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Re: AMC's Making of the Mob
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There's nothing worse when watching a documentary and the documentary is blatantly not accurate at all. I also don't get how the can't get Italians to play Italians and Jews to play Jews so they can sound more realistic with NYC Italian and Yiddish accents being so distinct. I read somewhere that they were going to be making an Original series' based on Goodfellas and the Lucchese family in the 70s and this was just a test to see if there is still a market for Mob related projects. But if this is what they are basing that on unfortunately I don't think it will be looking good. I agree. I also hated how they made it seem everybody was the same age even though Bugs was alot younger than Lucky. Plus having guys who look like they're in their 40s playing guys in their 20s made me laugh.
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Re: AMC's Making of the Mob
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I tried searching for any comments on this but came up short, so if there's a discussion on this and I missed it--my apologies.
Anyway, did anyone catch this last night? Whatdya think if you did? Not sure how I felt about it. I could only get through 20 minitues. I turned it off after they showed lucky luciano speaking from a podioum announcing the new board of directors of the five families and everyone was sitting around applauding like he was announcing the oscar nominations. Same here with the podium crap.
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Re: AMC's Making of the Mob
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Just wanted to throw my two cents in about the most recent episode, which I fell asleep through. I think they took more liberties than the last time.
1. The narrator said Arnold Rothstein was killed in the street, but everybody who knows, knows that he was hit in the Park Central hotel room he was playing cards in.
2. They give Masseria the credit for coming up with the idea for the Atlantic City Conference, implying it was all about getting Capone under control. Well, us mob-educated folks here know that the idea was Torrio's, in conjunction with Lucky, Frank and Meyer. It was about the future and solidifying a nationwide trade network.
3. The complete lack of accents. I know this was mentioned, but Masseria and Maranzano's piss poor or complete lack of Italian accents is horrible. Especially when they refer to Maranzano as 'recent Sicilian immigrant'.
Anyway, that's my rant on this show. Feels good to get that out. Probably done watching it. Then again, there's no guaranteed good TV on Mondays at 10 until the NFL starts.
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Re: AMC's Making of the Mob
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Especially when they refer to Maranzano as 'recent Sicilian immigrant' He picked up his American accent on his boat ride over  HAHAHAHA
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Re: AMC's Making of the Mob
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the other mob docus are pretty much free so amc is a big company that spends a lot of money to block it from the internet?
