That is an awesome movie. Not a gangster movie, more like just good organized crime, but one of my favorites is The Usual Suspects.
On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 6:20 AM, Christopher Hayes <[email protected]>wrote: > A really good movie to watch is Miller's Crossing, IMHO, it's on par with > Goodfellas and The Godfather. That and Casino is kinda like Goodfellas > part 2 > > Chris > > ------------------------------ > From: [email protected] > Subject: Re: New movie The Purge (Spoiler for Into A Dark Realm) > Date: Sun, 26 May 2013 09:15:18 -0700 > To: [email protected] > > > On May 26, 2013, at 12:14 AM, Nick Andrews <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have always enjoyed reading about it. Not quite the romanticized > Hollywood world many seem to think of it, but I still like the movie Good > fellas. > > > > Except Goodfella's isn't "Hollywood." It's a biography of the character > played by Ray Liota, Henry Hill, who is a real person. > > Two other exceptional films on the mob are Casino, another biography of a > real person, and L.A. Confidential, which is fact based fiction. > > Books like Murder Machine paint quite a different light on the subject. > The results of Prohibition had such a profound effect on the development of > this nation in the first half of the twentieth century. Makes me wonder > what might have been if those guys had simply reported the income and paid > the taxes... But I imagine you're right and eventually the massive > corruption in the government officials would have toppled it anyway. Not > unlike certain recent events. > > They couldn't, given while it would have made the iRS happy on one hand, > getting their taxes, it would have alerted them on the other hand. Most > people don't recall that at that time the IRS had enforcement > responsibility over Prohibition, not the F.B.I which was seen as strictly > an information gathering agency until 1932 when it got more enforcement > authority. > > The movie Gomorrah was interesting and not quite what I expected. What > books about the Mafia did you find to be the most interesting? > > > Start with Godfather. While highly fictionalized, it represents to a > large degree the evolution of the culture from the old "Mustache Pete's" > Manzaria and Maranzano, to the five families. Bill Bonnano's four books > on growing up as the son of a Don are fascinating. The one I mentioned > above, Wiseguy by Nick Paleggi (which became Goodfella's because of a title > issue which meant they couldn't call it Wiseguy), For a more modern take, > check out Organized crime by Howard Abadinsky. > > Best, R,.E.F. > > -- Nick A "You know what I wish? I wish that all the scum of the world had but a single throat, and I had my hands about it..." Rorschach, 1975 "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."- Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759 "Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them." Bill Vaughan "The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." Plato
