's families. Anyway, other family members were involved in the Outfit way back when; I remember backyard parties in the summer with all these Italian men with their gorgeous Italian wives who'd give me money and kiss my cheeks a lot! I'm Jewish - and Irish Catholic parents wouldn't let their kids play with me because of being Jewish - but Italian families (nearly all who were connected) made me feel like a part of their families; to this day I make an incredible pasta sauce, and sausage and peppers that even a full-blooded Italian would believe was made by some nonna in Italy....
Elliot Ness’s next big case was tracking the Cleveland torso killer. Eventually Ness was forced to resign and while there’s several theories on who the killer was, it’s still unsolved to this day.
Great reaction. Not surprised the ladies weren't aware of the circumstances surrounding Prohibition. It was a short, but very impactful period of American history with which modern Americans have no context, since the Mafia is no longer as influential as it was once during the 20th century. Eliot Ness later became somewhat of a social drunk following the repeal of Prohibition and did not benefit from his takedown of Al Capone. His memoirs "The Untouchables," released shortly after his death in 1957, was adapted into one of the earliest successful TV shows, featuring Robert Stack as Eliot Ness. I am of course, much too young to know about the show, but Robert Stack was the voice of Ultra Magnus in the animated Transformers movie. This movie wasn't even Sean Connery's best acting performance of that year. It was as William of Baskerville in the film adaptation of Umberto Eco's "The Name of the Rose" opposite F. Murray Abraham and a young Christian Slater.
Capone went to jail for 11 years. When he came out prohibition was over and he no longer had any power. He died of syphilis. This was based on a true story. Elliot Ness was a true character and Al Capone was brought down by failure to pay income tax.
such a clasic movie. Malone''s death was one of the if not the first movie death that made me cry when i was a kid. RIP SIr Sean & Ennio. BTW: the guy in the white suit, Frank Nitti also is portraied later on in the movie Public Enemies with Johnny Depp. Older. sure he died here, but movie magic .......taddaa...lol...he's there too. xD saluud!° also.....hi Kristen! 😚
Great reaction Kristen & Vivian 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.
The baby carriage sequence was actually a last minute change. There was supposed to be a whole sequence on tge train capturing the bookkeeper. The studio made DePalma cancel it for budgetary reasons. As almost a joke, he chose to copy a famous sequence from The Battleship Potemkin instead. He later used some of the planned train sequence in the first Mission Impossible film.
Lovely reaction - I think the point about Ness' last line having a drink is that it's ironic, and a bit Absurdist, considering how hard he fought to prevent the liquor trade - re the writing, David Mamet is a Pulizer winner and one of the great American playwrights of the late 20th century, and also a notable filmmaker - his best adapted play onscreen is Glengarry Glen Ross; one of the best films he wrote and directed is House of Games; two of his other best screenplays include The Verdict and Wag the Dog - Untouchables director Brian DePalma basically discovered DeNiro in the 60s, and they made some anarchic comedies together like Greetings and Hi Mom - some of DePalma's most famous films include Scarface, Mission Impossible, and Carrie - he's especially known for his emulation of Alfred Hitchcock, esp in American giallos like Dressed to Kill; IMO his greatest film is the devastating Casualties of War - his Hitchcock vibe is very evident here in the slightly self-conscious way the film doesn't take itself too seriously, but teases the suspense out of every moment, not least that Battleship Potemkin staircase scene - as you can see here, his work w actors is superb - this may be the last of DeNiro's vintage films, where he used to knock the camera over thru sheer power - this was also the film that launched Sean Connery's late career resurgence - I believe there's a scene here that Peter Jackson referenced in LOTR - the scene where Connery fights the other elderly police officer - legendary film critic Pauline Kael singled that scene out for its impact, the sense that these two old ppl shouldn't be fighting like this, which adds to the scene's resonance - I believe Peter Jackson read Kael and used that point of hers in the early fight between Gandalf and Saruman
11:00 In the scene in Malone’s apartment (not visible in this clip) there is a photo of a Union soldier from the Civil War. This was likely meant to be Malone’s father, who likely would have served in the 23rd Illinois Infantry Regiment, known as the “First Irish” Brigade.
