Ivan wrote: ↑Wed Jul 21, 2021 6:59 pm
That was one of my problems with the movie. Joe Pistone is a tough, ugly, bald Italian guy. Johnny Depp wasn't right for that role at all.
He sucked as Whitey Bulger, too.
Yeah, Depp is the reason I don't automatically include it with the classics. Not even his performance, just the fact that he's a terrible fit and it distracts from the story. Michael Madsen can play a good gangster but he wasn't a good fit for Napolitano either... he'll always be Mr. Blonde to me, a cold psycho.
That was my reaction, too. He just sort of phoned in a non-psycho Mr. Blonde. Wrong personality for Napolitano.
And Depp's Whitey Bulger was just hilarious. Bulger looked and talked like an ordinary Irish-American douchebag from Boston (you can hear his voice a lot in that one documentary) but for some reason Depp chose to play him as a Dark Lord of the Sith.
PolackTony wrote: ↑Wed Jul 21, 2021 10:01 pm
And not to forget the Sopranos, for its deft portrayal of the seedy, inglorious modern mob era and its true to life depiction of contemporary (for the time) Ital-American tristate culture.
Though it makes me a total Fun Ruiner to say this, my big beef with the Sopranos when it comes to realism is that it's WAY too violent. An American Cosa Nostra family with that many hits in the 2000s would have more feds on the streets than members and associates. There would have been an absolute hurricane of media sensationalism, too ("the shocking true story of America's bloodiest crime family").
Yes, obviously that aspect of the show was definitely not realistic.
"Hey, hey, hey — this is America, baby! Survival of the fittest.”
PolackTony wrote: ↑Wed Jul 21, 2021 10:01 pm
And not to forget the Sopranos, for its deft portrayal of the seedy, inglorious modern mob era and its true to life depiction of contemporary (for the time) Ital-American tristate culture.
Though it makes me a total Fun Ruiner to say this, my big beef with the Sopranos when it comes to realism is that it's WAY too violent. An American Cosa Nostra family with that many hits in the 2000s would have more feds on the streets than members and associates. There would have been an absolute hurricane of media sensationalism, too ("the shocking true story of America's bloodiest crime family").
Yes, obviously that aspect of the show was definitely not realistic.
Now if it took place in Montreal in the 2010s the number of killings in the show would have been just about perfect!
Damn there really does need to be a serious Netflix or whatever series about the Montreal Mafia. I mean think about the Montagna hit - ex-Bonanno boss comes flying out of a house all shot up and dies trying to swim across a river. You could splice that into the "baptism hits" at the end of The Godfather and it wouldn't be out of place. At all.
Obviously a Scarfo movie needs to be made, with Stephen Graham as Scarfo. At 5'5" he's even the right height. Imagine this guy as Scarfo, I think he'd be perfect:
