If I may make a film nomination for React, I would like to nominate “The Sting” with Paul Newman, Robert Redford and Robert Shaw. One of the great movies I've ever seen and considered one of the best scripts of all time, which unfortunately few make the React of it.
"You want to get Capone? Here's how you get him. He pulls a knife, you pull a gun; he sends one of yours to the hospital, you send his to the morgue. That's the Chicago Way." Classic line!
The reason Ness' team were called "The Untouchables" wasn't that they were invulnerable, but that they were incorruptible. The scene with the local politician trying to foist a bribe on Ness was an illustration of this. Each man had reason enough on his own to oppose the mob, but together, they looked after and supported each other, and no one of them, nor all together, could be bought off or intimidated. If you would like to see Charlie Martin Smith carry an entire movie, I would strongly recommend a film called Never Cry Wolf. There's only 5 people in the whole cast, and two of them don't speak a word of English.
The scene where Sean Connery is shot with the Tommy gun, his reaction to the pain is real. He had never worn a special effect vest and asked if the small explosives would hurt. They assured him it wouldn't. The explosive pads they used were supposed to be supported with a padding underneath. They forgot the padding. He was severely bruised afterwards. I believe he may have punched a few people after the scene.
It was in the 1950 that Ness worked in Cleveland, OH, when he started documenting his experiences in Chicago during prohibition. He dictated the story over a period of months to his then secretary - my mother.
The "Poor Butterfly" referrence is to the Opera Madama Butterfly, about a Japanese woman who "marries" an American Naval officer who's stationed in Japan. He abandons her and their child when he's recalled to the States. Serious tear jerker. Men stopped wearing hats when John Kennedy stopped wearing them, he set the new style. The guy in the white suit that says "Nice House" to Elliot Ness is Frank Nitty played by the late great Billy Drago.
If you are still wondering why, it is because the umbrella is a Japanese parasol of the style typically carried by Japanese women, particularly Geishas in the modern day.
one of the reason people stop wearing hats is cause A) cars and Air condition. Hats were cause most of your day a person was under the sun and in the heat. Once places started to have buildings with temp control the need for hat started to disappear.
"Poor Butterfly" is also the title of a 1916 popular song inspired by Puccini's opera. It was a pretty big hit, was recorded by many artists, and has become a jazz standard. In 1930 everyone would still have known the song, so the reference would have been understood even by people who might not have known the opera.
The baby carriage scene at the train station is an hommage to a famous scene from the 1925 movie The Battleship Potemkin. The Untouchables being 35 years old this year makes me feel really old.
@@Jaasau yes, good scene but it didn't happen in real life. It was put in to dramatize the film.Like wise there was no Sean Connery character teaching Elliot Ness the ropes.I am a film historian & especially knowledgeable on the Gangster era.All the best.
If I remember correct, Kevin Costner was the most sought after actor in the first half of the 90s. Dances with wolves, Robin Hood: Prince of thieves, JFK, Bodyguard, etc. were all well known films at the time.
i'm a 90s Kid. You just KNEW who Costner was. Especially after Robin Hood. I also always loved "Waterworld" and still think it's one of the greatest 90s Sci-Fi popcorn flicks which is cheesy here and there in all the right ways.
My Mother took my Brother and I to see this when I was 9. I distinctly remember when we walked out the theater my Brother said that Connery would win the Oscar. This was a summer film, so that was a hell of a prediction to make. About 8 months later Connery won. This is one of my favorite films from my childhood. It's so damned badass. It launched Costner's career, relaunched Connery's, and introduced us all to Andy Garcia and Billy Drago. DeNiro is also scary as hell in this as well. When Nitti shot Malone the whole theater gasped, and when Ness threw his ass off the roof the whole theater cheered. I think this is Brian DePalma's best film. Lots of folks say Scarface, Carrie, Blow Out or Dressed to Kill, but this is it for me. Such a great script by David Mamet and perfection by Ennio Morricone with the score. 5/5
Costner's career was launched with Silverado. The director of that film felt bad about cutting all Costner's scenes in The Big Chill, leaving him just as the corpse that he gave the role of Jake to Costner.
This film and Cape Fear are the two films where DeNiro really does a brilliant job of being intimidating. It's amazing how you can see him in other movie roles and not be intimidated but then you see him in one of these two films and the transformation is insane!
@@paulwagner688 I wouldn't say Silverado "launched" Kevin Costner. It was a scene-stealing performance and it certainly gave him more exposure than he'd previously been given, but it was still a supporting role. Costner had had a lot of supporting roles here and there in films like Testament, Fandango, American Flyers, Amazing Stories, and yes Silverado, but The Untouchables was his first leading role. After that his career went off like a rocket and he became the biggest star in the world for a few years. I think it's safe to say that The Untouchables was the one that actually launched him.
The entire scene at the train station is an iconic scene in the history of movies. It was so well done, well choreographed, well executed. The timing, and Stone sliding to stop the baby while catching the gun from Ness then pointing it at the head of the goon all in one smooth motion was dynamite. I remember at the theater when this came out, everyone was like "holy shit!"
It is a homage to Sergei Eisenstein's 1925 silent gem "Battleship Potemkin",Kurosawa, Coppola and Hitchcock also paid homage to it. It is probably the most influential film ever made.
My grandfather when he was young actually helped smuggle alcohol about during Prohibition. He had to drive a car that had large tanks built into the empty spaces of the car from Chicago to St. Louis. He apparently had a man with a gun on his lap sitting next to him the entire journey, with the gun pointed at him, and they never exchanged a word other than my grandpa getting his payment. Then, years later in the 50's when my grandpa ran a small autobody shop, he would occasionally get men from the Chicago and Quad City area of Iowa coming to have questionable damage fixed on their cars, always paid with crisp new bills. They did have a freaky moment though, because when my mom was 15, she had one of these men take an interest in her,and wanted to set her up with one of his four sons because 'pretty blonds were good breeding stock'. This sort of stuff kept happening until my grandparents moved to Minnesota during the late 60's. We do sometimes joke that my mom could have been a mob wife.
my uncle was a cop in Edmonton, Alberta there was a guy who was ALWAYS driving drunk one day he crashed his car & died, he have converted his whole car into a giant still to make booze, his dashboard was all taken apart & full of pipes & stuff
I don't know if you're aware, but it is based on reality. The Untouchables were a larger group, but Ness was a real person (as was Capone), and this is more or less how they did catch Capone. The specific scenes aren't necessarily how things actually went, but the general story is true.
Not really, it wasn't Ness who accomplished the downfall of Capone. it was the IRS. Ness wasn't the hero, it was the IRS agents. Ness was just reckless in real life compared to the IRS.
@@STNeish that's fine, historical movies rarely follow the straight facts. The Untouchables always make think of a scene from Batman The Animated Series where the Joker gets hit with tax evasion ruclips.net/video/IITiB6Yrg4s/видео.html
I remember watching this with my grandmother for the first time when I was a little girl. I was fascinated and remember being completely glued to the screen. Now as an adult it is one of my all time favorite movies.
"Smoke'm if you Got'm" or a variation "The smoking lamp is lit" are expressions used in the military. Smoking in a combat zone is tightly controlled since the glow of a cigarette can tip off the enemy. So the expression pretty much mean "Everything is safe and calm for now"... as well as go ahead and smoke...
People also use it today like, “Well, it’s too late now, they know we’re here, the fight is inevitable, so smoke ‘em if you’ve got ‘em. Don’t let them go to waste. Here we go…”
The opening theme you liked (and the whole score) is by legendary Italian composer Ennio Morricone. Scored bajillions of movies, won truckloads of awards, best known for his work on westerns. The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly probs his best known by all.
He passed away not long ago, maybe 1-2 years and when I found out I queued up a playlist of his scores, I was surprised at some of the ones that popped up. He's literally singularly responsible for the incredible feel of so many movies. ❤️
@@brentfugett2700 Aye, he was a lot more prolific than many realise - one of the most varied composers out there, and his influence lives on in loads of modern scores
The funniest part of this movie is when Sean Connery's character picked up the already dead gangster outside the shack, and threatened to blow his brains out if he didn't give up the info they wanted, and then BLAMMO blew his brains out. Then the other gangster inside with Elliot Ness and the Canadian mountie flipped out and said he'd spill the beans. Mountie told Elliott "I do not approve of your methods!" Elliott retorted "well, you're not from Chicago" 😂
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves may not be the best Kevin Costner vehicle, but let's not forget that it contains one of Alan Rickman's funnest performances. Plus Morgan Freeman and Christian Slater, both of whom DO do accents.
Good on not, Prince of Thieves has to be one of the most iconic 90s movies. It's still referenced all the time but no one gets the joke anymore lol. It's a pity how many people just watch Men in Tights without understanding the references
@@vanyadolly Even though I find Kevin Costner about as interesting as a broom handle, the music, the settings, the treehouse village, and literally everyone else's performances just make it so enjoyable to watch.
@@vanyadolly Actually yeah, I guess it works in stuff like Bull Durham. It's just in period pieces and sci-fi where I need a bit more from him... Have you ever seen The Postman, where he recites Shakespeare? Jesus wept.
This movie is based on a 1950s TV show of the same name starring Robert Stack (who was in Airplane). It was a very popular and very well written show. It's worth watching an episode or two.
Okay this after his long career and never being nominated for an Oscar this was the film that Sean Connery not only was nominated for, but also won as Best Supporting Actor.
Great reaction to a classic film. Can't believe you've never watched a Kevin Costner film. He's iconic. Dances with Wolves is a masterpiece. Field of Dreams is so good, too. Tin Cup is a great comedy as well.
Field of Dreams I believe is my favorite Keven Costner film. Don't bother with Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves as Costner can't do an accent and Water World was a money pit.
