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to take his place. The goal of the
Gangster Squad is to disrupt Cohen’s operations.

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Is the term “Gangster Squad”
used at any point during Gangster
Squad? Yes. At first as an almost
sarcastic aside.
At any point during Gangster Squad do we
see a man chained to two cars then ripped
apart? Yes.

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From one to 10 on the “overacting
scale,” where would Sean Penn
rank with his performance of Mickey Cohen? Unfortunately, the “overacting scale” has been broken since

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it saw Sean Penn’s performance
in Gangster Squad.

What is Ryan Gosling’s character’s role
in Gangster Squad? Gosling’s Jerry
Wooters is basically the ladies’
man, Templeton “Face” Peck of the
Gangster Squad — which means
that he eventually starts sleeping
with a woman named Grace Faraday (Emma Stone) who also happens to be Mickey Cohen’s girlfriend. Because, of course.

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Oh, are these the same characters
that Gosling and Stone play in Crazy,
Stupid, Love? The events of Gangster Squad take place over 60
years before the events of Crazy,
Stupid, Love, so that seems unlikely. Also, their characters have

Left to right:
Ryan Gosling,
Josh Brolin,
Michael
Peña, Robert
Patrick and
Anthony
Mackie.