``The Untouchables'' A masterpiece of a gangster movie in which three people meet to restart their careers.

"The Untouchables" synopsis

The story depicts the battle between a gang leader who ruled Chicago during the prohibition era and the law enforcement officers sworn to arrest him. Kevin Costner plays Treasury Department Special Agent Elliot Ness, and Robert De Niro plays underworld boss Al Capone, playing the roles of good and evil in a head-on conflict. Sean Connery also plays Malone. Malone told Ness: “To defeat gangsters, shoot faster and before them.”

Index

• Brian De Palma's misfortune
• Don Johnson was Eliot Ness's candidate.
• Kevin Costner's misfortune
• Sean Connery's misfortune
• The magic of “The Untouchables”

Brian De Palma's misfortune

Brian De Palma was worried. "What was wrong with that movie?" `` Body Double '', released in 1984 , was created by De Palma, who admired Hitchcock and was Vertigo `` Rear Window 's heir'' at the time. It was a suspense movie that cleverly borrowed the setting from (58). However, the film, which was based on the porn industry, received harsh reviews and was a commercial failure.

Perhaps the failure of ``Body Double'' had a strong emotional impact on De Palma, who decided to try a different genre, and chose a comedy film for his next work. However, ``Wise Guy'' (1986) also did not receive good reviews. After two successive box-office failures, he was at a point where he had no hope for a second chance in his Hollywood career, when a script for ``A Fatal Attraction'' (1987) came to him. The offer for this movie, which became a social phenomenon after its release, was supposed to be a once-in-a-lifetime Being There. However, De Palma was not satisfied with the script and turned down the offer to direct.

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24 hours later, De Palma was approached by Paramount Pictures, who had rejected his offer for ``A Fatal Attraction,'' and instead approached De Palma with a project that turned out to be ``The Untouchables'' (1987). The Untouchables was originally a television series that aired for about four years starting in 1959, starring Robert Stack. Paramount Pictures had the rights to broadcast the TV series, so the plan was to make it into a movie.

The film is based on the true story of the arrest of Al Capone, a criminal gangster who was active in Chicago during the Prohibition era in the 1930s, and the title is ``The Untouchables,'' the autobiography of Elliot Ness, a former Treasury Department agent. It is derived from. Therefore, there are some scenes that are similar between the movie version and the drama version, which are based on the same original work.

For example, Eliot Ness raids a warehouse in a special vehicle, and a similar scene is depicted in the TV series. On the other hand, Eliot Ness' character is somewhat different. At the time the autobiography was made into a movie, it was considered a heroic exaggeration.

Don Johnson was Eliot Ness's candidate.