E3 台词摘录

The King of New York Underground

The Commission

After taking out the two most powerful Mob bosses in New York,34-year-old Charles "Lucky" Luciano,sets in motion the next phase of his plan:to seize control of the New York Mafia.Over a matter of months,gangsters across the country are murdered in the biggest purge the Mafia has ever seen.

Luciano spares a select few who he feels are more valuable as allies.Luciano calls a meeting with Maranzano's former underboss,Joe Bonanno.

-Killing Maranzano was necessary.

It was either gonna be him or me,and it wasn't gonna be me.

The past is the past.

Joe Bonanno, he was a man of wealth, a man of influence,a man of reason.Luciano decides to offer Bonanno the opportunity to head his own family.With Bonanno on board,Luciano has eliminated his competition,establishing order in his operation.

Maranzano's gone, Masseria's gone,and Luciano is at the top of the hill.

But Luciano decides the most important thing to be done is to create organizations that won't war with each other.They need a regimen, rules.Luciano turns to his homeland for inspiration.

the Sicilian Mafia has always been strictly organized.There are nearly 100 gangs referred to as crime families.Each family has a boss,and they all work under the capo di tutti capi.It's almost like the aristocracy of the underworld.Men who were family heads needed to establish some rules and boundaries and understanding for the continuation of their way of life.It's a system that has worked for over 100 years and is known as Cosa Nostra,which translates to "Our Thing."

To gain the support of the other Mob bosses,Luciano keeps Mafia membership limited to Italians.But Lansky will remain Luciano's most trusted advisor from outside the Mafia's ranks.

Luciano called for a major meeting of the crime bosses in New York and major gangsters elsewhere.Until this time,there really is no Mafia in America.You have individual gangs operating in some kind of ad hoc manner.

-The heads of the five New York families,the members of the Commission, are Giuseppe Profaci,Vincent Mangano,Tommy Gagliano,Joseph Bonanno and Lucky Luciano.

Luciano creates the Commission,a board made up of the heads of the five New York families who will run the Mafia instead of a boss of bosses.In effect, Lucky is writing a constitution for the Mafia.There will be a boss of each family,there will be a second-in-command,an underbossand there will be a consigliere,the counselor.Luciano creates the modern Mafia.

Luciano's motivation was power.He would give a role to all these other guys because he was smart.He knew how to play people.And if you share power the right way,you have the power.

Murder, Inc.

They sort of said,"We're not gonna have these random killingswhere one guy gets pissed off at another guyand he goes off and he just kills him.So, we're gonna do it like they do it in the real world,which is if somebody has a problem with somebody else,he will go to an underworld court,and he will plead his case."They were like the Security Council of the U.N.,and I know that's laughable in many ways,but they used to try to resolve as many of their problems peacefully as possible to stay away from the law.

Disputes would get reported to the Commission,and most of them would get settled.Of course, when they didn't get settled,then a murder might have to take place.

To carry out the Mafia's approved hit list,Luciano knows he will need an enforcement arm with no ties to the Italian Commission.So he looks outside the Five Families to a group of Jewish gangsters.

In 1931, Luciano orders his most trusted business partner to assemble the lethal team.Lansky was like a recruiter at a board meeting for a college.He knew who they were and he recommended them as the guys that could fill this new role that was suddenly created by this underworld court.Lansky quickly enlists an elite group of Jewish hit men.Violent killers who will come to be known as Murder, Inc.It was kind of a sub-company of the new modern Mafia that Luciano designed.

Most of the hit men were Jewish.They integrated, so that threw 'em off.Each hit man has his own signature style.

Bugsy Siegel is a loyal member of Luciano's crew who takes pleasure in making his victims suffer.

Albert Anastasia is a feared killer with a short fuse and deadly aim who becomes known as the Lord High Executioner.

Abe Reles believes in a hands-on approach,earning the nickname "Kid Twist" for his preferred method of killing.Strangling his victims with wire.

Louis Lepke is a disciplined assassin,isolating his targets to avoid witnesses.

These were guys that were the baddest of bad.They were cold-blooded murderers that worked for the Mob.They formed the deadliest team of hit men in American history and transformed the art of killing into a science.

Once a contract is handed down,the assassin spends weeks preparing the execution.Assembling weapons,stealing a getaway car,and trailing his target.When the moment is right, he makes a clean hit and begins covering his tracks.Fingerprints are often burned beyond recognition,and the body is dumped in a river or buried with chemicals to eliminate the smell.

In just ten years,Murder, Inc. Will kill more than 1,000 people,averaging one murder every three days.And because no ties to the assassins are left behind,hundreds of murders remain unsolved for years.

With the Commission in place and Murder, Incon call,Lucky Luciano has created an underground government and an invisible army.Lucky Luciano delegated the violence.He said, "If we all band together,We could do this thing as an organization."So there'd be order.

Dewey:Shultz,then Luciano

Dutch Schultz

Dutch Schultz ran a very powerful gang in New York and the Bronx.In fact, some people used to go around saying,in New York, there was a Big Six,not just a Big Five,because Schultz was so important.

纽约五大市区：

The Bronx

纽约市五大区中最北面的一个，居民主要以非洲和拉丁美洲后裔居民为主，亚洲人较少。

纽约洋基队的主场亦位于此。

Manhattan

纽约市五大区之中人口最稠密的一个，也是最小的一个行政区。

曼哈顿主要由一个岛组成，并被东河、哈得孙河以及哈莱姆河包围。

这里集中了许多著名的企业，被誉为世界的经济中心，是纽约最富有的区。

Brooklyn（原名是荷兰文Breukelen），the south of Long Island

纽约市五大区中人口最多的区。

布鲁克林区一开始只有6个荷兰移民小村庄建在东河边，并有小荷兰的称呼。在1664年成为纽约属地的一部份。1898年正式划入纽约市，成为五大区之一。

Queens（“皇后”得名于查理二世之妻凯瑟琳皇后），the north of Long Island

纽约五区中面积最大、人口第二多的区。

皇后县建立于1683年，为纽约州最初的12县之一。1898年开始在皇后县的基础之上建立了皇后区。

Staten Island

纽约市人口最少的一个区。

Dutch Schultz is known as the Beer Baron of the Bronx.He muscles his way into the restaurant unions and Harlem's number rackets.His numbers operation alone brings in $20 million a year.Schultz is also a vicious gangster with a hair-trigger temper.

Schultz has been building relationships with politicians for years by fixing their elections.Schultz pays off voters and brings them to the polls,so they can vote for his candidates.

-Can I ask your business here?Tampering with elections is illegal.

Schultz is unaware that he's just caught the eye of the one man in New York he can't pay off.A 32-year-old lawyer from Michigan named Thomas E. Dewey.

Thomas E. Dewey

Thomas Dewey is an assistant U.S. Attorney with political aspirations.Tom Dewey had been a poll-watcher at one point and had seen this, and it probably inspired some of his later prosecutions.He'll go on to become the governor of New York and run for president,losing one of the most famous elections in American history.（1948年总统大选中杜威一度被看好，但最终落败于杜鲁门。）

Dewey firmly believes in the rule of law.He also wants to make a name for himself in New York.Tom Dewey went after Lucky Luciano, because he was a major organized crime figure in the United States.He saw this as a stepping stone,a way that he could burnish his resume so that he would be able to run for political office,and ultimately run for the presidency of the United States.

- This is the guy.

- What guy?

-The guy from the polls, Dutch Schultz.

-You don't give up, do you?This isn't personal.Schultz is all over the number rackets,restaurants, the Jersey waterfront.

-Schultz works with Lucky Luciano.Schultz is nothing but a crack.He's our way in.We can't get to Luciano, but we can get to Schultz.

-How much time do you need?

-Give me a month.

-Get busy.

With approval from U.S. Attorney William Dodge,Thomas Dewey is about to declare war on the Mob.

With Mob boss Lucky Luciano insulated by crooked politicians and an army of thugs,Dewey's first target is Jewish gangster Dutch Schultz.

But Schultz has been paying off judges and politicians for years.To bring down Schultz,Dewey is going to have to find a way to prosecute him.And a trial from a year earlier may give him the answer.

Capone under arrest

Al Capone has ruled the violent Chicago underworld for a decade.If you go all the way back to the time of Al Capone, and you read about it,he hung around with politicians and judges and police.He was right in the midst of society at its highest level.He's beaten witnesses,bribed judges,intimidated juries and has ties to over 100 murders,including the savage St. Valentine's Day massacre.

When Capone was finally brought to trial,it wasn't for murder,it was for not paying his taxes.

-I hereby find Mr. Alphonse Capone guilty of tax evasion ,and hereby remand him to the custody of the state for the next 11 years.

Thanks to an ambitious law enforcement agent named Eliot Ness,the most infamous mobster in America will spend the rest of his life in Alcatraz.

Alcatraz恶魔岛

美国加州旧金山湾内的一座小岛，四面峭壁深水，联外交通不易，因而被美国政府选为监狱建地，曾设有恶魔岛联邦监狱，关押过不少知名的重刑犯，于1963年废止。

现与金门大桥同为当地著名观光景点。

Thomas Dewey sees his opportunityand goes after Dutch Schultz on tax evasion charges.

But even though he's a wanted man,Schultz is seen partying at Manhattan bars and nightclubs.Schultz liked to be a big shot around town.

-Get another bottle of vino over here for the ladies.

So he was a man about town as well as a man about gangsterdom.

Schultz's exploits start making headlines.But he manages to stay one step ahead of Thomas Dewey and his investigators.Months pass without an arrest.

-How much overtime it costs.

Dewey's inability to bring Schultz into custody soon turns from a local tabloid story into a national embarrassment,landing on the desk of the director of the F.B.I.,J. Edgar Hoover.

J. Edgar Hoover

Hoover has made his reputation by taking down some of the most notorious criminals in the country.But he's refused to let the F.B.I.investigate organized crime in New York.For most of his reign,Hoover totally ignored the Mafia and claimed it didn't exist.But he had reasons for not tackling the Mafia.

In the 1930s,nearly all of Hoover's agents are clean-cut men from small towns in middle America.They had no idea about the Mafia culture.There was no way they could infiltrate the Mafia.

Hoover may also have another,more personal reason for not going after the New York Mob.J. Edgar Hoover never wanted to take on the Mafia because the mob had a file of him,with pictures of him wearing dresses and garter beltscould have been extorted.That's a theory.

Despite the risks，Hoover can longer let Dutch Schultz make a mockery of law enforcement.For the first time in history,Hoover names a New York gangster Public Enemy Number One.

Get off

After nearly two years of successfully eluding,the most wanted man in America is turning himself in.With Schultz in custody,Thomas Dewey is now closer than ever to clinching his first victory over the New York Mafia.

-In the old days,when a member of a group got into trouble,the group took care of them as far as a lawyer was concerned.They didn't go hungry. They got 'em out on bail.

Days after Schultz surrenders,he easily posts bail.And the Mob's lawyers win a petition to move his trial 400 miles north to Malone, New York.If the Mafia can't buy off the biggest city in America,they'll settle for something smaller.The minute Schultz arrives in Malone,he begins spreading money all over town and hosting parties for local officials.

-Enjoy it! And it's on me.

People often think that the way to succeed in the Mob is to be feared.Certainly that's important.But what's more important is just being charming.

A week before his trial,the Jewish mobster takes his public relations campaign a step further.Schultz would try to ingratiate himself so much that he actually converted to Catholicism.These ambitious, lawless gangsters,they were cunning.They were capable of presenting themselves as men of respect.

Just as Luciano promised,Schultz gets off and is free to get back to business.

Out

But Dewey was a fighter.And he was never going to back down.

Just six weeks after the trial in Malone,Dewey pinned Schultz as the leader of the largest illegal gambling ring in New York,sending over 60 officers on a citywide raid to shut down Schultz's most lucrative racket.With Dewey closing in,Schultz goes into hiding and decides there's only one way out，to kill Thomas Dewey.

-This Dewey is a rabid dog.He's not gonna stop.He's not the first.And he's not gonna be the last.

-Well, what if he is the last, huh?

-What if Thomas Dewey takes down you, Luciano?What if he takes down every damn one of you?Is that a chance you're willing to take?

-We can't just knock guys off every time the law kicks up some dust.

-Since when?

-Since now. Settle down, Schultz.It'll all blow over.

-Oh, not this time. Not this bastard!

-What are you saying? Huh?

-I'm tellin' ya, this son of a bitch Dewey is not gonna rest one day until every one of you is behind bars.

-Maybe Dutch is right.Maybe we should take him out before he causes any more trouble.

-It's gonna wreak havoc on our business.

-Business isn't everything.

-Yes, it is.

-It's not gonna happen.

When the Commission,and especially Luciano,hear about this, they realize Schultz is bad for business.

-You can't kill a prominent prosecutor.You'd bring the whole wrath of the criminal justice system.Why risk it?

After being rejected by the Commission,Dutch Schultz turns to Murder, Inc. Hit man Albert Anastasia.

-I'm gonna take a leak.

After he was tipped off by Albert Anastasia of Schultz's plan to kill Thomas Dewey,Lucky Luciano has ordered a hit on one of his own.

But what Luciano doesn't realize is that by taking out homas Dewey's number one target,he's just put himself on the top of Dewey's most wanted list.