Robert De Niro has played these kind of rolls so long he has believed he was a tough guy, he does have a big mouth. Hey little Susie might have kept the store from being completely destroyed. This had one of my favorite actors Sir Sean Connery. The best part is Capone went crazy and was released and died of Syphilis
Real Eliot Ness (1903-1957) worked his ass off to put Al Capone in prison then had issues at the end of life in 1957 at the age of 54. Thanks to Prohibition, Mob became what it is today. That bar owner wanted untainted alcohol after hood threaten him. Then man in white is one of Capone's henchmen left the brief case (bomb) killing little girl. Ness wrote his memoir called The Untouchables in which this movie is based by Brian De Palma.
Capone sentenced 11 years in prison but was paroled in 1939 because of health problems. Capone was suffering effects from Syphilis. He died from a stroke in 1948 at the age of 48. After reading on Capone, during his stint in prison, he played banjo in a band with other inmates.
The film is loosely based on a book co written by the real Elliot Ness that was also the basis for a tv show of the same name in the 1960s that started Robert Stack(from Airplane and later host of Unsolved Mysteries in the 1990's) as Elliot Ness
Loved your reaction as always. You should check out society of the snow. It's a great movie and I would love to hear what you have to say about that one. If you do watch it I recommend the original language with subtitles, the acting was amazing
This is one of the best movies of the 80s. Sean Connery definitely deserved his Academy award for this.
⬆️ I agree with this guy. He must be old like me! 😉👍
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The Academy had no choice...they knew they were muckin with a G!!
“I think I’ll have a drink.” Didn’t refer to Ness not being on the job. The reporter said there’s word that they’re going to repeal Prohibition. The whole movie was about the rise of organized crime during Prohibition. Prohibition was about the government of the U.S. declaring that alcohol consumption was illegal. Al Capone and organized crime rose to power selling alcohol. Elliot Ness said he would have a drink if they repealed Prohibition because alcohol would be legal again.
I’m surprised that neither one of these ladies know who Al Capone and Eliot Ness were.
This generation doesn't know anything about historical things. That's why they fall for anything they're told and it's miseducation of this era. We are the most technically advanced that we've ever been to find and research things but people are too lazy
Not sure how old these ladies are but you can field that question to any young person now they would not know either I know due to history and saw this when I was young!
@@sean9115 I know them and i aint neither American nor old
@@UnDonnaiolo I mean OK curious to know where your from but eh doesn't matter in the end!
This subject is basic American history. Of course they should know them.
Sean Connery took home the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor as a cop who is determined to help Eliot Ness to take down Al Capone once and for all.
It's an indictment on the education system that you don't know who Capone is and what Chicago was like during prohibition. Other than some names, very few things in this movie were accurate. Frank Nitti was so changed they might as well have used a different name instead of the actual man's name. He actually took over for Capone when he got locked up for tax evasion. Ness got so famous that he ended up becoming mayor of Cleveland. He also became a big alcoholic. One really good thing Capone did was, during the depression, he opened a lot of food kitchens in Chicago to feed the many thousands of people who couldn't afford food. Mainly did it for PR but still. He was one of the most famous prisoners ever in Alcatraz. He died a free man in Florida with his brain so eaten away by syphilis that it looked like Swiss cheese. A major misconception about prohibition is that drinking alcohol was illegal. It wasn't. The manufacturing, distribution and transportation and sale of alcohol was illegal, not the consumption. Same way with Cuban cigars. Only the importation and sale was illegal until the last decade, not the actual smoking.
He ran for Mayor but was soundly defeated.
why did everyone call him Nitti when his real name was Nitto?
The stair scene with the baby stroller is a reference to a famous scene from Sergei Eisensteins "Battleship Potemkin."
Also, Elliot Ness (Costner) hadn't changed his principles in that final exchange with the reporter. From the beginning he had said that they had to follow the law, now if prohibition was being repealed, then it would no longer be law. And drinking liquor would be completely legal, hence " I think I'll have a drink."
Beat me to it.
The baby scene is considered one of the more iconic scenes in movies.
The naked gun version is epic as well
I was an usher at a movie theater when this film was released. The audience was so involved with the film from start to finish.
You were watching a Hollywood heavyweight at the top of his game.. DeNiro at his finest.
You were also watching a young actor who after so many years got his title shot if you will...and he ran with it. Kevin Costner on his rise to stardom was truly something to watch.
Be sure to watch his next films after this: No Way Out with Gene Hackman, and his finest hour: Dances with Wolves.
