I agree. It is probably true that in order to sell a book or movie authors have to produce a product with which an audience can identify. Well, we all can identify with the idea of being rich and powerful, being in control, and having any number of people there to do our bidding. There's no doubt that gangsters have these attributes, but not all of them have them all nor to the same degree nor use them in the same way. The Trilogy, especially GFI, has done alot to create this myth of the dignified, honorable, and omniscient gangster to whom nothing is impossible. I didn't buy it then and I don't buy it now.