This was awesome, great job!! Yea, I wonder what today’s audiences would make of that DeNiro rape scene in Once Upon A Time In America (also based on a novel, The Hoods, which is not very good). I bet that scene would be taken out before release (no pun intended), especially now with DeNiro being the Mayor of Woke City. To me OUATIA is peak gangster genre, it’s been downhill ever since (Goodfellas is great but not as great, imo, it lacks that mythical aspect and symbolism)
OUTIA is peak gangster, and I wouldn’t just put it up against Goodfellas, I’d put it up against the Godfather. The imagery, the characterization, the score. That and TGTBATU are my favorite films. RIP Leone
The 1920s are such a juicy period for a mob story. Major turf wars before the establishment of the Commission in 1931, and an almost Dostoyevskian clash old world values vs capital P progress.
Dashiell Hammett is a good place to start for that era’s crime fiction.
This was awesome, great job!! Yea, I wonder what today’s audiences would make of that DeNiro rape scene in Once Upon A Time In America (also based on a novel, The Hoods, which is not very good). I bet that scene would be taken out before release (no pun intended), especially now with DeNiro being the Mayor of Woke City. To me OUATIA is peak gangster genre, it’s been downhill ever since (Goodfellas is great but not as great, imo, it lacks that mythical aspect and symbolism)
OUTIA is peak gangster, and I wouldn’t just put it up against Goodfellas, I’d put it up against the Godfather. The imagery, the characterization, the score. That and TGTBATU are my favorite films. RIP Leone
Don Wislow has been added to my tbr! Great read. I've been studying mobsters of the 20's for a novel lately. I need to read up on the fiction
The 1920s are such a juicy period for a mob story. Major turf wars before the establishment of the Commission in 1931, and an almost Dostoyevskian clash old world values vs capital P progress.
Dashiell Hammett is a good place to start for that era’s crime fiction.
I'll check him out, thanks!