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From ruthless kingpins to charismatic outlaws, Hollywood has given us unforgettable portrayals of history's most notorious criminals. Join us as we count down the most compelling film depictions of real-life gangsters who ruled the underworld! Which actor truly captured the essence of organized crime's most infamous figures?
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00:00The loudest one in the room is the weakest one in the room. I told you that welcome to watch mojo and today
00:06We're counting down our picks for the most compelling film portrayals of historical figures in organized crime
00:12That's what preserves the order of things
00:20Fear
00:22Number 30 Michael Badalucco as George babyface Nelson. Oh brother. We're out though
00:28There was nothing to laugh about with this notoriously bloodthirsty bank robber
00:33But Lester Gillis better known as George Nelson highlighted the Coen brothers comedy. Oh brother. We're out though
00:44Michael Badalucco gives a riotously unhinged performance when our heroes reluctantly accompany the outlaw on a robbery all the money in a bag
00:52What are you looking at grandpa?
00:55Pardon me George, uh, you got a plan for getting out of here. Sure boys
01:00Here's my plan that persists in his rant about the nickname babyface until he adopts a more quiet vulnerability that night
01:08Jacking up banks. I can see how a fella to derive a whole lot of pleasure and satisfaction out of
01:15It's okay
01:17Badalucco nails both extremes with the Hermes in this parody of Homer's the Odyssey
01:22Much has been made of babyface going from a caricature to a somber reflection on the grief of a violent folk hero
01:29Whether he would approve of that portrayal over the newspapers. He stole the show in this classic comedy
01:41Number 29 Harvey Keitel as Meyer Lansky
01:45Lansky crime drama icon Harvey Keitel's interpretation of Meyer Lansky felt particularly personal
01:51I assumed that if I did favors for the government, they would always honor my loyalty
01:56Did they we haven't gotten to that part of the story yet?
01:59David the mobsters
02:012021 biopic follows his retirement in Miami Beach where he tells his story to a journalist under pressure from the FBI and a new
02:09Generation of criminals is the name that came up in my research
02:13someone named Pegas
02:16Huh, someone named pinkus
02:22You mean saw Rosenstein
02:24tough son of a bitch
02:27His entire family died at the home what Lansky lacks in coherent storytelling is made up for in the title figures
02:34Complicated characterization never mind the ideally cast Keitel's signature tough yet human disposition being Jewish himself
02:42He especially taps into the religious identity and experiences with anti-semitism that are key to Lansky's legend
02:49So why would you defend the country whose government is devoted to putting you behind bars?
02:53I'm an American and a Jew
02:55The Germans wanted to destroy both of those things
02:58John McGarrow's scrappy portrayal in flashbacks does its own service to the myth of a younger man
03:04But the perspective and punch that Keitel packs make this self-reflective gangster piece
03:09Number 28 Charles Bronson as George are machine-gun Kelly machine-gun Kelly
03:15Charles Bronson's career entered its headliner phase with guns blazing but not as far as production values
03:22It's a friend of mine. Sure, Kelly
03:25machine-gun Kelly
03:27You bring one along. I always got one with me or close by producer director Roger Corman maintained modest budgeting
03:34Exploitation film about the Prohibition era gangster George Kelly Barnes, okay
03:40Maze you go down and talk to her friend Fannie. Tell him I want to set the plan
03:45Tell him we meet the Harris gas station about two hours
03:48Machine-gun Kelly is full of gritty thrills along his rise from bank robberies to the kidnapping of an oil tycoon
03:55Even bolder though is the moral of the story
03:58This kind of grounded unkempt charisma would become the signature of the film's then unknown leading man
04:03Open your coat
04:05Go ahead. Try me Bronson himself would credit machine-gun Kelly as his big break besides that significance
04:13complex characterization and equally crafty action turned the meager production of the film into a
04:18Big-shot action-adventure film
04:21Besides that significance complex characterization and equally crafty action turned the meager production into a cult classic
04:29I never wanted any of it. I
04:32Didn't want to be public enemy. Number one number 27 Michael Shannon as Richard Kuklinski
04:37The Iceman not many actors can elicit sympathy and terror like Michael Shannon can hear a prettier version
04:45of Natalie Wood
04:47Don't look anything like her
04:50To me you don't this was essential to his take on Richard Kuklinski a family man
04:55Who would be ousted as a career criminal and contract killer? You take care of the details. I do the head no risk
05:02we split 50-50 his fictionalized biopic struck critics as
05:07Insecure in its stylish and compromising portrait of someone so cold-blooded
05:13Pardon the pun
05:14But Shannon was wholly praised for bringing this distinct presence to the characterization of a seemingly bland man with disturbing secrets
05:21I just lost my temper. So what?
