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** Music/MichaelJackson wrote the song "Al Capone" for the film. Once it was turned down, Jackson, reworked it as "Smooth Criminal."
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** Music/MichaelJackson wrote the song "Al Capone" for the film. Once it was turned down, Jackson, reworked it as "Smooth Criminal."Criminal" and included it in his album ''Music/{{Bad}}''.
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* DawsonCasting: Creator/RobertDeNiro was 43 at time of filming, playing UsefulNotes/AlCapone, who was 31 at the time of the movie's events.
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* DawsonCasting: Creator/RobertDeNiro was 43 at the time of filming, playing UsefulNotes/AlCapone, who was 31 31–32 at the time of the movie's events.
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** There was originally a different ending for the movie. It was to have been a scene with the camera shooting a close up of Capone's face as it is being warmed up for a shave. And then the camera would have craned up to show the audience that he has reporters around him, but he is in his jail cell.
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** There was originally a different ending for the movie. It was to have been a scene with the camera shooting a close up close-up of Capone's face as it is being warmed up for a shave. And then the camera would have craned up to show the audience that he has reporters around him, but he is in his jail cell.cell.
** Music/MichaelJackson wrote the song "Al Capone" for the film. Once it was turned down, Jackson, reworked it as "Smooth Criminal."
** Music/MichaelJackson wrote the song "Al Capone" for the film. Once it was turned down, Jackson, reworked it as "Smooth Criminal."
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* WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants: Creator/BrianDePalma said that when he was filming the scene in the train station, he made up the series of shots as the scene was being filmed.
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* WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants: Creator/BrianDePalma said that when he was filming the scene in the train station, he made up the a series of shots as the scene was being filmed.
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* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: [[spoiler: When Frank Nitti executes Oscar and the witness he first sends out an attractive lady so they can be DistractedByTheSexy, then he makes a concerted effort to hide his face as they get on the elevator. When he shoots them it’s quick BoomHeadshot and then he quickly rushes off. None of the stoic arrogance we normally see from him indicating he knew how important and dangerous this job was.]]
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* ReferencedBy: ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosSuperShow'' parodies the film in "The Unzappables", in which Mario, Luigi, Princess Toadstool, and Toad butt heads with King Koopa, who takes on the alias "Al Koopone," in Crime Land, a pastiche of Prohibition-era UsefulNotes/{{Chicago}}.
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Creator Chosen Casting is when the casting of an adaptation is influenced by the creator of the work being adapted; this is not an example.
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* CreatorChosenCasting:
** Creator/BrianDePalma always wanted Creator/RobertDeNiro to play UsefulNotes/AlCapone.
** De Palma cast Creator/AndyGarcia after seeing him in ''Film/EightMillionWaysToDie''.
** Creator/BrianDePalma always wanted Creator/RobertDeNiro to play UsefulNotes/AlCapone.
** De Palma cast Creator/AndyGarcia after seeing him in ''Film/EightMillionWaysToDie''.
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* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: [[spoiler: When Frank Nitti executes Oscar and the witness he first sends out an attractive lady so they can be DistractedByTheSexy, then he makes a concerted effort to hide his face as they get on the elevator. When he shoots them it’s quick BoomHeadshot and then he quickly rushes off. None of the stoic arrogance we normally see from him indicating he knew how important and dangerous this job was.]]
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* OnSetInjury: Creator/SeanConnery was hospitalized after filming his death scene when fake blood from the squibs went in his eyes. Creator/BrianDePalma had to beg Connery to do another take.
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** Creator/MaryElizabethMastrantonio was considered for Catherine Ness.
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** Creator/MaryElizabethMastrantonio was considered for Catherine Ness. Interestingly, she actually ''would'' end up playing Costner's love interest in [[Film/RobinHoodPrinceOfThieves another movie]] a few years later.
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You know what also means the same thing? The English title. Those translations are barely different, and certainly not Completely Different.
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* CompletelyDifferentTitle: In Sweden, the film was called "De omutbara", meaning "The Unbribable [Ones]" ; the French title, "Les Incorruptibles", means exactly the same thing.
