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''Live by Night'' is a 2016 gangster film, [[TheFilmOfTheBook the adaptation]] of Creator/DennisLehane's [[Literature/LiveByNight novel of the same name]], [[DirectedByCastMember directed by and starring]] Creator/BenAffleck. The cast also includes Creator/ChrisMessina, Creator/ZoeSaldana, Creator/ChrisCooper, Creator/ElleFanning, Creator/BrendanGleeson, Creator/SiennaMiller, Remo Girone, Robert Glenister and Matthew Maher.
''Live by Night'' is a 2016 gangster film, [[TheFilmOfTheBook the adaptation]] of Creator/DennisLehane's [[Literature/LiveByNight novel of the same name]], [[DirectedByCastMember directed by and starring]] Creator/BenAffleck. The cast also includes Creator/ChrisMessina, Creator/ZoeSaldana, Creator/ChrisCooper, Creator/ElleFanning, Creator/BrendanGleeson, Creator/SiennaMiller, Remo Girone, Robert Glenister and Matthew Maher.
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''Live by Night'' is a 2016 American gangster
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* AdaptationalAttractiveness: In the book, Dion is described as overweight, while in the movie he's played by the lighter and handsome Chris Messina.
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* AdaptationDeviation: In the movie, Joe claims he participated in the war. In ''Literature/TheGivenDay'' (which takes place in 1919), Joe is 12 years old.
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* AdaptationalAttractiveness: In the book, Dion is described as overweight, while in the movie he's played by the lighter and handsome Chris Messina.
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* TheMafia: Joe ends up working for the Pescatore crime family, which seeks to create an illegal alcohol business in Floride.
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* TheMafia: Joe ends up working for the Pescatore crime family, which seeks to create an illegal alcohol business in Floride.Florida.
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''Live by Night'' is a 2016 gangster film, [[TheFilmOfTheBook the adaptation]] of Creator/DennisLehane's [[Literature/LiveByNight novel of the same name]], [[DirectedByCastMember directed by and starring]] Creator/BenAffleck. The cast also includes Chris Messina, Creator/ZoeSaldana, Creator/ChrisCooper, Creator/ElleFanning, Creator/BrendanGleeson, Creator/SiennaMiller, Remo Girone, Robert Glenister and Matthew Maher.
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''Live by Night'' is a 2016 gangster film, [[TheFilmOfTheBook the adaptation]] of Creator/DennisLehane's [[Literature/LiveByNight novel of the same name]], [[DirectedByCastMember directed by and starring]] Creator/BenAffleck. The cast also includes Chris Messina, Creator/ChrisMessina, Creator/ZoeSaldana, Creator/ChrisCooper, Creator/ElleFanning, Creator/BrendanGleeson, Creator/SiennaMiller, Remo Girone, Robert Glenister and Matthew Maher.
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* ThreatBackfire: When R.D. Pruitt decides to harass Joe's businesses for more money after Joe already negotiated a percentage with him to leave them alone (the deal was 15%, Pruitt demands 60%), Joe goes directly to Virgil Beauregard (the local Grand Dragon of the Klan) to make him talk to Pruitt. When Joe makes clear that the consequences for Pruitt will be death if he doesn't stops, Beauregard threatens back with a "WeAreEverywhere" speech, that if Joe gets in a fight with them they will "rain bloody hellfire on you [[AndYourLittleDogToo and all you love]]". Joe's response:
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* ThreatBackfire: When R.D. Pruitt decides to harass Joe's businesses for more money after Joe already negotiated a percentage with him to leave them alone (the deal was 15%, Pruitt demands 60%), Joe goes directly to Virgil Beauregard (the local Grand Dragon of the Klan) to make him talk to Pruitt. When Joe makes clear that the consequences for Pruitt will be death if he doesn't stops, Beauregard threatens back with a "WeAreEverywhere" speech, how the Klan has [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections connections with many people, including a judge]]], and that if Joe gets in a fight with them they will "rain bloody hellfire on you [[AndYourLittleDogToo and all you love]]". Joe's response:
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* ThreatBackfire: When R.D. Pruitt decides to harass Joe's businesses for more money after Joe already negotiated a percentage with him to leave them alone (the deal was 15%, Pruitt demands 60%), Joe goes directly to Virgil Beauregard (the local Grand Dragon of the Klan) to make him talk to Pruitt. When Joe makes clear that the consequences for Pruitt will be death if he doesn't stops, Beauregard threatens back with a "WeAreEverywhere" speech, that if Joe gets in a fight with them they will "rain bloody hellfire on you [[AndYourLittleDogToo and all you love]]". Joe's response:
-->'''Joe''': [[LetMeGetThisStraight So]], you're threatening me with people who are more powerful than you?\\
'''Beauregard''': Exactly.\\
'''Joe''': [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness What the fuck am I talking to you for]]?\\
(Dion [[QuickDraw pulls out his .45]] [[MultipleGunshotDeath and empties it on Beauregard's]] [[BoomHeadshot face]]).
