wow excellent scene here. the way the last snap of Jimmys fingers snaps Al out of his hustle and bustle life, waking him up to the reality of his sons situation
At first, I found this scene very poignant and touching...and then I was like, "the kid is probably 2 and a half years old, going on 3, and in all that time the Capones never figured out that he was deaf, rather than mentally-impaired? I don't think so." I cannot suspend disbelief here.
Trev0r98 you don’t have to suspend disbelief. It is a documented fact that a large number of hearing impaired children are assumed at first to be mentally disabled by their families. It’s a less common problem as of the latter half of the twentieth century. But it is and was very real.
In a later scene, Al is talking about his son, and it's apparent that he's known for some time that he was deaf. I think in this scene, Al was just embarrassed by it and trying to brush it under the rug while Jimmy was there. That look wasn't him realizing that his son was deaf, he was dismayed that Jimmy figured it out.
When Capone finally realized his son was deaf, then he truly started to embrace him and take care of him... The scene were his son wanted to take care of the bad guys for his Father was so great...
I actually liked this side of Capone: the family man. We all knew he was a badass that could kill, but to see him with his cranky mom, pretty wife and deaf son was very endearing.
I have learned some of the most ruthless of people even being sociopaths and or psychopaths still can be amazing parents but at the base of all parents no matter how horrible the parent may be, all parents just want their children to have it easier and better than they have, problem is so many parents aren't prepared nor equipped to be parents....... What a parent wouldn't do for their children.......
@@ammaardawood9247 he hasn't been taught to behave properly in a healthy environment, relationships, family that's not his fault..... plus it's a time period when they did not have enough understanding nor guidance on how to properly have healthy relationships....... Here you are so quick to judge a person who never was taught how to control his emotions ..... I find it fascinating that people are so quick to condemn others..... but if it's them being judged they want mercy lol...... Yet they believe in an ideological spiritual system that that says they will be rewarded for loyalty....... A wild animal does something no one cares A person does something no one cares Until it affects them..... then all hell breaks loose lol..... humans are quite odd creatures......
Bro jimmy and Capone are gold together. This is why we need friends that are not the same as us but come from the same place. Friends do give out perspective, especially a perspicacious person
"I'll give you three" My wife is italian and when we we're just dating her mom would do the same thing. I'd tell her I'm not hungry, then she'd show up 5 minutes later with an entire plate of food. I love that about Italians...my waistline doesn't though....
That and maybe Jimmy being generally a quiet observant person, while the Capone family members seem loud. They think quiet=dumb. Jimmy saw more than just quiet
Love the way Al was in the middle of everything 😅. His son is deaf(even if he heard doesn’t matter), his mother can't speak English and his wife don’t understand Italian.
No, it was to show him to take what he gets, and that he not only in his house as a guest but as a man, he has not say in the matter when it comes to what Al could give him.
cool as ice That’s what growing up Italian is like. It’s hard to explain to anyone that hasn’t. It’s pride thing, we perfect our long time family recipes, and make sure you have more than enough. Italian food is very simple and the idea is that the preparation or methods are what make it special and fantastic. You’re never to leave your house hungry, because you never know what you’ll find! You’re treated special as a guest, you should feel like a celebrity, it’s about the closest I could get to a proper analogy.
My mum was deaf because of her alcoholic mother, didn't read instructions on the ear drop container. Was meant to be diluted with water, she just put the drops in her ears. This caused irreparable damage, she was left with 15% hearing in her right ear and nothing in the left. I always protected her, may she rest in peace 😢❤
Capone married Mae Josephine Coughlin at age 19 on December 30, 1918. She was Irish Catholic and earlier that month had given birth to their son Albert Francis "Sonny" Capone. Capone was under the age of 21, and his parents had to consent in writing to the marriage.
Either Capone knew his son was deaf, and was just too embarrassed/ashamed to admit it to an outsider, or he actually did not know his son was deaf until after Jimmy snapped his fingers near Sonny's ear. Personally, I think he DID know, but since he had an image to maintain, he did not want Jimmy finding out that his son was disabled in any way, because he thought that maybe Jimmy might think less of him. Over time, though, Al comes to accept his son's inability to hear, and even learns basic sign language. He also defends him whenever others insult him.
Nycot That doesn't really make sense, because Al kept implying that his son was mentally deficient. I feel like that would be just as if not more embarrassing to a guy like Al Capone.
Jimmy is such a complex character. He's a tortured soul, but he has a good heart in so many ways. He was always so caring of kids, for example. He was looking at the little guy here with genuine concern, and was observant during a time when few were observant when it came to kids.
