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| Why Goodfellas, Casino, and Donnie Brasco are superior to fictional mob stories by Mischief Maker 06/13/2012, 6:34am PDT | ||||
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| (In the style of tdarcos' "throw stuff at the walls and see what sticks" posts)
The based-on-true-story mob movies don't fall into the trap of trying to romanticize the mob. In the Godfather, the mortician takes an incredible risk getting himself involved with the mob in return for violent revenge at the beginning. What are these dangerous people going to want in return? Then the time comes, he's called into a meeting with Don Corleone for the payback and its... making Sonny's body look nice so his mother isn't upset. Then the Don cries. Awwwwwwwww. In Goodfellas, a restaurant owner gets involved with the mob as much to protect himself from Joe Pesci's violence as anything else. His business gets a few perks out of the deal, but ultimately they start sucking him dry of every penny he has, every penny he can borrow, and finally burn the restaurant to the ground to squeeze the last of the insurance money out of him. I saw an interview of the real-life Donnie Brasco last night and he said the reason he wrote a book about his undercover life in the mob (pre-Goodfellas) was to dispel the romanticized notions of mob life and show these men as the takers that they are. |
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Why Goodfellas, Casino, and Donnie Brasco are superior to fictional mob stories by 06/13/2012, 6:34am PDT  Why Goodfellas, Casino, and Donnie Brasco are superior to fictional mob stories by 06/13/2012, 7:36am PDT a (fictional) response to threats of mob violence by 06/15/2012, 12:13am PDT Mischief M?! Mischief M?! YOU MAKE ME POP YOUR FUCKIN' EYE OUT TO PROTECT THAT NT by 06/16/2012, 7:40am PDT What really surprised me was Casino was a true story by 06/18/2012, 12:40pm PDT All three of those movies were true stories. NT by 06/18/2012, 1:25pm PDT |