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* CastTheRunnerUp: Creator/AndyGarcia was originally considered for Frank Nitti.
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* CastTheRunnerUp: Creator/AndyGarcia was originally considered for Frank Nitti. He insisted on reading for George Stone instead.
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* CreatorChosenCasting:
** Creator/BrianDePalma always wanted Creator/RobertDeNiro to play UsefulNotes/AlCapone.
** De Palma cast Creator/AndyGarcia after seeing him in ''Film/EightMillionWaysToDie''.
** Creator/BrianDePalma always wanted Creator/RobertDeNiro to play UsefulNotes/AlCapone.
** De Palma cast Creator/AndyGarcia after seeing him in ''Film/EightMillionWaysToDie''.
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* ActorInspiredElement: It was Creator/SeanConnery's idea to film the "blood oath" scene between Ness and Malone in a Catholic church. Originally it was going to take place on the street (in the same scene that follows the church scene). Connery felt that a church would be the only "safe" place in UsefulNotes/{{Chicago}} where the two characters would make such a commitment to fight UsefulNotes/AlCapone.
* CaliforniaDoubling: The Canadian Border raid was filmed at Hardin, Montana, which is about as far away from the Canadian border as you can get while still being in Montana.
* CastTheRunnerUp: Creator/AndyGarcia was originally considered for Frank Nitti.
* CompletelyDifferentTitle: In Sweden, the film was called "De omutbara", meaning "The Unbribable [Ones]" ; the French title, "Les Incorruptibles", means exactly the same thing.
* DawsonCasting: Creator/RobertDeNiro was 43 at time of filming, playing UsefulNotes/AlCapone, who was 31 at the time of the movie's events.
* DyeingForYourArt [=/=] MethodActing: Creator/RobertDeNiro gained 30 pounds for his role as Capone, and (allegedly) even insisted on wearing the same clothes Capone did, right down to his silk underwear.
* EnforcedMethodActing: For his death scene, Creator/SeanConnery did not expect the squibs to be as explosive as they were. After the first take, he was taken to the hospital with dust and fake blood in his eyes.
* FakeIrish: Edinburgh-born Creator/SeanConnery as Jimmy Malone.
* FakeNationality: Havana-born Creator/AndyGarcia as an Italian-American (first generation), and the Kansas-born Chiricahua Apache/Romani Creator/BillyDrago as an Italian.
* RealLifeRelative: The baby in the carriage at the train station is the film's stunt coordinator's son.
* StarMakingRole: For Creator/KevinCostner and Creator/AndyGarcia.
* ThrowItIn: Creator/KevinCostner ad-libbed the line "He's in the car," after [[spoiler:throwing Nitti off of the roof]].
* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** Creator/MelGibson turned the role of Eliot Ness down in order to star in ''Film/LethalWeapon''. Other candidates were Creator/AlecBaldwin, Creator/TomBerenger, Creator/JeffBridges, Creator/NicolasCage, Creator/MichaelDouglas, Creator/HarrisonFord, Creator/GeneHackman, Creator/RutgerHauer, Creator/EdHarris, Creator/WilliamHurt, Creator/DonJohnson, Creator/TommyLeeJones, Creator/MichaelKeaton, Creator/ChristopherLambert, Creator/StephenLang, Creator/JohnMalkovich, Creator/JackNicholson, Creator/NickNolte, Creator/RonPerlman, Creator/MickeyRourke, Creator/KurtRussell, Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger, Creator/SylvesterStallone, Creator/JohnTravolta, Creator/JamesWoods and Creator/BruceWillis.
** Suffolk-born Creator/BobHoskins was cast as UsefulNotes/AlCapone, but was paid a bundle of money once Creator/BrianDePalma brought Creator/RobertDeNiro, the director's first choice all along, onboard.
** Bridges and Hackman were offered the role of Malone.
** Creator/MaryElizabethMastrantonio was considered for Catherine Ness.
** In the original script, the final gunfight had Eliot Ness and George Stone battling Capone gunmen on a stopped train. Creator/BrianDePalma conceived the gunfight on the steps in Chicago's Union Station when Paramount decided that staging the scene and finding a 1930s period train would be too expensive.
