A cold-blooded gang lord suspected of nineteen murders: that, we can despise.
"Chicago gangland leaders observed Valentine's Day with machine guns and a stream of bullets," declared The New York Times, "and as a result seven members of the George (Bugs) Moran-Dean O'Banion, North Side Gang are dead in the most cold-blooded gang massacre in the history of this city's underworld".
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By contrast, murder in the heat of domestic passion or a tavern argument, in the desperation of armed robbery or in the cold calculation of gang competition, seems to make "sense".
The past couple of years have seen it sinking tens of millions of Disney money into productions like Chicago, Cold Mountain and Gangs of New York; movies that would not have looked out of place on any studio balance sheet.
Miramax once had more than 400 employees and released dozens of films a year, both art-house fare like "Sex, Lies and Videotape" and big-budget movies like "Cold Mountain" and "Gangs of New York".
We all hold in our imaginations or memories certain images of evil in which there is no breath of mitigation — four grinning youths torturing an animal, a gang rape, cold-blooded vandalism.
He's so consumed by his language that he never bothers fully to explore Rose's decision to throw in his lot with a gang of cold-blooded killers.
Not any more.A dish served cold and every dayThe gang's motives, however, and perhaps Lord Mandelson's especially, were more complex than a simple calculation of personal self-interest or lust for verbose kudos.
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