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...provides work when unemployment is everywhere, attaches itself to legitimate businesses, and establishes its presence as the de facto source of power and authority through murder and intimidation. Although this movie is about Italian crime syndicates, this is no modern rendition with glorifying elements like “The Godfather?? or even “Goodfellas.” Visually speaking, the movie is bleak and almost completely devoid of entertainment for entertainment’s sake. Many of the movie’s scenes take place in the bombed-out public housing high rises within the city?...
...talents. Even as the jokes wear on, the Pudding keeps the audience’s attention as new characters bring even more personality to the show. Giuseppi T. Boppityboo (S. Adam Goldenberg ’08, who is also a Crimson editor) is a modern “fairy godfather?? with a mafia connection, while villainess Mia Pharaoh (Derek S. Mueller ’10) explodes onto the stage in a full-length sequin dress and a presence that outshines the sparkles. Giuseppi’s entertaining number entitled “A Fairy Like...
Rarely has such a prestigious American director returned to the film industry with so much hype surrounding him. After directing classics like “Apocalypse Now” and the “Godfather?? trilogy, Francis Ford Coppola ends his 10-year hiatus with “Youth Without Youth,” a complicated, cerebral film based on a novella by Romanian author Mircea Eliade. Like Coppola, the film’s main character is given an opportunity to reestablish himself. Unfortunately, neither of them succeed in their pursuits. The film begins in 1938 and follows...
...careful analysis of a black man trying to operate in a world where business, crime, and everyday life are synonymous. At times, Lucas needs to exhibit his ruthlessness in order to gain respect. For this reason, “American Gangster” deviates from “The Godfather?? by presenting sometimes painfully detailed violence. The opening scene of the movie, for all intents and purposes, shows Lucas and his mentor dousing a man with gasoline, lighting him on fire, and then shooting him in the head three times after they watch him writhe and scream. Scenes...
...lingering doubts I had over the true quality and strength of Eagles loyalty were dispelled this past winter break when, while out to dinner with my parents, we happened to bump into my godfather??a very successful private lawyer in Philadelphia. His first words to us were not “Merry Christmas,” but “Go Birds!” He then proceeded to elaborate how he was mandating that Christmas dinner would be served on the sole condition that the game—the Eagles played Dallas that evening—would...