Public Enemies (2009 film)

Public Enemies (2009 film)

Theatrical release poster
Directed by Michael Mann
Produced by Michael Mann
Kevin Misher
Written by Michael Mann
Ronan Bennett
Ann Biderman
Screenplay
Bryan Burrough
Book
Starring Johnny Depp
Marion Cotillard
Christian Bale
Music by Elliot Goldenthal
Cinematography Dante Spinotti
Editing by Paul Rubell
Jeffrey Ford
Studio Universal Pictures
Relativity Media
Forward Pass
Mischer Films
TriBeCa Productions
Appian Way
Distributed by Universal Pictures
Release date(s) July 1, 2009
Running time 143 min.
Country United States
Language English
Budget $100 million
Gross revenue $214,104,620[1]

Public Enemies is a 2009 American crime film directed by Michael Mann and written by Mann, Ronan Bennett and Ann Biderman. It is an adaptation of Bryan Burrough's non-fiction book Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933–34. Set during the Great Depression, it follows the final years of notorious bank robber John Dillinger (Johnny Depp) as he is pursued by Bureau of Investigation agent Melvin Purvis (Christian Bale). It also depicts Dillinger's relationship with Billie Frechette (Marion Cotillard), as well as Purvis's pursuit of Sparrow associates and fellow criminals Homer Van Meter (Stephen Dorff) and Baby Face Nelson (Stephen Graham).

Burrough originally intended to make a television miniseries about the Depression-era crime wave in the United States, but he decided to write a book on the subject instead. Mann developed the project and some scenes were filmed on location where certain events depicted in the film occurred, though the film is not entirely historically accurate.

Contents

Plot

In 1933, John Dillinger (Johnny Depp) is brought to the Indiana State Prison by his partner John "Red" Hamilton (Jason Clarke), under the guise of a prisoner drop. They overpower several guards and free members of their gang including Charles Makley (Christian Stolte), Homer Van Meter (Stephen Dorff), Walter Dietrich (James Russo), Ed Shouse, Jr. (Michael Vieau), and Harry Pierpont (David Wenham). A shootout starts after Shouse beats a guard to death; Dietrich is killed, and Dillinger kicks Shouse out of the car as they flee. The rest of the gang retreats to a farm house hideout, where crooked East Chicago, Indiana, police officer Martin Zarkovich (John Michael Bolger) convinces them to hide out in Chicago, where they can be sheltered by the local Mafia.

After killing Pretty Boy Floyd (Channing Tatum), Bureau of Investigation agent Melvin Purvis (Christian Bale) is promoted by J. Edgar Hoover (Billy Crudup) to lead the hunt for Dillinger, declaring the first national "War on Crime". Purvis shares Hoover's belief in using scientific methods to battle crime, ranging from cataloging fingerprints to tapping telephone lines.

In between a series of bank robberies, Dillinger meets Billie Frechette (Marion Cotillard) at a restaurant and proceeds to woo her by buying her a fur coat. Frechette falls for Dillinger even after he tells her who he is, and the two quickly become inseparable.

Purvis leads a failed ambush at a hotel where he believes Dillinger is staying; an agent is killed by Baby Face Nelson (Stephen Graham) with Tommy Carroll (Spencer Garrett), who escape. After this incident, Purvis requests that Hoover bring in professional lawmen who know how to catch criminals dead or alive, including Texas "cowboy" Charles Winstead (Stephen Lang).

Police find Dillinger and arrest him and his gang in Tucson, Arizona, after a fire breaks out at the Hotel Congress. Purvis arrives that evening and briefly talks with Dillinger, who is subsequently extradited to the Lake County Jail in Crown Point, Indiana, where he is locked up by Sheriff Lillian Holley (Lili Taylor) pending trial. Dillinger, with a fake gun, and other inmates later escape the jail in Holley's own cruiser. Dillinger is unable to see Frechette, who is under tight surveillance. Dillinger learns that Frank Nitti's (Bill Camp) Chicago Outfit associates are now unwilling to help him because Dillinger's crimes are motivating the federal government to begin prosecuting interstate crime, which imperils Nitti's bookmaking racket.

