The mob boss: it’s not how you kill, it’s who you kill.
Like that old joke about the technician. $5 for the hammer. $1995 for knowing what to hit.
K.I.S.S.
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rbos@lemmy.ca 5 hours ago
loomi@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
He was cunning because he almost always knew who would come at him and how. Not how he was going to kill somebody, although there was that.
DagwoodIII@piefed.social 12 hours ago
The book does a good job of showing how Vito built his organization bit by bit. He quietly amassed power without doing a lot of killing. He was feared, and that was enough.
Grimy@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
The main things I remember from the book is the whole going to mattress thing being literal and how it had a legit arc about the mistress and her vagina deformation.
DagwoodIII@piefed.social 10 hours ago
Most people agree that the movie was much better than the book
CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 13 hours ago
Well, go try to outmaneuver five established crime families and coordinate a simultaneous attack in a way that none of them get a chance at retaliation. Let us know how that goes, then we can start understanding the levels to “cunning”.
wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 13 hours ago
I’ve never gotten the mass appeal of The Godfather series, personally. But I like a lot of shit movies, so I can’t pass judgement.
RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
It was a leap forward in gangster movies. The genre had peaked in the 1920-30’s, then it flipped to becoming more detective/police focused. The gangster film was fairly dead by the 70’s. The entire vibe you think of as a modern ‘gangster movie vibe’ is The Godfather.
There’s a lot of movies that don’t exist without The Godfather coming first. Once Upon a Time in America (1984) was Sergio Leone’s attempt to do the same sort of thing. Which was meant to be 2 movies. Goodfellas (1990) also borrows a lot, but gives a significantly faster pace to the storytelling. The gangster film was pretty much reborn anew, all in the wake of the success of The Godfather.
If you tried to make any sort of gangster movie today, you might not even realize you were borrowing from it. It’s genre defining.
moncharleskey@lemmy.zip 8 hours ago
You forgot the cinematic masterpiece Mafia!
humanamerican@lemmy.zip 12 hours ago
I’m so over mafia movies in general.
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 11 hours ago
To be frank, that’s a lot fucking smarter than most villains who tell the good guys their entire plan or take hostages expecting to win them over.
kameecoding@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
I know the movie gets a lot of hate, but Watchmen is my favorite subversion of that cliche.
tomiant@piefed.social 11 hours ago
When you come to shoot, shoot. Don’t talk.
cmbabul@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Thanks Tuco
jaybone@lemmy.zip 7 hours ago
You come at the king, you best not miss.
MintyFresh@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Everyone said the third one was shit. But it was the pentultimant consequence of Michael’s success. He was all alone at the end, a victim of his own ruthlessness and success. It completed the arc.
totally_human_emdash_user@piefed.blahaj.zone 8 hours ago
It is possible for a movie to both correctly complete an arc and also be shit.
ClownStatue@piefed.social 6 hours ago
I never thought it was shit. For sure, it was the weakest of the three by a pretty good measure, but it does end the story decently enough. Plus, considering the success of the first two, there was nowhere to go but down with the third one!
DagwoodIII@piefed.social 12 hours ago
Funny thing.
When you said ‘the third one’ I thought you were referring to Fredo.
But I see that you meant the third movie. Even re-editied, I don’t want to see it.
robocall@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Great movie. Loved the shooting.
RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Well he was cunning compared to his brother James Caan.
workerONE@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Keep it simple, sweetie
0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 hours ago
Keep it simple, shithead
Gates9@sh.itjust.works 12 hours ago
Capitalism encapsulated: They sell you “meritocracy”, you get a suicide machine.
Also, what these Neo-feudalist freaks, the one thing they don’t seem to understand is that when you set up a mafia infrastructure, it’s only a matter of time before one of your capos shoots a hellfire missile up your asshole and takes your place. You want Rome, you get Rome, complete with the Praetorian Guard.
jaybone@lemmy.zip 7 hours ago
I think I like 4chan screenshots because of the timestamp.
Everything else is like “2 minutes ago” but it’s a screencap from 2014.
Even tells you the day of the week.
hark@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
I absolutely hate fuzzy dates, not only because of the problem you mentioned, but also because they can get wildly inaccurate. For example, on youtube I often see something counted as posted a year ago, but if I look at the absolute timestamp, it was actually 1 year and 10 months. That’s too big of a difference to truncate.
TheBat@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Fine, we will have oily dates.
mbp@lemmy.sdf.org 5 hours ago
They did some things right over there. Not much, but some.
atthecoast@feddit.nl 6 hours ago
February 26, 2024…