If PUBLIC ENEMIES protrayal was accurate

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I did some research on PUBLIC ENEMIES after watchin the movie, discovering that it was accurately quite historically inaccurate in portraying the deaths at FBI hands of other main gangsters like Pretty Boy Floyd, Baby Face Nelson, etc BEFORE Dillinger was killed- whereas in real life they survived AFTER Dillinger had been taken down. Now, what could've been the effects of the film portrayal, had those other Most Wanted villains actually been killed before Dillinger himself ?
 
Well, in real life Melvin Purvis didn't kill Baby Face Nelson, nor Harry Pierpont.

That would have removed the end of the one big action setpiece Christian Bale has in the movie.

Purvis didn't shoot Floyd with a Mauser sporting rifle either--instead, he was among a group of lawmen who fired on Pretty Boy with revolvers, shotguns and lever action rifles, taking him down.

Other than those changes I don't think Mann has exaggerated Purvis' behaviour too much, and the Bureau's incompetence (killing civilians, letting perps escape) and brutality (the willingness to torture suspects) is explored, even if the details have been changed.

My favourite piece of dialogue in the movie is of Bale talking to a malevolent Hoover (Billy Crudup) and being forced to repeat his assertion that, "Our type just can't handle this situation."
 
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