05:24Yeah
05:26Yeah, it's been happening a lot lately
05:29He carried the film's tension and complicated drama helping to earn the Iceman long-term attention through the commercial and critical disappointment
05:37Whether it's as chilling of a character study as it wants to be Kuklinski's depiction is still memorably ambitious
05:44But I heard people
05:49That mean everything to me
05:57But the only people
06:01That mean anything to me
06:03Number 26 Ray Stevenson as Danny Green kill the Irishman Ray Stevenson was in good company with the likes of Vincent D'Onofrio and
06:11Christopher Walken as his Cleveland Mafia mentors
06:14But he fully embodies Danny Green as the corrupt Union boss turned enforcer who wound up leading a gang war
06:21This is about the fourth time someone's tried to kill you. How do you account for the fact that you survive each time?
06:26I'm an Irish Catholic with the grace of God on my shoulder
06:29I'm not going anywhere until he says so kill the Irishman is a quintessentially thrilling
06:34Scorsese and mob drama with an admittedly
06:37stereotypical cultural twist
06:39Green's working-class Irish American identity and toughness are the essence of a rather overstuffed plot and the Irish British
06:47Stevenson's stature as our antihero stands out from a formidable ensemble cast and a cacophony of car bombs
06:54Cleveland's all I've ever known but
06:57It's no good for me anymore, I
07:00Want to go someplace I can breathe again
07:02No, the film's mixed reception aside
07:05It leaves a tall legacy for its complicated subject and a late great lead actor. Hey show
07:15Thank you number 25 Vin Diesel as Jackie D'Onofrio
07:19Find me guilty
07:21You'd think Vin Diesel and legendary crime drama director is Sidney Lumet would deliver a heavy gangster biopic
07:27But find me guilty picks up with the arrest of Jackie D'Onofrio
07:31Best known for representing himself in the longest federal mafia trial in American history. Mr. D'Onofrio in a case of this magnitude
07:39I don't think it's advisable a sixth amendment, right?
07:43I got the right to defend myself for my correct judge
07:45The racketeering trial itself is dramatized using the actual court transcripts to showcase the New Jersey mobsters hustling charisma
07:54She lifts up her dress
07:57Ladies and gentlemen, she points to the mirror. She says the one in the mirror is yours, honey
08:02This one belongs to the budget
08:05The
08:07Usually brooding action star diesel plays it up with a grand humor. It's widely considered a career-best performance
08:15Jackie D don't write
08:20Jackie D won't ever write
08:23I was raised with a different kind of loyalty, you know
08:27D'Onofrio himself praised
08:29Diesels casting and commitment before passing away during production
08:32The gangster would then charm the court of public opinion as the subject of a unique cult classic in the genre if you have to
08:39blame someone
08:43Now find me guilty
08:45Yeah, you heard me, right
08:51Find me guilty
08:54And let these men go home to their families
08:56Number 24 Eric Banner as mark chopper read chopper TV comedian
09:02Eric Banner was a different sort of cut up for his first lead role in a feature
09:07Now tell me this right?