Carroll goads Dillinger into a bank robbery in Sioux Falls, promising a large score. Despite Dillinger's dislike for Baby Face Nelson, who will be involved, he participates. A shootout triggered by Nelson shooting a cop occurs during the robbery; Carroll is wounded and left for dead. They retreat to the Little Bohemia Lodge in Manitowish Waters, Wisconsin, where they to find that their haul is less than what they expected. Dillinger expresses hope he can free the rest of his gang still in prison, including Pierpont and Makley, but Red convinces him this is unlikely to happen.

Purvis and his men apprehend Carroll and torture him to find the rest of the gang's location. Purvis subsequently organizes an ambush at Little Bohemia. Dillinger and Hamilton escape separately from Nelson and the rest of the gang. Agents Winstead and Hurt (Don Frye) pursue Dillinger and Hamilton through the woods on foot, engaging them in a gunfight in which Hamilton is fatally wounded. Trying to escape along the road, Nelson, Shouse and Van Meter hijack a Bureau car, killing Purvis's partner Carter Baum (Rory Cochrane) in the process. After a car chase, Purvis and his men kill Nelson and the rest of the gang. Hamilton dies later that night and Dillinger buries his body.

Dillinger manages to meet Frechette, telling her he plans to commit one more robbery that will pay enough for them to escape together. However, when Dillinger drops her off at a tavern that he thinks is safe, she is captured by law enforcement. Frechette is beaten during an interrogation to learn Dillinger's whereabouts, which she does not reveal; Purvis and Winstead stop the interrogation. Meanwhile, Dillinger meets with Alvin Karpis (Giovanni Ribisi), who tries to recruit Dillinger in a train robbery with his associates, the Barker Gang. Dillinger agrees to participate and intends to flee the country the next day. Dillinger receives a note from Billie through her lawyer, Louis Piquett (Peter Gerety), telling him not to try to break her out of jail, but to wait until she is released to start a new life together.

Through Zarkovich, Purvis enlists the help of madam and Dillinger acquaintance Anna Sage (Branka Katić), threatening her with deportation to Romania if she does not cooperate and uses her as his spy. She agrees to set up Dillinger, who is hiding with her. Later, Dillinger and Sage see Manhattan Melodrama at the Biograph Theater. After the film ends, Purvis signals other agents upon seeing them leave. Dillinger spots the police but is shot multiple times before he can draw his gun. Winstead, who shot Dillinger through the head, listens to Dillinger's last words. Purvis departs to inform Hoover that Dillinger is dead.

Winstead later tells Frechette, still incarcerated, that he thinks Dillinger's dying words were "Tell Billie for me, 'Bye bye Blackbird.'" The closing text reveals that Melvin Purvis quit the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 1935 and died by his own hand in 1960, and that Billie lived out of the rest of her life in Wisconsin following her release in 1936.

Cast

Stephen Graham plays Baby Face Nelson and Channing Tatum makes a cameo as Pretty Boy Floyd. Dillinger's gang include Jason Clarke as Red Hamilton, David Wenham as Pete Pierpont, Spencer Garrett as Tommy Carroll, Christian Stolte as Charles Makley, James Russo as Walter Dietrich, and Michael Vieau as Ed Shouse, Jr. Other criminals featured in the film include Giovanni Ribisi as Alvin Karpis, John Ortiz as Phil D'Andrea, Domenick Lombardozzi as Gilbert Catena, Bill Camp as Frank Nitti, and Michael Bentt as Herbert Youngblood, who helped Dillinger in his Crown Point jailbreak. Ortiz said in a January 2008 MTV interview that he had been cast as Nitti.[13]

The film also cast Rory Cochrane as Agent Carter Baum, Carey Mulligan as Carol Slayman, John Michael Bolger as Martin Zarkovich, Branka Katić as Anna Sage, Emilie de Ravin as Barbara Patzke, Shawn Hatosy as Agent John Madala, Don Frye as Clarence Hurt, Matt Craven as Gerry Campbell, Lili Taylor as Sheriff Lillian Holley, David Warshofsky as Warden Baker, Peter Gerety as Louis Piquett, and Leelee Sobieski as Polly Hamilton. Jazz musician Diana Krall makes a cameo appearance singing "Bye Bye Blackbird" as Dillinger and Frechette dance together for the first time.

