This go around we'll be voting on crime movies, specifically mafia ones.
As a side note, in the submissions if we could keep it to one film suggestion and a description why you want to watch it, that'd be great. I won't have to guess which of the three that are in the comment is the one you actually want to watch. Thanks.
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I change my vote entirely. A long time ago, scrimetime introduced me to Millers Crossing -This is my vote.
SECONDED. As much as I would love to watch the Godfather and get anyone who hasn't seen it to sit through it, just do your due diligence and watch the damn thing.
The Departed The film takes place in Boston. Irish Mob boss Francis "Frank" Costello plants Colin Sullivan as a mole within the Massachusetts State Police; the two characters are loosely based on famous gangster Whitey Bulger and corrupt FBI agent John Connolly, who grew up with Bulger.Scorsese, Martin. [http://books.google.com/books?id=500THs9cCnMC&pg=PA50 "Martin Scorsese, The Departed" (transcript of 2007 interview)]. In: Kagan, Jeremy. Directors Close Up 2: Interviews with Directors Nominated for Best Film by the Directors Guild of America: 2006 - 2012. Scarecrow Press, 2012. p. 50. Simultaneously, the police assign undercover trooper William "Billy" Costigan to infiltrate Costello's crew. When both sides realize the situation, each man attempts to discover the other's true identity before his own cover is blown.
I've never seen the Departed. Perhaps I should change my vote?
Damn Green. Drop everything and watch. Scorsese's soundtrack alone is worth it.
I just watched it this past week, and it was actually part of the impetus for this choice of theme!
I will second that suggestion as it is perhaps the greatest mafia film ever made.
I've been meaning to watch The Game (Director David Fincher - with Michael Douglas - 1997) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119174/ Is that close enough?
I'm gonna go ahead and say The Limey. 1) It isn't told through voiceover, like every Scorcese/Coppola/Pileggi film. 2) It isn't set in New York, like every Scorcese/Coppola/Pileggi film. 3) It isn't about the Mafia, like every Scorcese/Coppola/Pileggi film. 4) It isn't an exercise in inevitability, like every Scorcese/Coppola/Pileggi film. Okay, fine. Specifically mafia films. I'm with William Goldman on this one - fuck those petty tyrants and anyone who aggrandizes them. Yeah, Godfather 1 and 2 are great films, and yeah, Goodfellas and Casino are impressive bits of storytelling but I'm fucking sick of the mafia. I'm fucking sick of the glorious tragedy of omerta. And I'm fucking sick of the outsized swath the Italians have cut through the mentality of Hollywood. So I'll probably sit this one out.
Goodfellas and Casino are great because they show the Mafia for what they really are. The characters are mostly parodies, casting light on this bullshit heroic illusion of what a gangster is. That's what I always thought Scorsese was doing. Showing us how ridiculous these people are. The Sopranos was adept at this as well. I have no sympathy for any of these people (well, maybe Michael Imperioli aka Spider in Goodfellas).the glorious tragedy of omerta
Except that a friend's mom dated the guy Goodfellas is about and he's no Ray Liotta. There's still a glamorization in effect. And hey - I watched all of The Sopranos. I've seen Casino a half-dozen times. I'm just kinda fed up with the artificiality of the mob film and ready to move on. That's a personal thing.
Sad but true. Kills the illusion dead as Dillinger. No happy endings.he's no Ray Liotta
Yeah. Take The Departed. Scorsese spent a lot of time making the first two hours a very interesting movie, I guess because he didn't even have to think about the ending, which was set in stone from the moment he decided to make a genre crime film.4) It isn't an exercise in inevitability, like every Scorcese/Coppola/Pileggi film.
Rocknrolla
http://m.imdb.com/title/tt1032755/ Or any Guy Ritchie film, for fucks sake!
With Ben Kingsley right? Yeah that's a good one!
Howard Hughes' 1932 Scarface. The acting is beautiful and the end brings tears to my eyes.