09:08Why would I shoot a bloke bang and then put him in the bloody car and whiz him off to the hospital at 100 miles?
09:13An hour it defeats a purpose of having shot him in the first place
09:17Chopper follows the deranged criminal exploits of mark reed who went on to incorporate them into a successful writing career
09:24Otherwise, there would be no believing the still disputed stories
09:28But Banner makes you believe them with unhinged charisma and more subtle dramatic touches. What are you doing in there? What?
09:36Can't I visit a mate?
09:39You and I were very best of friends chopper himself was shocked by his actions in retrospect
09:44But satisfied with the actor he personally recommended Keith was right about you, mate
09:49You bash people for no reason just to get a name for yourself
09:53Yeah, well one day they write a book about me Jimmy and when you grow old and your grandkids ask you
09:58You know what you used to do in your heyday
09:59You'll be able to say with great pride that you couldn't kill mark chopper read and that'll be your claim to fame
10:06So too was the audience as Banner won several major awards in Australia and went on to become a superstar
10:13Meanwhile, the notorious gangster flick that started it all has achieved a considerable cult following. So how would you describe yourself now?
10:22Just a black
10:25Just a good black damn. He's black number 23
10:28Seema Biswas as full-on Devi
10:30Bandit Queen the usual glitz of a Bollywood crime epic is nowhere in this classic biopic
10:44Bandit Queen gives a gritty account of full-on Davies rise as a decoy to allegedly led a
10:49Vengeful massacre the film was controversial for its violence and moral ambiguity
10:54Especially as it came out the year Devi was released from prison
11:00She too objected to the apparent exploitation of her story
11:04However, Bandit Queen ultimately won acclaim for its complicated portrayal of this woman and the societal issues
11:11She represented
11:20Come on
11:22The film and breakout star Seema Biswas won the industry's top awards while director Shekhar Kapoor launched an accomplished
11:30International career the hit also helped boost Devi's transition into Parliament before she was assassinated in 2001
11:40Number 22
11:42Brendan Gleeson as Martin the general Cahill the general point-blank and deliverance director
11:48John Borman made a big comeback to the crime genre with the general
11:52Could we finish early today?
11:54after Tommy doll and Brendan Gleeson won major critical attention as Martin Cahill a
12:01Dublin mobster whose heists and political dealings provoked the Irish Republican Army
12:06Congratulations on the O'Connor job. Yeah. Thanks very much. Yeah, it's too tough for the IRA
12:10I hear the suspense lies not only in the action
12:12But in drama based on the troubles and a gangster's infamous tragic arc
12:17The general was highly praised for using Cahill as an allegory for social tensions. Are you a Republican Cal?
12:24Criminal, what are you is?
12:26loyalist
12:28I'm into loyalty
12:30Loyal to what Queen?
12:33Great I identify with her Borman received the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Director while Gleeson's many
12:40Accolades confirmed him as a powerhouse leading man
12:43Even now their loose portrait of Cahill remains potent as both a parable and a thriller
12:49atrocious
12:51Why would you do that Cal?
12:55Because if you let me down
12:57What had the Queen on you number 21 Armand Assante as John Gotti Gotti the Teflon Don
13:05Surely warranted a more compelling biopic than John Travolta's 2018
13:10Dud people forget that HBO and Armand Assante already did it, right? Hey, they know me. I know who I am
13:18I'm not embarrassed by who I am
13:19The 96 Gotti chronicles its namesakes rise to the head of the Gambino family and highly public downfall
13:26We're here to arrest Frankie Lucasio Sam Gravano and John Gotti
13:31The docu-dramatic approach was commended for its authenticity though many found it a bit stoic
13:36Assante's chillingly charismatic performance was wholly praised landing many award nods and an Emmy win and you know what?
