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“ | My father... is a great man. A man of wision and... character. A man who stood up for his beliefs. Unlike that RAT F***, PIECE OF S*** Tudeski. | „ |
~ Janni Gogolak's first lines. |
“ | I vant you to understand. Frankie explained to me you're having a problem with your conscience. | „ |
~ Janni talking to Oz. |
“ | You think it was mine? No. If I had my way, my father would still be running things and I'd be somewhere like, uh, I don't know, uh,... Aruba. | „ |
~ Janni telling Oz about his dream. |
“ | The thing you got to remember is when we're talking about Yimmy Tudeski, we're not talking about a human being. We're talking about a rodent. We're talking about... wermin. | „ |
~ Janni expressing his animosity of Jimmy. |
Janni Gogolak is the main antagonist of 2000 American crime comedy film, The Whole Nine Yards. He is a Hungarian mob boss and the leader of his father, Lazlo's former gang operating in Chicago on the North side.
He was portrayed by Kevin Pollak who also portrayed his own father, Lazlo Gogolak in the sequel, The Whole Ten Yards, Jack Riley in Dr. Dolittle 2, and voiced Fracture in Transformers: Robots in Disguise. In the sequel, Arman Manyan portrayed a younger Janni Gogolak in a flashback.
Personality[]
As a mob boss, Janni Gogolak can be very intimidating, mean, strict, cruel, and sarcastic. Beneath his businesslike exterior, Janni can be impatient, threatening, temperamental, and easily irritated when someone like Oz unintentionally screws a few things up momentarily. Being a selfish and deceptive person, Janni allows Oz to believe that they will work something out due to the latter's wife demanding a finder's fee for the attempted murder of Jimmy when, in fact, he secretly intends to kill both Oz on account of being a witness and Jimmy's wife, Cynthia on account of collecting a hidden $10 million trust formerly belonging to his father, Lazlo all for himself once the latter have outlived their usefulness after Jimmy's death.
Biography[]
The Whole Nine Yards[]
With his father, Lazlo Gogolak incarcerated for life; thanks to their former contract killer/hitman/key enforcer, James Stefan "Jimmy the Tulip" Tudeski having ratted him out, Janni Gogolak takes over his father's business and gang in Chicago, but also vows vengeance as he places a bounty on the latter's head. Eventually, Janni learns from his enforcer, Franklin "Frankie Figs" Figueroa that a Chicago-born dentist living in Montreal named Dr. Nicholas "Oz" Oseransky (whom Frankie escorts from the latter's hotel to his employer's estate) knows exactly where Jimmy is hiding due to the latter having recently moved in next door to Oz and his controlling wife, Sophie under an alias, "Jimmy Jones" and is on his way to Chicago to see him since this was all his wife's idea; unaware that this is actually all part of her plan to have her husband killed and pay back her late father's debt once and for all since her previous attempt with the first killer (Oz's new receptionist, Jill Saint-Claire) she hired failed.
Once Janni meets Oz in person, he begins to express his animosity of Tudeski before asking one his men to bring in Jimmy's estranged wife, Cynthia and offering Oz a drink. When Cynthia finally joins in, Janni introduces her to Oz. Janni even allows Frankie to collect the contract on Jimmy since he's the one who found Oz just as long as the former is in on the kill. Then, Janni has Frankie accompany Oz back to Canada and instructs Oz to lead him to the man the latter believes is Jimmy Tudeski. Before leaving, Oz asks Janni if there's going to be a finder's fee for this, which somehow amuses both Janni and his men until Janni assures Oz that they will work something out eventually after the job is done right. Later on, Janni sends Cynthia to Oz's hotel to see if the latter is on the level.
However, Janni secretly plans to kill both Oz for lack of witnesses and Cynthia to collect a $10 million trust – "the whole nine yards" which formerly belonged and was given to the Tudeskis as a wedding present by Janni's father when in reality, the latter was just parking the money to hide it from the Feds way before his incarceration (something Jimmy himself plans to do as well). To acquire it, they would need either all 3 signatures (both Janni and the Tudeskis'), 2 signatures and 1 death certificate, or 1 signature and 2 death certificates.
A few days later, when Oz tries to call Cynthia to warn her, Janni has his men answer the phone, but Oz immediately hangs up and Janni merely suspects Cynthia expecting a call before they leave for the airport. Then, Janni and his men with Cynthia in tow arrive to Canada where Oz and Frankie are waiting to escort them to Oz's house. At night, Janni and his men keep a lookout in the garage as they wait for Jimmy to return home and go to sleep. While waiting, Janni is slightly irritated by Oz's unintentional noise making with tires when trying to sit on them. Once the lights in Jimmy's house go out, Janni and his men begin to assemble their well-hidden guns and prepare for the kill. When Oz takes Cynthia to the bathroom, Janni tells them not to be long. Once it's time to move in, Janni tells Oz and Cynthia to wait while they go out, break into Jimmy's house, and sneak in quietly; unaware that they're being observed by Sophie and another hitman named Hansen she hired to kill her husband since her other attempt to hire Jimmy failed as well. Once inside, Janni gets ready to kill Jimmy until he and his men are distracted by a naked Jill. After Jimmy kills his men minus Frankie (who has actually been in cahoots with Jimmy the whole time), Janni is shot in the neck by Jill when he tries to kill Jimmy before Jimmy shoots him dead.
When Jimmy's next target, Hansen turns out to be an undercover cop detective he shot dead after Jill distracted him with her nudity due to mistaking him for another hitman, Oz has an idea to benefit everyone including an enraged Jimmy for not only not allowing him to kill his wife, but for also having slept with her back in Chicago. At his office, Oz alters the dead detective's teeth to match Jimmy's dental records before both Jimmy and Frankie set his and Janni's bodies on fire in Oz's car. Investigators find the remains and believe both Janni and Jimmy are dead. Sophie's conversation with Hansen about killing Oz sends both her and her mother to prison despite Sophie's claim that Jill is the real killer and Oz is cleared of suspicion when the cops head to his house with the intent to arrest Jimmy.
With both Janni and "Jimmy" dead and Cynthia left alive, the $10 million trust is finally acquired and successfully transferred, but at the cost of Frankie's life who had intended to kill both Oz for being a witness and Jimmy if he had gone soft on the latter. In the end, Cynthia and Oz are given $1 million from the transfer as a wedding gift before dancing above Niagra Falls on their wedding night whereas Jimmy and Jill leave with $9 million in hand before getting married as well.
The Whole Ten Yards[]
In a flashback, in 1961, both Janni and Jimmy are seen as kids fighting as usual until Lazlo steps in, stops the fight, and gives them each half of a dollar, which, when combined together, reveals the number for a $280 million bank account while grooming one of them into the crime family business in years to come. 43 years later, with Janni dead and his father finally out of prison, Lazlo seeks to avenge his son's death with help from his gang including his other son and Janni's brother, Strabonitz "Strabo" and Frankie's sister, Jules a.k.a. Julie seeking to avenge her brother's death as well, which eventually all fails in the end, leaving Lazlo to be arrested rather than killed like all the others due to Jimmy's inability to kill the one man who raised him in the first place next to Janni and Strabo. At one point, Janni's corpse was seen in a photo next to Jimmy after the latter shot him dead 2 years ago.
Trivia[]
- Janni possesses a small bust of Napoleon Bonaparte in his estate.
- In The Whole Ten Yards, it is revealed that Janni's father took Jimmy in and raised him like a son, thus, making both Janni (and Strabo) and Jimmy like "brothers" altogether even though they hardly ever got along with each other.