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''Capone'' is a 2020 crime {{biopic}} film written and directed by Creator/JoshTrank of ''Film/{{Chronicle}}'' fame.

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''Capone'' is a 2020 American crime {{biopic}} film written and directed by Creator/JoshTrank of ''Film/{{Chronicle}}'' fame.
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Not to be confused with the 1975 film of the same name starring Creator/BenGazzara in the title role.
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* HowTheMightyHaveFallen: With his health deteriorating in the most undignified ways possible, and his sanity going much the same way, Fonse's glory days are far behind him. Emphasised during one dream sequence when he looks in the mirror and sees himself as a young man in his prime; the contrast is striking, to say the least.

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* HowTheMightyHaveFallen: With his health deteriorating in the most undignified ways possible, and his sanity going much the same way, and debt collectors picking apart what's left of his fortune, Fonse's glory days are far behind him. Emphasised during one dream sequence when he looks in the mirror and sees himself as a young man in his prime; the contrast is striking, to say the least.
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* HowTheMightyHaveFallen: With his health deteriorating in the most undignified ways possible, and his sanity going much the same way, Fonse's glory days are far behind him. Emphasised during one dream sequence when he looks in the mirror and sees himself as a young man in his prime; the contrast is striking, to say the least.
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* DefiantToTheEnd: Deconstructed; [[spoiler: Johnny's last words are a defiant "fuck you" to Gino. It only serves to enrage Gino, and make Johnny's death [[CruelAndUnusualDeath that much more painful.]]

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* DefiantToTheEnd: Deconstructed; [[spoiler: Johnny's last words are a defiant "fuck you" to Gino. It only serves to enrage Gino, and make Johnny's death [[CruelAndUnusualDeath that much more painful.]]]]]]
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* DefiantToTheEnd: Deconstructed; [[spoiler: Johnny's last words are a defiant "fuck you" to Gino. It only serves to enrage Gino, and make Johnny's death [[CruelAndUnusualDeath that much more painful.]]


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* TheUnreveal: [[spoiler: Fonse's stashed money is never found, if it even existed in the first place.]]
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* ViolenceIsDisturbing: The film depicts the violence of being an organised criminal as unflinchingly horrible and not something you want to imitate.
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* {{Deconstruction}}: The film thoroughly demolishes any image of Capone as a legendary tough guy, instead portraying him as a man slowly dying in as gruesome and undignified a fashion as any other man.

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* {{Deconstruction}}: The film thoroughly demolishes any image of Capone as a legendary tough guy, instead portraying him as a man slowly dying in as gruesome and undignified a fashion as any other man.man, from a quite drawn out and painful case and sufferance of a nasty STD.



* GratuitousItalian: Fonse switches back and forth between Italian and English on a whim.

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* GratuitousItalian: Fonse switches back and forth between Italian and English on a whim. May have something to do with his declining mental capacity throughout the film.
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It chronicles the descent into dementia and retirement in UsefulNotes/{{Florida}} of notorious Italian-American gangster UsefulNotes/AlCapone (Creator/TomHardy) after he spent 11 years in prison for tax evasion.

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It chronicles the descent into dementia and retirement in UsefulNotes/{{Florida}} of notorious Italian-American gangster UsefulNotes/AlCapone (Creator/TomHardy) after he spent 11 years in prison for tax evasion.
evasion, and his eventual demise from severe syphilis.

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