Originally posted by Pepino:
I think the godfather movies mean more to us then a movie about gangsters. To those of us that are italian, this movie means alot. It has the struggles of how our ancesters came to this country and struggled. What they had to do to survive. What real cosa nostra and men of honor were like. It has the struggles of how ancient sicilians had to stick together and form coscas to protect themselves from the forgien invaders that have plauged sicilia for centuries. It has many deep rooted traditions, and actions of many people in all of our families that we can relate too. The wedding scene and all the party scenes for example were like every family get together in my house.
WHY then
do all these rappers have to reference and compare themselves to the godather.
Nothing makes me more mad then all these rappers calling themselves the don, and referring to italian things, and calling themselves black sicilians and all that. ( im a fan of rap so i know alot of tis first hand )
I recently saw a special on mtv where all they did was interveiw black rappers and gangsters and talk about how it influenced them to hustle and sell drugs, and form gangs and all that kind of crap. It made my stomach turn and i hate every time i see this. And this has nothign to do with the movie in my opinion
Actually, I think they take their cues more from Tony Montana than Vito Corleone but that's not the funniest part.
The funniest part is that, true story, there was this street gang in Detroit called the Coney Oneys. Everyone thought they were making a reference to Coney Islands, a staple of Motown junk food. But it turns out that one of the gang members was asked what it meant and he said something like, "from The Godfather, you know, Don Coney Oney."
