@Jeremy Buchanan WOW i never read about that shit! i need to look this up. When you think about the number of mini series and spinoffs this could have made its amazing
I love Torrio LMFAO.. He's hilarious. "It's a load from da gag shop!" "I"M IN DA MIDDLE OF A FUCKIN MEETIN!!" lmfao... "I got a cracked molar that's how I'm doin!" LOL
According to a Ken Burns documentary on Prohibition, he really did frequently talk in third person. He's also referred to THE bootlegger, and his exploits are so legendary he could have a TV show of his own.
@@tacticalpossum7090 There could be two seasons worth of content just based on his arrest and release. For one the prohibition agent who arrested him, also shot him during the arrest before marrying Remus's wife. Then there's the fact that upon release, Remus killed said ex-wife by running her over with his car only to be acquitted for her murder. The jury foreman was quoted as saying "I felt sorry for the guy...he had such a bad Christmas last year."
luckyday465768 No his not. He was a horrible Al Capone. There is a reason why he never got any big rewards for his acting. For you to say Stephen Graham did a great job is like saying Tony Montana played a great cuban. Stephen Graham all he did was be loud. Never once he could pull off an Italian
Ghostfacekevon you are entitled to your own opinion but, seeing as how Graham DID pull off the Italian thing, and the proof is everywhere, he did stay true to the real al Capone, which was violent and loud, hell even historians say how very close he was to the real thing. The only things that were deviating away from the real capone was some of the events that happened in Boardwalk, and the height of Stephan Graham. "Tony Montana played a great Cuban" Um Tony Montana is not a real person but nice try. "There is a reason why he never got any big rewards for his acting" Really, and is that also the reason why he DID win big awards and was nominated for more like the BAFTA? So yeah, you tried pointing out parts, but you just end up being wrong. In reality Graham did great as al capone.and of course he's not the greatest but he's definitely not the worst. He definitely had a lot more charisma than Robert De Niro did, and I should be damned for saying that because I LOVE Robert de niro, but maybe that's because Robert De Niro only played for just that movie, and played a villainous Al Capone whereas Graham did more than just being villainous. Granted this show didn't show all the good things Al Capone did in real life, but the capone in here was definitely more interesting and more I dare say relatable. If you think he's only good at yelling then clearly you weren't paying attention to all the capone scenes.
Nah Graham sucked. Has anybody heard from Graham lately? The thing about Tony Montana not being real. You know 90 percent of this show is fiction right? There not telling a true story.
When I was a young guy in the early to mid '70s, I worked with a pharmacist who, many years prior, owned 3 drug stores in a major city during prohibition. He said the booze got delivered and went out the back door as soon as it was checked off the invoice. My friend made a lot of buddies among the organized crime "boys", as he called them. I wish he were alive today. I'd have a lot more questions for him now than I did then. He was one smart fellow. He didn't care much for television (except he liked to watch the Cubs lose--our only point of dissension), but he probably would have liked Boardwalk Empire. It probably would have brought back the "old days". He taught me a few things like: don't get mad; get even. I watched him put that into practice, one day, and he earned my respect for a lifetime. We worked the overnight shift together. He always walked around with a wad of dough in one pocket (for fast deals, he told me) and a "biscuit" in the other. Glad he liked me.
I heard George Remus read the Volstead Act ... Top notch.. Top Notch Constitutional this morning... George Rums has very important work to do, his ascension removes him from the disk and the loop. George Remus is near final stage. Some mornings, George Remus can see the infernal plane..
I'll admit I was confused about this scene at first because I didn't think anyone was actually arrogant enough to talk about themselves in the 3rd person. Took me a second scene with Remus to figure it out. Well done.
Well reason why is cause Torrio wasn't there yet for the initial exchange... it's funny cause you could see Al was genuinely confused at first... ("You said it like it was somebody else.." that had me dying!! ) And this is still in Capones early days so you can't say it was the syphillis... the writers really never made him into much of a genius..
I like how torrio says "why the fuck did you move to cincinatti" then nucky says later in his call with remus "why the fuck would anyone ever go to cincinatti"
He is British, he's also about twice as old as Capone is supposed to be at this point in time too. But the guy playing Lansky is also way older than he should be.
In other words he sucked at playing Al Capone. Do your homework on the real Al Capone and then pay attention to the short older dwarf playing Al Capone
Ghostfacekevon He did a good job playing him, he just didn't look like him. I don't think Buscemi looked like Nucky Johnson either, he was older than him too.
I always thought that the referring to himself in the third person bit, was something just in the show, but then. I looked it up and the real George Remus actually did that !
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Caivs Ivlivs Caesar Said the man with a Latin avatar. I understand that you're off your medication, but how can you invoke 'megalomania', and then not expect that someone would bring up the most conspicuous public example of it? Have a nice morning.
Glenn Fleshler's Remus and Stephen Root's Gaston Means were two characters who deserved whole spinoffs of their own, considering the exploits and escapades they got up to in life.
The resemblence is uncanny, hes a deadspit for Capone. Funny too, that his first scene is with Capone too. Having said that, I do think Stephen Graham is brilliant and defo resembles the younger Capone. I think they could do a scene set several years later and get Remus to do the older Capone. Surprised that the Remus actor has'nt already played Capone in some other film, it would be a crime not to, given the resemblence.
What I love about this show over Sopranos....you get to see the "art of the deal" taking place much more frequently on Boardwalk....Cincy makes sense. You don't just have the "lake issue" with liquor coming in from Canada...but always the prospect that North Side gangs can hijack liquor (O'Bannion great at this) heading to the South Side as well.
They're different views on the same topic. Sopranos did it with a main character as the interaction point so it's less about the deals themselves, boardwalk does it with various main characters and their interaction point is the goods they sell.
I change my opinion on he who plays Johnny Torrio.He's very convincing in the role,of the way I would have thought him to be. He was the real fireball who created modern organised crime.
I do a module on Organized Crime at University; I looked this up because my lecturer was saying the other week "And bootleggers like George Remus - God, George Remus, he was a very strange man. Always talked about himself in the third person. "Remus will get it for you. Remus is gonna go outside. Remus feels like getting a drink". Very bizarre."
i think he was miscasted, the guy playing him is good but not the right role. Torrio was meant to be one of the smartest and well respected even by police.
A bit of a "goofy" version of George Remus, ain't it?? :D ... As far I remember the story he was a...sort of "one-of-a-kind" of a guy! hahaha! XD :D He whacked his wife over her betrayal - went to the cops - ADMITTED he murdered her over an affair (an affair she had with a prohibition-agent, none the less) - he killed HER AND THE PROHEE ...and got himself acquitted! :D
I have a character I play on CounterStrike lobbies called The Murphy based off Z Nation’s Murphy but I only refer to myself in the third person and The Murphy is flamboyant and braggadocious; is naturally charming and nice yet a smooth talker, until someone has something rude to say and then The Murphy will go scorched earth 🤣 shit is a lot of fun Anyway, I based the way The Murphy refers to himself off of Remus.