Prohibtion was a big failure here in Norway, too (yes, we tried it). My grandfather was born in 1911. He could remember being down at the pier in Fredrikstad as a kid with his dad, and standing at the end of the pier was this guy. Everyone knew what he was up to. Beside him was the end of a rope tied to the pier. At the other end of the rope, down in the water, was a keg of booze. If you wanted to buy, he was selling. My grandfather also remembered rowing out to the Hvaler islands outside of Fredrikstad with two mates on a weekend (a long row, especially back home when you had to row against the current in the river). They found a suitbable beach, pitched their tent, and spent the evening telling each other ghost stories. Then in the middle of the night, there's a knock at the tent door, and then this bearded face appears through the tent flap. "Don't be afraid, lads! It's just that you've pitched your tent right on top of my kegs!" He was going to row booze into town that night.
In the US, Prohibition was meant to get the saloons off of every streetcorner (beer wasn't in bottles back then, you had to go and get one from the bartender, and probably didn't leave), but made the major mistake of targeting the consumers rather than the distributors. Instead, the gangsters made speakeasies into the new hit nightclubs, and changed the landscape of drinking by the time that lawmakers sided with people who only wanted a few drinks on Saturday night.
For a different MOB movie i highly recommend "Oscar" from 1991. A comedy starring Sylvester Stallone and a great ensemble cast including Tim Curry. It would be great to see Ashleigh react to that.
Such a fun reaction! Yeah, "Goodfellas" (and "Casino") are the two mob movies for you, I think! Super fast paced, hilariously funny, tons of stuff to react to as well. If you haven't seen "Goodfellas", you are missing out on a lot! Definitely put that on your list! You'll be hooked in immediately, it is not somber and slow-moving, I promise!
Yeah, Pesci’s portrayal became synonymous with him it was so impressive. When that character’s switch flipped with those two simple words, “Funny how…?”, it was such a subtly chilling moment. Great movie. Didn’t see Casino except for clips so can’t comment on that one.
"Donnie Brasco" is another must. I'd say "Goodfellas", "Casino" and "Donnie Brasco" will all be movies she will like because, among all of their other attributes, they're funny as hell!
Fun facts: Elliot Ness was a real person, and he did take down Al Capone with tax evasion. However almost everything else in the film is fiction, including most of the other characters. However, Ness's team were called The Untouchables, and inspired this film.
Frank Nitti, Capone's enforcer, was a real guy but he committed suicide and wasn't thrown off a roof. Also the story of a little girl getting blown up happened and was the catalyst for the FBI getting involved in the mob wars in Chicago.
Ennio Morricone was one of the greatest film composers ever. Had the honor to see him in London for his last ever tour before he passed away. So many great scores to choose from. The Man With the Harmonica, Chi Mia, Ecstasy of Gold. Great man.
I was there as well, one of the best evenings of my life. For me its the Mission, but love him ....and Rachel Portman, feel she is incredibly underrated.
@@roy19491 I loved that movie. Costner, Danny Glover, Kevin Kline, and Scott Glenn were the good looking cowboys and Brian Dennehy made a great bad guy. John Cleese was a hoot too.
@@roy19491 Oh yeah! Great movie. I really enjoyed that, but at the same time, it's actually the A-Team in the Wild West. Costner played the Murdoch archetype.
"Open Range" is one of my favorite movies with Kevin Costner. He plays alongside Robert Duvall who I love as an actor too. They support each other very well in Open Range. Then Annette Bening as a supporting actress makes the movie. Anyway I don't think there's one movie I don't like with Kevin Costner. Enjoy the weekend Ashleigh
I've seen The Untouchables at least five times and this is the first time I've actually had fun watching it for a different reason usually I love watching it for the action to thrillz but your commentary is off-the-charts Ashleigh. I can't believe you did not know who Kevin Costner was and it took you awhile to figure Robert De Niro as usual you made us a fun re-watch of a great movie
I would like to recommend another Sean Connery movie "Highlander". I think Ashleigh would have fun with that one. Plus Mr. Krabs (Clancy Brown) as the villain!
This is *such* a fun film. It marked Andy Garcia's breakthrough role, and earned Sean Connery an Academy Award. The main difference I see between the Godfather, The Untouchables and Chinatown is that the latter two are told from the point of view of the heroes. In the Godfather, everybody is a villainous POS, and it's hard to care what happens to any of them. Even Michael, who tried hard to get out of the business, wound up as corrupt as f***, by the end, and got all the pain and heartbreak he richly deserved.
I would say that movies like The Untouchables definitely want you to believe it's good guys vs bad guys. The Godfather is not so much told from the bad guys' point of view as it simply a portrait of an American crime family, told without judgment. You can decide for yourself whether you idolize their lifestyle or find it repugnant. Goodfellas is the same way. My big takeaway from those films is that when you enter a life of crime, no matter what kind of glory you achieve or think you've achieved it will always be short lived, as you will always have a target on your back.
Completely disagree. I cared very much for every main characters in Godfather. For Vito, Michael, Sonny, etc... Sonny was such an awesome character, I was pissed that he died.
@@shinrapresident7010 you're the psychopath. that's a movie! it's make believe. you really do not have much between the ears do you? yes we care about these characters because there are even much bigger asshole going after them. We want Sonny to avenge his father. They show that Vito doesn't want into the drug business so he's more noble than the other gang leaders. It doesn't mean we approve all they are doing.
love this movie! For me personally, Stone's slide/leg stop on the baby buggy on the stairs in the train station then the subsequent cool kill shot is on my favorite top 5 movie moments....it's so cool
Fun fact: Kevin Costner was chosen for this roll based partly on his resemblance to Robert Stack (The actor who portrayed Ness in the 50's television series)... in reality Ness more closely resembled Charles Martin Smith (The accountant with the glasses).
That staircase shootout was a homage to a famous scene in a Russian silent movie called the Battleship Potemkin. DePalma was like an early Tarantino in that he reused famous scenes from earlier movies. In a good way.
Probably. Although when I was growing up movies were like baseball stats for me. I loved following actors and then directors through their careers especially since most of my screen idols were long gone before I was even aware of them. And now folks like Ashleigh can watch almost every movie at random or by following a director or actor through their careers.
No one got shot in the eye through his glasses though. LOL. But if you watch Untouchables shootout closely some sailors do briefly appear and are shot in the crossfire.
"When did we stop wearing hats?" Most people blame JFK who didn't wear a hat due to chronic back and neck pain from injuries sustained in WWII, but it also happened shortly after routine showering was adopted as a cultural norm. Prior to that you had to protect your greasy hair from getting stuff caught in it because washing your hair was a lot of work usually done separately from bathing. Also why short haircuts were preferred by working men. Also why putting goop in your hair to make it look greasy was the norm for a long time, because that's just what normal hair looked like.
@@ShawnRavenfire In the middle ages men and women both tied a bit of cloth over their hair, looking like a cloth helmet, to keep stuff out of it. Romans bathed daily and so didn't bother with hats.
You were actually closer than you knew when you tried to place De Niro in “Godfather”. He played Vito as a young man in Godfather 2. It was the only time two actors won Oscars for playing the same person.
I don't think you've seen De Niro yet either. He portrayed a young Vito Corleone in "Godfather II", it was the first and possibly only time that 2 different actors won Oscars for portraying the same character in two different films, with Brando winning Best Actor earlier for the first movie and De Niro winning Best Supporting Actor. De Niro was also in "Goodfellas", "Raging Bull", "Taxi Driver", "The Deer Hunter", "Once Upon a Time in America", "Awakenings" with Robin Williams, "The Irishman", and many many others.
I must have watched the staircase scene a dozen times - great work, particularly from Andy Garcia. Heavy influenced by a scene in the Russian film 'Battleship Potemkin' showing the massacre on the Odessa Steps, which also features a baby in a barriage rolling down the steps.
@@KRAFTWERK2K6 Ashleigh watched Naked Gun, the first, two months ago. And the Naked Gun 2 1/2 one month ago. I'm happy this made it in before the third one.
1. My dad the career cop cracks up at "All right! Enough of this running shit!" every time. 2. Costner movies I think you'd like: Bull Durham, Dances With Wolves, Field of Dreams. Great reaction!
I was going to say JFK & Robin Hood... Definitely Robin Hood because she's seen Men in Tights. I don't know if she could follow JFK for 3 hours. She'd like Joe Pesci's eyebrows in that one though. Plus the music is so tight.
Another hilarious scene was up on the roof of the courthouse where Capone's goon bragged to Elliott about killing Sean Connery's character and said "he squealed like a pig", and that made Elliott grab him and throw him off the roof screaming all the way and Elliott yelled "did it sound anything like that?!?" 😂 You should check out a more recent movie that Kevin Costner did with Woody Harrelson called The Highwaymen. It's about two legendary detectives who ambushed Bonnie and Clyde. Based on true events.
The Highwaymen was brilliant and I loved how they refrained from showing Bonnie and Clyde until the end. They highlighted the couple's brutal murders while also showing how the ignorant public became enamored with them, much as morons do today.
19:08, the baby carriage and the steps is a movie trope, it's an homage to the Odessa Steps scene in "Battleship Potemkin" (1925), directed by Sergei Eisenstein, one of the most famous Soviet filmmakers. All sorts of movies have referenced it.
You do realize this is a true story. Elliot Ness was a real Treasury officer and the untouchable were real officers. It really was taxes that brought down Capone all thanks to Elliot Ness.👍💪
@@MrBobsathlon2 It's even a stretch to say "based on a true story." You notice they never even put that statement on this or the TV show. If anyone wants a true story, I wouldn't stray one degree away from Elliot Ness' book, and even then, meh.
@@nigelcoleman7666 - I'm from a potentially lonlier island where I love the awesome 3000 Miles To Graceland. (I never got the dislike for The Postman.)