13:44I'm my mother I say this
13:46Let's say me of his millions. Let another's witness protection because every day he's still gonna wake up to the rat
13:57Staring at him in the mirror the TV film itself scored a number of nominations for it to fall into relative obscurity
14:04Over time those who do see it though are still impressed with its well-defined study of John Gotti and the mafia mythos
14:11He embodied
14:13People is that a system?
14:22Number 20 Tom Hardy as the Kray twins
14:25Legend, let's be real here. Tom Hardy is great in everything before we start a little joke here. You love this one
14:33Paranoid schizophrenic he walks into a bar
14:35But he exudes that wonderful mixture of quiet ferocity and professional
14:40Respectability that makes his dual performance as the Kray twins so fascinating see also lawless where Hardy portrays
14:46Prohibition era gangster Forrest Bondurant. This ain't about the goddamn money
14:52It's about a goddamn principle
14:54The Kray twins were brothers Ronnie and Reggie and they were regarded as celebrities in the 50s and 60s, you know
14:59It's too many things about us. No, it's too many things about they ran the east end of London mingled with prominent celebrities of the time
15:06And were involved in the likes of murder arson and protection rackets. There's 500 there. All right, so that's half
15:14Yeah, you get the rest with his gun
15:17You can't it all cuz it's all there and you can put it in your little pocket
15:21Critics didn't adore the movie but most agreed that Hardy was spectacular in the dual role leading to numerous award nominations and wins
15:28You can give a dog a bad name, but when that dog's name is Kray might bite you back
15:32Number 19 Johnny Depp as James Whitey Bulger jr. Black Mass. When did you get out of Alcatraz?
15:41That's nearly 10 years ago
15:43Johnny Depp's performance as Whitey Bulger was seen as a massive comeback for the charismatic star following a string of critical and financial
15:50Disappointments like Mordecai and the Lone Ranger. We had the rackets. We had a pony
15:56Tenants on every car
16:00Black Mass follows the story of Boston crime boss and FBI informant Whitey Bulger
16:08It's suddenly the new owner gets shot
16:12I suggest you think these things through before you make unfounded accusations against me
16:19By 1999 Bulger was considered the second most wanted person on the FBI's 10 most wanted list directly behind Osama bin Laden
16:30Critics called it one of Depp's finest performances with many considering him legitimately frightening and intimidating
16:37You were just saying
16:39Just saying gets people sent to Hollywood
16:43just saying
16:45Got me a nine-year stretch in Leavenworth and Alcatraz you understand his was perhaps the biggest Oscars snub of the year
16:53Number 18 Sean Penn as Mickey Cohen gangster squad a minute ago. You were begging. That's what I thought you were me
17:01But you're something else
17:03You're rotten while the stylized film itself was only so so Penn embodied the spirit of the ex-boxer turned gangster
17:10That wasn't murder
17:12It's progress. I
17:14Am progress as the main antagonist of the movie every time he's on screen
17:21He's a powder keg of emotion often erupting at the slightest provocation
17:25He's loud brash and unwilling to back down even as the cops are closing in on him
17:35Penn strikes a perfect balance between cocky and calculating when portraying this mafia member and king of the Sunset Strip
17:42Number 17 James Cagney as Martin Snyder love me or leave me and I give you live someplace
17:49I'm just trying to be agreeable
17:51Don't do me no favors
17:52Cagney is one of the greatest movie stars of all time and his turn as Moe the Gimp is nothing short of extraordinary
17:58Moe the Gimp's real name was Martin Snyder a Chicago gangster active in the 20s and 30s
18:02You don't love nobody but me
18:07The film follows his relationship with singer Ruth Edding who became known as America's sweetheart of song for her dozens of hit records
18:14Could you just once just once show some plain common enthusiasm?
18:20What do you want a thank-you note?