Enjoy, Ladies!
Ness did not retire. He finished the job and went on to his next assignment. He wasn't a Chicago cop, he was a federal officer. When he said he would have a drink, it wasn't because he would no longer be a cop. It's because they were going to repeal prohibition, and drinking would be legal again. I would love to see the 2 of you watch The Sting. Great movie. Great cast. Oh and BTW, Elliott Ness and Al Capone were real people in history. This all really happened. "Thus endeth the lesson for today". ; ))
Yeah... not the brightest bulbs, but nice gals...
Sean Connery was a coffin polisher and he worked many odd jobs on his way to stardom. He was also a competitor in the Mr. Universe contest before landing his career changing role as James Bond in 1962.
He had been a Hollywood heavyweight for over 20 years before he won his best supporting actor for his role in this film.
His career had a renaissance following this role and he was even named the sexiest man alive, one of the oldest actors to be named.
You were watching two Hollywood heavyweights at the top of their game with two young actors on the rise...Andy Garcia and of course, Kevin Costner.
When Connery says, in his last breath, WHAT ARE YOU PREPARED TO DO.....I have to say it makes this grown man tear up.
Legendary movie filled with amazing actors.
It fictionalizes the actual events, but in service of a great story.
In the theater the scenery of Chicago, the old architecture was stunning. Great film.
It baffles me so many Americans don’t know any American History. Prohibition should be taught at grade school level.
They can't teach it otherwise more people would know why the War on Drugs was destined to fail from its inception, same as a total ban on abortion, firearms, and anything else. Organized crime was because of Prohibition. The best way to handle recreational drugs is to decriminalize, regulate, and tax.
Remember folks, it was an accountant who ultimately took down Capone, with that said never under-estimate the power of those society label as math nerds.
Frank J. Wilson, who Oscar Wallace is loosely based on, was the one who found the evidence to convinct Capone
I loved the art design, wardrobe , and cinematography, and you mustn't forget to appreciate Ennio Morricone's gorgeous and emotional musical score.
This. The score is fantastic
The score is magnificent
Al Capone became the template for every gangster film all the way to Scarface in 1983. He was the quintessential gangster people found themselves rooting for and also being afraid of at the same time.
Ness didn't leave law enforcement after this; he just left Chicago.
DeNiro managed to find one of Al Capone's tailors who custom made all the clothes DeNiro wears in the movie.
i think the shoes he wears were actually Capone's..
(something like that, i forget,
but DeNiro wore something that belonged to Capone)
Kristen - "I wanna know that conversation!" *proceeds to talk all over the revelation of the conversation*
Exactly! lol
This is why rewatching the film, or even only bits of the film, is a better idea than watching that reaction video.
I know I find her annoying af
@@calebharvey8979 I wouldn't go that far. It's part and parcel of being a reactor. But you do have to make sure you're watching carefully. It may be a Reject obligation.
There's something wrong with these two. Seriously. And they're not reactors. No one reacts to films like this. These aren't about the movie, they think its about them. Don't quit your day jobs girls.
Glad I saw this at the movies when it originally came out. Good job, ladies.
Two beautiful women, right here, loving their reactions… but it breaks my heart to know they know nothing from this time😢💔
Don't it though, but it symptomatic of this generation unfortunately.
my family made millions from bootleg mouthwash 😎
i love this stuff
Never let Sean Connery teach your dog to "sit".
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It's best joke I have heard in years! Not many people understand it but I do,
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RIP Sean Connery
RIP Ennio Morricone
Don't forget the late great Billy Drago .
Fun fact: in real life, the assassin in the white suit who gets thrown off the roof? He's the guy that took over Capone's outfit after he went in the joint.
Watch Robert De Niro again in Cop Land. Sylvester Stallone, Ray Liotta & Robert Patrick. Incredible cast in that movie.
Ennio Morricone, absolute genius on this music score 😎🥃
R.I.P To a Great Actor Sean Connery, Still Miss You
When the movie was released many critics praised director Brian DePalma for his restraint in showing the bloodshed.
Great reaction ladies! Al Capone died in prison from syphilis. Prohibition was repealed so with liquor being legalized (like weed is now in many states) - organinized crime had to find other illegal sources of money. Here endeth the lesson. Old school mob movie is "The St. Valentine's Day Massacre" . Al Capone was behind that criminal act against a rival "liquor cartel" in Chicago. The movie uses narration to educate the viewers which inspired the script format of "Goodfellas".