Well Kevin was on a winning streak in the late 1980s. Untouchables, No Way Out, Bull Durham, Field of Dreams, Dances With Wolves. Then his career kind of went downhill with Waterworld, Robin Hood, etc. But it was a nice run for awhile there.
I was hoping you would watch The Untouchables one day. It's one of the best mob films of all time IMO, and one of the few films I can watch all the way through without hitting fast-forward. The tension and suspense is incredible, like just before the Canadian border battle when Ness was watching Capone's men through binoculars. Even more chilling was the stalking scene in Malone's apartment. The train station scene has one of the best shootouts in movie history. Ness's moral dilemma (trying to decide between his duty and wanting to help the mother and her baby up the steps), and the slow-motion shots of the ensuing chaos, is almost palpable. Ennio Morricone's music feels like the voice of the film. The triumphant theme when the heroes charge into battle at the Canadian bridge is all-encompassing. And the somber tones of the death theme when, first Wallace, and then Malone are killed are heart wrenching. It really makes you feel for the heroes when things go wrong for them. All in all, The Untouchables is a great film that I never get tired of watching, no matter how many times I see it. I cannot thank you enough for posting, I really enjoyed it.
Yeah, Kevin Costner!!! With all the important movies you shall watch, this channel will run for years! Costner made some masterpieces like Dances with wolves, JFK, Presidio, Thirteen days, Bodyguard.... and also Connery, De Niro.... omg, so much to watch :-)
Yes, Kevin Costner starred in some great movies, but he also starred in a couple of clunkers, like Waterworld, the Postman and Robin Hood: Prince of Theives. Ashleigh, you saw and loved Robin Hood: Men in Tights, which was a response to Kevin Costner's version, who failed miserably attempting an English Accent. My suggestion for the next Kevin Costner movie is Bull Durham.
I think JFK was a bunch of stupid, conspiracy-theory crap. The Presidio had Sean Connery, Mark Harmon and Meg Ryan, but not Costner. Dances With Wolves is Costner's most famous, and I liked it a lot, but I liked him better in Silverado and Open Range. He was also part of the ensemble for the film Fandango, which has a fantastic soundtrack and a fun story. The Bodyguard was good, but not great, even though it won Whitney Houston a Grammy.
To answer your question of, "when did we stop wearing hats all the time" -- This was actually due mostly to closed roof cars becoming the norm. As the cars became more aerodynamic (less of the Ford Model T box looking car with a higher roof) wearing a hat inside a car became less convenient. As automobiles became increasingly more popular as a source of transportation, men and women ditched the higher hats as part of their fashion in favour of the car.
When I was in high school, I had some heroes who were all actors...because that was what I wanted to be. One of the main ones was the late Sir Sean Connery. I saw this in the summer between my freshman and sophomore years of high school...and watching Connery was a revelation in this film. When he won the Oscar for playing Jimmy Malone, I was actually crying. One of my heroes was hailed by the Academy, and I was over the moon. I don't know how many times I have seen this film...but everytime, Connery just blows me away. But then again...the entire cast was just superb!!! My other heroes...Harrison Ford, Robin Williams, Kevin Kline ('A Fish Called Wanda' and 'Dave'), Christopher Reeve (he's still my Superman, even though Henry Cavill is really good!), and William Powell (actor from the Golden Age of Hollywood (1930s through the 1950s)...'The Thin Man' series with Myrna Loy, 'The Great Zeigfeld', 'My Man Godfrey', and 'Mister Roberts' are my favorites!).
I didn't want to be an actor, but, you mention many great actors & actress , as well as movies that were superb. A lot of the young ones should take a look at all genres of films from all the ages. Good stuff out there to be seen & enjoyed.
Good call on William Powell! Love the guy's humour and humanity. Me, I was a huge Cagney fan when I was a teen, which was amusing as most of my fellow Brits my age had never heard of him. Me, I thought he was electric.
It's a great cast. I'm sure you'll be seeing Kevin Costner again (The Bodyguard, Field of Dreams, Robin Hood Prince of Thieves, Dances With Wolves, Waterworld).
The slow-motion shots in the climactic gunfight scene are a trademark of director Brian De Palma. You find memorable slo-mo scenes in many of his movies: Carrie, Dressed to Kill, Blow Out, Body Double. The baby carriage tumbling down the stairs is an homage to the 1925 Russian silent film "Battleship Potemkin," which also has a scene where a baby carriage falls down a staircase during a gunfight.
This was my favorite movie for a while after it came out when I was 14. Later in life, while working for Paramount, the studio that produced this film, I chose a rare ‘Untouchables’ framed poster to adorn my office wall. Today, at age 50, I still have that framed poster hanging in the hallway outside my bathroom. 😄
The bespectacled accountant starred in "American Graffiti" another great movie for your list. It was a teenage coming-of-age film and the tagline for the movie was "Where were you in '62?". Along with Charles Martin Smith, who was in this film, "American Graffiti" starred Ron Howard, Richard Dreyfuss, and Harrison Ford. George Lucas made the film, after a conversation with his friend Francis Ford Coppola. It became a universal smash hit, and helped Lucas to fund his visions for "...a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away..."
6:21 The photo caption referred to a line in the opera "Madame Butterfly" by Puccini with the story set in Japan. She was dropped by a man who used her, but who she loved anyway. People used to go to operas a lot. If you couldn't afford to go, they'd be broadcast on the radio. 16:59 In real life, it was one of Capone's own lawyers that took the ledgers to the Federal authorities because he didn't want to be exposed as a corrupt s.o.b. in public and have his only son grown to hate him. The lawyer was named O'Hare and his son became fighter pilot and a Medal of Honor winner in World War II but was killed in action. So Chicago named their airport after that lawyer's hero son. So, you've got red hair and can drop a deer at, what was it, 300 yards? Your husband found the perfect woman.
Ennio Morricone was hands down the greatest film composer who ever lived. And he never retired, working right up until his death at age 91. Some other great work of his: The Battle of Algiers, The "Man with No Name" Trilogy, Once Upon a Time in the West, The Thing, In the Line of Fire, The Hateful Eight.
In Ennio Morricone's biography, he said that he hated all those old Westerns film music he wrote - that's why he refused to composed new film music for Tarantino who only likes those music. His personal favourites were music for director Giuseppe Tornatore like Cinema Paradiso and Malena.
@@wratched Morricone said in his biography that not winning the Oscars for 'The Mission' was the greatest upset of his life - the winner 'Round Midnight' was a second rate music that didn't deserved the award.
Two other great Costner movies that you HAVE TO WATCH, among many. Plus some not so great. Field of Dreams and The Highwayman. And I think you'll love The Bodyguard, which also stars Whitney Houston.
DeNiro played in Godfather II. Other gangster movies to watch: Public Enemies (Johnny Depp as John Dillinger - real life bank robber) The Highwaymen (Costner, and Woody Harelson as Frank Hamer and Manney Galt trying to catch Bonnie Parker, and Clyde Barrow - again, based on true events) Last Man Standing - Bruce Willis in a remake of the samurai classic "Yojimbo" (also remade as a western Fistful of Dollars with Clint Eastwood) Road to Perdition - Tom Hanks plays a mob hitman. Bet you never expected to hear that in one sentence...
The staircase fight scene was a reference to the iconic staircase scene in the 1925 Russian film "Battleship Potemkin". At the time "Untouchables" came out, film fans would have got the reference, but sadly it has since passed out of our cultural memory.
Kevin Costner also starred in and directed Dances with Wolves. He’s very young in Silverado, got it on with Susan Sarandon in Bull Durham, falls in love with Whitney Houston in The Bodyguard, accidentally re-establishes the postal services in post-apocalyptic The Postman, and he’s also great in The Highwaymen on Netflix. He’s Robin Hood:Prince of Thieves with an American accent (Alan Rickman has the best lines as Sheriff of Nottingham) and you also find him in Hidden Figures, The Guardian, Thirteen Days, JFK, Swing Vote, Tin Cup, Waterworld, Wyatt Earp, Field of Dreams, and many more.
This movie came out around the time everybody was making movies based on old TV shows. Some were good like this one. Others really stunk. In The Untouchables TV show, Eliot Ness was played by Robert Stack. You saw Robert in Airplane as the Captain brought in to talk to Ted Striker and help land the plane.
Remaking old TV shows and movies is how Paramount operated in the late 80s through, well, pretty much today, but especially through the 90s. It was almost a little embarrassing to tell friends what we were putting out when I worked there during that time.
@A S Some of those, some others. The Lady Colyton, widow of Charles Addams, used to call me whenever she went on vacation, to give me her forwarding address, should we need to contact her about where to send her checks. That was always a trip.
I'm so glad you like this one. This is probably one of my favorite gangster films. This film always gave me a feeling that no one was safe to get killed except Ness and Capone, and Garcia's character was definitely my favorite in this. Seeing Drago appear any time in the film got me tense because someone was about to die. He owned that character too.
Ashleigh, thank you for all the entertainment. If I may, could I suggest two movies. Number 1 "The Sting" with Paul Newman and Robert Redford. Number 2 the movie "Maverick" from the mid-90's with Mel Gibson. Also, if you watch "Maverick" I'd also recommend an additional five minutes watching "Amazing Grace" with the Maverick choir. Thank you again.
This is such a great movie, jumped started the careers of several actors including Andy Garcia. Loved your reaction as always. Hope you'll add "Silver Streak" with Gene Wilder to your list. Keep up the great work!
Probably someone already mentioned this but you've seen another movie by the same director of this movie, Brian DePalma He also directed Carrie. Always a pleasure watching your videos! Best Regards!
Ahhhh, not many people have reacted to this one. Lots of great moments in this. If you're interested in another classic and one that hasn't been reacted to that much, I recommend the Sting with Paul Newman and Robert Redford.