Production

Development

Cotillard at the film's Paris premiere

Public Enemies is based on Bryan Burrough's 2004 non-fiction book, Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933–34. Burrough had originally begun researching the subject with the aim of creating a miniseries. The idea was accepted by HBO and Burrough was made an executive producer, along with Robert De Niro's Tribeca Productions, and was asked to write the screenplay.[14] However, Burrough had no experience in screenwriting, and says his drafts were probably "very, very bad. Ishtar bad." He began simultaneously writing a non-fiction book, which he found easier, spending two years working on it while the interest in the miniseries disappeared.[14] Burrough's book was set to be published in the summer of 2004 and he asked HBO to return the movie rights. They agreed and after the book was released, the rights were re-sold to production companies representing Michael Mann and Leonardo DiCaprio, the latter of whom was interested in playing John Dillinger. Burrough met with a representative and then heard nothing for three years.[14] The actor eventually left the project to appear in Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island.[15]

Mann had written a screenplay about Alvin Karpis in the 1980s which was never produced. After reading an excerpt from Burrough's book in Vanity Fair, he eventually worked to develop a film based on the book with producer Kevin Misher.[16] Novelist and screenwriter Ronan Bennett had written a screenplay about Che Guevara which Mann had intended to develop, but the project was shelved as Steven Soderbergh was already working on his two-part biopic about Guevara. Starting in 2006, Bennett worked for over 18 months on adapting Burrough's book,[17] writing several drafts.[2] Former NYPD Blue writer and Southland creator Ann Biderman rewrote the screenplay with Mann,[18][19] who polished it before shooting began.[17][3] Of the screenplay, Burrough has said "it's not 100 percent historically accurate. But it's by far the closest thing to fact Hollywood has attempted, and for that I am both excited and quietly relieved."[20]

Filming

Principal photography began in Columbus, Wisconsin on March 17, 2008[21] and continued in Chicago, Illinois; Aurora, Illinois; Joliet, Illinois; Lockport, Illinois; Oshkosh, Wisconsin; Beaver Dam, Wisconsin; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Madison, Wisconsin; several other places in Wisconsin; and Toronto, Ontario until the end of June 2008, including the Little Bohemia Lodge in Manitowish Waters, Wisconsin, the actual location of a 1934 gun fight between Dillinger and the FBI.[22] Some parts of the film were shot in Crown Point, Indiana, the town where Dillinger was imprisoned and subsequently escaped from jail. The actual 1932 Studebaker used by Dillinger during a robbery in Greencastle, Indiana was also used during filming in Columbus, borrowed from the nearby Historic Auto Attractions museum.[23]

The decision to shoot parts of the film in Wisconsin came about because of the number of high quality historic buildings. Mann, who had been a student at University of Wisconsin–Madison,[24] scouted locations in Baraboo and Columbus as well as looking at 1930s-era cars from collectors in the Madison area.[25] In addition, the film was shot on actual historical sites, including the Little Bohemia Lodge, and the old Lake County jail in Crown Point, Indiana, where Dillinger staged his most famous escape where legend has it he fooled jail guards with a wooden gun[26] and escaped in the sheriff's car.[20] Scenes were shot at places that he frequented in Oshkosh. The courthouse in Darlington is the location for the courthouse scenes. A bank robbery scene was shot inside the Milwaukee County Historical Society, a former bank in Milwaukee that still has much of the original period architecture.[27]

In late March 2008 portions of the film were shot at Libertyville High School. Footage includes one of the school's science labs, an office, the school's front entrance, and the locker rooms.

In April 2008 the production filmed in Oshkosh.[28] Filming occurred downtown and at Pioneer Airport, including scenes shot using a historic Ford Trimotor airliner owned by the Experimental Aircraft Association.[29] Later that month, filming started at the Little Bohemia Lodge. In April and May 2008, film crews shot on the grounds of Ishnala, a historic restaurant in the Wisconsin Dells area.

