J like many, is a Godfather fan and watching the trilogy with her a couple of years ago was a great experience. So watching The Irishman alone, I missed her. She would have loved every bit of it. The movie is everything you expect of Scorsese - polished, memorable and taut. I particularly admired how perfectly every character was cast - down to people who appear only in crowd scenes.
Watching the movie, I wondered what it was about gangster movies that make them such crowd-pleasers. The fans of The Godfather abound in their diverse millions for instance - it does not take any particular "type" of person to like it. Interesting essay on the appeal of gangster movies and how Hollywood made them into modern day Robin Hoods
The Corleones, and all screen gangsters, were good people. They never killed people out of personal hatred. It was all “just business.” They loved their wives, were good family men, raised kids, went to church and respected each other. They were men who acted like all men wanted to act. They just had a different type of job, that’s all – real different. They died just like we all died, except they died suddenly.
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