Road To Perdition - Al Capone's deleted scene

[cepomwa]

Stanley Tucci was frank nitti? I didn't get that in the movie...

It's just that seeing him in the movie and in the untouchables, that confuses things...

[yurtubsuks]

does anyone get the slightest feeling that jude law was miscast in his part?

[CheckdaFlow]

@yurtubsuks No

[leedumett444]

capone was a family man with a good sense of humour. he was ruthless with his rivals, but they were towards him. de niro played him badly in the untouchables, and made him look pure evil, but there was another side to him, a nice side apparently.

[leedumett444]

anthony lapaglia is a good actor, but he's miscast as capone, and this scene just doesn't fit. it was better off deleted.

[leedumett444]

there were many other big shot bootleggers besides capone. danny walsh in rhode island was a irish big shot, just like john rooney.

[leedumett444]

capone had great power at a young age, but it was torrio who gave it to him. torrio was the real genius of the prohibition era, and not just in chicago, but the whole eastcoast.

[Bhagawann]

this was shoot front of the green screen except that table.

[coupycoupon]

What's almost always forgotten about Capone is how young he was when he came to power. When he took over from Torrio in 1925 he was only 25 years old and he had already been with Torrio for about 7 years even by then. He should be about 31 in this movie. Not as old as he is played here or certainly the older guy that DeNiro played him as in The Untouchables. But even at his peak he was never half as powerful as the New York bosses. They mostly considered him a publicity seeking 'gavone'.

[BuddyWillis]

@coupycoupon maybe not during capone's time but later when the chicago outfit started skimming the casinos and stuff in vegas during the 60's and 70's they were more powerful than all the 5 families of new york put together 

[roquey44]

Lapaglia sounded more like Pacino trying to do a cheap Capone.

[histguy101]

And to add further interesting info, Capone is said to have dropped out of school at 14 years old after punching his teacher(female) in the face.

[histguy101]

This is(as far as I'm informed) exactly how Capone acted. And at this stage in his career, as the movie depicts, he was literally the most powerful single mob figure on this side of the pond. Mario Puzo writes fiction. These gangsters weren't college educated conservatoires. They were power grabbing street educated mafiosi.

[TheGimpPimp1]

He played Niti back in the day....He was great in that film...

[111sunder]

Lapaglia copied and pasted his barry the blade muldano salted w/ a really shitty chicago accent lol

[111sunder]

well im glad that was deleted

[EZBreezy187]

when he says 'is this making sense to anyone?' he reminded me of seth rogan... they might as well have gotten that fat prick to play capone -_-

[BenThuAlot]

This ia pure lead....deleted scene..thank goodness

[Peidmonte89]

no wonder this was deleted! Not only does he suck at his role, he doesnt even look like the guy!

[JP48988]

this also downsizes Jude Laws character making him seem less badass

[PitBullRa19h666]

@JP48988 thats because al capone was the boss.. he'd make alot of badass people look less badass..

[kris7780]

wow! a truly horrible scene! It's impossible to believe that the men portrayed by Lapaglia and Tucci are in the same class much less the same business. How could a Capone who behaved like this actually be the superior of this Frank Nitti? Lapaglia plays this like a poor caricature, while Tucci gives Nitti a great deal of depth and respectability. This scene is a great teacher of how not to cast a role!

[MidianBreed]

everyone is good in this scene EXCEPT for Anthony Lapaglia as Al Capone. Paul Newman's body language says it all about how bad Lapaglia is though lol

[nujrz4lyfe]

Lmpaglia has zero buisness playing a gangster,..ESPECIALLY Al Caopne

[rathaunike]

god this is such a terrible scene - this scene could have single-handedly destroyed the movie - capone is much stronger as an never-seen presence; but jesus, lapuglia fucken butchered capone - is this whole scene a joke or what?

[Bullsfan2008DR]

@rathaunike Alfred Molina was supposed to play Capone but turned down the part due to scheduling conflicts w/ another film ... Molina's a better actor and probably would have done a better job. I agree, Capone is more menacing by not being seen, although if he had to put him in, maybe just a scene with just the back of his head as he sits at a desk would have sufficed.

[mahabat1]

Anthony Lapaglia is asshole. 

[hammerogod]

Well...Newman, Tucci, Law...and Bozo The Clown.

I am glad they deleted this piece of crap scene.

Anthony Lapaglia seemed to be having trouble not making Capone look like a stand-up comedian.

[PitBullRa19h666]

@hammerogod Capone was actually a real funny stand up guy, he wasent the evil strict dickhead guy most movies played him out to be. I mean yea he was the boss he was brutal but besides his mob ways outside of his buisness Al Capone was actually a guy you could have a beer and joke around with, he was a people person, he really only hurt other mobsters...

[hammerogod]

@PitBullRa19h666

An interesting observation.

The honest truth is that I know almost nothing about Mr. Capone.

I have read a few things and heard a few things but not enough to get a picture of who he really was.

Hollywood and TV never did movies that weren't over-dramatized, glamorized and highly stylized so no help there.

Mario Puzo should have done the definitive Capone story.

He was one of the few writers who could have handled it.

My problem may have been with Lapaglia and not Capone.

[PitBullRa19h666]

@hammerogod I only know this because my grandfather and half of my family is from Chicago, my great grandfather was his neighboor and my grandfather was raised a few houses down from him, my grandpa said his dad knew capone since his days working with John Torrio and the media perception of him is bs. I mean sure he was a gangster and all that, but my grandpa said as a kid the guy was always smiling joking and wrestling around with his budies and always flirting with women.

[PitBullRa19h666]

The Boardwalk Empire show is probably the best impression of Capone

[Beccrawr]

@PitBullRa19h666 its nice when you meet someone who knew him, you get a real insight. ...

[gtokiable]

They should have keep this scene for the theatrical version...

[EGlVM]

Umm....Ciaran Hinds is NOT in this scene. Stanley Tucci IS.

[Wargoat6]

@EGlVM Cuz his character got offed early in the movie!

[EGlVM]

@Wargoat6 I know. When the video was first posted, they tagged Stanley Tucci's character as Ciaran. I was correcting the mistake.