-->'''Joe''': [[LetMeGetThisStraight So]], you're threatening me with people who are more powerful than you?\\
'''Beauregard''': Exactly.\\
'''Joe''': [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness What the fuck am I talking to you for]]?\\
(Dion [[QuickDraw pulls out his .45]] [[MultipleGunshotDeath and empties it on Beauregard's]] [[BoomHeadshot face]]).
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* TheKlan: Joe's main problem in Tampa once the business he heads there on behalf of Pescatore starts to flourish. Considering his Cubans co-workers as equals, "fornicating" with Graciela and being born a Catholic make Joe a target of choice for the local Klan.
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* TheKlan: Joe's main problem in Tampa once the business he heads there on behalf of Pescatore starts to flourish. Considering his Cubans Cuban co-workers as equals, "fornicating" with Graciela and being born a baptized Catholic make Joe a target of choice for the local Klan.
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* AdaptationDeviation: In the movie, Joe claims he was in the war. In Literature/TheGivenDay (which takes place in 1919) has Joe being 12 years old.
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* AdaptationDeviation: In the movie, Joe claims he was participated in the war. In Literature/TheGivenDay ''Literature/TheGivenDay'' (which takes place in 1919) has 1919), Joe being is 12 years old.
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* MadnessMantra: Chief Figgis keeps repeating "Repent! Repent! Repent" after the death of his daughter.
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* MadnessMantra: Chief Figgis keeps repeating "Repent! Repent! Repent" Repent!" after the death of his daughter.
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* TheIrishMob: Albert White's gang. Joe himself has Irish origins but wants nothing to do with organized crime (not in small part because he robs their card games) until he finds himself working for Pescatore's Italian gang.
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* TheIrishMob: Albert White's gang. Joe himself has Irish origins but wants nothing to do with organized crime (not in small part because he robs their card games) games). That is, until he finds himself working for Pescatore's Italian gang.
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* NotQuiteDead: Emma is revealed to be alive some years after her afair with Joe. She [[FakingTheDead faked her death]] in order to escape the wrath of Albert White.
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* NotQuiteDead: Emma is revealed to be alive some years after her afair affair with Joe. She [[FakingTheDead faked her death]] in order to escape the wrath of Albert White.
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* NotQuiteDead: Emma is revealed to be alive some years after her afair with Joe. She [[FakingTheDead faked her death]] in order to escape the wrath of Albert White.
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* CarChase: A string of bad luck while Joe and his pals rob a bank as a OneLastJob gets the police very closely after them.
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* CarChase: A string of bad luck while Joe and his pals rob a bank as a OneLastJob gets the police very closely after them. They split up in two cars at one point to improve their chances.
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* CarChase: A string of bad luck while Joe and his pals rob a bank as a OneLastJob gets the police very closely after them.
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It chronicles the criminal career of Joe Coughlin (Affleck), a World War I veteran of Irish descent and the prodigal son of a Boston police officer, from his debuts as a small time robber and naive lover of a MafiaPrincess during TheRoaringTwenties to his rise in TheMafia as a successful illegal booze producer in Florida during the Prohibition.
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It chronicles the criminal career of Joe Coughlin (Affleck), a World War I veteran of Irish descent and the prodigal son of a Boston police officer, from his debuts as a small time robber and naive lover of a MafiaPrincess [[MafiaPrincess gangster's mistress]] during TheRoaringTwenties to his rise in TheMafia as a successful illegal booze producer in Florida during the Prohibition.
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* AdaptedOut: Danny Coughlin, Joe's older brother and the hero of the novel ''Literature/TheGivenDay'', was DemotedToExtra in the novel to begin with. He doesn't appear in the film at all, he is only mentioned.
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** Danny Coughlin, Joe's older brother and the hero of the novel ''Literature/TheGivenDay'', was DemotedToExtra in the novel to begin with. He doesn't appear in the film at all, he is onlymentioned.mentioned.
** Affleck regular Titus Welliver was cast as Tim Hickey, Albert White's rival at whose behest Joe robs White's card game, but he didn't make the final cut.
** Danny Coughlin, Joe's older brother and the hero of the novel ''Literature/TheGivenDay'', was DemotedToExtra in the novel to begin with. He doesn't appear in the film at all, he is only
** Affleck regular Titus Welliver was cast as Tim Hickey, Albert White's rival at whose behest Joe robs White's card game, but he didn't make the final cut.
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* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Joe is on the receiving end of a brutal beating for having an affair with Emma, Albert White's mistress, courtesy of one of White's thugs. It culminates with a [[GroinAttack kick in his groin]] from behind while he's down. It's so painful it makes him threw up on the spot.