18:22Snyder managed Edding's career often pulling personal and political favors from his associates. There's gonna be a sign
18:29Martin Snyder presents Ruth Edding
18:32That way everybody will know who's boss
18:34Like, you know Cagney perfectly conveys the volatile depth and unhinged violence of Snyder
18:40And he earned himself an Academy Award nomination for his efforts. We had it coming to him. I
18:46told him I
18:48Told him I was gonna let him have it. It was his third and last nomination number 16
18:53Vincent Cassell as Jacques Marine marine
18:56This French film has often garnered comparisons to Brian De Palma's Scarface
19:00Although this one is actually based on a true albeit extraordinary story
19:07French criminal Jacques Marine was a horrible man responsible for numerous murders kidnappings and bank robberies
19:19Throughout his career
19:20Marine earned the moniker the man of a hundred faces as he had an incredible penchant for disguising himself and evading capture
19:30He also escaped from prison on numerous occasions and once attempted to kidnap his sentencing judge
19:36Vincent Cassell's performance as Marine was universally lauded with the New York Times calling him a combination of Robert Mitchum and Robert De Niro
19:44After that, if we get caught, we're good to go
19:47Yeah, that's right
19:49No more, it doesn't get much better than that number 15 Mark Wahlberg as Daniel Lugo pain and gain
19:59Despite the somewhat goofy title that makes it sound like a wrestling movie pain and gain is a decent action comedy that proves one of
20:05Michael Bay's more respectable efforts
20:07I read a lot of biography sir
20:09And the one thing that unites great men is their reach always exceeds their grasp
20:12Bay knows how to work with his actors generating fantastic comedic chemistry and some strong performances
20:19Particularly from Mark Wahlberg in the role of Daniel Lugo. Tell your baby mamacita
20:23She's gonna take that kid and go home to Colombia immediately and she tells no one
20:27especially la policia
20:29Lugo was the manager of Miami's Sun Jim and de facto leader of the Sun Jim gang a group of
20:35Bodybuilders who were responsible for two murders and a kidnapping in the 1990s. How do you say John? He wants his stuff back
20:41He wants all of it
20:43Forget he gave it to me despite numerous historical inaccuracies and some questionable depictions of the criminals
20:49Wahlberg's performance is typically excellent and charismatic. Was it plugged in? Yes plugged in
20:54Well press the button and more than a little scary number 14 Johnny Depp as John Dillinger public enemies
21:05Before he was whitey bulger Johnny Depp proved that he could play criminals with exceptional aplomb in his role as John Dillinger
21:12You do for anything
21:16John Dillinger banks
21:18Dillinger is one of the most famous gangsters in American history known for twice escaping from jail and robbing two dozen banks throughout the country
21:30He was enormously popular at the time thanks to exaggerated media accounts and he was famously gunned down outside
21:37Chicago's Biograph Theatre on July 22nd 1934
21:42His
21:45Story was told in Michael Mann's public enemies and Depp's performance as Dillinger garnered rave reviews
21:58Right now you're too inquisitive buddy. It's Depp at his most natural and human not bogged down by heavy makeup or goofy accents
22:05We can go away on it
22:07You grab a pan am clipper Caracas
22:10Scoot on over to Rio for some fun in the Sun
22:15Slide off the map there's clearly something about him that makes for a compelling gangster number 13 Delroy Lindo as West Indian Archie
22:24Malcolm X
22:29In 1992 Spike Lee released the incredible Malcolm X based on the autobiography of the legendary figure
22:36So, how can I get ahold of you? You can't
22:40I get a hold of you Denzel Washington appears in the titular role while Delroy Lindo plays gangster West Indian Archie
22:50Archie co-operates an illegal numbers racket with Malcolm and eventually confronts him over some gambling winnings
22:57That's right, my friend. You know, I'll give you back the 600. I don't want your money. You know, I'm wearing
23:02There's three guns on you. So you take your chances my friend
