BU Today: How did you feel, seeing Christian Bale play your father?
Purvis: The movie is a drama. Christian told me, “Don’t expect this to be a documentary, because you’ll be very disappointed.” For example, my father got “Pretty Boy” Floyd three months after he got Dillinger, yet in the movie, he got “Pretty Boy” Floyd first. Michael Mann, the director, thought that was a good way of moving the story along.
Purvis: The movie is a drama. Christian told me, “Don’t expect this to be a documentary, because you’ll be very disappointed.” For example, my father got “Pretty Boy” Floyd three months after he got Dillinger, yet in the movie, he got “Pretty Boy” Floyd first. Michael Mann, the director, thought that was a good way of moving the story along.