{"id":16246,"date":"2024-03-06T21:00:06","date_gmt":"2024-03-07T02:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=16246"},"modified":"2024-03-05T16:33:33","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T21:33:33","slug":"the-untouchables-1987-brian-de-palma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/16246","title":{"rendered":"The Untouchables (1987, Brian De Palma)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ness\/Costner, a true believer, says “let’s do some good” before busting up a joint he falsely heard is importing liquor, then the others make fun of him for the action-movie quip. He puts a team together in honest cop Sean Connery, sharpshooter Andy Garcia, and accountant Charles Stone (future director of Air Bud<\/em>) to go after Al “De Niro” Capone for tax evasion since they can’t get him for anything else, and do-gooder Ness learns that he can’t stay clean when everyone else plays dirty.<\/p>\n

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Towards the end of this movie I wrote that it’s “THE 1987 movie” – not the best or most popular, but it’s the movie, and I wondered if I could find the movie for every other year – but the next morning I wasn’t sure what I meant by that.<\/p>\n

It is hilarious that Connery won a supporting oscar for his Highlander II<\/em>-ass performance instead of… I dunno, John Goodman in Raising Arizona<\/a><\/em>, or The Cowboy in Innerspace<\/a><\/em>, or Alice Cooper in Prince of Darkness<\/a><\/em>, or That 70\u2019s Dad in RoboCop<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

De Palma makes a theme of child endangerment leading up to his stairway setpiece:<\/em>
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