23:05The story of Archie comes primarily from the eighth chapter of Malcolm X's
23:10Autobiography where it's claimed that a tense confrontation with Archie was one of the reasons for Malcolm fleeing Harlem
23:23Such a dangerous and threatening person requires a great actor and Delroy Lindo portrays Archie with just the right amount of eerie
23:30Discomfort you buy yourself something nice
23:33Number 12 Cliff Curtis as Pablo Escobar blow. It doesn't get much worse than Pablo Escobar
23:39But those of you living on the moon for the last 20 years
23:42He was it the boss of it all
23:45Escobar is perhaps the most famous drug runner in history known for creating and leading the Medellin cartel. Oh this man
23:53He was full of courage
23:55Informant see you know, his cartel dominated the American cocaine trade leaving Escobar with an estimated net worth of some
24:04$30,000,000 this complications with Diego this stolen cars getting him released from the custom
24:10This causes me much inconvenience
24:11the cartel was also incredibly dangerous and killed upwards of
24:153,500 people including hundreds of innocent civilians in plane and truck bombings in Ted Demi's blow
24:21Escobar is betrayed by Cliff Curtis. It's like on Tanto
24:25When there has been no more of this business
24:28Let's go a drive blow follows the story of George Young played once again by Johnny Depp an American cocaine smuggler who worked for Escobar
24:35And the cartel I've made a decision
24:37We're going into business together. I want to start right away
24:41Curtis does a stellar job portraying the outwardly friendly yet viciously violent Escobar number 11 Tim Roth as Dutch Schultz hoodlum
24:51Hey, bub, you're gonna kill my English Ivy tree there
24:54There's a toss-up in this film between Roth's performance and Laurence Fishburne's portrayal of Ellsworth bumpy Johnson
24:59You might want to lower that a little bit hit me in the heart, but Roth edges him out
25:04Yeah, that's the size of watermelons Dutch
25:08Enough with the compliments even though Schultz is the associate of mob boss lucky Luciano who is portrayed with sardonic verve by Andy Garcia
25:15It's hard to believe this guy is taking orders from anyone
25:18He's wild on screen and there's something about his character. That's slightly unhinged Cecil. Yes, sir
25:24If you're lying, you know what I'm gonna do to you, right?
25:27Yes, I know
25:29So long as you know
25:31It seems that Dutch is the one calling all the shots as he orders hits and tries to double-cross his boss
25:36Number 10 Joe Pesci as Russell Bufalino the Irishman
25:40Today, our trucks stop
25:44America stop much was made of the Irishman owing to its awesome cast which includes the likes of Robert De Niro Al Pacino and Joe
25:51Pesci in an exceedingly rare role. Oh, they ain't enough to pull out of the Italian
25:57in Italian a guerra
26:00Dove Pesci played Russell Bufalino the acting boss of a Bufalino family of northeastern, Pennsylvania
26:06If the Irishman is to be believed this crime family was responsible for the murder and famous disposal of Union leader
26:12Jimmy Hoffa, you're close to him. Maybe he'll listen to you
26:16You know, I talked to him. He's a tough guy to talk to you don't have he has no choice
26:20Both the Irishman and Pesci's performance earned widespread acclaim leading to his third Academy Award nomination and first since
26:281990 I told you before we tried everything to help him. You know that you tried
26:36He brought this on himself
26:38The nomination was fully deserved as Pesci is utterly magnetic throughout the long movie
26:43Particularly at the end when the elderly Bufalino and Frank Sheeran are reminiscing on their time together. Jimmy was a good man
26:50You know a nice family, huh?
26:59I never wanted to go that far
27:01Number nine Robert De Niro as Al Capone the untouchables
27:05I grew up in a tough neighborhood
27:07And we used to say you can get further with a kind word and a gun Rod Steiger's depiction in the 1959
27:13Biopic was a complex unglamorous betrayal of Capone, but leave it to De Niro to blow anyone else out of the water
27:20Come on, Capone. You want to fight you want to fight you and me right here?
