Quote (stupidkid282 @ Jan 20 2016 04:13pm)
Not trying to argue, but I'm guessing that the director and Johnny dep know more about bulgers mannerisms than you do.
I really know nothing about bulger, but maybe deps performance is accurately depicted in the movie. If you personally don't know either, I wouldn't call his performance over the top.
It's not a matter of that, Burgler is exactly the same as every other movie gangster. Caring and loving towards friends and family but very calculating in everything he does, mercilessely violent when he needs to be.
The difference between this film and every other similar production is that Depp doesn't do the character justice, that is all.
It might be a case of the producers wanting to overstate every feature about the character to make it easy on the audience. Not too uncommon in contemporary filmmaking.
This post was edited by Svartermetalisk on Jan 20 2016 09:19am