Originally Posted By: Danito
Originally Posted By: The Italian Stallionette
imagining how they must have felt as the gaze at Lady Liberty


I think this scene is made for giving us a chill. I don't believe the new immigrants in the beginning of the 20th century new about the pathos and meaning connected to the statue of liberty.
They just saw a giant, impressing statue. How can a boy from a Sicilian village know about its importance? He probably hasn't even seen a photo of it.


Of course they did. It was the symbol of their new life. They all new what it was and what it meant. They all had friends or relatives who had come to America. They knew exactly what it meant.

Remember the flashback scene in GF2, when young Santino gives the miniature Statue of Liberty to his grandmother? She knew exactly what it was.

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