:D if you do a search on subjects including the name Donnie Brasco, you will find at least a dozen


anyway, after a long time I have seen it again today (I'm working my way through my dvd collection last couple of days).

I am realy delighted with Al Pacino in this one. We all seem to praise him for his work in the seventies (four consecutive oscar nods), and after his quite eighties he might have had some sort of a comeback in the nineties: another Godfather, his final oscar win and the climax of all, the confrontation with DeNiro in Heat. After that he has not been that great too often, but I think in DB he is. He gives the character such great characteristics, whereas other characters are 'just movie characters', he really made something special out of Lefty. Reminded me of Tony Montana a bit, altough Tony was mroe brutal, and more a winner instead of a loser.

I think it's one of the few famous mafia films that realy relies on the real mafia organization (in Goodfellas, all we know about the real mafia is that Billy Batts is a 'made member' and all, in Casino the real members stay at home); here we can explicitly see a little bit of the hierarchy in LCN.

And I love all the mob-slang Pacino introduces Donnie to.


fugazy
goombah
fuggedaboutit
fazul (sp?)

anyone can help me out with more, and proper spelling?