Probably a lot will start now. Seems like when one channel does a reaction to a movie that isn't at the top of the list then the rest follow out of nowhere.
The accountant, Charles Martin Smith, had his breakout role in American Graffiti and this is probably his other big role. He got his first lead part in the 1983 Disney movie _Never Cry Wolf_ , the first movie Disney produced under a new more mature filmmaking direction, before reversing course and burying the film's release. But I keep finding ties that connect _Never Cry Wolf_ to other great films: directed by the director of the first Star Wars, cinematography by the cinematographer from Star Trek VI (my favorite Star Trek film), and the first film score by Mark Isham whose career scoring films and TVs has continued for the 40 years since. I recommend it, to Ashleigh or to commenters reading this :)
We can quite simply here see what prohibition does: It serves only the criminals. Same applies to current drug laws, although admittedly many countries are beginning to finally understand that and are legalizing. Still, of course as always many governments stand to lose easy income from legalization; hell, many of them - I will not mention which - are major providers of the very drugs that they incriminate.
A very underrated movie to watch I think is Sleepers from 1996. Kevin Bacon, Brad Pitt, Robert De Niro, Brad Renfro, Jason Patric and Dustin Hoffman. It's an intense movie but the cast is stacked!
Oh my god, it was so stacked that it's the only movie we could agree on when we all went as a family. I'm talking Grandma down to teenagers. Three generations crying their eyes out. Its what my mom calls a "snot and slobber" kind of movie LOL
@@manichispanic5234 Oh absolutely. I saw it when it first came out on video around 97-98 or so at like age 11. It's an intense movie for anyone, let alone an 11 year old lol De Niro should've played a city parish priest more honestly lol
Eliot Ness was told there would be an envelope containing $1000 in cash on his desk every Monday morning if he stopped going after Capone's liquor shipments. He refused
I never realized that Frank Nitti is the only one not to flinch in the baseball scene indicating just how comfortable he is around violence and death since he is Capone's hitman for the film.
Great movie and I would second The Sting. Side note Dell Close has a cameo in this movie which makes sense since he was big in Chicago because of his improv teachings. But Untouchables is a great movie and Connery and Costner are amazing together.
I do agree Ashleigh this is a great movie, it's a mob movie unlike any other , but I'll give it 5/5 stars only because it's an Oscar winning movie and it's a classic, not something I'd watch consistently but I'd give it 5/5 stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ a masterpiece and one of its best movies in the 1980s
I obsessed on Elliot Ness when I was a kid. I am still full of random Ness trivia. This movie was the beginning of that obsession. Andy Garcia was one of my first movie crushes.
Costner is portraying real-life federal agent, Eliot Ness, best remembered for his efforts to take down Al Capone, although it was actually the tax evasion that put Capone behind bars. Ness was also portrayed in the early 60's TV series of the same name, by Robert Stack. You saw him in "Airplane!", as the flight controller who whipped off his aviator shades to reveal another pair underneath them, and talked the plane down over the intercom.
Kevin Costner is in 3 of my favorite movies. This, Field of Dreams and JFK. All near perfect movies. Waterworld is a lot of fun too :) oh and the "poor butterfly" reference is from an opera called Madame Butterfly
I love this movie. such a great ride. I highly recommend Goodfellas for a good mob movie. I don't think you've reacted to that yet. De Niro is in that.
one of the best films ever made.... Andy garcia/stone in the staircase and the whole scene is without a doubt one of the greatest scenes in movie history. tension, drama, shot beautifully, and a great end with that shot. you can still go to chi town and go on a untouchables tour.. all the clothes were done by gorgio armani, it was just a brilliant film..
As far as style and tone of the movie, I equate this on the same level as "Tombstone". Both movies have A bunch of brothers of the law eventually shot down and shoot out at a center of town and train station.
I love this movie, and I absolutely love Kevin Costner. I hope one day you get to enjoy Dances With Wolves, Bull Durham, Field of Dreams, and so many more!
Eliot Ness actually had a pretty sad life. He was married 3 times, paying child support, ironically, he became an alcoholic in the 40s, he was involved in the torso killer case in Ohio, which he never solved, he ran for Mayor of Cleveland and lost, and after he left law enforcement, he couldn’t hold steady work. It’s crazy how glorified lawmen like Ness And Melvin Pervis have sad lives and died in obscurity.
At the beginning, the little girl in the bar (who's killed in the explosion) was picking up some beer probably for her dad. The container the barkeep was giving back to her was called a growler. It was a common practice to send your kids down to the bar with your growler for the barkeep to fill up and bring back. While bottled beer was available, it was more expensive than tap and like today many folks prefer draft over bottled.
I remember the trailer for this made it look like a huge, sprawling epic, so when I first watched it, I was disappointed at how briefly it touches upon each event and character then moves on, and I agreed with critics who said it felt underdeveloped and suffered from movie makers fear of releasing anything longer than two hours. However, after I got over my expectations and appreciated the movie on its own merits, it became one of my favorites.
If I may make a film nomination for React, I would like to nominate “The Sting” with Paul Newman, Robert Redford and Robert Shaw. One of the great movies I've ever seen and considered one of the best scripts of all time, which unfortunately few make the React of it.
Seconded. Fantastic suggestion.
good pull, solid
Amazing movie that introduced me to Ragtime!
One of the all-time great movies...bar none!
My exact thought when I saw the title of this video. The Sting is a MUST see.
"You want to get Capone? Here's how you get him. He pulls a knife, you pull a gun; he sends one of yours to the hospital, you send his to the morgue. That's the Chicago Way."
Classic line!
The reason Ness' team were called "The Untouchables" wasn't that they were invulnerable, but that they were incorruptible. The scene with the local politician trying to foist a bribe on Ness was an illustration of this. Each man had reason enough on his own to oppose the mob, but together, they looked after and supported each other, and no one of them, nor all together, could be bought off or intimidated.
If you would like to see Charlie Martin Smith carry an entire movie, I would strongly recommend a film called Never Cry Wolf. There's only 5 people in the whole cast, and two of them don't speak a word of English.
The scene where Sean Connery is shot with the Tommy gun, his reaction to the pain is real. He had never worn a special effect vest and asked if the small explosives would hurt. They assured him it wouldn't. The explosive pads they used were supposed to be supported with a padding underneath. They forgot the padding. He was severely bruised afterwards. I believe he may have punched a few people after the scene.
oh wow
It was in the 1950 that Ness worked in Cleveland, OH, when he started documenting his experiences in Chicago during prohibition. He dictated the story over a period of months to his then secretary - my mother.
That’s incredible!
The "Poor Butterfly" referrence is to the Opera Madama Butterfly, about a Japanese woman who "marries" an American Naval officer who's stationed in Japan. He abandons her and their child when he's recalled to the States. Serious tear jerker. Men stopped wearing hats when John Kennedy stopped wearing them, he set the new style. The guy in the white suit that says "Nice House" to Elliot Ness is Frank Nitty played by the late great Billy Drago.
If you are still wondering why, it is because the umbrella is a Japanese parasol of the style typically carried by Japanese women, particularly Geishas in the modern day.
one of the reason people stop wearing hats is cause A) cars and Air condition. Hats were cause most of your day a person was under the sun and in the heat. Once places started to have buildings with temp control the need for hat started to disappear.
@@Marveryn I think this is the wrong thread. You might want to reply to my other comment, and move this to there.
"Poor Butterfly" is also the title of a 1916 popular song inspired by Puccini's opera. It was a pretty big hit, was recorded by many artists, and has become a jazz standard. In 1930 everyone would still have known the song, so the reference would have been understood even by people who might not have known the opera.
Madame Butterfly is basically a musical retelling of Kipling's "Lisbeth". Only set in Japan.
I think you're the first person to ever ask "is that Sean Connery?"
The guy doesn't exactly disappear into his roles.
Could have been worse, he could have tried to play Genghis Khan.
@@kennethfharkin ...or a member of the Russian Navy
@@zachkinkead14 True but he had a great hairpiece for that role.
She said she knew him from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, and he had a shaggy beard in that, hence her confusion.
@@zachkinkead14 Lithuania is very close to Scotland...cue eye roll
The baby carriage scene at the train station is an hommage to a famous scene from the 1925 movie The Battleship Potemkin.
The Untouchables being 35 years old this year makes me feel really old.
I was wondering if someone was going to say that!
@@dereknolin5986 Reading the comments just to be sure of it.
This scene was also parodied in Naked Gun 33 1/3.
The baby carriage scene is one of the all-time great scenes in movie history.
@@Jaasau yes, good scene but it didn't happen in real life. It was put in to dramatize the film.Like wise there was no Sean Connery character teaching Elliot Ness the ropes.I am a film historian & especially knowledgeable on the Gangster era.All the best.
Robert De Niro was in _Godfather Part 2_ , and he won an Oscar for that role.
One of the rare times when the sequel is better the the first movie, which is a great feat when Godfather 1 was so good! De Nero was excellent!
The only time two actors won an Oscar for playing the same character in two different movies
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If I remember correct, Kevin Costner was the most sought after actor in the first half of the 90s.
Dances with wolves, Robin Hood: Prince of thieves, JFK, Bodyguard, etc. were all well known films at the time.
Field of Dreams
Bull Durham
Bull Durham, Field of Dreams, Open Range and The Highwaymen are great movies.
Makes me feel so old that you didn’t recognize Kevin Costner’s name. He was everywhere in the 90s.
Before she watches Dances With Wolves I am investing in facial tissues stocks.
He's on one of the most popular tv shows right now, Yellowstone.
i'm a 90s Kid. You just KNEW who Costner was. Especially after Robin Hood. I also always loved "Waterworld" and still think it's one of the greatest 90s Sci-Fi popcorn flicks which is cheesy here and there in all the right ways.
or Sean Connery
@@TheRebuilt1 Wait till she discovers Zardoz
Stone was always on Ness’s side. The deal the thug at the elevator was talking about was the deal to protect him so he would testify against Capone.
