Mob Movies

compare and contrast:
-All three movie we watched deals with the Italian mob, however they are not all about the same thing.   A Bronx Tale deals more with a child who has no born relative in the mob, but gets sucked into this mob that controls the neighborhood that they live in.  The mob in this movie really only stays within the Bronx which is predominantly an Italian neighborhood.  Although i was absent for 2 days of The Godfather, this movie dealt with the Corleone family.  The Corleone family revolved around the godfather(Marlon Brando) and his family of mobsters.  If you were born in the Corleone family chances are that you were involved with the family "business".    Goodfellas follows the life of Henry Hill and his involvement in the mob.  Henry and his two very good friends Jimmy and Tommy work their way up the hierarchy.  this movie is a lot different from the other 2 because Henry is not completely Italian and it involves a ton of drug use, which is how they made their money.

Stereotyping:
-all three movies are very stereotypical.  from the gigantic Italian families down to the cursing that is very prevalent in each movie.  the stereotypes in A Bronx Tale is the most evident.  C lived in a very typical Italian neighborhood.  people dated only within their race which showed how people thought back then.  even C's father who was an honorable man told him that he doesn't want C to be with a black woman.  Black people to the Italians were a threat to their way of life pretty much and they never forgot to use racial slurs to display their hatred towards each other.

Goodfellas a true story:
-Goodfellas is a true story based on the book  "Wise Guy" by Nicholas Pileggi.  all the characters in the movie portray a real life mobster whose names change only slightly in the movie. Martin Scorsese co wrote the script for Goodfellas with Nicholas Pileggi.  most of the events the movie depicts actually happened.  the witness protection officer who tells Henry and Karen they have no other choice but to join this program was the actual officer who told the real Henry Hill and Karen to join.  Henry Hill is no longer in the witness protection program.