** There was originally a different ending for the movie. It was to have been a scene with the camera shooting a close up of Capone's face as it is being warmed up for a shave. And then the camera would have craned up to show the audience that he has reporters around him, but he is in his jail cell.
** Cinematographer Stephen H. Burum originally wanted to shoot the film in black & white.
* WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants: Creator/BrianDePalma said that when he was filming the scene in the train station, he made up the series of shots as the scene was being filmed.
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* CaliforniaDoubling: The Canadian Border raid was filmed at Hardin, Montana, which is about as far away from the Canadian border as you can get while still being in Montana.
* CastTheRunnerUp: Creator/AndyGarcia was originally considered for Frank Nitti.
* CompletelyDifferentTitle: In Sweden, the film was called "De omutbara", meaning "The Unbribable [Ones]" ; the French title, "Les Incorruptibles", means exactly the same thing.
* DawsonCasting: Creator/RobertDeNiro was 43 at time of filming, playing UsefulNotes/AlCapone, who was 31 at the time of the movie's events.
* DyeingForYourArt [=/=] MethodActing: Creator/RobertDeNiro gained 30 pounds for his role as Capone, and (allegedly) even insisted on wearing the same clothes Capone did, right down to his silk underwear.
* EnforcedMethodActing: For his death scene, Creator/SeanConnery did not expect the squibs to be as explosive as they were. After the first take, he was taken to the hospital with dust and fake blood in his eyes.
* FakeIrish: Edinburgh-born Creator/SeanConnery as Jimmy Malone.
* FakeNationality: Havana-born Creator/AndyGarcia as an Italian-American (first generation), and the Kansas-born Chiricahua Apache/Romani Creator/BillyDrago as an Italian.
* RealLifeRelative: The baby in the carriage at the train station is the film's stunt coordinator's son.
* StarMakingRole: For Creator/KevinCostner and Creator/AndyGarcia.
* ThrowItIn: Creator/KevinCostner ad-libbed the line "He's in the car," after [[spoiler:throwing Nitti off of the roof]].
* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** Creator/MelGibson turned the role of Eliot Ness down in order to star in ''Film/LethalWeapon''. Other candidates were Creator/AlecBaldwin, Creator/TomBerenger, Creator/JeffBridges, Creator/NicolasCage, Creator/MichaelDouglas, Creator/HarrisonFord, Creator/GeneHackman, Creator/RutgerHauer, Creator/EdHarris, Creator/WilliamHurt, Creator/DonJohnson, Creator/TommyLeeJones, Creator/MichaelKeaton, Creator/ChristopherLambert, Creator/StephenLang, Creator/JohnMalkovich, Creator/JackNicholson, Creator/NickNolte, Creator/RonPerlman, Creator/MickeyRourke, Creator/KurtRussell, Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger, Creator/SylvesterStallone, Creator/JohnTravolta, Creator/JamesWoods and Creator/BruceWillis.
** Suffolk-born Creator/BobHoskins was cast as UsefulNotes/AlCapone, but was paid a bundle of money once Creator/BrianDePalma brought Creator/RobertDeNiro, the director's first choice all along, onboard.
** Bridges and Hackman were offered the role of Malone.
** Creator/MaryElizabethMastrantonio was considered for Catherine Ness.
** In the original script, the final gunfight had Eliot Ness and George Stone battling Capone gunmen on a stopped train. Creator/BrianDePalma conceived the gunfight on the steps in Chicago's Union Station when Paramount decided that staging the scene and finding a 1930s period train would be too expensive.
** There was originally a different ending for the movie. It was to have been a scene with the camera shooting a close up of Capone's face as it is being warmed up for a shave. And then the camera would have craned up to show the audience that he has reporters around him, but he is in his jail cell.
** Cinematographer Stephen H. Burum originally wanted to shoot the film in black & white.
* WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants: Creator/BrianDePalma said that when he was filming the scene in the train station, he made up the series of shots as the scene was being filmed.
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