Trailer Addict got their hands on this super cool featurette from the upcoming film “Public Enemies” by director Michael Mann (Frankie Machine, Hancock) and starring Johnny Depp (Alice in Wonderland, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus), Christian Bale (Killing Pablo, The Dark Knight), Billy Crudup (Watchmen) and Channing Tatum (G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra).
Synopsis: In the action-thriller Public Enemies, acclaimed filmmaker Michael Mann directs Johnny Depp, Christian Bale and Academy Award® winner Marion Cotillard in the incredible and true story of legendary Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger (Depp)the charismatic bank robber whose lightning raids made him the number one target of J. Edgar Hoovers fledgling FBI and its top agent, Melvin Purvis (Bale), and a folk hero to much of the downtrodden public. No one could stop Dillinger. No jail could hold him. His charm and audacious jailbreaks endeared him to almost everyonefrom his girlfriend Billie Frechette (Cotillard) to an American public who had no sympathy for the banks that had plunged the country into the Depression. But while the adventures of Dillinger’s ganglater including the sociopathic Baby Face Nelson (Stephen Graham)thrilled many, Hoover (Billy Crudup) hit on the idea of exploiting the outlaw’s capture as a way to elevate his Bureau of Investigation into the national police force that became the FBI. He made Dillinger America’s first Public Enemy Number One. Hoover sent in Purvis, the dashing “Clark Gable of the FBI”. However, Dillinger and his gang outwitted and outgunned Purvis’ men in wild chases and shootouts. Only after importing a crew of Western ex-lawmen (newly baptized as agents) who were real gunfighters and orchestrating epic betrayals from the infamous “Lady in Red” to the Chicago crime boss Frank Nittiwere Purvis and the FBI able to close in on Dillinger.
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I’m really looking forward to the movie hovever,
I REALLY don’t appreciate 1936 Chevys and 30 round magazines on Thompsons.
It would’ve been very easy to get that right.
Hollywood always talks themselves into thinking we’re all stupid but Americans aren’t we know which cars were made when.
And the wrong history (like John being there when the crash out at michigan city occured.,
People DO know these things.
And I really don’t like the music, at all.
Period music should’ve been used, there’s so much good stuff from back then that would’ ve added more atmosphere than what this music does.
that being said, I will be seeing it more than once.
I’m really looking forward the the movie however,
I REALLy don’t appreciate hollywood thinking people aren’t going to know that they’re using cars made 2 years after John was killed. They’re a totally different style, they do not look right.
And the same goes for the 30 round clips on the Thompsons.
And the wrong “history” (John wasn’t at Michigan City when the break occured. Yes, people Do know. We’re not all as stupid as they are in hollywood).
It would’ve only added to the movie to get things like this right.
And I do not like the music at all.
Use period music, it would’ve added much more period atmosphere.
And there’s so much powerful music to choose from from that era.
All this being said, I’ll be seeing the movie more than once.
I’m glad they’re smoking.
John wasn’t a smoker but many others were.
Tough.