He wasn't aware of the childs condition. He speculated the child was slow mentally. The wife was also unaware, because she would have said something to AL about his ridicule...
Al Capone was not like this at all in real life. They always get his true nature wrong. He actually brilliant; a numbers whiz and nowhere near the pure thug he's constantly portrayed as. He was an accountant and a bartender, not "in the life" for a long time and had to move around chasing legit jobs. He eventually took care of the books for connected guys and that's when he got into the rackets. He showed them how to make money.
So many people confuse the actual man with the myth that surrounds him. We need to remember that this show was a historical DRAMA, i.e. loosely based on real people and events.
kid on Halloween, with a cleft palate, dressed as Blackbeard the pirate...goes to a house, lady answers the door: "Brick or breat!, says the young lad. Lady goes, "Oh...who are you supposed to be?" "I'm a birate!", he says. Lady: "Oh. Where are your buccaneers?" kid says: "They're under my buckin' hat, lady, where do you think?" (i always thought this goofy joke was especially hilarious, from the kid's point of view - like, every time she sees a pirate, for some bizarre reason she's automatically prevented from seeing his ears, and wonders where they are. Naturally, the kid with the cleft palate was perplexed.)
@@brianwilliams6167 I can't stand Al's Neapolitan mother for calling her daughter in law "an Irish cow" who happens to be the mother of her grandson. Al's genteel wife ought to seek vengeance by spitting on her bowl of minestrone soup for humiliating her in the kitchen.
In real life al got syphilis from a brothel he worked at when he was younger. He got married and his wife got it from him. Because of her having it it caused his son to be born partially deaf and had other neurological issues. So boardwalk empire is loosely based on it
I read comments and I understand what y’all mean. But y’all gotta understand he only sees him when he eats or when he stays home. That can be 3-4 years at times going on. But how did the wife and other woman not know. They were talking to him. But he was always looking at home, why? They always touched him. Now bad acting from the kid but he kinda had to for script. A deaf kid at that age doesn’t know how to read lips. That kid would made some type of noise to what they understand they are hearing from what’s they see.
@@isabelbeckerman1262 Sonny can feel the vibrations from behind him and you're forgetting Al's acting differently on purpose because he doesn't like to admit his sons deaf in front of new people he isn't close to. He hasn't accepted it and blames himself as he thinks Sonny's being punished for his sins.
@@themaddogofcrenshaw7367 I understand your meaning here, but Al can use other commendable methods to alert his son other than stomping his feet from behind him. And to make matters worse, he calls his precious child a dumbbell for gosh's sake. NOT COOL, to say the least.
@@isabelbeckerman1262 Again all that is because he didn't want Jimmy to know that Sonny was deaf. There was no other way to communicate with him without using sign language (which Al knows)
Al was always afraid of his mom, a strong Neapolitan woman and worshiped his brother Salvatore "Frank" Capone. He also learned sign language when he realized Sonny was deaf and not mentally challenged.
A sociopath he is, Brother. He knows his son's hearing is disabled, and yet he calls the poor tyke a dumbbell. Not to mention he doesn't discipline his intolerant Neapolitan mother for aggrieving his daughter-in-law by calling her an Irish cow.
So they trying to make us believe, that no one in that house knew he couldn't hear until that very moment, what is he about 3 or 4 years old? Get The Fu*k Out of Here, with that BS. But some of you are buy it which is really crazy.
Are you forgetting you’re watching an HBO show. They just take facts and dramatize them to make them more entertaining and to fit the narrative. This ain’t a docu series, they changed a lot of details and made up a shit ton to give us a drama. Get real 🤦🏻♂️😂
The era that this show takes place in is the 1930s, when the general public didn't know much about diseases, disabilities, medicine, etc. I have no doubt that poor and working class people of that era wouldn't know a young child was deaf. They didn't go to the doctor every time they broke a nail back then like people do today. They didn't have television, computers, or the internet. All they had was radio and medical books that weren't written for the average person to read.
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wow excellent scene here. the way the last snap of Jimmys fingers snaps Al out of his hustle and bustle life, waking him up to the reality of his sons situation
At first, I found this scene very poignant and touching...and then I was like, "the kid is probably 2 and a half years old, going on 3, and in all that time the Capones never figured out that he was deaf, rather than mentally-impaired? I don't think so." I cannot suspend disbelief here.
always figured he was pissed with darmody
Trev0r98 you don’t have to suspend disbelief. It is a documented fact that a large number of hearing impaired children are assumed at first to be mentally disabled by their families. It’s a less common problem as of the latter half of the twentieth century. But it is and was very real.
