8/25/2023 0 Comments Johnny depp public enemies quotesIn the film she is badly beaten during interrogation but this did not happen in real life. They were ‘involved’ for about six months until she was picked up by the FBI. The notorious bank robber did indeed have a relationship with this woman but one doubts if it was anything even approaching true love. Enter Marion Cotillard as Dillinger’s ‘great love’, Billie Frechette. Of course, you can’t have a ‘factual’ picture starring Johnny Depp without his character being romantically involved with a beautiful woman. Public Enemies was not as bad as I expected, but it did not ring quite true just the same. So I avoided the movie until, with nothing readily available to watch, I gave it a try. I expected some dramatic license to be taken, some condensing of time to enable the story to be told within the film’s time-frame, but I was not about to watch a picture that white-washed Dillinger and transformed him into some kind of misunderstood hero. I was dubious, however, the moment I read that Dillinger would be played by screen heart-throb Johnny Depp, an indication that the man was probably going to be given on-screen qualities he did not possess in real life. The synopsis tells of the efforts of the fledgling FBI (headed by Agent Melvin Purvis) to hunt down and eliminate the likes of John Dillinger, Charles ‘Pretty Boy’ Floyd, George ‘Baby-Face’ Nelson and Alvin Karpis. I must confess that I have been putting off watching this movie for more than a decade, unusual for me because I have always been fascinated by the criminal element in the USA of the 1930s.
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