[lbo-talk] Warm summers or dark ages?/ (An offer you can't refuse)

[Luke Weiger]

> You presume incorrectly. I did not perceive of the Godfather films as
> glorifying gangsterism. Depicting yes, but not glorifying. Scarface
> glorified gangsterism? Not the version I watched. Maybe I did not
> understand these films and they really were celebrating gangsterism. Why
> does it have to be either "uplifting proletkult" films or else White Heat?
> Is there nothing in between? The best movie I've seen so far this year was
> Tully on DVD this spring and it doesn't fit either genre you've just
described.
>
> John Thornton

So why did you suggest that The Sopranos glorifies gangsterism?  It does so
to a lesser degree than the first Godfather film.

-- Luke