In a later scene, Al is talking about his son, and it's apparent that he's known for some time that he was deaf. I think in this scene, Al was just embarrassed by it and trying to brush it under the rug while Jimmy was there. That look wasn't him realizing that his son was deaf, he was dismayed that Jimmy figured it out.
@@SpydeyDan good eye!
When Capone finally realized his son was deaf, then he truly started to embrace him and take care of him...
The scene were his son wanted to take care of the bad guys for his Father was so great...
I actually liked this side of Capone: the family man. We all knew he was a badass that could kill, but to see him with his cranky mom, pretty wife and deaf son was very endearing.
in my head, all of that was in an italian accent.
He's horrible to them lol
I have learned some of the most ruthless of people even being sociopaths and or psychopaths still can be amazing parents but at the base of all parents no matter how horrible the parent may be, all parents just want their children to have it easier and better than they have, problem is so many parents aren't prepared nor equipped to be parents.......
What a parent wouldn't do for their children.......
@@ammaardawood9247 he hasn't been taught to behave properly in a healthy environment, relationships, family that's not his fault.....
plus it's a time period when they did not have enough understanding nor guidance on how to properly have healthy relationships.......
Here you are so quick to judge a person who never was taught how to control his emotions .....
I find it fascinating that people are so quick to condemn others.....
but if it's them being judged they want mercy lol......
Yet they believe in an ideological spiritual system that that says they will be rewarded for loyalty.......
A wild animal does something no one cares
A person does something no one cares
Until it affects them.....
then all hell breaks loose lol.....
humans are quite odd creatures......
He was a joke deserved everything he got
Bro jimmy and Capone are gold together. This is why we need friends that are not the same as us but come from the same place. Friends do give out perspective, especially a perspicacious person
You just expanded my vocabulary. Much oblige.
"I'll give you three"
My wife is italian and when we we're just dating her mom would do the same thing. I'd tell her I'm not hungry, then she'd show up 5 minutes later with an entire plate of food. I love that about Italians...my waistline doesn't though....
@JR Apolonia
@@demianthorne7909 🤣🤣
They don’t care what you look like, they care your happy and fed ☺️
When it comes to dinner, southern Europeans make you an offer you can't refuse.
You hear about the chinese godfather?
He made em an offer they couldn't understand
@@GORILLA_PIMP Come heavy or don't come at all.
@@GORILLA_PIMP He drove a Cataract.
Wonderful scene, beautifully acted.
Well being deaf is a problem Jimmy is more used too because of the war. How many people lost their hearing around him?
Meh good comment
That was my first thought, poor jimmy
What?
@@Humblemumble7 the gunshots and explosions, they cause tinitus and whatnot
That and maybe Jimmy being generally a quiet observant person, while the Capone family members seem loud. They think quiet=dumb. Jimmy saw more than just quiet
Such a fantastic scene. The finger snapping was a brilliant build up to Capone's expression as he realizes that his son is gay.
Hahaha classic.
Hilarious 😂😂😂
hahahahahaha
[family guy scene] he Isn't Gay Hes Creative! xD
I JUST FUCKING DIED 😂😂
Love the way Al was in the middle of everything 😅. His son is deaf(even if he heard doesn’t matter), his mother can't speak English and his wife don’t understand Italian.
-How much you want? -Al
-One will do. - Jimmy
-I'll give you three - Al
That right there is good hospitality and friendship.
No, it was to show him to take what he gets, and that he not only in his house as a guest but as a man, he has not say in the matter when it comes to what Al could give him.
@@Angryblacksign reading way too much into it bro
Actually it is how you eat in an Italian house! :) ...don't dare to get up! :)
cool as ice That’s what growing up Italian is like. It’s hard to explain to anyone that hasn’t. It’s pride thing, we perfect our long time family recipes, and make sure you have more than enough. Italian food is very simple and the idea is that the preparation or methods are what make it special and fantastic. You’re never to leave your house hungry, because you never know what you’ll find! You’re treated special as a guest, you should feel like a celebrity, it’s about the closest I could get to a proper analogy.
@@ristube3319 Damn right. :)
My mum was deaf because of her alcoholic mother, didn't read instructions on the ear drop container. Was meant to be diluted with water, she just put the drops in her ears. This caused irreparable damage, she was left with 15% hearing in her right ear and nothing in the left. I always protected her, may she rest in peace 😢❤
Fucking hell that’s awful, I hope you feel better now.
these were the best types of scenes in the series - better than the violent ones.
