I hated Dillinger and wanted him to die. What did I miss?
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Sacotra — 13 years ago(November 05, 2012 12:59 PM)
The public decides to celebrity-worship this man merely because he's charming and handsome? Is that all? I think there was a quote about him not stealing the public's money. Were people so dense to think that, because Dillinger robbed from the bank vault, it wasn't the public's money? Or was society so depraved during the Depression that, as long as it's not coming out of my wallet, it's glamorous and permissible? "I wish I could be like Dillinger and rob banks instead of working in a factory. What a dream!"
I found the following on a blog (link below), which I think explains what you're confused about here:
So I was a bit disappointed in the Public Enemies movie. All the actors are well cast, but there's something a little "off" about the finished product. Part of it, to me anyway, is that I don't think Michael Mann did a very good job at capturing the zeitgeist of the times. Yeah, he lets you know that America was in the midst of the Great Depression, but he didn't really show just how bad times were then. People were hungry and desperate, and really, really angry with banks, police officers and federal agents. The banks were foreclosing, and the cops and the feds were kicking people out of their homes. Not to mention the head-busting that was going on when workers tried to unionize. Bank robbers like John Dillinger and Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd became folk heroes because there was something of a Robin Hood quality to them, a way to vicariously give some "payback" to the banks and authority figures who were oppressing the everyman of this country.
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http://dawnieland.blogspot.co.uk/2009/07/my-cousin-was-gangsters-moll. html -
bradtroy136 — 12 years ago(June 23, 2013 12:36 PM)
Your an idiot. You wouldn't know how to "feel" unless the p.c. police permitted you a license for it.
Perhaps the public celebrated these "criminals" because at least they were robbing from the real monsters who were (and still are) printing "money" out of thin air, enslaving us into debt.
Because unlike the blind sheep of today, perhaps, they frowned more at the condescending idea of a centralized government equipped with it's now provenly inefficient fbi "tzar" to "protect" the public. -
pfarnell — 9 years ago(July 17, 2016 06:32 PM)
yes, these guys were those days 'Occupy" movement.
Well, actually, they were probably nothing like that, not political as such at all, perhaps began with some sense of personal social grievance and just liked stealing large sums of money and getting the hot bitches bad guys always seem to get.
Also, far less annoying and more likeable than such-as Occupy and BLM Gladwrap-ninjas.
Too bad today's political protestors can't share the Yeggs' typical fate, franklynow THAT would be a great movie ending.