Longtime Girlfriend of ‘Whitey’ Bulger Indicted for Criminal Contempt

It sits as a movie that is content with being enjoyably average but at the same time elevated by the sheer power of its leading man. The intimate shots of the character’s solemn faces become calling cards for the film, working particularly well in a high-stakes dinner scene that places the viewer in a disturbingly close position.

There’s a mugshot from Alcatraz, an autographed prison shirt and poker chips featuring his photo.Memorabilia related to Boston gangster James “Whitey” Bulger is being peddled to coincide with the release of the new Johnny Depp movie on Bulger’s life.”Black Mass” hit theatres last week.

Johnny Depp stars as James Whitey “Bulger” in the new crime-thriller “Black Mass“. Bulger is fascinating, but he’s not a colorful, enjoyable villain. No murders, Connolly says.

In the days when the Winter Hill Gang ruled Southie it was a poor, working class area of Irish immigrants, fiercely territorial and notoriously suspicious of outsiders.

As in Black Mass, John Connolly grew up tagging along with Billy and in awe of Whitey, the tough teen who ran with the Shamrocks gang.

Half the fun is wondering who’ll appear next. Instead it relies on a series of title cards to wrap up loose ends. However, those three accomplices were not even seen in some of the scenes that they supposedly remembered and told the interviewer.

But even with its relatively short span, the movie packs in a lot of positives. For the first time in a long time, Depp seemed to have removed the Jack Sparrow wig that lay hidden under the mound of scarves and trilbies that envelop his body in order to play a person. His slow talking and seemingly calm demeanor mask his actions – he’s the kind of guy who can casually brush off an offense and accept an apology while pointing a gun at your head. Depp never winks at the audience or allows an apology to slip into his committed characterization. “For 16 years he was on the lam and he wasn’t causing any trouble”. He’s downright eerie. Dakota Johnson leaves a vivid impression with her small role as Bulger’s girlfriend, much like she did in “The Social Network”. His Bostonian accent was mildly convincing, but his character’s lack of real development left the English actor as somewhat of a stranger to the film. For its focus on a gangster who was eventually charged in 11 murders, the movie is relatively tame. Maybe because most of the movies at least make the criminals look like they had more than one dimension to them – they loved their family, they took care of their neighborhood, whatever.

Spanning from the ‘1970’s to the ‘1980’s Bulger began an alliance with the Boston’s FBI agent John Connolly (played by Joel Edgerton), arising tostarting what will be known as one of the biggest corruptions of law enforcement. One of the most recognizable performers in the world, Depp utterly disappears into the nearly Nosferatu-like visage of the palpably menacing Bulger, with his luminous gray-blue eyes and balding hair combed back straight and severe. Although Kevin Weeks, who served as Bulger’s personal bodyguard from 1978 to 1994, has criticized the film for what he perceives as its mischaracterization of Bulger and Flemmi, overall its plot is pretty true to the facts.