Originally posted by Turnbull:
Astro, I think of an "anti-hero" as someone who does good in unconventional--even wrong--ways. Clint Eastwood in "Dirty Harry," and Steve McQueen in "Bullitt" and "Sand Pebble" come to mind.
Vito Corleone doesn't qualify by that definition. We all idolize him because he was so brilliantly portrayed by Marlon Brando, because he was a "good father," and because he was against drugs. But he opposed drugs not because he was concerned with the welfare of his community, but because he saw drugs as a threat to his regular businesses--gambling and unions. And those weren't "harmless vices," or "victimless crimes."
The big money in illegal gambling doesn't come from the odds favoring the house, but from loansharking--a business of broken kneecaps or worse. And every dollar that Vito got out of his corrupt unions was a dollar lifted from the pockets of some working stiff.
An "anti-hero"? I don't think so.
Loanshark people are usually of what rank in the Mob? Captain, Soldier or Associate
