Fact-checking 'Capone': What's true, what's not in Tom Hardy's new gangster movie

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Did the real Al Capone spend his final years in a sprawling Florida villa? We discuss.

), stepping into the formidable shoes worn by Robert De Niro in 1987's"The Untouchables." Writer/director Josh Trank's new telling doesn't focus on the feared Chicago crime boss, but the final year of a syphilis-suffering, mentally weakened man who died in 1947 at age 48.calling it an "impressionistic film, a rendering of a 20th-century icon.

Trank shot the film at a mansion in Covington, Louisiana. But it's in the spirit of the actual location. Hardy's pale complexion and scars signify Capone's condition."We tried to be truthful to what syphilitic scars would actually look like; ultimately, you don't have photographic evidence of every stage of the last year," says Trank.

"That's how we landed on the accent," says Trank. As far as Capone's actual personality,"that's an interpretation. When somebody is that famous, we all have our idea of who that person might have been. Based on my knowledge and research, I was confident I was writing about what he was like at the time."In the film, Capone struggles to remember whether, and where, he buried $10 million of his loot, hidden from federal authorities.

 

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