My Mother took my Brother and I to see this when I was 9. I distinctly remember when we walked out the theater my Brother said that Connery would win the Oscar. This was a summer film, so that was a hell of a prediction to make. About 8 months later Connery won.
This is one of my favorite films from my childhood. It's so damned badass. It launched Costner's career, relaunched Connery's, and introduced us all to Andy Garcia and Billy Drago. DeNiro is also scary as hell in this as well.
When Nitti shot Malone the whole theater gasped, and when Ness threw his ass off the roof the whole theater cheered.
I think this is Brian DePalma's best film. Lots of folks say Scarface, Carrie, Blow Out or Dressed to Kill, but this is it for me. Such a great script by David Mamet and perfection by Ennio Morricone with the score.
5/5
Costner's career was launched with Silverado. The director of that film felt bad about cutting all Costner's scenes in The Big Chill, leaving him just as the corpse that he gave the role of Jake to Costner.
This film and Cape Fear are the two films where DeNiro really does a brilliant job of being intimidating. It's amazing how you can see him in other movie roles and not be intimidated but then you see him in one of these two films and the transformation is insane!
@@paulwagner688 I wouldn't say Silverado "launched" Kevin Costner. It was a scene-stealing performance and it certainly gave him more exposure than he'd previously been given, but it was still a supporting role.
Costner had had a lot of supporting roles here and there in films like Testament, Fandango, American Flyers, Amazing Stories, and yes Silverado, but The Untouchables was his first leading role. After that his career went off like a rocket and he became the biggest star in the world for a few years. I think it's safe to say that The Untouchables was the one that actually launched him.
@@neil2444 He earned his reputation as the greatest actor of his generation. I think he's pretty intimidating in Raging Bull and Angel Heart as well.
he was great in that movie!
"Who would claim to be that, who was not?" is probably one of my favorite lines ever.
The entire scene at the train station is an iconic scene in the history of movies. It was so well done, well choreographed, well executed. The timing, and Stone sliding to stop the baby while catching the gun from Ness then pointing it at the head of the goon all in one smooth motion was dynamite. I remember at the theater when this came out, everyone was like "holy shit!"
It is a homage to Sergei Eisenstein's 1925 silent gem "Battleship Potemkin",Kurosawa, Coppola and Hitchcock also paid homage to it. It is probably the most influential film ever made.
My grandfather when he was young actually helped smuggle alcohol about during Prohibition. He had to drive a car that had large tanks built into the empty spaces of the car from Chicago to St. Louis. He apparently had a man with a gun on his lap sitting next to him the entire journey, with the gun pointed at him, and they never exchanged a word other than my grandpa getting his payment. Then, years later in the 50's when my grandpa ran a small autobody shop, he would occasionally get men from the Chicago and Quad City area of Iowa coming to have questionable damage fixed on their cars, always paid with crisp new bills. They did have a freaky moment though, because when my mom was 15, she had one of these men take an interest in her,and wanted to set her up with one of his four sons because 'pretty blonds were good breeding stock'. This sort of stuff kept happening until my grandparents moved to Minnesota during the late 60's. We do sometimes joke that my mom could have been a mob wife.
Thank you for sharing. Great story
my uncle was a cop in Edmonton, Alberta
there was a guy who was ALWAYS driving drunk
one day he crashed his car & died,
he have converted his whole car into a giant still to make booze,
his dashboard was all taken apart & full of pipes & stuff
@@Gravydog316 Yikes, he had to take his source with him.
Other great Kevin Costner movies include Bull Durham, Field of Dreams and Dances with Wolves.
No Way Out is criminally underrated and forgotten about these days
And waterworld and the postman
Fandango is another really good one.
Silverado! Very young Costner.
Kevin Costner great movies: For Love of the Game, Bull Durham, Silverado, Open Range, Tin Cup, The Postman, The Bodyguard, Dances with Wolves
I don't know if you're aware, but it is based on reality. The Untouchables were a larger group, but Ness was a real person (as was Capone), and this is more or less how they did catch Capone. The specific scenes aren't necessarily how things actually went, but the general story is true.
And then Ness moved to Cleveland where his legend takes a serious hit...
Not really, it wasn't Ness who accomplished the downfall of Capone. it was the IRS. Ness wasn't the hero, it was the IRS agents. Ness was just reckless in real life compared to the IRS.
@@kageakuma3009 My point is it was under Ness' supervision. It wasn't just 4 guys like the film suggests.
@@STNeish that's fine, historical movies rarely follow the straight facts. The Untouchables always make think of a scene from Batman The Animated Series where the Joker gets hit with tax evasion
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I remember watching this with my grandmother for the first time when I was a little girl. I was fascinated and remember being completely glued to the screen. Now as an adult it is one of my all time favorite movies.
"The Sting" is one of the outstanding movies of all time - script, music, settings and the cast is PHENOMENAL!! Great story!
"Smoke'm if you Got'm" or a variation "The smoking lamp is lit" are expressions used in the military. Smoking in a combat zone is tightly controlled since the glow of a cigarette can tip off the enemy. So the expression pretty much mean "Everything is safe and calm for now"... as well as go ahead and smoke...
Thank you. I learned somethng today.
People also use it today like, “Well, it’s too late now, they know we’re here, the fight is inevitable, so smoke ‘em if you’ve got ‘em. Don’t let them go to waste. Here we go…”
And I think it is sometimes used to get soldiers to pull out smokes they aren't supposed to have.
The opening theme you liked (and the whole score) is by legendary Italian composer Ennio Morricone. Scored bajillions of movies, won truckloads of awards, best known for his work on westerns. The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly probs his best known by all.
He passed away not long ago, maybe 1-2 years and when I found out I queued up a playlist of his scores, I was surprised at some of the ones that popped up. He's literally singularly responsible for the incredible feel of so many movies. ❤️
He was one of the greatest, if not the greatest. RIP
@@brentfugett2700 Aye, he was a lot more prolific than many realise - one of the most varied composers out there, and his influence lives on in loads of modern scores
The funniest part of this movie is when Sean Connery's character picked up the already dead gangster outside the shack, and threatened to blow his brains out if he didn't give up the info they wanted, and then BLAMMO blew his brains out. Then the other gangster inside with Elliot Ness and the Canadian mountie flipped out and said he'd spill the beans.
Mountie told Elliott "I do not approve of your methods!"
Elliott retorted "well, you're not from Chicago"
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My mom loved all of Sean Connery’s parts. Whenever he was on screen she just giggled
She needs to see Goldfinger and Thunderball.
Just as always, the Mountie would have got his man...uscript.
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves may not be the best Kevin Costner vehicle, but let's not forget that it contains one of Alan Rickman's funnest performances. Plus Morgan Freeman and Christian Slater, both of whom DO do accents.
Double feature with Men in Tights (rewatch) would be awesome
Good on not, Prince of Thieves has to be one of the most iconic 90s movies. It's still referenced all the time but no one gets the joke anymore lol. It's a pity how many people just watch Men in Tights without understanding the references
@@vanyadolly Even though I find Kevin Costner about as interesting as a broom handle, the music, the settings, the treehouse village, and literally everyone else's performances just make it so enjoyable to watch.
@@itzakpoelzig330 He is a bit of a broom handle but that's part of his charm 😆
@@vanyadolly Actually yeah, I guess it works in stuff like Bull Durham. It's just in period pieces and sci-fi where I need a bit more from him... Have you ever seen The Postman, where he recites Shakespeare? Jesus wept.
This movie is based on a 1950s TV show of the same name starring Robert Stack (who was in Airplane). It was a very popular and very well written show. It's worth watching an episode or two.
Okay this after his long career and never being nominated for an Oscar this was the film that Sean Connery not only was nominated for, but also won as Best Supporting Actor.
Great reaction to a classic film.
Can't believe you've never watched a Kevin Costner film. He's iconic. Dances with Wolves is a masterpiece. Field of Dreams is so good, too. Tin Cup is a great comedy as well.
Dances with wolves was just generic crappy oscarbait, definitely not a masterpiece.
@@Etherian87 we can agree to disagree. I've seen it more times than I can count and still enjoy it very much
Field of Dreams I believe is my favorite Keven Costner film. Don't bother with Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves as Costner can't do an accent and Water World was a money pit.
It is an absolute masterpiece!!
Yeah, that was kind of surprising. Got to do Field of Dreams. I bet she would enjoy For the Love of the Game, The Bodyguard, and Bull Durham.
Prohibtion was a big failure here in Norway, too (yes, we tried it). My grandfather was born in 1911. He could remember being down at the pier in Fredrikstad as a kid with his dad, and standing at the end of the pier was this guy. Everyone knew what he was up to. Beside him was the end of a rope tied to the pier. At the other end of the rope, down in the water, was a keg of booze. If you wanted to buy, he was selling. My grandfather also remembered rowing out to the Hvaler islands outside of Fredrikstad with two mates on a weekend (a long row, especially back home when you had to row against the current in the river). They found a suitbable beach, pitched their tent, and spent the evening telling each other ghost stories. Then in the middle of the night, there's a knock at the tent door, and then this bearded face appears through the tent flap. "Don't be afraid, lads! It's just that you've pitched your tent right on top of my kegs!" He was going to row booze into town that night.
In the US, Prohibition was meant to get the saloons off of every streetcorner (beer wasn't in bottles back then, you had to go and get one from the bartender, and probably didn't leave), but made the major mistake of targeting the consumers rather than the distributors. Instead, the gangsters made speakeasies into the new hit nightclubs, and changed the landscape of drinking by the time that lawmakers sided with people who only wanted a few drinks on Saturday night.
