Mobsters rule in both movies The Town and The Public Enemy. The similarities are evident in the plot of both movies. Both movies include two best friends that went from trouble makers as kids to mobsters in their towns. Both main character gain revenge for their best friend and target the main mobsters. Also they both get into big schemes to gain power and money. They both also have love interest. Even Dougy from The Town had two love interest as did Tom Powers from the Public Town.
Although they both had love interest, Dougy’s situation showed that he was interested and changed his life for love. Yet Tom Powers didn’t want to settle down and didn’t even his love get in his way. Another difference I saw was the motives of each character. Dougy stayed in his gang because of the threats from the senior mobsters killing his girlfriend. Tom stayed because of the money and power he was gaining. Also the way the action was seen. In the Public Enemy did not show much violence, only after they were done shooting. The Town in the other hand showed every bullet hit each person. Also another character difference is that Tom’s parents weren’t involved in with the mobsters, yet with Dougy his father had the same problems with the senior mobsters. This proves that not all mobster movies are the same
Good comparisons concerning the main characters motivations influenced by their parents. That was a big difference. Doug was trying to escape the shadow of his father and leave the life of crime, while Tom Powers mother was begging him to leave his dangerous freewheeling lifestyle behind, come back home and make peace with his straight edge older brother, and settle down. Did Doug ever exact revenge for the death of Gem though? It would have been more believable (their lifelong friendship in the film) had he made the FBI agents life more difficult for gunning down his friend in the street after the fact.
ReplyDeleteI agree with all of your inputs, it's very true that the characters were both in the life of crime because of the place they were raised in. Both characters also did have their own actions and motivations for doing what they did, and in the end chose different paths. And although the love interests in the films were indeed important to the story, this didn't end up affecting the overall scheme of the mobsters as a whole. They still did what they did and payed the price for it emotionally. Good job
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