Word: gangsters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...UNTOUCHABLES Director Brian De Palma and Writer David Mamet reimagine the gangster epic and create a witty, bloody, touching commentary on two vanished traditions: Hollywood dreammaking and American innocence...
...played with reptilian brio by Michael Douglas, he has some of the pile- driving charm of Michael's actor father Kirk in his early gangster roles. As it happens, the lizardly Gekko is a potential father figure for sly Fox; the other is Bud's dad, a working-class hero who is a mechanic at the small airline that Gekko may soon devour. The elder Fox is played by Charlie Sheen's own dad Martin; and to complete the motif, Stone has dedicated Wall Street (as he did Salvador) to his stockbroker father, who died two years ago. The entire...
Many of the performances are good imitations of old gangster film types. Schrag is the little tough guy, like Edward G. Robinson or James Cagney. Hatch is slimy and smooth-talking. Alexander shows Roma's fierce loyalty to Ui, even when Ui betrays him, but he is also believably vengeful when he returns as a ghost to haunt Ui, a la Banquo...
...Janet Choi) returns to her home after 14 years of absence while on a promotional tour for her new Mama Fu Fu's chinese cookbook. To her dismay, one of her brothers is wasting his time running "Chinatown Tour'n'Travoo" tours, while the other has turned into a gangster. Her father (Carlton Sagara), on the verge of death after years of illness, has finally brought his first wife "China Mama" (Lena Chen) over to the United States. She is not enthusiastically received by number two wife or the children. To add to the chaos, "Sis" brings home a white...
That is not to say that there was no creation involved in the Ui production. Hainsworth has worked hard to create the atmosphere of Chicago in the roaring twenties. To bring the cast together and to help people get into the period, the director screened gangster movies and Third Reich documentaries in his room every week. And he worked closely with Raphael to get the actor to emulate Hitler's mannerisms...