The Untouchables: Difference between revisions
no edit summary
(Trivia) |
No edit summary |
||
Line 19:
* [[Framing Device]]: Winchell's narration often gives the impression of watching a visual interpretation of a printed newspaper article.
* [[The Great Depression]]
* [[Just a Stupid Accent]]: Capone speaks in a heavy Italian accent, despite the fact that the real Capone was born in Brooklyn and spent his entire life in the United States.▼
* [[Incorruptible Pure Pureness]]: Natually. Played totally without irony in the series. Doesn't stop the criminals from making routine offers, though.
▲* [[Just a Stupid Accent]]: Capone speaks in a heavy Italian accent, despite the fact that the real Capone was born in Brooklyn and spent his entire life in the United States.
* [[Made of Explodium]]: If there is a car crash, it's going to explode. No exceptions, no matter how minor the accident is.
* [[Narrator]]: Each episode is narrated by gossip columnist Walter Winchell.
Line 42:
* [[Batter Up]]: Al Capone famously used a baseball bat to savagely murder one of his subordinates.
** [[Very Loosely Based on a True Story]]. Capone used a bat on ''two'' subordinates whom he discovered were plotting to kill him.
* [[Big Bad]]: Capone, of course.▼
* [[Berserk Button]]: Eliot Ness {{spoiler|flips and throws Frank Nitti off a building when he gloats about killing Jim Malone}}.
*** This came after {{spoiler|Eliot refused to shoot Frank on the principle of upholding the law and common decency}}. [[Too Dumb to Live|This is why you shouldn't taunt the cops while you're getting arrested.]]
** When Stone is wounded by a gangster, Wallace goes on a shotgun rampage against an entire convoy of armed bootleggers.
▲* [[Big Bad]]: Capone, of course.
* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: Capone is behind bars, his deadliest enforcer Nitti gone and his criminal empire shattered. {{spoiler|But two of the Untouchables are dead, and Ness had to violate a lot of his personal code of honor - including his tossing Nitti off a roof in revenge for Malone's death - to get Capone.}}
** Even worse, a reporter notes that Prohibition, the law that enabled Capone to build up his criminal empire, may be getting repealed soon (historically, it was repealed two years after Capone's arrest), meaning that Congress had figured out the law was a mistake, and that the whole thing was a mistake. So {{spoiler|Malone and Wallace died}} for almost nothing.
| |||