The film became a flash point in the public debate about the "film tax credits" that are offered by many states.[30] The state of Wisconsin gave NBC Universal $4.6 million in tax credits, while the film company spent just $5 million in Wisconsin during filming.[31]

Michael Mann, the director, decided to shoot the movie in HD format instead of using the traditional 35 mm film.[32]

The Biograph Theater and (adjoining businesses) redressed for the film.

Farmer's & Merchants Bank, redressed for the film.

First National Bank during filming

Post-production

Elliot Goldenthal composed the score of Public Enemies. Before Goldenthal wrote any music, he and Mann "sifted through tons and tons of American blues" as the director had talked about Billie Holliday's music "from the very beginning." Goldenthal said, "My job was chiefly composing dramatic music that didn't necessarily have to sound like it came from 1931 or 1933. It could be timeless." Goldenthal previously worked with Mann on Heat (1995). He commented that Mann "doesn't like too many twists and turns in the music's structure. He really responds to things that evolve very, very slowly. He wants music that the images, the edits, the dialogue can float above without it corresponding too much."[33]

Mann commissioned graphic designer Neville Brody to create a new font which would be used in the film's title sequence and associated publicity material.[34] Brody had previously worked with Mann on the titles for Heat and The Insider.[35] Brody created a font he called New Deal. His brief was to create something which evoked the Depression era the film is set in.[34] Mann initially suggested using the London Underground typeface Johnston as a reference.[35] Brody and his team took inspiration from Soviet Constructivist styles, the New Deal program and in particular the publicity material of the WPA as a basis for the font.[35] The final design was selected and refined from more than 300 options.[35] According to Brody the font is "solid, clearly masculine and immovable."[34]

Release

A preview of Public Enemies was seen at the end of the 81st Academy Awards, with the first trailer being released shortly after on March 5, 2009. Public Enemies had its world premiere in Chicago on June 19, 2009,[36] and was screened at the Los Angeles Film Festival on June 23, 2009.[37] The film was given wide release in the United States on July 1.

Box office and home media

Public Enemies opened at number three behind Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs with $25,271,675. The following weekend it had a 45.5% drop to $13,794,240 for a total of $66,221,110. The next three weekends the movie would go on to have decent drops of 46% or less.[38] As of January 18, 2010 the film grossed $97.1 million domestically with a worldwide gross of $214.1 million in revenue, more than twice its reported production budget.[38]

Public Enemies was released on DVD and Blu-ray Disc in the United States December 8, 2009. The two-disc special edition features a commentary track by the director and featurettes about the making of the film and the historical figures depicted in the film.[39][40] In promotion of the home media release, the multiplayer browser game Mafia Wars featured collectible "loot" from characters in the film.[41]

Critical response

Depp at the film's Paris, France premiere

The film received fairly positive reviews from critics. As of December 5, 2009, the film holds a 67% "Fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes, out of 237 reviews, with an average rating of 6.3/10.[42] It currently holds a 70/100 from Metacritic, which indicates "generally favorable reviews."[43] Rob James from Total Film gave the film 4/5 stars, stating: "This superstar crime thriller emerges as something surprising, fascinating and technically dazzling."[44] Most critics also praised the film's performances, specifically Depp as Dillinger. Roger Ebert, who gave it a 3.5/4 stars, claimed that "This Johnny Depp performance is something else. For once an actor playing a gangster does not seem to base his performance on movies he has seen. He starts cold. He plays Dillinger as a fact."[45] Billy Crudup's performance was also praised, with his performance being described as "disarmingly good" by Variety's Todd McCarthy.[37] Critics also gave praise to the film's cinematography and set pieces. Manohla Dargis of The New York Times stated that "Michael Mann's "Public Enemies" is a grave and beautiful work of art. Shot in high-definition digital by a filmmaker who's helping change the way movies look, it revisits with meticulous detail and convulsions of violence a short, frantic period in the life and bank-robbing times of John Dillinger."[46] Peter Travers of Rolling Stone, who gave the film 3.5/4 stars, said "It's movie dynamite." Ross Miller of Movie World gave the film 4.5/5 stars, and called the film, "a competent, compelling accomplishment that rings true and feels real from start to finish."

