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.
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The mob boss: it’s not how you kill, it’s who you kill.
And the timing of it all.
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.
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.
I absolutely hate fuzzy dates,
Fine, we will have oily dates.
I like my dates pitted
They did some things right over there. Not much, but some.
February 26, 2024…
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.
almost always knew
I mean, he had no idea the shoot-up of his bedroom was coming. And he only found out about Fredo's betrayal because Fredo was an absolute fucking moron.
Who was going to come at him?
!Everyone!<
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.
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.
Most people agree that the movie was much better than the book
I won’t be reading that.
Can I get a tldr on the vagina deformation?
In both the movie and the book, its mentioned that Sonny has a big penis.
In the book, the mistress stays in a toxic relation with him because her vagina is super wide (which she didn't realize was abnormal) and Sonny was the only man who could make her orgasm. Then there was some problematic stuff about a surgeon who realizes her problem and fixes it so that he could be the first to enjoy the new vagina.
In the movies, she ends up having a child, who is Andy Garcia's character in the third movie. Michael feels responsible for him because he finds out about this nephew he never knew he had.
tl;dr: the mistress's vagina was deformed.
(I also have not read it)
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".
Edit- and aside from Sollozzo to avenge Vito, Michael didn't shoot anyone.
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.
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 in the 1940's forward. 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.
You forgot the cinematic masterpiece Mafia!
The movie really insists upon itself
I'm so over mafia movies in general.
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.
I know the movie gets a lot of hate, but Watchmen is my favorite subversion of that cliche.
And also one of my favorite movies
When you come to shoot, shoot. Don't talk.
Thanks Tuco
You come at the king, you best not miss.
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.
It is possible for a movie to both correctly complete an arc and also be shit.
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!
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.
Great movie. Loved the shooting.
Keep it simple, sweetie
Keep it simple, shithead
Well he was cunning compared to his brother James Caan.