John Connolly would go on to serve prison time on a racketeering charge and, later, for second-degree murder in his connection to the death of World Jai-Alai President John Callahan. The noticeable difference between life and film is that while Colin Sullivan and Frank Costello died by the end of the movie, Whitey Bulger would live until 89 years old. From there, he would develop a close relationship with a crime boss (Bulger), who would later become a top echelon informant, which would, in turn, allow the crime boss to rise to the top as everyone else became convicted of crimes. The story then becomes very reminiscent to that of Frank Costello's, with Connelly holding similarities to Matt Damon's Colin Sullivan: the story of a kid who also grew up in Southie and became a member of law enforcement (in Connolly's case, the FBI). Connelly grew up in the same project as the Bulger family and looked up to Whitey and Bill Bulger as a teenager. Specifically, his cooperation with another man from Southie, former FBI agent John Connelly.
Bulger's control over the Winter Hill Gang was largely due to his affiliation with the FBI. Bulger, his life was littered with parallels that one may believe were cooked up in the mind of Martin Scorsese or Francis Ford Coppolla: credit for prison time (especially for doing time in places like Alcatraz), young associates that were treated like family or proteges and betrayal by those associates when the RICO gavel came down.īulger's rise to power is where the inspiration for Frank Costello's characterization begins to surface. As film director Joe Berlinger tells it in his 2014 documentary Whitey: United States of America v. So where did the inspiration come from?īulger's life couldn't have been more like an organized crime film. He has been nominated for best director nine times and won for The Departed. Scorsese put incredible thought and detail into this character,and the world responded. Throughout the movie, he often wavers between tailored suits with colorful accents and tracksuits. Costello wears his watch upside-down, a characteristic shared with his antithesis, the police and armed forces. The point being that the people of Costello's city don't need to see him. The shopkeeper pays Costello as he notices his underage daughter and later makes an inaudible exchange as the shopkeeper dubiously watches, uncomfortable but unable to do anything about it. Then, as he does turn, he's nearly silhouetted again by the light outside. The audience does not see his face as his back is first turned to the camera. From Frank Costello's first interaction with the people of his city, you can see that Boston, or at least his neighborhood in Boston, is just that: his neighborhood, his city.
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