The American drama "Atlantic Empire" was created by Terence Winter, who won the Emmy Award for Best Screenplay by virtue of "The Sopranos", and Oscar Best Director Martin Scorsese.
Atlantic City, New Jersey, is famous for its seaside resorts and casinos, and even has the strength to catch up with Las Vegas. And where there are casinos, there are gangs, where there are gangs, there are crimes, and where there are crimes, there are legends. "Atlantic Empire" is adapted from Nelson Johnson's original book "Boardwalk Empire: The Birth, High Times and Corruption of Atlantic City" (Boardwalk Empire: The Birth, High Times and Corruption of Atlantic City). Taking the legendary "Nucky" Thompson as the main line, it reproduces the living conditions of the dark side of Atlantic City during the Prohibition Period (1920-1933) of the United States. Steve Buscemi plays Nucky, he is the king of Atlantic City and he secretly rules the city. Half of his identity is a politician, and the other half is an out-and-out gangster.
The story takes place in Atlantic City in the 1920s, when the prohibition of alcohol was just promulgated, and it is illegal to sell any alcoholic product in the United States for a while. In 1920, when the First World War just ended, the United States became the world's number one economic power. Wall Street was full of business opportunities. Anything could be sold, even the American baseball championships could be bought and sold at will. It was an earth-shaking era. Women gained the right to vote, radio broadcasts entered thousands of households, and it was an era when young people began to rule the world. On the southern coast of New Jersey, there is Atlantic City, which is world-famous as the "world's playground". It is a place where no law is required. On both sides of the famous boardwalk are countless hotels, nightclubs and various entertainment venues, the scale of which is as big as that of Broadway. As long as you are willing to pay, even if you are just an innocent worker, they can make you forget your troubles and even think that you are the king of a country—regardless of legality or not. The one who can speak in Atlantic City is undoubtedly the treasurer here-Enoch Thompson (played by Steve Buscemi) nicknamed Nucky. He is both a political broker and a gang boss. He is definitely the kind of person who eats everything in black and white. Because he focused his business on the coastal areas, the city became a paradise for rum smuggling. It can be shipped from Philadelphia in a few minutes, and it only takes a few hours to ship from New York. It can be transported from Chicago to Atlantic City in one day, and Nucky Thompson is naturally profitable from it. Coming out to cover him is his younger brother Elias (played by Shea Whigham), the sheriff of Atlantic City, a constituency politician and a local snake. For a long time, Nucky has deliberately maintained his position on this smuggling chain. He is an equal opportunity person, like Arnold Rothstein (Michael Stuhlbarg), Big Jim Colosimo (Frank Crudele), Lucky Luciano (Vincent Piazza) And plays), Al Capone (Stephen Graham plays) are his business partners.
At the beginning of the story, Nucky's former subordinate and driver Jimmy Darmody (Michael Pitt) has just returned from the battlefield of the First World War, desperately eager to return to Nucky's subordinates to show their skills again. But things didn’t go as far as Jimmy wanted. He felt he couldn’t just wait and die, so he organized a coalition against Nucky and successfully wooed Van Alden (Michael Shannon), an undercover agent sent by Nucky to the FBI. Occupation. More complicated is that Nucky is having a fiery fight with a woman named Margaret Schroeder (Kelly Macdonald), and is determined to save her from the unfortunate marriage. This drama also invited Michael Kenneth Williams ("Line of Fire") to play an African American community leader-Chalky White. Gretchen Mol played the showgirl Gillian, Dabney Coleman played Nucky's consultant, and Paz de la Huerta played Nucky's girlfriend Lucy. "Atlantic Empire" was created and produced by Terence Winter, with Martin Scorsese, Tim Van Patten, Stephen Levinson, Mark Wahlberg and Gene Kelly as co-producers, and co-produced by Martin Scorsese, Tim Van Patten, Jeremy Podeswa, Alan Taylor and Allen Coulter Directed. The screenwriters include Terence Winter, Lawrence Konner, Howard Korder, Tim Van Patten, Paul Simms, Margaret Nagle, Steve Kornacki and Meg Jackson. "Atlantic Empire" is based on Nelson Johnson's non-fiction work "Atlantic Empire: The Rise and Fall of a City".
