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STARRiNG:..: Johnny Depp.James Russo.David Wenham
GENRE:.....: Biography Crime Drama History Thriller
COUNTRY:...: USA 2009
LANGUAGE:..: ENGLISH
ExTRAS-SUBS: [x]
RUN.TiME...: 02:20:17
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iMDB:......: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1152836/
iMDB.Rating: 7.4/10 34,903 votes
Directed by Michael Mann
Produced by Michael Mann,Kevin Misher
Written by Screenplay:Ronan Bennett,Ann Biderman,Michael Mann
Book:Bryan Burrough
Starring Johnny Depp,Christian Bale,Marion Cotillard,Billy Crudup,Stephen Dorff,Lili Taylor,ChanningTatum,Emilie de Ravin
Music by Elliot Goldenthal
Cinematography Dante Spinotti
Editing by Paul Rubell
Jeffrey Ford
Studio Universal Pictures
Relativity Media Forward Pass,Mischer Films,
Distributed by Universal Pictures
Release date(s) July 1, 2009
Running time 140 min.
Country United States
Language English
Budget $100 million
Gross revenue $194,048,238[1]
Full story
1930s America gripped by the depression and poverty. Outlaws like Ma Baker, Bonnie and Clyde, Pretty Boy Floyd, Babyface Nelson…and of course John Dillinger zig-zagging the length and breadthof the USA trying to out-smart and out wit the G-men, part of the fledgling FBI headed by J. Edgar Hoover. Dillinger’s nemesis is young FBI agent Melvin Purvis.
Michael Mann’s film immortalisesanti-hero John Dillinger in Public Enemies. Johnny Depp plays the bank robbing legend in a 1930s Hollywood James Cagney style (Dillinger, legend has it, based many of his bank robbing moves on Cagney….. life imitating art!). The film is factual in it’s content, doesn’t deviate from that. Under instructions by J.Edgar Hoover, Melvin Purvis (Christian Bale) headed the hunt for Dillinger by using the new techniques in tracking criminals.
Mann, as always, incorporates the physical landscape with the film’s narrative. The cinematography is beautiful. Along with the emphasis, with up close shots, on the two main characters (reminded me a bit of Pacino/De Niro in Heat). The film revolves around the final 2 years of Dillinger’s life. Bank robberies, hiding out, prison breaks and given his own iconic status by the newspapers.
The prison breaks are minutely executed similar to the bank robberies with the added dramatic tension, Dillinger literally leaping over the bank’s central desk holding his machine gun is deftly filmed. Escaping with hostages with the cops chasing them. One scene where Dillinger escapes from jail is very funny especially as he has thwarted both the cops and the G-Men and seeing the expression on J. Edgar Hoover’s face is priceless.
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On the political context (Ronan Bennett wrote the screenplay with Mann), there’s a scene where they a leaving a house, hide-out after a bank robbery, the woman asks Dillinger, ‘take me with you’.. The barren landscape makes the powerful political point that words probably couldn’t. When explaining to the journalists Dillinger (when first captured) in the jailhouse his prison experiences, he mentions robbing the local store where he got 10 years. The way Johnny Depp emphaises the 12 years imprisonment for a $50 really highlights the politics of the gap between wealth and poverty.
Again, Dillinger the legend is played out when he is being driven by the police through a working class area where people stop to cheer and bang on the car windows.
I woulda have liked to have seen more of Billie Frechette (the excellent Marion Cotillard) but like most gangster type movies women are relegated to the back, reduced the moll. The scenes between Dillinger and Frechette are tender, moving but tinged with sadness.
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GENRE:.....: Biography Crime Drama History Thriller
COUNTRY:...: USA 2009
LANGUAGE:..: ENGLISH
ExTRAS-SUBS: [x]
RUN.TiME...: 02:20:17
SiZE:......: 1 x 901,02 MB
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iMDB:......: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1152836/
iMDB.Rating: 7.4/10 34,903 votes
Directed by Michael Mann
Produced by Michael Mann,Kevin Misher
Written by Screenplay:Ronan Bennett,Ann Biderman,Michael Mann
Book:Bryan Burrough
Starring Johnny Depp,Christian Bale,Marion Cotillard,Billy Crudup,Stephen Dorff,Lili Taylor,ChanningTatum,Emilie de Ravin
Music by Elliot Goldenthal
Cinematography Dante Spinotti
Editing by Paul Rubell
Jeffrey Ford
Studio Universal Pictures
Relativity Media Forward Pass,Mischer Films,
Distributed by Universal Pictures
Release date(s) July 1, 2009
Running time 140 min.
