Are real mobs anything like the movies or shows?

Are real mobs anything like the movies or shows?

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Sopranos is very accurate. I can't vouch for the others though.

Goodfellas is an accurate depiction but The Godfather is not

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Mario Puzzo made up most of the shit in Godfather but the Mafia was actually influenced by him and started imitating the movie.
Ad example the rank of the Consigliere became part of the mafia only after the movie.

No one was going around referring to the boss as the Godfather or kissing his ring either. This was another thing the Italians adopted from the Godfather.

Care to elaborate? Goodfellas was later (70s) while Godfather was based in early 50's.

In Godfather they show the mob as businessmen with a code of honour. Goodfellas shows the brutal reality.
This is partly because The Godfather was made at the height of the mobs power when even Hollywood had to play down their darker side due to fear. They weren't even alowed to say the word mafia.

not him, but the Godfather was heavily romanticized and a lot of flavor was added by Puzo. Goodfellas is based on the autobiography of a low level hood connected to a smaller crew of one of the smaller of the NY families. In a lot of ways it unglamorized all the stuff that Puzo highlighted, shined a dirty light onto the world of organized crime and the ideas about it people had in their heads.

The real life Henry Hill attested to Goodfella's accuracy.

I've read the book (wise guy) and Scorsese basically only changed a few names and left everything else alone.

Yeah but it only makes sense that the story from the perspective of a low level associate is going to be more brutal than the story from the top boss-level of the mob like in the Godfather.

When you heard Vito tell the guys who have someone 'do a thing', you know what it meant, but the story was about the top level of the mob.

Also to be fair, the ending where Michael kills the 5 bosses is brutal, so is the horse head and sonny's death. Arguable more brutal than Goodfellas.

>more brutal

Billy Batts might disagree with you there.

I mean that it was less realistic in the sense that it glamorized the fuck out of the mafia. And yeah obviously the dichotomy between white collar and blue collar gangsters has a lot to do with it. Not to mention that obsession with the mafia exploded after the Godfather, you didn't have first had accounts of what street guys were doing in their day to day back then, let a lone how a boss of a Five Families family operates.

Agree with everything you said however I think the mob actually WAS more violent during the time when Hill was coming up as opposed to the 1940's.

Once they got into the drug trade in a big way murder rates soared in the major cities.

>care to elaborate?
>elaborates
>well yeah obviously, duh, it only makes sense...

then why did you even fucking ask then?

Mob boss here, AMA

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If you watch NARCOS, just be sure that Escobar and the Medellin Cartel were (are) more ruthless than they are portrayed.

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what are you even talking about? I'm saying that's the reason for why it's more brutal, it's not because it's unrealistic, its because its from a different perspective.

I wasnt disagreeing with the fact that it is less brutal, but the fact on why it was less brutal.

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If by mob you mean Sicilian American mafia, then yeah.

Russian mafia and the Chinese Triads are much more violent and brutal, while the Yakuza have some kind of "honour" code similar to what you see in The Godfather.

Chicago Outfit Boss Salvatore "Sam" Giancana most fits the bill.

Pic Related: That's him on the left, with Frank Sinatra.

Giancana had a long-term affair with singer Phyllis McGuire.

Giancana was linked to plots to assassinate both JFK and Fidel Castro

Lucky Luciano was a pretty fucked fella.

Need more Russian mafia kino

>Consigliere
Not really. That always existed in the American and Sicilian mafia but Godfather just popularised it.

the movie is romanticized. henry hill's wife was fucking paulie irl. jimmy was a heroin addict. there's a lot of stuff like that left out of the movie to make it more entertaining and less scummy. because that's what they all were, really scummy dirtbag people.

MFW fucked a girl who related to the family the God father is losely based on. Unless it was a russ

>russ

Giancana was nothing more than a front man for the real bosses off the Chicago Outfit. For years Tony Accardo and Paul Ricca ran things behind the scene, setting up numerous acting bosses and street bosses to run things on the street and handle the day to day and take all the heat. Think how Tony let Junior be boss in season 1. Even Ricca was basically a puppet for Accardo. Ricca once even said that Accardo had "more brains for breakfast than Capone had his entire life".

In the end they greenlight Giancana because he was getting too high profile and was eating alone.

The McGuire sisters and Marilyn served as go betweens and buffers for Giancana and Kennedy. Mafia hitman John Rosselli claimed to have fired several shots from a storm drain on that fateful day in Dallas and days after he was scheduled to testify before the Warren Commission his body was found in an oil drum floating in Dumfoundling bay. He was shot in the head, strangled and cut in half before stuffed into the drum.

Tony Accardo also strong armed Harry Cohn into signing Monroe, an unknown at the time, to a huge contract.