Meanwhile, Warner Bros’ marketing department is scrambling to get out its second-generation Gangster Squad trailer already in the works. That is being done all over North America today. At 6 AM, Warner Bros started notifying the theater circuits to pull the offensive Gangster Squad trailer. This distribution exec quickly instructed the studio to “replace it as soon as possible”. Memorable Line: Don Corleone: I’m gonna make him an offer he can’t refuse.According to Warner Bros, this distribution exec suddenly remembered that the trailer for the mob movie contained a scene showing a gangster with a machine gun shooting up people in a movie theater from behind the big screen. The Don barely survives, which leads his son Michael to begin a violent mob war against Sollozzo and tears the Corleone family apart. This does not please Sollozzo, who has the Don shot down by some of his hit men. He approaches Don Corleone about it, but, much against the advice of the Don’s lawyer Tom Hagen, the Don is morally against the use of drugs, and turns down the offer. Drug dealer Virgil Sollozzo is looking for Mafia Families to offer him protection in exchange for a profit of the drug money. All of Michael’s family is involved with the Mafia, but Michael just wants to live a normal life. His youngest son Michael has returned from WWII just in time to see the wedding of Connie Corleone (Michael’s sister) to Carlo Rizzi. Vito Corleone is the aging don (head) of the Corleone Mafia Family. This was the easiest choice for me – the Godfather has to be number 1 gangster movie because it is unparalleled in this genre (and virtually all others). And you beat him with a gun, you better kill him, because he’ll keep comin’ back and back until one of you is dead. You beat him with a knife, he comes back with a gun. You beat Nicky with fists, he comes back with a bat. Memorable Line: Ace Rothstein: No matter how big a guy might be, Nicky would take him on. However, they each have a tragic flaw–Ace falls in love with a hustler, Ginger, and Nicky falls into an ever-deepening spiral of drugs and violence. Ace is the smooth operator of the Tangiers casino, while Nicky is his boyhood friend and tough strongman, robbing and shaking down the locals. Seen through their eyes, each as a foil to the other, the details of mob involvement in the casinos of the 1970’s and ’80’s are revealed. Ace Rothstein and Nicky Santoro, mobsters who move to Las Vegas to make their mark, live and work in this paradoxical world. This Martin Scorsese film depicts the Janus-like quality of Las Vegas–it has a glittering, glamorous face, as well as a brutal, cruel one. Memorable Line: Eddie: Err, bad breath, colorful language, feather duster… what do you think they’re gonna be armed with? Guns, you tit! 14 Mean Streets With the very real threat of finger amputation looming over them the lads come up with a plan to nick the cash from their next-door neighbours: a gang of hardcase drug-dealers… Meanwhile, ‘Hatchet’ ain’t none too pleased when a pair of antique shotguns wot he wants are sold on by a pair of Scouse thieves, to be used in a “job”… The involvement of a conscientious debt-collector, some public school “chemists”, a psychotic hash-baron, a lot of guns and knives, ensures that karma is surrealistically resolved (just!) before the end credits roll 15 Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrelsįour Cockney wide-boys are tricked into owing 500,000 nicker to the local gang-land boss and porn king, ‘Hatchet’ Harry Lonsdale. Memorable Line: Dignam: My theory on Feds is that they’re like mushrooms, feed ’em shit and keep ’em in the dark. But is either willing to turn on the friends and comrades they’ve made during their long stints undercover? But when it becomes clear to both the mob and the police that there’s a mole in their midst, Billy and Colin are suddenly in danger of being caught and exposed to the enemy-and each must race to uncover the identity of the other man in time to save himself. Each man becomes deeply consumed by his double life, gathering information about the plans and counter-plans of the operations he has penetrated. While Billy quickly gains Costello’s confidence, Colin Sullivan, a hardened young criminal who has infiltrated the state police as an informer for the syndicate, is rising to a position of power in the Special Investigation Unit. Young undercover cop Billy Costigan is assigned to infiltrate the mob syndicate run by gangland chief Frank Costello. In South Boston, the state police force is waging war on Irish-American organized crime.
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