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"Lawless director John Hillcoat has revealed that he wanted the movie to shake up the gangster genre. Hillcoat&amp;#039;s film tells the story of two bootlegging brothers whose business comes under threat from corrupt law enforcement officials.  Discussing the film with TNT, the filmmaker said he was determined to take Lawless in a different direction than most crime dramas. &amp;quot;Traditionally in gangster films, these characters go out in a blaze of bullets, we go on the adventure, and we feel good that they&amp;#039;re punished for their sins,&amp;quot; he explained, adding: &amp;quot;We wanted to subvert that.&amp;quot; Hillcoat further explained that he achieved his goal partly by casting Jessica Chastain as a strong female character, rather than as a traditional gangster&amp;#039;s moll.  &amp;quot;In gangster films, [women are] usually the throwaway molls that hardly get a look-in. In this story, the strongest person is [Chastain&amp;#039;s] Maggie,&amp;quot; he noted. Hillcoat continued: &amp;quot;[Tom Hardy&amp;#039;s Forrest] doesn&amp;#039;t know how to deal with women, especially strong women, and she ends up protecting the whole family and bearing harder truths than they do. &amp;quot;We loved that the brothers start believing their own legend but that she sees right through it.&amp;quot; Hillcoat previously commented that Hardy&amp;#039;s impressive acting talent left him &amp;quot;awestruck&amp;quot;. Lawless is now playing in the US and opens on September 7 in the UK. Watch a trailer below:  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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