27:25That's it. Come on
27:26Somebody you afraid to come out from behind your men you afraid to stand up for yourself
27:30You want to do it now standing out in a film like this isn't a cakewalk
27:34With Billy Drago also giving a great performance as the real-life Frank Nitti hands to take care
27:40See that nothing happens to
27:46But De Niro is truly terrifying as this prohibition era criminal mastermind you got nothing you got nothing in court
27:52You don't got the bookkeeper using rough dialogue and a commanding nature to intimidate agent Elliot Ness
27:58But also standing tall as a high-profile member of society
28:02You got an all-out price fight you wait till the fight's over one guy's left standing and that's how you know
28:07Who won number eight Jack Nicholson as Jimmy Hoffa Hoffa?
28:14Even though the movie only met with fair reviews Nicholson perfectly embodies this larger-than-life teamsters boss. I heard that
28:21Mostly told in flashbacks
28:23It tells the story of how Hoffa came to be such a powerful political figure and enemy to JFK among others
28:29Mr. Kennedy propounds here lack only the merit of being true
28:33this three-ring circus
28:35The newspapers and the TV and the media and all the rest of it
28:39It's designed intended to bring him to the public eye
28:42Nicholson is quietly menacing and it's easy to tell he's not someone to be messed with so I'm gonna give you a piece of advice
28:49Don't ask for something
28:51But it's a burden to you if you get it
28:53He brings his trademark poker face to the role making it impossible to guess what he's thinking
28:59Number seven Al Pacino as Benjamin lefty Ruggiero Donnie Brasco
29:05You call me a dunce
29:07You know who you're talking to Ruggiero would strictly be the bad guy in any other film
29:11But in this betrayal his character is much more complex. You don't walk out on me. I
29:16Walk out on you his friendship with undercover agent Donnie Brasco shows that he's more than a killer
29:21He's a low-on-the-totem-pole mafia man
29:24Who's been passed over for promotions and has a son at home who's struggling with drug addiction 30 years. I'm busting my hump
29:30What do I got?
29:33Even a dog gets a warm piece of the sidewalk Pacino's Ruggiero is a man with everyday problems
29:38So it's almost easy to understand why he does what he does. Oh my
29:43I'm a
29:46I'm a spoke on a wheel number six Pierre Francesco Favino as Tommaso Buscetta the traitor a key
29:54Sicilian mafioso who became a key witness at the maxi trial Tommaso Buscetta led a cinematic life
30:00No, boy, you're a contact with suppose
30:04He'll erode you honeys. Oh, I've loved all the city shine
30:08A
30:10Pena filiato
30:122019's the traitor gave it special treatment with the great Pierre Francesco Favino
30:17Leading the lofty investigation into the king of all mob rats
30:21The crime drama is consistently centered on the complicated process of betraying honor among thieves
30:28Adesso, no, Ben Guadalupe. Yes, but I don't mean for a sparrow. Did you put that?
30:33While critics debate whether this was a deep enough approach to such a major chapter in Italian crime
30:39Favino's depiction of Buscetta as a tragic antihero was a unanimous hit
30:44He swept nearly all major film awards in Italy as did the movie itself
30:48One double-edged is empress. Oh look on Tomoy because it would tilt the temple era percosa Nostra
30:55Per essere la star
30:57il capo dei capi
31:00E adesso stai chiuso dentro una gabbia ci resterai tutta la vita
31:04What some might call a formulaic gangster biopic at least sets standards as a character study
31:10No, no, no
31:15Number five Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway as Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker Bonnie and Clyde this year's Miss Bonnie Parker
31:24I'm Clyde Barrow this landmark film broke numerous Hollywood taboos of the time including depictions of sexuality and graphic violence
31:31We rob banks both are highly necessary for this tale
31:41Bonnie and Clyde became two of the most famous gangsters in American history via the Barrow gang in the 1930s
31:48This gang is known for their countless robberies murders of both police officers and civilians and for the resulting media
31:56Sensationalism particularly in regards to the depiction of Bonnie Parker one time. I told you I was gonna make you somebody that's what you done for me
32:05You made me somebody they can remember their story was re-energized in
32:101967 with the release of the film starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway in the titular role of Bonnie Parker
32:16Despite some controversial glamorization their performances earned widespread acclaim and both received Academy Award nominations
32:29Number four Warren Beatty as Benjamin Bugsy Siegel Bugsy no woman's worth a bullet between the eyes
32:35Am I right or wrong?