Capone died at his Miami house after being released from prison
his brain was eaten by syphillis;
he used to sit at his swimming pool with a fishing pole trying to catch fish that weren't there
Another great Sean Connery movie with Michael Caine is The Man Who Would Be King. A fun adventure story by Rudyard Kipling. Great reaction.
That’s an amazing one! Both Connery and Caine are so young and so brilliant!
And in the end, it was the accountant that brought down the biggest mob boss ever.
You can fake and hide a lot things, but you can NEVER fake or hide taxes
The scene where Capone hits the guy with the baseball bat, that actually happened in real life.
In real life, Elliot Ness stayed in Chicago for a while after he got Capone. Unfortunately, Elliot Ness didn't have to lovey-dovey sweet marriage in real life as it was portrayed in the movie.
Sadly, Elliot Ness did not have a full and happy life after this period. He had a pretty good career in law enforcement through his 40s, but slowly became an alcoholic (sad irony there) and died nearly penniless of a heart attack at 54.
The iconic train station shoot out is an homage to the silent film BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN. The film is based on the popular 1959-63 TV series starring Robert Stack (prob. better known later for his role in AIRPLANE). Excellently executed by master filmmaker Brian DePalma at the top of his game with a fantastic cast making Costner a movie star, Connery an Oscar-winner and DeNiro adding another role to his rogue's gallery of villains. It's 100% true that Capone went to prison for tax evasion ; everything else is fictitious (but Ness was indeed a real life fed agent who was in the task force against Capone). I knew you ladies would love this (loved your reactions as always :D ). And Ennio Morricone's epic score and Armani's wardrobe are *chef's kisses*. RE: DePalma - seek out pretty much everything - CARRIE, CASUALTIES OF WAR, BLOW OUT, BODY DOUBLE off the top of my head) and Costner you need to see NO WAY OUT. Charles Martin Smith - Oscar - is best known for George Lucas' AMERICAN GRAFFITI (another must see with a cavalcade of stars-to-be including Ron Howard, Richard Drefyfuss, and Harrison Ford).
A spectacular movie and Sean Connery won a much deserved Oscar for it. As with The Fugitive this was a movie based on a very popular television series. Both The Fugitive and The Untouchables tv series were based on real events
Kirsten, Costner & De Niro are both great but Connery stole this 🎬 hence his best supporting Academy award for this performance.
They enjoyed the movie with absolutely no historical context. For the ladies...Prohibition was the outlawing of alcohol. That's why Ness said he would have a when the law was repealed...not because he was done in Chicago.
Technically, the Eighteenth Amendment outlawed the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages, not the consumption thereof.
@@JeshuaSquirrel i recently learned that my family made millions from bootleg mouthwash
but i am trying to learn the details
Sean Connery was so grateful to Kevin for this role, he did the cameo in Prince of thieves at the drop of a hat for nothing.
Kevin Costner's first big movie, NO WAY Out.
Amazing!
”Here endeth the lesson”
I was both laughing and a little annoyed that they both heard it wrong😆
Fantastic actors, fantastic soundtrack, fantastic movie.
This is just a masterclass of film making right here, as I rarely get to say a film was just about flawless, but this is one of those rare situations. Everyone involved brought their "A" game and then some, Connery was amazing, and glad he got his due here, but he didn't have to carry anyone, as several others could have won awards as well. One of my favorite films of the last 40+ years, as by the end, the lines are very blurred in regards to who is right and who is wrong(as what are you prepared to do?).
Brian de Palma, the director, made over thirty films in his long career and is famous for his slow motion scene sequences (like the train station baby carriage on the stairs) and other unique cinematography features.
THE UNTOUCHABLES was originally a TV series and in his memoir A POUND OF FLESH producer Art Linson wrote how he took David Mamet, who had just won the Pulitzer Price for his play, GLENGERRY GLEN ROSS, out to dinner and a the precise moment said to Mamet, "Don't you think the write career move for a playwright who just won the Pulitzer would be to take an old TV show and make it into a movie for a sh*t load of money?" Mamet replied, "Yes!"
everytime i revisit this movie it grows on me more and more. getting sentimental!