Capone married Mae Josephine Coughlin at age 19 on December 30, 1918. She was Irish Catholic and earlier that month had given birth to their son Albert Francis "Sonny" Capone. Capone was under the age of 21, and his parents had to consent in writing to the marriage.
:29 - the wink he gives Jimmy here really is an example of how oblivious he really is all around
How ironic Capone was calling his kid dumb but he's the one who didn't realize he's deaf...
Yes, that's the point of this scene
Either Capone knew his son was deaf, and was just too embarrassed/ashamed to admit it to an outsider, or he actually did not know his son was deaf until after Jimmy snapped his fingers near Sonny's ear. Personally, I think he DID know, but since he had an image to maintain, he did not want Jimmy finding out that his son was disabled in any way, because he thought that maybe Jimmy might think less of him. Over time, though, Al comes to accept his son's inability to hear, and even learns basic sign language. He also defends him whenever others insult him.
Some historians say that it was Capone being exposed to syphilis that may have caused Sonny going deaf.
@@jldog134 you mean syphillis. AIDS didn’t exist back then lol
@@revinrevin1376 that shit was definitely invented
@cornbreadcup goddamn government plant fuck off leave me alone 😂🐀
Nycot
That doesn't really make sense, because Al kept implying that his son was mentally deficient. I feel like that would be just as if not more embarrassing to a guy like Al Capone.
An Italian married to a Mick and a Mick married to an Italian...
Part guinea, part mick. So....a gimmick!
The real Capone never cared much about ethnicity. In fact the only ethnic group he really had a grudge against were Sicilians, ironically.
Garlic and Gaelic
What a fucking tragedy the Italians would say
Happens a lot
The actor playing jimmy needs to get back into something hes too good!
Jimmy is such a complex character. He's a tortured soul, but he has a good heart in so many ways. He was always so caring of kids, for example. He was looking at the little guy here with genuine concern, and was observant during a time when few were observant when it came to kids.
Beautifully constructed scene. Brilliant cinematography
He wasn't aware of the childs condition. He speculated the child was slow mentally. The wife was also unaware, because she would have said something to AL about his ridicule...
Thanks to YT shorts, I now have a new show to watch!
Jimmy let his intrusive thoughts win
Man I wish Jimmy just stayed by Capone's side in Chicago.... they had an awesome dynamic. Throw in Richard and they would have been unstoppable.
Al " my son is deaf frfr"
Jimmy "yeah bro on god no cap"
Boardwalk the hood edition lol
More like gta kids pretending there from the hood edition.
@@EmvyBeats yeah no doubt
Al Capone was not like this at all in real life. They always get his true nature wrong. He actually brilliant; a numbers whiz and nowhere near the pure thug he's constantly portrayed as. He was an accountant and a bartender, not "in the life" for a long time and had to move around chasing legit jobs. He eventually took care of the books for connected guys and that's when he got into the rackets. He showed them how to make money.
bro ordered a massacre, you're making him sound like a good old boy
Couldn't take care of his own taxes unfortunately lol
and jesus was not white ......
@@camnewton-sd5ht who said he was?
I also heard he loved the hell out of his boy
spared him the humiliation by being subtle
he deaf like spike from all my children that will be a repeat of his character he all ready played
Stephen Graham played a great Al Capone. his expressions on his face can say something without him speaking a word.
thanks for posting good see that they still act
Jimmy should've just stayed with torrio and the Capone crew
Wrecked me seeing Jimmy go
He knows he knows my god he knows.
DAMN, right in the feels
Jimmy looked at Al, like, "I'm sorry", Al understood.
Great Al Capone 💪
Everybody's got a human side.
You just saw All Capone's.
So many people confuse the actual man with the myth that surrounds him. We need to remember that this show was a historical DRAMA, i.e. loosely based on real people and events.
The actress who plays Al Capone's mother is not a native Italian speaker. She's an English speaker faking an Italian accent.
And? I think its called acting actually
So? Even Al Capone’s actor himself is English lmao. He also plays Tony Provenzano in The Irishman. And yet he pulls off the accent perfectly.
Aw damn, I bet she didn't even really give birth to Al Capone.
@@ericsmith5919 😂😂😂
Micheal Pitt has always been next level
His wife wad irish
Wad she?
i thing she wad, mab should Gooble it
kid on Halloween, with a cleft palate, dressed as Blackbeard the pirate...goes to a house, lady answers the door:
"Brick or breat!, says the young lad.
Lady goes, "Oh...who are you supposed to be?"
"I'm a birate!", he says.
Lady: "Oh. Where are your buccaneers?"
kid says: "They're under my buckin' hat, lady, where do you think?"