Wow what a story
@@ericjanssen394 you could own and consume alcohol, it just had to be purchased before prohibition.
@@Dularrdon't forget the whiskey prescriptions that some doctors allowed
For a different MOB movie i highly recommend "Oscar" from 1991. A comedy starring Sylvester Stallone and a great ensemble cast including Tim Curry.
It would be great to see Ashleigh react to that.
Seconded. Oscar is amazing, and shows Stallone can be really funny and clever.
@@Crazyivan777 Thirded. It’s a really funny movie with an amazing cast.
Such a fun reaction! Yeah, "Goodfellas" (and "Casino") are the two mob movies for you, I think! Super fast paced, hilariously funny, tons of stuff to react to as well. If you haven't seen "Goodfellas", you are missing out on a lot! Definitely put that on your list! You'll be hooked in immediately, it is not somber and slow-moving, I promise!
Yeah, Pesci’s portrayal became synonymous with him it was so impressive. When that character’s switch flipped with those two simple words, “Funny how…?”, it was such a subtly chilling moment. Great movie. Didn’t see Casino except for clips so can’t comment on that one.
@@turbopokey Well, hell, see it. Casino is fucking fantastic.
My Blue Heaven is an excellent mob movie, too! :)
"Donnie Brasco" is another must. I'd say "Goodfellas", "Casino" and "Donnie Brasco" will all be movies she will like because, among all of their other attributes, they're funny as hell!
@@perrinyone1596 Yes! Goodfellas, Casino, Donnie Brasco🥰
I would add The Departed
Fun facts: Elliot Ness was a real person, and he did take down Al Capone with tax evasion. However almost everything else in the film is fiction, including most of the other characters. However, Ness's team were called The Untouchables, and inspired this film.
Frank Nitti was a real person though he really had nothing to do with the Capone case.
Nitti also lived to be an old man and died by his own hand.
@@joedavis3748 He also appears in the film Road to Perdition, played by Stanley Tucci, and is much more sympathetic than in this film.
Actually Ness had nothing to do with the tax evasion case.
Frank Nitti, Capone's enforcer, was a real guy but he committed suicide and wasn't thrown off a roof. Also the story of a little girl getting blown up happened and was the catalyst for the FBI getting involved in the mob wars in Chicago.
Ennio Morricone was one of the greatest film composers ever. Had the honor to see him in London for his last ever tour before he passed away. So many great scores to choose from. The Man With the Harmonica, Chi Mia, Ecstasy of Gold. Great man.
The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly
Cinema Paradiso and Malena are some the best film scores he composed, very few people reacted to these films because they are foreign films.
His soundtrack for The Mission is so beautiful.
@@dalegarraway9865 Yeah, that's where The Ecstasy of Gold is from.
I was there as well, one of the best evenings of my life. For me its the Mission, but love him ....and Rachel Portman, feel she is incredibly underrated.
Costner was famously in "Dances with Wolves" and "Field of Dreams."
Sean Connery was the first James Bond in the movies--and redefined "cool."
Costner was also, during his early career, in "Silverado"
@@roy19491 I loved that movie. Costner, Danny Glover, Kevin Kline, and Scott Glenn were the good looking cowboys and Brian Dennehy made a great bad guy. John Cleese was a hoot too.
@@roy19491 Oh yeah! Great movie. I really enjoyed that, but at the same time, it's actually the A-Team in the Wild West. Costner played the Murdoch archetype.
And Robin Hood + Waterworld
"Open Range" is one of my favorite movies with Kevin Costner. He plays alongside Robert Duvall who I love as an actor too. They support each other very well in Open Range. Then Annette Bening as a supporting actress makes the movie. Anyway I don't think there's one movie I don't like with Kevin Costner. Enjoy the weekend Ashleigh
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I've seen The Untouchables at least five times and this is the first time I've actually had fun watching it for a different reason usually I love watching it for the action to thrillz but your commentary is off-the-charts Ashleigh. I can't believe you did not know who Kevin Costner was and it took you awhile to figure Robert De Niro as usual you made us a fun re-watch of a great movie
While DeNiro was not in The Godfather, he was in The Godfather Part II; for which he won his first Oscar.
I would like to recommend another Sean Connery movie "Highlander". I think Ashleigh would have fun with that one. Plus Mr. Krabs (Clancy Brown) as the villain!
There can be only one.
This is *such* a fun film.
It marked Andy Garcia's breakthrough role, and earned Sean Connery an Academy Award.
The main difference I see between the Godfather, The Untouchables and Chinatown is that the latter two are told from the point of view of the heroes.
In the Godfather, everybody is a villainous POS, and it's hard to care what happens to any of them.
Even Michael, who tried hard to get out of the business, wound up as corrupt as f***, by the end, and got all the pain and heartbreak he richly deserved.
I would say that movies like The Untouchables definitely want you to believe it's good guys vs bad guys. The Godfather is not so much told from the bad guys' point of view as it simply a portrait of an American crime family, told without judgment. You can decide for yourself whether you idolize their lifestyle or find it repugnant. Goodfellas is the same way. My big takeaway from those films is that when you enter a life of crime, no matter what kind of glory you achieve or think you've achieved it will always be short lived, as you will always have a target on your back.
Completely disagree. I cared very much for every main characters in Godfather. For Vito, Michael, Sonny, etc... Sonny was such an awesome character, I was pissed that he died.
It's refreshing to see somebody condemn the criminals in The Godfather rather than idolize them.
@@BrianNIL you must be a riot at parties. "let's condemn characters in a movie" instead of enjoying the ride
@@shinrapresident7010 you're the psychopath. that's a movie! it's make believe. you really do not have much between the ears do you? yes we care about these characters because there are even much bigger asshole going after them. We want Sonny to avenge his father. They show that Vito doesn't want into the drug business so he's more noble than the other gang leaders. It doesn't mean we approve all they are doing.
That was the best line in the movie " Did he sound anything like that " I lived that line
love this movie! For me personally, Stone's slide/leg stop on the baby buggy on the stairs in the train station then the subsequent cool kill shot is on my favorite top 5 movie moments....it's so cool
Fun fact: Kevin Costner was chosen for this roll based partly on his resemblance to Robert Stack (The actor who portrayed Ness in the 50's television series)... in reality Ness more closely resembled Charles Martin Smith (The accountant with the glasses).
That staircase shootout was a homage to a famous scene in a Russian silent movie called the Battleship Potemkin. DePalma was like an early Tarantino in that he reused famous scenes from earlier movies. In a good way.
Did you take the same film class as me? Lol We watched this scene after watching Battleship Potemkin during the silent era in class.
Probably. Although when I was growing up movies were like baseball stats for me. I loved following actors and then directors through their careers especially since most of my screen idols were long gone before I was even aware of them. And now folks like Ashleigh can watch almost every movie at random or by following a director or actor through their careers.
No one got shot in the eye through his glasses though. LOL. But if you watch Untouchables shootout closely some sailors do briefly appear and are shot in the crossfire.
"When did we stop wearing hats?" Most people blame JFK who didn't wear a hat due to chronic back and neck pain from injuries sustained in WWII, but it also happened shortly after routine showering was adopted as a cultural norm. Prior to that you had to protect your greasy hair from getting stuff caught in it because washing your hair was a lot of work usually done separately from bathing. Also why short haircuts were preferred by working men. Also why putting goop in your hair to make it look greasy was the norm for a long time, because that's just what normal hair looked like.
Even earlier, people used to wear top hats, but stopped because of car manufacturers making their ceilings lower (probably to reduce wind resistance).
My grandfather used Brylcream until he passed away.
@@ShawnRavenfire In the middle ages men and women both tied a bit of cloth over their hair, looking like a cloth helmet, to keep stuff out of it. Romans bathed daily and so didn't bother with hats.
@@chiconeededthemoney My grandfather was a Dapper Dan man although he would sometimes use Fop for no good reason :)
@@kevinkenyon1254 I immediately thought of O' Brother Where Art Thou when you said that.
You were actually closer than you knew when you tried to place De Niro in “Godfather”. He played Vito as a young man in Godfather 2. It was the only time two actors won Oscars for playing the same person.
I don't think you've seen De Niro yet either. He portrayed a young Vito Corleone in "Godfather II", it was the first and possibly only time that 2 different actors won Oscars for portraying the same character in two different films, with Brando winning Best Actor earlier for the first movie and De Niro winning Best Supporting Actor. De Niro was also in "Goodfellas", "Raging Bull", "Taxi Driver", "The Deer Hunter", "Once Upon a Time in America", "Awakenings" with Robin Williams, "The Irishman", and many many others.
Heath ledger and Joaquin Phoenix both won an Oscar for playing the Joker just saying It’s ok if you forgot
@@mohammedashian8094 I hadn't forgotten, I simply wasn't aware of that. Thanks for the info.
@@mikeking7710 you’re welcome
I must have watched the staircase scene a dozen times - great work, particularly from Andy Garcia. Heavy influenced by a scene in the Russian film 'Battleship Potemkin' showing the massacre on the Odessa Steps, which also features a baby in a barriage rolling down the steps.
Yup and it was also spoofed in "the naked gun 33 1/3" :P
That is one of the most famous scenes in all of cinema.
@@KRAFTWERK2K6 Ashleigh watched Naked Gun, the first, two months ago.
And the Naked Gun 2 1/2 one month ago.
I'm happy this made it in before the third one.
1. My dad the career cop cracks up at "All right! Enough of this running shit!" every time.
2. Costner movies I think you'd like: Bull Durham, Dances With Wolves, Field of Dreams.
Great reaction!
I'd add Tin Cup to that list..I find it incredibly underrated.
,, & JFK, if yr a big Seinfeld fan 😏
Maybe Robinhood too.
Silverado is another.
