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Scarface---Ending - Get Video CodeFirst galvanized movie audiences as quiet Mafia scion Michael Corleone in Francis Coppola's 1972 The Godfather. He returned to the character twice more, playing it in The Godfather, Part II 1974, as a steely, paranoid, implacably heartless don, and then in The Godfather, Part III 1990, infirm and tragic figure. For these three films, if for nothing else, Pacino will always be remembered. In 1982 His explosive performance as Cuban drug kingpin Tony Montana in Brian De Palma's ScarfaceBut none create such a connection with the viewer. Goodfellas delves into the problems that plague gangsters not the blood and the guts and the lying and the cheating but the much more pedestrian problems of infidelity, broken friendships and the daily grind. Believe it or not, mobsters have the same problems everyone else has. The only difference is that when wise guy problems get out of hand, someone gets dead. This film revels in its gore and violence, but also focuses on the petty problems behind the crueltyGoodfellas underscores that the bad guys are not one dimensional monsters, but are individuals, programmed through circumstance to rationalize the ugliness of their actions. Macrocosmically, it is wrong to kill. To a wiseguy, however, the key is to preserve order and authority. In a world where mercy is weakness, self-preservation mandates participation in heinous acts. Goodfellas does not justify the mafia lifestyle. It merely provides objective insight into the lives of these criminals and their myoptic drive to garner respect.In the next mob film Donnie Brasco 1997 a stabbings, bloodshed, dismemberment. Life in the belly of the beast known as the Mafia is tough, violent, and unrelenting.For FBI agent Joe Pistone, it was a world he was destined to confront and conquer. Pistone accomplished what no one in the history of the bureau had ever done he successfully infiltrated the secretive and deadly world of the mob. For six years, he lived among two of New York's most infamous crime families The Bonnanos and the Colombos bravely posing as a jewel thief named "Donnie Brasco".For a man of the law, pretending to condone burglaries, extortion, and hired hits on a daily basis could be difficult. Having his own life on the line was terrifying. But Pistone persevered with a cool head and by1982, his death-defying work had helped put five mob bosses behind bars.But the public life he knew before Donnie Brasco is long gone. To this day, Joseph Pistone and his family live under secret identities in an undisclosed location, a result of the Mob's half a million-dollar price on his head. In True Crime Author's "Donnie Brasco with Joe Pistone" the former federal agent recounts his often terrifying, sometimes surprising, and always fascinating six-year journey through the world of organised crime.
Showtime is quickly becoming the new HBO. This summer get caught up in the lives of two very different brothers in the drama Brotherhood. Set in an Irish-American town called "The Hill" in Providence, Rhode Island, Brotherhood follows the lives of the Caffee brothers. One brother is a gangster, the other a politician. The Caffee brothers are living their lives on opposite ends of the law, both having their own twisted view on what the American dream means. From the series premise to character descriptions.