Matter Of Fact Citizen Kane Essay - 1,625 words

There really are two ways of looking at a movie when it is based on the true story. When I see a movie of this type, I always struggle with the two choices, and usually end up somewhere in the middle. The Untouchables is that kind of movie. To start off with, I think that its a great film, director Brian De Palmas well done work.


However, as is usual when the tale of Al Capone and Eliot Ness is told, some facts are taken with the source material. Manufacturing a confrontation between Ness and Capone does indeed enhance the storyline in The Untouchables, and for that, we must thank the director and the excellent work of the operator. To start off, lets deal with Kevin Costner, as he is the head of his division. Costner plays Ness with his (by now) typical calm man demeanor manages to make him much more human, more down to earth, more helpless than not. Ness is undecided at times, and needs guidance.


He has a goal and a vision, but also knows that he needs help to bring it about, and here, he gets that help from an honest beat cop named Malone, essayed by Connery. Connery alters his Scottish accent a little to sound the Irish he plays, and his sense of timing is perfect. Connery truly shines as the one good cop in a rotten city. And then, to top it all off, these two strong protagonist characters get to go up against Deniro's Al Capone. It can be said that Robert DeNiro is the finest actor in Hollywood, playing a decadent gangster. I enjoy DeNiro so much, that I tend to overlook bad things in his movies.


Here, though, he is in good company. Capone is a jolly good time guy, who is hard as nails, and tough as steel underneath. He keeps his public persona public, but everyone knows that there are fists of steel in the velvet gloves. Just an awesome performance, all around. This movie conveys the idea of The Fight between Goodness and Evil. On one side Ness and his squad personalize the low and the order.


On the other side we have Capone and his guys personalize lawlessness, crime, and so on. At the beginning of the movie it is very interesting how Capone is introduced to us. Before the movie is started we hear a gunshot, in the darkness. Then the long shot (taken from a crane) with no sound. It makes us to feel like we are looking at the well.


We read the text, which says about violence, and in the button of the well Capone lying at a chair with a towel closes his face. He is given an interview, and then we will see him again lying in bad with reading the article CRUSADER CAP BUSTS OUT. And giggling at his contender. At the first scene we see a blood on Capone cheek.


The operator made a grate job. Here we see that Capone is very dangerous. All journalists stopped talking at once, there is silence again. First we see as Capone is touching the cheek, then reaction shot of the barber man, who is really scared to death. Reaction shot of Capone, who now realized that he hasnt been cut. Insert cut of barber man looking at his cut finger. (If Capone has been cut the barber man would be dead soon).


The fact that Capone has been shot in a high angle shot is given us a thought who he really is, although he has a great deal attitude from the journalist. As he lying in a chair his hand looks little, he is nefarious man. Capone makes his money on the grief of other people. Filmmaker assures us from the beginning that Capone will be fall, by showing him in the high angle shot.


The sequence of shots, after we got to know who Capone is, and about to be introduce to another actor, is slight by the scene when a little girl dying in a bomb explosion. The murder of little girl appears to show us who Capone really is and would cause the additional reason for Ness at the time when he would doubt his acts. When Ness arrives to Chicago, he faced that there is no one, who would follow his attitude to the life, how he leads the one. The cause of it is that he is very specific to the low and always within the low. He even cant accomplish himself within the policemen who are doing the same job and have the same goals.


The only man who may understand him is Malone (Sean Connery). They have the same rules - to be good cops in a rotten city. The mice-en-scene, where he met Malone the dark light (shooting day for night) ...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

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