Yes, and it is quite a tragedy, (http://www.lihistory.com/8/hs818a.htm - for those who don’t know) but I still stand behind my statement, and I still think it is unusual for a group of human beings to witness an obvious slaughter and not feel compelled to help in some reasonable and safe way (an anonymous phone call to the police in this instance). I don’t know, maybe I just have perverted sense of morals (the witness’s at the Kitty incident obviously didn’t agree with them).
Another question, What was that crap that was on Jude Law’s face at the end of the movie? His skin was covered with these horrible looking lesions. My guess is that it’s from second or third stage Syphilis (he was shown with a prostitute earlier in the movie, and I think that was a pretty serious disease back then).
During the shootout in the room at the Geneva Hotel (where Sullivan obtained the file he was looking for) a bullet hit something made out of glass (lamp or pitcher or something) right near Jude’s face. Shards of glass penetrated his face. We see him bleeding and screaming, but obviously he didn’t take a bullet in the head.
We knew he was going to appear again, eventually.
Here’s my question:
During the first murder scene, it seems that the victim was shot in the head. Then there is a round of machine gun fire. Who was the victim there? Was it the same guy who was shot in the head?
In the first murder scene, Hanks’ character and Connor were “convincing” the other guy, when the camera pans over to two other men. I didn’t know who these were to begin with either, but as the scene went on, I realized they may have been some form of “protection” for the guy being convinced. Obviously not very GOOD protection, but nonetheless.
That’s how I took it, anyway: Connor unexpectedly blows the guy’s head off, Hanks realizes the two other guys are going to take out Connor, and so takes them out with the machine gun before they can.
I thought it was an excellent movie overall even though it was pretty predictable. The one thing that got me was that Capone allowed Tom Hank’s character to walk in and kill Connor in the tub, then calmly walk out with no hassels. Then only later do they have Jude Law kill him at the aunt’s place. Why not shoot Hanks as he enters or leaves the hotel? I think this would have made a lot more logical sense, but then it wouldn’t have had the dramatic Hollywood ending.
I thought about that but why would the mob allow somebody that has stolen from them and killed its cronies keep walking around? I doubted they would just accept his word that he would stop if he got Connor.
My complete list of gripes about what I saw as a pretty good movie with superb cinematography begins with this point. Never touched a gun again, huh? 12 years old in 1931 makes him 22 years old in 1941. What were you kid, 4-F? From the stories I’ve been told, you had to be practically paraplegic to get a 4-F from WWII.
Next gripe: magic bullets. Twice, Maguire shoots bullets that magically penetrate, then evaporate. The first one goes through the rear window of the Sullivans’ Buick but then through nothing else, the second one goes through the senior Sullivan but not the plate glass window he’s standing in front of.
Next gripe: Sullivan shoots Connor while standing next to his bathtub, shooting down into him. Why, then, is the main blood splatter at shoulder height?
Last gripe: Maguire’s makeup job to show the scars from the cut glass he was sprayed with in the gunfight with Sullivan looks like he lost a fight with a stapler.