Black Mass - L'ultimo gangster

Titolo originale: Black Mass
Regia: Scott Cooper |
Anno: 2015
Origine: United Kingdom | United States of America |
Generi: Dramma Crime Storia
Tag: prostitute | corruption | boston, massachusetts | gangster | fbi | senator | based on true story | irish mob | beaten to death | pay phone | murder | organized crime | extortion | brutality | informant | illness | 1980s |
Cast: Johnny Depp | Joel Edgerton | Julianne Nicholson | Dakota Johnson | Kevin Bacon | Benedict Cumberbatch | Peter Sarsgaard | Juno Temple | Jesse Plemons | David Harbour | Adam Scott | Corey Stoll | Bill Camp | Mark Mahoney | Brad Carter | Scott G. Anderson | Lonnie Farmer | Mary Klug | Erica McDermott | Luke Ryan | Owen Burke | Lewis D. Wheeler | Billy Meleady | Jamie Donnelly | David De Beck | Gary Galone | Rory Cochrane | James Russo | Danae Nason | Bretton Manley | Berglind Jonsdottir | David Conley | Ciaran Crawford | Thomas Philip O'Neill | Joey Vacchio | Bill Haims | Anthony Molinari | Declan Mulvey | Bates Wilder | Marc Carver | Richard Donelly | Brian A. White | Peter Morse | Tom Kemp | Patrick M. Walsh | Naheem Garcia | Kathryn A. Beauchamp | Stephen Curran | Darin X.L. MacEachern | Cary 'Big Shug' Guy | Sean Malone | Jack Neary | Jimmy Joe Maher | Forry Buckingham | Danny DeMiller | Michael F. Murphy | Alexander Cook | Ava Cooper | Stella Cooper | Arthur Hiou | Todd Ryan Jones | Julie Ann Dawson | Fergaledgar | Robert E. Walsh | W. Earl Brown | Jim Powers | Jeff Kamps | Susan Garfield | Colleen Kelly |

Nato e cresciuto a Boston Jimmy Bulger è un criminale di zona, ha una gang, è rispettato e amato dai locali, specialmente da John Connolly, ora diventato agente dell'FBI che con i Bulger (Jimmy e suo fratello Bill, il senatore) è cresciuto. Proprio John Connolly propone a Jimmy di diventare suo informatore, così da poter fare carriera e in cambio gli consentirà di agire indisturbato.

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Johnny Depp and Rory Cochrane both starred in Nemico pubblico - Public Enemies (2009). Depp played a [...] D
The ending of the film briefly shows the capture of James "Whitey" Bulger, and it's factually correc [...] D
Johnny Depp tried multiple times to speak to James "Whitey" Bulger while preparing for the role. D
Revere Beach in Revere, Massachusetts, just north of Boston, was transformed into Miami Beach for th [...] D
The main meaning of the term "black mass" is a ritual in satanism that is an inversion of the Cathol [...] D
The light blue contact lenses that Johnny Depp wore in his eyes for " Black Mass " were made at John [...] D
In an interview on Jimmy Kimmel Live!: Episode #11.13 (2013), Johnny Depp stated that he picked up h [...] D
Whitey Bulger was #2 on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List, behind Osama bin Laden. When bin Laden was k [...] D
Kevin Bacon's character of supervisory FBI agent Charles McGuire is a fictional composite of numerou [...] D
This is the second movie to feature Benedict Cumberbatch and Juno Temple in supporting roles. The fi [...] D
Although the film depicts the Winter Hill Gang as fighting the Italian Mob of North Boston (Patriarc [...] D
When he was arrested in 2011, James "Whitey" Bulger had been on the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives li [...] D
Prominent members of the Winter Hill Gang were not portrayed or mentioned in the movie. For instance [...] D
Johnny Depp was praised by critics and audiences alike. Some saw this as Depp coming back to form an [...] D
Johnny Depp's fourth role playing a real-life gangster, in this case James "Whitey" Bulger. He portr [...] D
This is the fourth Boston-based film in which Kevin Bacon plays a law enforcement officer. The other [...] D
To make sure Johnny Depp's performance was true to the real James "Whitey" Bulger, Scott Cooper hire [...] D
Leonardo DiCaprio's influence may have contributed to Scott Cooper's interest in taking on this proj [...] D
Mark Mahoney was cast as Mickey Maloney on the strength of his performance in Blood Ties - La legge [...] D
Jesse Plemons gained weight for his role as Kevin Weeks. Producers of the television series Fargo (2 [...] D
In the 1960s, 28 West Broadway was the Transit Café, loansharking headquarters for the Killeen ga [...] D
Margot Robbie turned down the role of Lindsey Cyr due to scheduling conflicts. Jennifer Lawrence als [...] D
Tom Hardy had been considered for the role of John Connolly, but dropped out and was replaced by Joe [...] D
When John Connolly's wife is up in her bedroom because she refuses to stay downstairs with housegues [...] D
The beating of John McIntyre, shown in most promotional spots, was ultimately cut from the film. D
In an early scene, Benedict Cumberbatch references an incident that happens on Baker Street. Cumberb [...] D
Johnny Depp left the project due to salary issues. He later returned in the lead role. D
The store front where Mickey Maloney gets executed (25 minutes 25 seconds) is the same store owned b [...] D
According to Scott Cooper, the original run time for the film was close to three hours, but this was [...] D
William Bulger, former President of the Massachusetts State Senate, is so short that one of his crit [...] D
James 'Whitey' Bulger was killed October 30th, 2018, at United States Penitentiary Hazelton, near Br [...] D
The word "fuck" is said 254 times throughout the film. D
In an interview on Jimmy Kimmel Live! (2003), Johnny Depp admitted that he broke his rule of not wat [...] D
Johnny Depp said that this is his favorite out of all the films he has done. D
Joel Edgerton chose not to meet John Connolly, because he was aware that Connolly's version of event [...] D
Body Count: eleven. D
The project was shelved after Johnny Depp dropped out. After Depp agreed to return, Joel Edgerton wa [...] D
Sienna Miller played Tippi Hedren in The Girl - La diva di Hitchcock (2012). Hedren is the grandmoth [...] D
The Roger Wheeler murder scene was filmed at a country club in Concord, Massachusetts, a stand-in fo [...] D
Guy Pearce was originally cast as William Bulger, but dropped out of the project for undisclosed rea [...] D
Kevin Bacon would later go on to portray Charles McGuire's successor Richard DesLauriers in Boston - [...] D
During production, the real-life John Connolly's accessory to murder conviction was overturned. Howe [...] D
Despite filming a substantial amount of scenes as Catherine Greig, Sienna Miller's role was cut for [...] D
This is the second time that Benedict Cumberbatch and Julianne Nicholson starred in a movie together [...] D
When Bulger was finally arrested, he was going under the name Charlie. That was also the code name f [...] D
The film grossed $22,769,179 in its opening weekend. Ten percent of that came from the Boston area. D
After the real Kevin Weeks saw the film, he called it a "work of fiction". He said Johnny Depp's por [...] D
Corey Stoll plays a District Attorney hunting for Agents who have made a questionable deal with an F [...] D
Many of the murder scenes were shot in the locations where the real-life murders took place. D