I was going to say JFK & Robin Hood... Definitely Robin Hood because she's seen Men in Tights. I don't know if she could follow JFK for 3 hours. She'd like Joe Pesci's eyebrows in that one though. Plus the music is so tight.
Another hilarious scene was up on the roof of the courthouse where Capone's goon bragged to Elliott about killing Sean Connery's character and said "he squealed like a pig", and that made Elliott grab him and throw him off the roof screaming all the way and Elliott yelled "did it sound anything like that?!?" 😂
You should check out a more recent movie that Kevin Costner did with Woody Harrelson called The Highwaymen. It's about two legendary detectives who ambushed Bonnie and Clyde. Based on true events.
The Highwaymen was brilliant and I loved how they refrained from showing Bonnie and Clyde until the end. They highlighted the couple's brutal murders while also showing how the ignorant public became enamored with them, much as morons do today.
It's a cool scene but I cringe at it because, in real life, the guy, Frank Nitti, actually took over Capone's operations when Capone went to jail.
@@Toast960 As history this movie is very fast and loose. As a combination of all the facets of film making it is brilliant.
19:08, the baby carriage and the steps is a movie trope, it's an homage to the Odessa Steps scene in "Battleship Potemkin" (1925), directed by Sergei Eisenstein, one of the most famous Soviet filmmakers. All sorts of movies have referenced it.
You do realize this is a true story. Elliot Ness was a real Treasury officer and the untouchable were real officers. It really was taxes that brought down Capone all thanks to Elliot Ness.👍💪
Based on a true story. Not the true story. It's too big a tale to tell in two hours.
@@MrBobsathlon2 It's even a stretch to say "based on a true story." You notice they never even put that statement on this or the TV show. If anyone wants a true story, I wouldn't stray one degree away from Elliot Ness' book, and even then, meh.
This and “Field Of Dreams” are really the best from Kevin Costner. You’re going to throughly enjoy Field Of Dreams when you finally react to it.
Bull Durham is my favorite Costner flick.
I am from a lonely island where we love "The Postman".
@@nigelcoleman7666 - I'm from a potentially lonlier island where I love the awesome 3000 Miles To Graceland. (I never got the dislike for The Postman.)
Well Kevin was on a winning streak in the late 1980s. Untouchables, No Way Out, Bull Durham, Field of Dreams, Dances With Wolves. Then his career kind of went downhill with Waterworld, Robin Hood, etc. But it was a nice run for awhile there.
Dances With Wolves is my favorite.
I was hoping you would watch The Untouchables one day. It's one of the best mob films of all time IMO, and one of the few films I can watch all the way through without hitting fast-forward. The tension and suspense is incredible, like just before the Canadian border battle when Ness was watching Capone's men through binoculars. Even more chilling was the stalking scene in Malone's apartment. The train station scene has one of the best shootouts in movie history. Ness's moral dilemma (trying to decide between his duty and wanting to help the mother and her baby up the steps), and the slow-motion shots of the ensuing chaos, is almost palpable.
Ennio Morricone's music feels like the voice of the film. The triumphant theme when the heroes charge into battle at the Canadian bridge is all-encompassing. And the somber tones of the death theme when, first Wallace, and then Malone are killed are heart wrenching. It really makes you feel for the heroes when things go wrong for them.
All in all, The Untouchables is a great film that I never get tired of watching, no matter how many times I see it. I cannot thank you enough for posting, I really enjoyed it.
Yeah, Kevin Costner!!! With all the important movies you shall watch, this channel will run for years! Costner made some masterpieces like Dances with wolves, JFK, Presidio, Thirteen days, Bodyguard.... and also Connery, De Niro.... omg, so much to watch :-)
Yes, Kevin Costner starred in some great movies, but he also starred in a couple of clunkers, like Waterworld, the Postman and Robin Hood: Prince of Theives. Ashleigh, you saw and loved Robin Hood: Men in Tights, which was a response to Kevin Costner's version, who failed miserably attempting an English Accent. My suggestion for the next Kevin Costner movie is Bull Durham.
Thirteen Days is really a must watch. Damn good flick!!
I think JFK was a bunch of stupid, conspiracy-theory crap.
The Presidio had Sean Connery, Mark Harmon and Meg Ryan, but not Costner.
Dances With Wolves is Costner's most famous, and I liked it a lot, but I liked him better in Silverado and Open Range.
He was also part of the ensemble for the film Fandango, which has a fantastic soundtrack and a fun story.
The Bodyguard was good, but not great, even though it won Whitney Houston a Grammy.
Thirteen Days would be good to watch.
To answer your question of, "when did we stop wearing hats all the time" -- This was actually due mostly to closed roof cars becoming the norm. As the cars became more aerodynamic (less of the Ford Model T box looking car with a higher roof) wearing a hat inside a car became less convenient. As automobiles became increasingly more popular as a source of transportation, men and women ditched the higher hats as part of their fashion in favour of the car.
Thank you!! I have been wondering that for years. The hat thing just stopped and I couldn’t figure out why.
Some attribute the coup de gras of men wearing hats was the election of JFK, who did not wear a hat.
Robert De Niro actually is in the 2nd GodFather Film. He plays the younger Vito in the flashbacks of the film
When I was in high school, I had some heroes who were all actors...because that was what I wanted to be. One of the main ones was the late Sir Sean Connery. I saw this in the summer between my freshman and sophomore years of high school...and watching Connery was a revelation in this film. When he won the Oscar for playing Jimmy Malone, I was actually crying. One of my heroes was hailed by the Academy, and I was over the moon.
I don't know how many times I have seen this film...but everytime, Connery just blows me away.
But then again...the entire cast was just superb!!!
My other heroes...Harrison Ford, Robin Williams, Kevin Kline ('A Fish Called Wanda' and 'Dave'), Christopher Reeve (he's still my Superman, even though Henry Cavill is really good!), and William Powell (actor from the Golden Age of Hollywood (1930s through the 1950s)...'The Thin Man' series with Myrna Loy, 'The Great Zeigfeld', 'My Man Godfrey', and 'Mister Roberts' are my favorites!).
I didn't want to be an actor, but, you mention many great actors & actress , as well as movies that were superb. A lot of the young ones should take a look at all genres of films from all the ages. Good stuff out there to be seen & enjoyed.
Good call on William Powell! Love the guy's humour and humanity. Me, I was a huge Cagney fan when I was a teen, which was amusing as most of my fellow Brits my age had never heard of him. Me, I thought he was electric.
@@PeterEvansPeteTakesPictures was an awesome one. 'Yankee Doodle Dandy' was my favorite of his films. But his gangster stuff was really fun.
It's a great cast. I'm sure you'll be seeing Kevin Costner again (The Bodyguard, Field of Dreams, Robin Hood Prince of Thieves, Dances With Wolves, Waterworld).
such a catalog, you did not even mention No Way Out, the sports movies Bull Durham & Tin Cup and also the Western Silverado
If I could only pick one for her to watch - Prince of thieves!
I also like Mr. Brooks. It's different, not for everyone.
Also a perfect world
Big Chill, but only certain parts.
You will eventually see Costner again, he is in too many movies to avoid.
Ashleigh: "Is that Sean Connery?"
Me: dying inside
The slow-motion shots in the climactic gunfight scene are a trademark of director Brian De Palma. You find memorable slo-mo scenes in many of his movies: Carrie, Dressed to Kill, Blow Out, Body Double. The baby carriage tumbling down the stairs is an homage to the 1925 Russian silent film "Battleship Potemkin," which also has a scene where a baby carriage falls down a staircase during a gunfight.
This was my favorite movie for a while after it came out when I was 14. Later in life, while working for Paramount, the studio that produced this film, I chose a rare ‘Untouchables’ framed poster to adorn my office wall. Today, at age 50, I still have that framed poster hanging in the hallway outside my bathroom. 😄
I am a HUGE fan of Andy Garcia (Stone) and I absolutely love this movie!
"You're not a butterfly, you're a litterbug." And, it's Ashleigh for the spit-take...! Best. Leo.
The bespectacled accountant starred in "American Graffiti" another great movie for your list. It was a teenage coming-of-age film and the tagline for the movie was "Where were you in '62?". Along with Charles Martin Smith, who was in this film, "American Graffiti" starred Ron Howard, Richard Dreyfuss, and Harrison Ford. George Lucas made the film, after a conversation with his friend Francis Ford Coppola. It became a universal smash hit, and helped Lucas to fund his visions for "...a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away..."
6:21 The photo caption referred to a line in the opera "Madame Butterfly" by Puccini with the story set in Japan. She was dropped by a man who used her, but who she loved anyway. People used to go to operas a lot. If you couldn't afford to go, they'd be broadcast on the radio. 16:59 In real life, it was one of Capone's own lawyers that took the ledgers to the Federal authorities because he didn't want to be exposed as a corrupt s.o.b. in public and have his only son grown to hate him. The lawyer was named O'Hare and his son became fighter pilot and a Medal of Honor winner in World War II but was killed in action. So Chicago named their airport after that lawyer's hero son. So, you've got red hair and can drop a deer at, what was it, 300 yards? Your husband found the perfect woman.
Ennio Morricone was hands down the greatest film composer who ever lived. And he never retired, working right up until his death at age 91. Some other great work of his: The Battle of Algiers, The "Man with No Name" Trilogy, Once Upon a Time in the West, The Thing, In the Line of Fire, The Hateful Eight.
In Ennio Morricone's biography, he said that he hated all those old Westerns film music he wrote - that's why he refused to composed new film music for Tarantino who only likes those music. His personal favourites were music for director Giuseppe Tornatore like Cinema Paradiso and Malena.
A well deserved Oscar and so glad he finally got one. But he’ll always be my hero.
"The Mission". Boring movie but the best score in film history.
