I don't know what people mean whenever they keep saying that Hollywood glamorizes the Mafia, I don't believe it's necessarily the case. After all I've read about the real-life mob over the years, movies like Goodfellas, Casino, Donnie Brasco, and shows like The Sopranos are pretty realistic. The one exception being The Godfather, but if we're comparing Don Corleone and his fellow fictional Mafia dons to bosses like Tommy Lucchese, Carlo Gambino, Joe Bonanno, Joe Profaci, Angelo Bruno, or Joe Zerilli then I believe those are realistic comparisons. That's not the case with bosses like Nicky Scarfo, John Gotti, or Vic Amuso, as they had ZERO sense of what Joe Bonanno called Tradition. They were just street thugs. And many Mafiosi have a lot of fashion sense, whether they're actually sophisticated or not, just like many do not. Many have plenty of money, and many do not. I think it's all a luck of the draw, nothing is set in stone. Nothing is black and white with the Mafia, there are many gray areas.