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kleinbl00  ·  3798 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski Movie Club - Voting Thread #3

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.