Morricone was amazing, but im sorry John Williams is the GOAT
@@wratched Morricone said in his biography that not winning the Oscars for 'The Mission' was the greatest upset of his life - the winner 'Round Midnight' was a second rate music that didn't deserved the award.
Two other great Costner movies that you HAVE TO WATCH, among many. Plus some not so great. Field of Dreams and The Highwayman. And I think you'll love The Bodyguard, which also stars Whitney Houston.
Loved The Highwaymen.
Has she seen Bull Durham?
DeNiro played in Godfather II.
Other gangster movies to watch:
Public Enemies (Johnny Depp as John Dillinger - real life bank robber)
The Highwaymen (Costner, and Woody Harelson as Frank Hamer and Manney Galt trying to catch Bonnie Parker, and Clyde Barrow - again, based on true events)
Last Man Standing - Bruce Willis in a remake of the samurai classic "Yojimbo" (also remade as a western Fistful of Dollars with Clint Eastwood)
Road to Perdition - Tom Hanks plays a mob hitman. Bet you never expected to hear that in one sentence...
The staircase fight scene was a reference to the iconic staircase scene in the 1925 Russian film "Battleship Potemkin". At the time "Untouchables" came out, film fans would have got the reference, but sadly it has since passed out of our cultural memory.
Kevin Costner also starred in and directed Dances with Wolves. He’s very young in Silverado, got it on with Susan Sarandon in Bull Durham, falls in love with Whitney Houston in The Bodyguard, accidentally re-establishes the postal services in post-apocalyptic The Postman, and he’s also great in The Highwaymen on Netflix. He’s Robin Hood:Prince of Thieves with an American accent (Alan Rickman has the best lines as Sheriff of Nottingham) and you also find him in Hidden Figures, The Guardian, Thirteen Days, JFK, Swing Vote, Tin Cup, Waterworld, Wyatt Earp, Field of Dreams, and many more.
This movie came out around the time everybody was making movies based on old TV shows. Some were good like this one. Others really stunk. In The Untouchables TV show, Eliot Ness was played by Robert Stack. You saw Robert in Airplane as the Captain brought in to talk to Ted Striker and help land the plane.
Was just coming to mention the TV show. I believe that was based on a radio show too.
Remaking old TV shows and movies is how Paramount operated in the late 80s through, well, pretty much today, but especially through the 90s. It was almost a little embarrassing to tell friends what we were putting out when I worked there during that time.
@A S Some of those, some others. The Lady Colyton, widow of Charles Addams, used to call me whenever she went on vacation, to give me her forwarding address, should we need to contact her about where to send her checks. That was always a trip.
I'm so glad you like this one. This is probably one of my favorite gangster films. This film always gave me a feeling that no one was safe to get killed except Ness and Capone, and Garcia's character was definitely my favorite in this. Seeing Drago appear any time in the film got me tense because someone was about to die. He owned that character too.
Ashleigh, thank you for all the entertainment. If I may, could I suggest two movies. Number 1 "The Sting" with Paul Newman and Robert Redford. Number 2 the movie "Maverick" from the mid-90's with Mel Gibson. Also, if you watch "Maverick" I'd also recommend an additional five minutes watching "Amazing Grace" with the Maverick choir. Thank you again.
This is such a great movie, jumped started the careers of several actors including Andy Garcia. Loved your reaction as always. Hope you'll add "Silver Streak" with Gene Wilder to your list.
Keep up the great work!
Probably someone already mentioned this but you've seen another movie by the same director of this movie, Brian DePalma
He also directed Carrie.
Always a pleasure watching your videos!
Best Regards!
Ashleigh, you gotta watch Dances with Wolves sometime! Great Kevin Costner film.
Kevin Costner was at his best in Bull Durham.
Ahhhh, not many people have reacted to this one. Lots of great moments in this.
If you're interested in another classic and one that hasn't been reacted to that much, I recommend the Sting with Paul Newman and Robert Redford.
Probably a lot will start now. Seems like when one channel does a reaction to a movie that isn't at the top of the list then the rest follow out of nowhere.
The accountant, Charles Martin Smith, had his breakout role in American Graffiti and this is probably his other big role. He got his first lead part in the 1983 Disney movie _Never Cry Wolf_ , the first movie Disney produced under a new more mature filmmaking direction, before reversing course and burying the film's release. But I keep finding ties that connect _Never Cry Wolf_ to other great films: directed by the director of the first Star Wars, cinematography by the cinematographer from Star Trek VI (my favorite Star Trek film), and the first film score by Mark Isham whose career scoring films and TVs has continued for the 40 years since. I recommend it, to Ashleigh or to commenters reading this :)
YES! AMERICAN GRAFFITI!
We can quite simply here see what prohibition does: It serves only the criminals. Same applies to current drug laws, although admittedly many countries are beginning to finally understand that and are legalizing. Still, of course as always many governments stand to lose easy income from legalization; hell, many of them - I will not mention which - are major providers of the very drugs that they incriminate.
Hey Ashleigh, I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: you HAVE to see Kevin Costner in “No Way Out”. Also “Bull Durham” and “Tin Cup”.
No Way Out....what a great little cold war thriller!
A very underrated movie to watch I think is Sleepers from 1996. Kevin Bacon, Brad Pitt, Robert De Niro, Brad Renfro, Jason Patric and Dustin Hoffman. It's an intense movie but the cast is stacked!
Oh my god, it was so stacked that it's the only movie we could agree on when we all went as a family. I'm talking Grandma down to teenagers. Three generations crying their eyes out. Its what my mom calls a "snot and slobber" kind of movie LOL
@@manichispanic5234 Oh absolutely. I saw it when it first came out on video around 97-98 or so at like age 11. It's an intense movie for anyone, let alone an 11 year old lol De Niro should've played a city parish priest more honestly lol
Good movie, but so depressing.
Eliot Ness was told there would be an envelope containing $1000 in cash on his desk every Monday morning if he stopped going after Capone's liquor shipments. He refused
I never realized that Frank Nitti is the only one not to flinch in the baseball scene indicating just how comfortable he is around violence and death since he is Capone's hitman for the film.
Great movie and I would second The Sting. Side note Dell Close has a cameo in this movie which makes sense since he was big in Chicago because of his improv teachings. But Untouchables is a great movie and Connery and Costner are amazing together.
"The Rock" should definitely be on your watch list. One of Sean Connery's best action movies.
And he totally wasn’t James Bond in it.
@@ericbacklund7954 obviously
Or WAS he?
* insert fan theory about him being Bond arrested and jailed securely by the US *
THE ROCK is the best Bond movie
@@LEGENDCITYest1963 not wrong.
I do agree Ashleigh this is a great movie, it's a mob movie unlike any other , but I'll give it 5/5 stars only because it's an Oscar winning movie and it's a classic, not something I'd watch consistently but I'd give it 5/5 stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ a masterpiece and one of its best movies in the 1980s
I obsessed on Elliot Ness when I was a kid. I am still full of random Ness trivia. This movie was the beginning of that obsession. Andy Garcia was one of my first movie crushes.
Costner is portraying real-life federal agent, Eliot Ness, best remembered for his efforts to take down Al Capone, although it was actually the tax evasion that put Capone behind bars. Ness was also portrayed in the early 60's TV series of the same name, by Robert Stack. You saw him in "Airplane!", as the flight controller who whipped off his aviator shades to reveal another pair underneath them, and talked the plane down over the intercom.
Kevin Costner is in 3 of my favorite movies. This, Field of Dreams and JFK. All near perfect movies. Waterworld is a lot of fun too :) oh and the "poor butterfly" reference is from an opera called Madame Butterfly
I love this movie. such a great ride. I highly recommend Goodfellas for a good mob movie. I don't think you've reacted to that yet. De Niro is in that.
“Who was Kevin Costner?” Man, sometimes she makes me feel old. :)
She makes me feel smart!
one of the best films ever made....
Andy garcia/stone in the staircase and the whole scene is without a doubt one of the greatest scenes in movie history.
tension, drama, shot beautifully, and a great end with that shot.
you can still go to chi town and go on a untouchables tour..
all the clothes were done by gorgio armani, it was just a brilliant film..
As far as style and tone of the movie, I equate this on the same level as "Tombstone". Both movies have A bunch of brothers of the law eventually shot down and shoot out at a center of town and train station.
Different mob movies engage different sensibilities. Godfather carries a certain weight with it. So does Goodfellas.
Ashleigh definitely needs to watch Goodfellas
I love this movie, and I absolutely love Kevin Costner. I hope one day you get to enjoy Dances With Wolves, Bull Durham, Field of Dreams, and so many more!
Eliot Ness actually had a pretty sad life. He was married 3 times, paying child support, ironically, he became an alcoholic in the 40s, he was involved in the torso killer case in Ohio, which he never solved, he ran for Mayor of Cleveland and lost, and after he left law enforcement, he couldn’t hold steady work.
It’s crazy how glorified lawmen like Ness And Melvin Pervis have sad lives and died in obscurity.
The system makes sure that cops who actually manage to root out corruption never end well.
That is sad.
At the beginning, the little girl in the bar (who's killed in the explosion) was picking up some beer probably for her dad. The container the barkeep was giving back to her was called a growler. It was a common practice to send your kids down to the bar with your growler for the barkeep to fill up and bring back. While bottled beer was available, it was more expensive than tap and like today many folks prefer draft over bottled.
The building where that scene was filmed is actually a bar today. The building you see across the street was used in Michael Mann's "Public Enemies."
When Ashleigh list celebrities, and says, "I think I remember that person"....
I age another year.
:)
I remember the trailer for this made it look like a huge, sprawling epic, so when I first watched it, I was disappointed at how briefly it touches upon each event and character then moves on, and I agreed with critics who said it felt underdeveloped and suffered from movie makers fear of releasing anything longer than two hours. However, after I got over my expectations and appreciated the movie on its own merits, it became one of my favorites.