Some critics, however, disliked the film. Critic Liam Lacey claimed that the film was missing "any image of the economic misery that made Dillinger a folk hero" while also stating that "the most regrettable crime here is the way that Mann, trying to do too much, robs himself of a great opportunity."[47] Similarly, Richard Corliss of TIME magazine claimed that the film's emphasis on docudrama allowed for "precious little dramatic juice".[48]

Historical accuracy

Shortly before the theatrical release of Public Enemies, Burrough wrote that director Michael Mann "impressed [him] as a real stickler for historical accuracy. Yes, there is fictionalization in this movie, including some to the timeline, but that's Hollywood; if it was 100% accurate, you would call it a documentary." Dillinger's jailbreak from Crown Point, Indiana, the gunfight at the Little Bohemia Lodge, and Dillinger's death near the Biograph Theater in Chicago were all filmed where they actually happened.[49] Burrough's non-fiction book on which the film is based details the demise of multiple infamous criminals in a 14-month period in 1933–34. In focusing on John Dillinger, Mann and co-writers Biderman and Bennett omitted Bonnie and Clyde entirely, briefly included only one member of the Barker gang (Alvin Karpis), and left out Pretty Boy Floyd except for his death.[19]

In Public Enemies, Dillinger participates in a 1933 prison break from Indiana State Prison and frees some of his associates in a shootout; while Dillinger helped smuggle weapons into the prison for his associates,[49] he was not actually there during the escape and "few shots were fired" according to historian Elliott Gorn.[50] Dillinger's preexisting friendship with those he helped break out, who had taught Dillinger how to rob banks while he was in prison with them previously,[51] is not presented. Mann explained that "[Dillinger and his associates] employed techniques picked up from the military by a man [...] [who] mentored Walter Dietrich, the man who died at the beginning of the movie, who mentored Dillinger. So Dillinger's time in prison was really a post graduate course in robbing banks, but what really interested me was he doesn't so much get out of prison when he's released but he explodes out".[52] Purvis is promoted by J. Edgar Hoover after personally killing Pretty Boy Floyd in an apple orchard in the film. Floyd was actually killed four months after Dillinger's death, and Purvis was one of several agents who fired on Floyd.[53]

Purvis requests assistance from experienced lawmen outside of the Bureau of Investigation in a phone call to J. Edgar Hoover in the film, but Hoover actually made this decision on his own.[50] In reference to Dillinger's escape from Crown Point, Mann said "[Dillinger] didn't take six or seven people hostage, he took 17 guards hostage with that wooden gun he had carved. It wouldn't be credible if you put it in a movie, so we had to tone it down."[52] In the course of Dillinger's 1933–34 crime spree, he is depicted as killing multiple people; Gorn writes that Dillinger himself "probably murdered just one man".[50] Purvis was in charge of the Bureau of Investigation's office in Chicago as depicted in the film, but fellow agent Samuel Cowley lead the Dillinger investigation in its final months before Dillinger's death.[50] Homer Van Meter and Baby Face Nelson are personally shot to death by Purvis after a vehicular pursuit from the Little Bohemia Lodge in the film, but both were actually killed by law enforcement officers in separate incidents one and four months, respectively, after Dillinger died.

Dillinger and Purvis never met each other, but in Public Enemies they have a brief conversation in person while Dillinger is incarcerated.[50] In the film, Dillinger walks into the detective bureau of a Chicago police station unrecognized and asks an officer for the score of a baseball game being broadcast on the radio, something he actually did according to Mann and Depp.[6] Additionally, Winstead hears Dillinger's last words and later relays them to Frechette in the film. Burrough wrote that Dillinger's lips were reportedly moving just after he fell from being shot outside the Biograph Theater and that "Winstead was the first to reach him", but what he might have said is unknown.[54]

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Films directed by Michael Mann
1980s
Thief (1981) · The Keep (1983) · Manhunter (1986) · L.A. Takedown (1989)
1990s
The Last of the Mohicans (1992) · Heat (1995) · The Insider (1999)
2000s
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