32:36Depends on whose eyes in which woman when you've also portrayed the iconic Clyde Barrow playing the tough guy starts to catch you off-guard
32:42Betrayed the iconic Clyde Barrow playing the tough guy starts to come naturally
32:54At least that's the case with Warren Beatty when he depicts mobster turned hotelier turned Vegas big shot Bugsy Siegel
33:01Fuck like the dog that you wish that you were decent enough to be
33:05Beatty plays Bugsy as a man with a vision others can't see who decides to start a hotel casino in the desolate terrain of
33:12Las Vegas, why would you have some broad handle our money?
33:17She's not abroad
33:19People are gonna have to learn to speak with respect when they speak about Virginia
33:22He's a complicated man trying to keep the love of his woman while gambling on their future
33:27Maybe I thought it buys a couple of hotdogs, but that doesn't make him soft
33:30Number three Daniel Day-lewis as Bill the butcher gangs of New York my challenge
33:38By the ancient laws of combat we are met at this chosen ground
33:43to settle for good and all
33:46Day-lewis is one of those actors that completely transforms themselves on screen and he's almost
33:52unrecognizable as the butcher a command performance
33:55His demeanor is completely changed and he comes across as a caged animal
33:59Ready to attack at any moment and his best scenes are when he's doing his worst whose man
34:04Are you we speak English in this country though?
34:07The character is not exactly a true-to-history portrayal of the real Bill the butcher whose family name was pool
34:12Not cutting this role still earns day-lewis the third Oscar nod of his career that my friends
34:19Is the minority vote number two Denzel Washington as Frank Lucas American gangster
34:25So you are what you are in this world?
34:28That's either one of two things
34:32Either you're somebody
34:35Nobody as Harlem heroin dealer turned kingpin Frank Lucas Washington gives one of the strongest performances of his career
34:42You gonna shoot me in front of everybody, huh?
34:46He takes Lucas's Scarface like tale and paints it as the classic American success story of working hard to achieve your dreams
34:53But in his case working hard means hiding heroin underneath the coffins of soldiers on their way back from Vietnam
35:00The movie may have fictionalized some aspects of Lucas's life, but every bit of this performance is believable. I got Harlem Richie. I
35:08Took care of Harlem. So how long is gonna take care of me before we continue?
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35:26Number one Ray Liotta as Henry Hill goodfellas funny how I mean funny like I'm a clown I am you I
35:33Make you laugh as great as Joe Pesci is as Tommy DeVito
35:37We have to give this one to Ray Liotta as Henry Hill
35:40But I had the feeling Jimmy was trying to sense whether I was gonna rat him out to save my neck
35:45he's the man who became an FBI informant and helped take down 50 of his mob pals and it's Liotta's depiction of Hill as an
35:52Outsider that makes this performance so memorable to become a member of a crew
35:56You've got to be 100% Italian so they can trace all your relatives back to the old country
36:02viewers sympathize with this man who grew up in the mafia culture and
36:05Proudly proclaims at the beginning of the film as far back as I can remember
36:09I always wanted to be a gangster even the real-life Hill praised Liotta's performance often appearing in the media in support of the film
36:16We don't want to know what he would have done had he not liked it. What are your favorite on-screen?
36:21Interpretations of real gangsters drop a tip in the comments
36:26Never ran on your friends
36:28And always keep your mouth shut
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