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Historical relevance. Prohibition was a crucial event in American history, the coming of prohibition into effect in a national level in america marked the power which is held by lobbying in america and also proved to be the final push of the old established americans and their strict religion against the "new" americans which had foreigner origins. At a global level it proved the extremes to which people would go to get something they really desired, reaching to the extremes of murder and other illegal acts. In terms of the relevance of this period of time, the clearest example is the similar case which goes in these times with the prohibition of drugs and the rise of the drug lords, which resemble to be nearly identical to the bootleggers and gangsters during the prohibition era.

Critical analysis of evidence

To determine the accuracy of the film The public enemy I shall look at three themes. The first theme to be investigated will be the way that the film represents the gangsters and their rise in the gangster underworld, focusing on the methods they are depicted to use, the way of life depicted and their reasoning to choose gangsterism. Secondly I shall analyze the way that the film represents the law .enforcement.

Gangsters: The main character of the film is tom powers, a lower-class man which gets into crime from a young age. The development of the characters tom powers and his colleague matt was apparently based on of two prominent gangsters of the era, Earl “Hymie” weiss (appendix 9) and Charles Dion "Deanie" O'Banion (appendix 10)[1] just like in the film, the two were friends from a very early age, the film represents a certain kind of loyalty between members of a same gang, where they even go to the point of killing a horse which had caused the death of a member of the gang, such event in the film was in fact based on a real life event where the members of the “northsiders gang” (weiss’ and O’banion’s gang) killed the horse which had caused the death of the gangster George “bugs” moran in retribution[2]. Something which the film depicts well is the way that the gangsters reaped on benefits, which can be seen with the $60,000,000 which al Capone gained just from alcohol.

However the film doesn’t represent all of the aspects of the gangsters correctly, the film tries to impose the theme that crime doesn’t pay, but as demonstrated with George Remus, crime didn’t always have crude consequences for the perpetrators....MORE ON THIS NEEDED! You're leaving the reader guessing! outline how in the film the character dies a horrid death, but in reality the character you mention did not...

Law enforcement. At the beginning of the film, the first appearance of the law comes when Tom kills a police officer off screen to avoid capture during his and his best friend’s first attempted important robbery, throughout the film the law is represented further, namely through officer Pat Burkes, which is used to tell Tom’s brother about the illicit done by the former. Although he is depicted as being informed about the activities but not taking any action to stop them whatsoever, the film avoids depicting any corruption in the law even though it was known that Gangsters like capone had had “half the city's police on its payroll”[3] and others even clamed to the media that they "own the police."[4]

There's no debate within this section. It needs to be broken down into two sections: ways the film is accurate / reliable (by cross-referencing to your background knowledge); ways it is not.

[1] [] 30/09/10

[2] [] 30/09/10

[3] [] (30/8/2010)

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