Comments on: Structure: The Untouchables

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[...] as unsettling and horrible as it is, we’ve become increasingly used to seeing scenes like that one from 1987′s The Untouchables which showed a little girl being killed by an explosion, that [...]

By: Karel Segers

Karel Segers — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 00:03:48 +0000

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By: Struzzi

Struzzi — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 23:28:51 +0000

If someone knows the title of song of the Opera’s sequence please tell me !

By: Struzzi

Struzzi — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 23:27:42 +0000

Si quelqu’un connait le titre de la pièce devant laquelle Capone pleure à l’opéra, ça m’intéresse énormément ! :)

By: Angelo

Angelo — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:20:37 +0000

Isn’t that what makes Ness an adolescent — his naivete?

By: storydude

storydude — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:48:35 +0000

Isn’t THJ about metaphors? Does it always literally have to be an adolescent and adventure?

The Hero is often a flawed adult, who needs to grow or transform. The journey is sometimes not at all adventurous, but dark and menacing.

In his book MYTH AND THE MOVIES, Stuart Voytilla shows how the journey works with a variety of genres and characters.

By: D. Jason Fleming

D. Jason Fleming — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:27:22 +0000

Though The Untouchables is a damn well-structured story, I don’t think using Campbellian hero’s journey terminology is quite right.

Elliot Ness isn’t an adolescent going on an adventure, he’s an adult (admittedly naive, at first, but still an adult) with a job to do.

The thematic question is whether he will allow his virtues to be used to hamstring him and defeat his larger purpose. (“How far are you willing to go?” “As far as the law allows.” “All right, and THEN how far?”)

Which makes the first raid scene and his meeting with Malone in the church equal halves of the inciting incident, I think.