(i always thought this goofy joke was especially hilarious, from the kid's point of view - like, every time she sees a pirate, for some bizarre reason she's automatically prevented from seeing his ears, and wonders where they are. Naturally, the kid with the cleft palate was perplexed.)
Yes she was irish. That why ahe said "i nay but talk Italian but i know what stuoido means"....
@@brianwilliams6167 I can't stand Al's Neapolitan mother for calling her daughter in law "an Irish cow" who happens to be the mother of her grandson. Al's genteel wife ought to seek vengeance by spitting on her bowl of minestrone soup for humiliating her in the kitchen.
I’ve been to capones old grave site but it has burn marks and his family pictures were all ripped out
ooh man what do I love the italian language!
Michael Pitt is so handsome.
I love Irish girls
In real life al got syphilis from a brothel he worked at when he was younger. He got married and his wife got it from him. Because of her having it it caused his son to be born partially deaf and had other neurological issues. So boardwalk empire is loosely based on it
At least he can afford the special school
Damn they were mean to mae....
I never really understood this scene. I'm not sure whether Al really knew his son was deaf or not.
He didn't
Were they trying to save money by shooting this show in the dark?
wow there big now i remember watching then on all my children as as spike
The only stupid here are the parents who did not realize, that the Boy is deaf
And so al became a champion of the disabled
I read comments and I understand what y’all mean. But y’all gotta understand he only sees him when he eats or when he stays home. That can be 3-4 years at times going on. But how did the wife and other woman not know. They were talking to him. But he was always looking at home, why? They always touched him. Now bad acting from the kid but he kinda had to for script. A deaf kid at that age doesn’t know how to read lips. That kid would made some type of noise to what they understand they are hearing from what’s they see.
look spike
Did winking your eye mean that back then?...Guess so... interesting
What reason do Italians have for hating the Irish? Was WASPs who did and do mock you. Irish did nothing wrong to nobody.
How did Jimmy figure it out? His experience in the war?
Probably, that combined with seeing & drawing conclusions about the scene around him
yo why you kick dat baby!!!???
He didn't. He stomped on the floor behind him
@@themaddogofcrenshaw7367 But that was wrong what he did bestially just to get his attention. Its a boy, not a dog.
@@isabelbeckerman1262 Sonny can feel the vibrations from behind him and you're forgetting Al's acting differently on purpose because he doesn't like to admit his sons deaf in front of new people he isn't close to. He hasn't accepted it and blames himself as he thinks Sonny's being punished for his sins.
@@themaddogofcrenshaw7367 I understand your meaning here, but Al can use other commendable methods to alert his son other than stomping his feet from behind him. And to make matters worse, he calls his precious child a dumbbell for gosh's sake. NOT COOL, to say the least.
@@isabelbeckerman1262 Again all that is because he didn't want Jimmy to know that Sonny was deaf. There was no other way to communicate with him without using sign language (which Al knows)
Ohh no....
If his son was deaf why did he jump when the women tripped on his toy?
Because he saw it, didn’t need to hear it.
Vibrations
Some stupid comments on here 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Al Capone was a real gangster!
And that's how a sociopath treat's his family.😠
Al was always afraid of his mom, a strong Neapolitan woman and worshiped his brother Salvatore "Frank" Capone. He also learned sign language when he realized Sonny was deaf and not mentally challenged.
A sociopath he is, Brother. He knows his son's hearing is disabled, and yet he calls the poor tyke a dumbbell. Not to mention he doesn't discipline his intolerant Neapolitan mother for aggrieving his daughter-in-law by calling her an Irish cow.
So they trying to make us believe, that no one in that house knew he couldn't hear until that very moment, what is he about 3 or 4 years old? Get The Fu*k Out of Here, with that BS.
But some of you are buy it which is really crazy.
Are you forgetting you’re watching an HBO show. They just take facts and dramatize them to make them more entertaining and to fit the narrative. This ain’t a docu series, they changed a lot of details and made up a shit ton to give us a drama. Get real 🤦🏻♂️😂
The era that this show takes place in is the 1930s, when the general public didn't know much about diseases, disabilities, medicine, etc. I have no doubt that poor and working class people of that era wouldn't know a young child was deaf. They didn't go to the doctor every time they broke a nail back then like people do today. They didn't have television, computers, or the internet. All they had was radio and medical books that weren't written for the average person to read.
@@thatvikingtemper What!🤔 you're Bull Sh*tting🤨 So there was no equivalent to "WebMD" or something like a "Teletype MD"😏
I understand the scene. But by that age parents would’ve noticed no response to noise. Not believable.