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#1 by Anonymous (Nobody) at 10 Apr 2014 02:54:42 GMT
| "The Godfather is more about a newer ethnic group wniantg to get a seat at the table of the anglo establishment than it is about Ethnic America versus Anglo America."Yes and no. While it's true that Vito wants his family to become legitimate, he's willing to violate the rules of Anglo-America to enter it. He rose as a crime boss and played by his own rules. He did it his way. And in Godfather II, Michael does gain control over an Anglo-American who insults him. And Kay comes to see Michael as part of this 'Sicilian thing' that is conspiring to take over America with lies, deception, and etc. Puzo wasn't apologetic at all about the Corleones, but Coppola, a liberalized and wasp-ized Italian-American, took a critical view of Italian-American power. In Godfather II, he made the Corleones truly evil by having a hooker killed(to blackmail Geary)and then Fredo too. If Puzo had control of the script, he wouldn't have gone there. (That hooker thing I cannot forgive.) In the novel, the Corleones' men kill Tataglia but not the whore he's with. But in the movie, the men wipe out both Tataglia and the whore. Coppola made the violence grimmer. Coppola was being self-critical of Italian-American corruption just like Wasps were with their own privilege and abuses. I guess waspism rubbed off on Coppola; he felt a need to apply the same standards to his own community. Jews, in contrast, don't seem to be very self-critical of anything they do. |
#2 by Anonymous (Nobody) at 10 Apr 2014 09:11:52 GMT
| I don't understand why this stkiers you as from another era. I know many creative people in film, in theatre, in painting, sculpture, music, writing, etc. who use libraries all the time! For research, for quiet space to work, for inspiration It bothers me that this perception creative people like Coppola don't use libraries anymore exists and gets perpetuated. It's not true. But these sorts of misconceptions about libraries are what make it so easy for our leaders to see them as irrelevant and easily dismissed.We need to make people aware of how relevant libraries still are even more so now than ever to protect them against budget cuts and disuse! |
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