Public Enemies

JP Liz

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1152836/

Its got to be one of the most anticpated movies of 2009

JULY 2009

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Director: Michael Mann
Starring: Johnny Depp Christian Bale David Wenham Stephen Graham Marion Cotillard Channing Tatum Giovanni Ribisi Stephen Dorff Adam Mucci Billy Crudup Stephen Lang Shawn Hatosy Emilie de Ravin James Russo Leelee Sobieski
Plot Summary: An adaptation of Brian Burrough's book "Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-43," the film centers on the government's attempt to stop John Dillinger and his gang. Depp is playing Dillinger to Bale's famed FBI agent Melvin Purvis. Wenham is playing Pete Pierpont, a member of Dillinger's crew who has a violent hostility to all authority. British actor Graham will portray Baby Face Nelson.

JP Liz

LilOc

Indeed and i can't wait for its release! A big question mark will be Marion Cotillard's accent.

First leaks of people who attended the shooting as extras etc... seems to say she mastered the American accent of Billie Frechette but we will never know until we hear her.

Has anyone read the book it's based on?

Nolanger

Great - another remake of some classic gangster movie from the '30s.

Sad Professor

Nolanger wrote:

Great - another remake of some classic gangster movie from the '30s.

It isn't a remake. There's been a few films made about Dillinger but nothing worth getting excited about afaik.

LilOc wrote: »

Has anyone read the book it's based on?

Yeah, it's excellent. But Mann is just focusing on Dillinger for the film, where as the book covers all the legendary Depression-era criminals: Bonnie & Clyde, Machine Gun Kelly, Floyd, Nelson, Alvin Karpis, the formation of the FBI, etc. It's quite long and in-depth but very well written. Keep in mind it's non-fiction and Mann has had to change a lot of things for dramatic effect.

One thing that should be pointed out about the film is that it isn't going to be like Heat with a cop and criminal going head to head. The film might as well be called Dillinger. Bale's role in it is fairly small and underdeveloped, nothing like Pacino in Heat. In reality, Purvis was somewhat incompetent and made a lot of sloppy mistakes. The FBI was in it's early days and most of it's agents were just lawyers with guns. Mann will probably gloss a lot of this over but not too much.

Tristram

Sad Professor wrote: »

Bale's role in it is fairly small and underdeveloped

source pls

Sad Professor

Tristram wrote: »

source pls

I've read the script.

All the early reviews confirm this also. Unless Mann has gone back and done significant re-shoots and expanded the role. But I doubt it.

Nolanger

Sad Professor wrote: »

made about Dillinger but nothing worth getting excited about afaik.

Anyone else see the '70s Dillinger with Warren Oates?
Great movie.

JP Liz

Neo#

Cant wait for this!

JP Liz

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BawY4gjAdM