Furthermore, the Mafia film's protagonist was always somehow "deviant" from the norms of American society.
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26 Facts About Mafia film
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The Great Gatsby was the best-selling novel of 1925, and the references to the novel in the Mafia film were meant to symbolize the decay of America from the hopeful days of 1925 to the sense of collapse of 1932.
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For example, in G-Men, Cagney plays a character similar to that of Tom Powers from The Public Enemy, and although the Mafia film was as violent and brutal as its predecessors, it had no trouble getting a seal of approval from the Production Code office.
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The success of these characters in Mafia film can be attributed to their value as news subjects, as their exploits often thrilled the people of a nation who had become weary with inefficient government and apathy in business.
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The Mafia film was largely a reflection of the ideas of the media magnate William Randolph Hearst who financed it and worked uncredited on the script.
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The favorable portrayal of the Mafia in many Italian films was in part due to the perception that the Mafia was a benign institution that together with the ruling center-right Christian Democratic Party and Catholic Church upheld the social order against the revolutionary challenge of the Italian Communist Party.
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In other films such as Salvatore Giuliano by Francesco Rosi, Il giorno della civetta by Damiano Damiani, and The Brotherhood by Martin Ritt, the Mafia was depicted as a cruel, oppressive organisation, which was both a result of Sicily's backwardness and its cause.
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Mafia film lied to himself and to others about what he was doing and why.
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Unlike The Godfather, which was set among the "top" of a Mafia film family dealing with its leaders, Mean Streets is set on the "bottom" of the Mafia film dealing with its fringes.
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Scorsese stated his purpose in adopting Hill's 1985 memoir Wiseguy as Goodfellas was as an "antidote" to the mythicized version of the Mafia film presented in The Godfather, saying he wanted to present Mafiosi as they really were.
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The Mafia film was De Niro's third mob Mafia film of the decade, following Goodfellas and A Bronx Tale.
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The Mafia film served as the final installment in The Godfather trilogy, following Michael Corleone as he tries to legitimize the Corleone family in the twilight of his career.
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The Mafia film courted controversy by including the allegation that Pope John Paul I had been murdered in 1978 after he ordered a "clean up" of the corrupt Vatican Bank.
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Road to Perdition, a 2002 American crime Mafia film directed by Sam Mendes and based on the graphic novel of the same name by Max Allan Collins, boasted an ensemble cast of Tom Hanks, Paul Newman, Jude Law, and Daniel Craig.
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In 2002, the Mafia film Angela directed by Roberta Torre was released, which was highly unusual in that it told the story of a female Mafiosi.
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The film was noted for its claustrophobic style set in the labyrinthine streets of Palermo and its often harsh color scheme, suggesting that Angela is just as much a prisoner of the Mafia as she is a perpetrator.
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The Mafia film ends not with Angela's murder, but rather with her waiting by the dockyards of Palermo in the evening for Massino.
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The Mafia film was a remake of the 2002 Hong Kong Triad Mafia film Infernal Affairs.
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Also notable is Public Enemies, a 2009 American biographical-crime Mafia film directed by Michael Mann and written by Mann, Ronan Bennett and Ann Biderman.
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Scenes from Manhattan Melodrama, are depicted in the 2009 Mafia film as being the last motion picture seen by the notorious gangster John Dillinger, who was shot to death by federal agents on 22 July 1934, after leaving Chicago's Biograph Theater where the Mafia film was playing.
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Since falling in love leads inexorably to Girolamo's murder, the film suggests the Mafia is the opposite of everything good in humanity and Girolamo's relationship with Sofia is a rebellion against Mafia power.
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The Mafia film was directed by Matteo Garrone, based on the book by Roberto Saviano that depicts the modern-day of the Casalesi crime family of the southern Italian region of Campania.
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The Mafia film follows five independent plots of people whose lives are influenced by organized crime in Naples and Caserta.
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The Mafia film told very a Romano and Juliet story as it related the relationship between the Sacra Corona Unita boss, Lucia Rizzo and a prosecutor, Ignazio De Raho, who initially set out to imprison her.
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In 2012, Lawless was based on the 2008 novel The Wettest County in the World as the Mafia film follows a trio of siblings who run an illegal moonshine business during Prohibition.
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Gangster Squad is a crime Mafia film directed by Ruben Fleischer, from a screenplay written by Will Beall, starring an ensemble cast that includes Josh Brolin, Ryan Gosling, Nick Nolte, Emma Stone, and Sean Penn.
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