The bombing of the soda shop actually happened , it was that and the St. Valentines day massacre that turned public opinion on Capone
Capone was given 11 years in a federal pen, and had to pay over $270,000 in back taxes, court costs, and fines.
And also had a bad case of Syphilis that really wrecked him.
Rather nasty disease if not treated right.
@@Yora21 you got that right. His mind was destroyed by it.
Good.
Now he is in Hell.
Definitely consider watching 1997s COPLAND, from directed James Mangold, who went on to directed Walk The Line and Logan. Sylvester Stallone, Robert Deniro, Ray Liotta, and Harvey Keitel star in it. It's a great crime thriller when amazing performances.
The script originally called for the final shootout on the train but the studio wouldn't pay for a period train car so Brian DePalma hastily wrote the shoot-out in the train station which he based on a famous scene in BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN. When screenwriter David Mamet saw the new scene at the premier he began to squirm in his seat. Producer Art Linson saw him and said, "What are you squirming for? You were bought and paid for."
I hope you ladies found out about the history of Elliot Ness. There was a tv series about him in the 1960’s played by actor Robert Stack the host of Unsolved Mysteries. Unsolved Mysteries did a documentary on this case. In fact the same killer who killed 11 people in Chicago moved to Los Angeles and committed the same crime by sawing her in half nice and slow to perfection. The person this killer killed is what is known in LA as The Black Dahlia. It’s all connected.
'You're just a lot of talk and a badge.'
The screenwriter is pulitzer prize winning playwright David Mamet. He wrote poetry with brass knuckles. A duel muse here for Quentin Tarantino as Mamet was an early influence on Quentin's dialogue and the director Brian De Palma who was Tarantino's guy, his absolute biggest inspiration for stylized violence and heightened reality as well as explorations of perversity and themes of grey areas and silver linings within morality plays and monkey paws. All under the guise of being American tragic dark comedies and revisionist history in the style of a modern ash-fault neo-noir western.
TRANSLATION: These masterpiece theatre cinematic opus's are dope-ass sh*t cool as Hell!
That staircase shot is actually based on one of the original films from the early 1900s. A Russian film of similar take, w/ a baby carriage tumbling down the stairs. The frame speed, lighting and shadows. And camera angles were, and continue to be, used to elicit emotional responses in film. It's eerily effective. And worth researching.
@3Kings_Industries Yes, Serguei Eisentein's 1925 masterpiece "Battleship Potemkin", the staircase scene has been paid homage to in several movies from "The Godfather" to Terry Gilliam's "Brazil" or "Naked Gun 33 1/3".
@@isabelsilva62023 legendary sequence from probably the greatest propaganda movie ever made by a country
Worked even better in Naked Gun 😉😂
Thank you for pointing it out. Others have mentioned the director and name of the film, a masterpiece of the silent era. The "Odessa steps" sequence is a landmark in cinema history. And De Palma (a occasionally flawed but often virtuoso director) has a genuine passion for film and its history, he just had to include a nod to the past.
One of the best movie scores ever. We used the "End Title" as the processional music in our wedding ceremony.
One of my favourite films ever. Top notch cast, superb director and screenwriter, composer killing it. Shit even Armani got in on the show.
well I think they talked to Armani once, & the costume people are still pretty upset about this
Is it cute or weird that a major story in American history, AL Capone (FAMOUS! American gangster) taken down by Elliot Ness (FAMOUS! for doing so), is not known by some.❤ I learned this story in history class....in Canada!
Kevin Costner....man what a performance! I have never seen a bad film of his!
The jury in Capone's trial was switched but it was the judge's idea. He was actually honest.
The film, the music, the acting
Nice reaction, glad you appreciate this old classic, I loved it when it first came out. Good job.
My wife's cousin is in this movie his name is Billy Drago and he plays Frank Nitti
If people knows films and TV they would know him he was everywhere in films and tv in the 80's and 90's great actor never thought he got the recognition he should have!
Billy Drago, hell of an actor 👏
Billy drago. Legendary villain. Watch him in Chuck Norris "delta force 2" he so evil in this, brutal performance.
Billy Drago was one of those actors who was almost always the best thing in the film. And he was fantastic in "The Adventures of Brisco County Jr" with Bruce Campbell.
@@jamescole3795 Yes he was!
Great Reaction Ladies❤❤
You two are great together! Thank you for a great movie reaction.
Ennio Morricone's score is the best part of the movie, that being said it's all awesome.
