The main narrative of the film tells the history of Joe Coughlin's self-employment in Tampa, which mainly includes three stages: reviving the bootleg business, building a casino, and fighting a big boss.
The narratives of these three stages corresponded to the three large and small projects. The success and failure of the projects also contributed to the ups and downs of Joe Coughlin's gang.
As soon as Joe Coughlin arrived in Tampa, he first revived the bootleg business that the gang started to decline. He obtained the absolute support of key suppliers, was authorized by the sheriff in charge, and severely defeated the KKK’s wanton destruction of the business, and finally obtained excess profits through this business, established a foothold in Tampa and rose to the ground. It is a gang that cannot be underestimated. The success of the bootleg business helped Joe Coughlin reach the pinnacle of his gangster career.
Joe Coughlin has excellent business sensitivity. He realized that the bootleg business is subject to government policies and is not a long-term business because he began to consider building a new casino business. The casino business received the full support of the big BOSS, and also received investment from outside investors. At the same time, it also opened up various government relations, but in the end it was destroyed by a woman's sermon. The failure of the casino business project also means that Joe Coughlin's gang career has begun to decline.
In the end, the big BOSS couldn't accept the failure of the casino business project and prepared to end Joe Coughlin. However, through a well-planned counterattack, Joe Coughlin wiped out the big boss and old opponents, and retired from the gang. Although the project of decisive battle with the big boss is small, it is a crucial project for Joe Coughlin: if he succeeds, he will live; if he loses, he will die.
In fact, regardless of whether it is an American gangster movie or a Hong Kong gangster movie, except for those who are fighting, killing or loyal, the part that expresses the main body of action or affection, the most is the description of how gangsters do business, and classic gangster movies are often of this type. .
The gangster business is often accompanied by complex "market conditions" restrictions, and faces the variables that determine life and death at any time, and the response to these variables is often in the form of projects. Therefore, it can be said to a certain extent: the rise and fall of the gang, the project decision.
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