Country United States
Language English
Budget $100 million
Gross revenue $194,048,238[1]
Full story
1930s America gripped by the depression and poverty. Outlaws like Ma Baker, Bonnie and Clyde, Pretty Boy Floyd, Babyface Nelson…and of course John Dillinger zig-zagging the length and breadthof the USA trying to out-smart and out wit the G-men, part of the fledgling FBI headed by J. Edgar Hoover. Dillinger’s nemesis is young FBI agent Melvin Purvis.
Michael Mann’s film immortalisesanti-hero John Dillinger in Public Enemies. Johnny Depp plays the bank robbing legend in a 1930s Hollywood James Cagney style (Dillinger, legend has it, based many of his bank robbing moves on Cagney….. life imitating art!). The film is factual in it’s content, doesn’t deviate from that. Under instructions by J.Edgar Hoover, Melvin Purvis (Christian Bale) headed the hunt for Dillinger by using the new techniques in tracking criminals.
Mann, as always, incorporates the physical landscape with the film’s narrative. The cinematography is beautiful. Along with the emphasis, with up close shots, on the two main characters (reminded me a bit of Pacino/De Niro in Heat). The film revolves around the final 2 years of Dillinger’s life. Bank robberies, hiding out, prison breaks and given his own iconic status by the newspapers.
The prison breaks are minutely executed similar to the bank robberies with the added dramatic tension, Dillinger literally leaping over the bank’s central desk holding his machine gun is deftly filmed. Escaping with hostages with the cops chasing them. One scene where Dillinger escapes from jail is very funny especially as he has thwarted both the cops and the G-Men and seeing the expression on J. Edgar Hoover’s face is priceless.
But…But…the film still plodded, it dragged. It lacked energy, a real dynamism, the ingredients were there (acting was superb especially Jason Clarke who played Dillinger’s best friend, John) but it was an anti-climax. The film didn’t pull you in because it lacked in-depth characterisation and dialogue, it did resemble a 1930s Jimmy Cagney film (I did half expect Babyface Nelson as he is surrounded by G-Men firing his machine gun to shout: Made it Ma! Top of the world…. Though White Heat was much later ). Indeed Cagney made a film in the early 30s, Public Enemy. But it lacked the noirish qualities.
Though criticism aside, the film thankfully doesn’t resort to moral equivocations, meaning FBI = good, bankrobbers= bad. Instead it blurs distinctions by giving a political context, framework to the period Dillinger was operating. The FBI resort to torture to extract information from one of Dillinger’s gang in a rather brutal excruciating scene to watch. And Billie Frechette, in another harrowing scene, is viciously beaten by an male agent over a period of two days (she ends up pissing herself as she is refused the toilet), again to force her to talk about Dillinger’s whereabouts. Indeed Dillinger and his gang resort to violence and murder but some of the FBI are depicted as nothing more than legalised thugs. And I did find myself championing Dillinger especially the daring and audacious prison breaks.
On the political context (Ronan Bennett wrote the screenplay with Mann), there’s a scene where they a leaving a house, hide-out after a bank robbery, the woman asks Dillinger, ‘take me with you’.. The barren landscape makes the powerful political point that words probably couldn’t. When explaining to the journalists Dillinger (when first captured) in the jailhouse his prison experiences, he mentions robbing the local store where he got 10 years. The way Johnny Depp emphaises the 12 years imprisonment for a $50 really highlights the politics of the gap between wealth and poverty.
Again, Dillinger the legend is played out when he is being driven by the police through a working class area where people stop to cheer and bang on the car windows.
I woulda have liked to have seen more of Billie Frechette (the excellent Marion Cotillard) but like most gangster type movies women are relegated to the back, reduced the moll. The scenes between Dillinger and Frechette are tender, moving but tinged with sadness.
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