In addition to all of the production elements that you pointed out, you didn't mention the great Ennio Morricone's fantastic score. From the music played over the opening credits and throughout the movie, it enhances every scene. This score is a masterpiece!
They did mention the music at the beginning, but I doubt either of them know who Ennio is. Way before their time.
I lived with my grandmother growing up - she raised me. One day I came home from school where we learned about the Chicago Outfit (our teacher said they were brutally violent, etc, especially Capone) and when I mentioned this to my grandmother, she replied, "we do not speak ill of Alphonse Capone in this house - he's a good man, and has been there for our family since the beginning - not to mention all he does to help people in Chicago". My grandmother lived next door to Capone in Cicero, IL. She said he used to walk with her the store, etc and always helped her. She told me, "he said no woman should ever have t walk alone someplace - unless she wants to". She said he was a gentleman, and insisted that he didn't have any involvement in the Valentine's Day Massacre. My Great Uncle was a street enforcer for him, and continued in that line of 'work' until his death in the 1970's (he had a heart attack - he was around 6'6" tall, and at least 500lbs - he would always pick me up, and I remember being so high up I could touch the ceiling. My uncle was involved too, as were nearly all of my friend's families. Anyway, other family members were involved in the Outfit way back when; I remember backyard parties in the summer with all these Italian men with their gorgeous Italian wives who'd give me money and kiss my cheeks a lot! I'm Jewish - and Irish Catholic parents wouldn't let their kids play with me because of being Jewish - but Italian families (nearly all who were connected) made me feel like a part of their families; to this day I make an incredible pasta sauce, and sausage and peppers that even a full-blooded Italian would believe was made by some nonna in Italy....
Elliot Ness’s next big case was tracking the Cleveland torso killer. Eventually Ness was forced to resign and while there’s several theories on who the killer was, it’s still unsolved to this day.
Eliot Ness was a real American hero. The Wyatt Earp of the 30's!
Great reaction. Not surprised the ladies weren't aware of the circumstances surrounding Prohibition. It was a short, but very impactful period of American history with which modern Americans have no context, since the Mafia is no longer as influential as it was once during the 20th century. Eliot Ness later became somewhat of a social drunk following the repeal of Prohibition and did not benefit from his takedown of Al Capone. His memoirs "The Untouchables," released shortly after his death in 1957, was adapted into one of the earliest successful TV shows, featuring Robert Stack as Eliot Ness. I am of course, much too young to know about the show, but Robert Stack was the voice of Ultra Magnus in the animated Transformers movie. This movie wasn't even Sean Connery's best acting performance of that year. It was as William of Baskerville in the film adaptation of Umberto Eco's "The Name of the Rose" opposite F. Murray Abraham and a young Christian Slater.
@Cinepals please continue to seek out the great classics :). love the discussion of the film after, as much as the reaction
Sean Connery WON the Academy award 🏆 For His performance in This Movie!👌😆👍Awesomeness Of A Masterpeace of Film 👊😎✊🍁
25:45 he's on the bridge he's technically in Canada.
i dunno about us Canucks helping the Feds, since Canada didn't have Prohibition
Frank Nitti (the guy in the white suit) was incredibly ruthless in real life
‘Enthusiasm’s, enthusiasm’s.’
"What are mine?"
The baby scene is "stolen" from a russian mute film called Battleship Potemkin,director Sergei Eisenstein 1925
Capone went to jail for 11 years. When he came out prohibition was over and he no longer had any power. He died of syphilis. This was based on a true story. Elliot Ness was a true character and Al Capone was brought down by failure to pay income tax.
Its sad that we're one of the youngest countries ever and this era doesn't know anything about it's history. Its so sad
Knew about it in ireland when I was 10
WHAT ARE YOU PREPARED TO DO?
One of my favorite lines
Classic line, always loved Connery's delivery of it too. Great acting! RIP Sean Connery
Both of your commentaries are comical thank you, you made the movie much better. lol
such a clasic movie.
Malone''s death was one of the if not the first movie death that made me cry when i was a kid.
RIP SIr Sean & Ennio.
BTW: the guy in the white suit, Frank Nitti also is portraied later on in the movie Public Enemies with Johnny Depp. Older.
sure he died here, but movie magic .......taddaa...lol...he's there too.
xD
saluud!°
also.....hi Kristen! 😚
The cop that told Elliot to pick up that trash is Sean Connery. He was the first James Bond, 007. You should react to Goldfinger his first 007 movie.
