"If he hurts your men, you kill him. That's the rule in Chicago."

Gabe 2022-03-16 09:01:02

I saw some film critics say that this film has a flawed IQ. "When he took the commanding heights during the shootout, he hesitated... When the prisoner threw himself into the net, he had already surrendered legally, but he was stubborn because of his stubbornness. Murder by hand." So say a few words.

This plot is not a flaw in the director's design, but rather a well-thought-out plot. In the first half of the film, the protagonist Ness is still a program-oriented idealist, so the old policeman Malone has a conversation with him in the church. Marlon asked Ness, "You said you wanted to know, how to take Capone down. What are you going to do? If you fail, what are you going to do? If you're going to fight them, you're going to keep fighting because they're sure Will fight you to the death. If you want to catch Capone, be better than him, if he draws a knife, you draw a gun, if he hurts your subordinates, you kill his minions. That's the rule in Chicago, that's what The way to catch Capone." It is this dialogue that echoes the later episodes of the pair.

Malone was killed. At the moment of catching the killer, Ness also tried to maintain his idealism, so he did not shoot. But when the killer taunted him triumphantly, saying that Malone screamed like a pig before he died, and that he would be released by the court, Ness finally became a hard-line detective like Malone and executed justice. He then went back to court and said to Capone, the Godfather of the Mafia, "I'll keep fighting you."

That's the rule in Chicago. The only law against the mafia.

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The Untouchables quotes

  • Malone: [at the police training academy] Why do you want to join the force?

    George Stone: To protect the property and citizenry of...

    Malone: Ah, don't waste my time with that bullshit. Where you from, Stone?

    George Stone: I'm from the south-side.

    Malone: Stone. George Stone. That's your name? What's your real name?

    George Stone: That is my real name.

    Malone: Nah. What was it before you changed it?

    George Stone: Giuseppe Petri.

    Malone: Ah, I knew it. That's all you need, one thieving wop on the team.

    George Stone: Hey, what's that you say?

    Malone: I said that you're a lying member of a no good race.

    George Stone: [He cuffs Stone across the face. As he draws back his arm again, Stone presses a gun under his chin] Much better than you, you stinking Irish shit pig.

    Malone: Oh, I like him.

    Ness: [Ness looking a bit nervous and Malone smiling at Stone] Yeah I like him too.

  • Reporter: [interviewing Capone while a barber shaves him] And what of your reputation for violence? That those who don't buy your product are dealt with violently?

    Capone: [pulls his face away from the razor, sees that he's bleeding slightly, the barber looks horrified] S'alright. I grew up in a tough neighborhood and we used to say "You can get further with a kind word and a gun than you can with just a kind word."