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* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Joe is on the receiving end of a brutal beating for having an affair with Emma, Albert White's mistress, courtesy of one of White's thugs. It culminates with a [[GroinAttack kick in his groin]] from behind while he's down. It's so painful it makes him threw throw up on the spot.
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* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Joe is on the receiving end of a brutal beating for having an affair with Emma, courtesy of one of Albert White's thugs. It culminates with a [[GroinAttack kick in his groin]] from behind while he's down. It's so painful it makes him threw up on the spot.
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* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Joe is on the receiving end of a brutal beating for having an affair with Emma, courtesy of one of Albert White's mistress, courtesy of one of White's thugs. It culminates with a [[GroinAttack kick in his groin]] from behind while he's down. It's so painful it makes him threw up on the spot.
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* TheIrishMob: Albert White's gang. Joe himself has Irish origins but wants nothing to do with organized crime (not in small part because he robs their card games) until he finds himself working for Pescatore's Italian gang.
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* MobWar: Joe gets caught in the war between White and Pescatore at the beginning.
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It chronicles the criminal career of Joe Coughlin (Affleck), a World War I veteran of Irish descent and the prodigal son of a Boston police officer, from his debuts as a small time robber and naive lover during TheRoaringTwenties to his rise in TheMafia as a successful illegal booze producer in Florida during the Prohibition.
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It chronicles the criminal career of Joe Coughlin (Affleck), a World War I veteran of Irish descent and the prodigal son of a Boston police officer, from his debuts as a small time robber and naive lover of a MafiaPrincess during TheRoaringTwenties to his rise in TheMafia as a successful illegal booze producer in Florida during the Prohibition.
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* TheFundamentalist: Loretta becomes one after her sex and drug mishap and starts preaching against fornication, booze and gambling, which doesn't exactly suit Joe's casino project.
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* BlackAndGrayMorality: Joe has chosen the life of a gangster, but uses his illegal business' money to improve the life of the Cuban community in Tampa and helps the Figgis family. Meanwhile, Albert White and Maso Pescatore are ruthless and racist crime bosses. And then there's TheKlan... What's more, Joe refuses to be involved in drug trafficking, knowing full well what it did to people like Loretta.
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* BlackAndGrayMorality: Joe has chosen the life of a gangster, but uses his illegal business' money to improve the life of the Cuban community in Tampa Tampa, and helps the Figgis family.family after Loretta's mishap. Meanwhile, Albert White and Maso Pescatore are ruthless and racist crime bosses. And then there's TheKlan... What's more, Joe refuses to be involved in drug trafficking, knowing full well what it did to people like Loretta.
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* DrivenToMadness: Chief Figgis' madness starts when he learns that Loretta (his daughter) got into a really messy affair involving sex, mutilations and drugs instead of going to Hollywood to start her acting career. Then he completely loses it when she dies, repeats his "Repent!" MadnessMantra constantly, [[spoiler:takes two guns and attacks Joe's home, killing Graciela and getting himself killed by Joe in the process.]]
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* DrivenToMadness: Chief Figgis' madness starts when he learns that Loretta (his daughter) got into a really messy affair involving sex, mutilations and drugs instead of going to Hollywood to start her acting career. Then he completely loses it when she dies, repeats his "Repent!" MadnessMantra constantly, [[spoiler:takes [[spoiler:[[GunsAkimbo takes two guns guns]] and attacks Joe's home, killing Graciela and getting himself killed by Joe in the process.]]
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It chronicles the criminal career of Joe Coughlin (Affleck), a World War I veteran of Irish descent and the prodigal son of a Boston police officer, from his debuts as a small time robber during TheRoaringTwenties to his rise in TheMafia as a successful illegal booze producer in Florida during the Prohibition.
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It chronicles the criminal career of Joe Coughlin (Affleck), a World War I veteran of Irish descent and the prodigal son of a Boston police officer, from his debuts as a small time robber and naive lover during TheRoaringTwenties to his rise in TheMafia as a successful illegal booze producer in Florida during the Prohibition.
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* BlackAndGrayMorality: Joe has chosen the life of a gangster, but uses his illegal business' money to improve the life of the Cuban community in Tampa and helps the Figgis family. Meanwhile, Albert White and Maso Pescatore are ruthless and racist crime bosses. And then there's TheKlan...
* TheDon: Maso Pescatore is the chief of the Italian mafia in Boston.
* TheDon: Maso Pescatore is the chief of the Italian mafia in Boston.
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* BlackAndGrayMorality: Joe has chosen the life of a gangster, but uses his illegal business' money to improve the life of the Cuban community in Tampa and helps the Figgis family. Meanwhile, Albert White and Maso Pescatore are ruthless and racist crime bosses. And then there's TheKlan...
TheKlan... What's more, Joe refuses to be involved in drug trafficking, knowing full well what it did to people like Loretta.
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