De Niro ....extraordinary
Was Kristen doing karate at the stairs scene 😂😂😂
Great reaction Kristen & Vivian 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.
De Niro was type-cast in this.
"The Intouchables" is also a great film. Very different but a heart warming movie!
The baby carriage sequence was actually a last minute change. There was supposed to be a whole sequence on tge train capturing the bookkeeper. The studio made DePalma cancel it for budgetary reasons. As almost a joke, he chose to copy a famous sequence from The Battleship Potemkin instead.
He later used some of the planned train sequence in the first Mission Impossible film.
Vivian has a subtle sense of humor and I like it.
Lovely reaction - I think the point about Ness' last line having a drink is that it's ironic, and a bit Absurdist, considering how hard he fought to prevent the liquor trade - re the writing, David Mamet is a Pulizer winner and one of the great American playwrights of the late 20th century, and also a notable filmmaker - his best adapted play onscreen is Glengarry Glen Ross; one of the best films he wrote and directed is House of Games; two of his other best screenplays include The Verdict and Wag the Dog - Untouchables director Brian DePalma basically discovered DeNiro in the 60s, and they made some anarchic comedies together like Greetings and Hi Mom
- some of DePalma's most famous films include Scarface, Mission Impossible, and Carrie - he's especially known for his emulation of Alfred Hitchcock, esp in American giallos like Dressed to Kill; IMO his greatest film is the devastating Casualties of War - his Hitchcock vibe is very evident here in the slightly self-conscious way the film doesn't take itself too seriously, but teases the suspense out of every moment, not least that Battleship Potemkin staircase scene
- as you can see here, his work w actors is superb - this may be the last of DeNiro's vintage films, where he used to knock the camera over thru sheer power - this was also the film that launched Sean Connery's late career resurgence
- I believe there's a scene here that Peter Jackson referenced in LOTR - the scene where Connery fights the other elderly police officer - legendary film critic Pauline Kael singled that scene out for its impact, the sense that these two old ppl shouldn't be fighting like this, which adds to the scene's resonance - I believe Peter Jackson read Kael and used that point of hers in the early fight between Gandalf and Saruman
11:00 In the scene in Malone’s apartment (not visible in this clip) there is a photo of a Union soldier from the Civil War. This was likely meant to be Malone’s father, who likely would have served in the 23rd Illinois Infantry Regiment, known as the “First Irish” Brigade.
Robert De Niro has played these kind of rolls so long he has believed he was a tough guy, he does have a big mouth. Hey little Susie might have kept the store from being completely destroyed. This had one of my favorite actors Sir Sean Connery. The best part is Capone went crazy and was released and died of Syphilis
The scene with baby is reminiscence of Battleship Potemkin by Sergei Eisenstein.
Real Eliot Ness (1903-1957) worked his ass off to put Al Capone in prison then had issues at the end of life in 1957 at the age of 54. Thanks to Prohibition, Mob became what it is today. That bar owner wanted untainted alcohol after hood threaten him. Then man in white is one of Capone's henchmen left the brief case (bomb) killing little girl. Ness wrote his memoir called The Untouchables in which this movie is based by Brian De Palma.
Capone sentenced 11 years in prison but was paroled in 1939 because of health problems. Capone was suffering effects from Syphilis. He died from a stroke in 1948 at the age of 48.
After reading on Capone, during his stint in prison, he played banjo in a band with other inmates.
I thought everyone was aware of Capone and prohibition. I stand corrected.
The film is loosely based on a book co written by the real Elliot Ness that was also the basis for a tv show of the same name in the 1960s that started Robert Stack(from Airplane and later host of Unsolved Mysteries in the 1990's) as Elliot Ness
I agree, 9 out of 10. This is one of my favorite movies.
Loved your reaction as always. You should check out society of the snow. It's a great movie and I would love to hear what you have to say about that one. If you do watch it I recommend the original language with subtitles, the acting was amazing
Wow that young actor who was a prodigy with the gun was the villain in Ocean’s Eleven it’s all connected.
Sean Connery certainly deserved the Oscar for best supporting actor for stealing the show
Wish they would do a movie when Ness was in here in Cleveland looking for the the torso killer