Comments by "voteZDLR" (@voteZDLR) on "Highest Paid Mafia Boss Tells the TRUTH About the Life" video.

  1. GoodFellas is the more realistic mob movie. It's also depicting the mob in a more "modern" light. The Godfather basically showed Mafiosos to be virtuous, chivalrous, knights with a code of ethics and principles of honor. People in the mafia basically are all doing things in a conspiratorial like way to engage in things the government have said should be illegal and then pedal those products/services to people anyway if there is in fact a demand for it in spite of it's illegal nature. Quick, easy money, till you get caught, but that's the contract that basically every organized criminal in history has signed. If you can't handle the thought of eventually going to prison one day, then you need to stop selling your little bullshit dime or dub sacks and go to college. If you in your heart of hearts can look yourself in the mirror and be like "I am willing to go to prison for this" then do it but you may as well go balls to the wall with it and start dealing more in weight vs playing it small thinking you'll be more likely to slide if you stay small enough. If they want you bad enough, they're going to get you one way or another. Anyway I don't think The Godfather is that good of a movie, and that's an unpopular opinion I realize. I am not saying I hate it, I just think GoodFellas is by far the better mob film. But it tells the tale of a fuckup/rat in the Mafia, Michael Franzese is very much like Michael Corleone, but really that and the fact that the business was kind of forced on him because his father got sick -- Vito never wanted Michael in the business, but nobody else was up for the challenge but Michael so over time we see Michael transform into this cold-hearted motherfucker and I don't think Michael Franzese ever got to THAT point. Then again, I have no idea the full extent of ALL the things this guy is responsible for doing or ordering. I do think Franzese deserves his own movie, if only because it will be able to say something The Godfather never could -- Based On A True Story.
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  2. In the eyes of the general public, the civilians and the government especially, criminals like Michael and his father John AKA Sonny are just that. Criminals. The dregs of society. But in THEIR eyes, whether it be them or anyone else who gets involved with organized crime, they're just plying their trade. Al Capone has famously said before that all he was doing was providing a service that people wanted, when talking about bootlegging which was how he made his bones early on. And that if he didn't do it, someone else would. In other words, if it wasn't that he may have chosen to become someone who was involved in another business like banking or stocks or maybe he'd just become a plumber. Because really when you think about it, unless there are innocent bystanders in some instances (which is truly terrible) then dollars to donuts if the mob targets you then you likely were a player in the game yourself. It's just business. I mean I personally see them from more of the same standpoint that the law does, and society, because at it's worst organized crime really is a plight on communities wherever it takes root especially in other ways like loan sharking and extortion, etc., but honestly in these guys mind's they're just doing what they are professionally good at and it just happens to be crime. Take that out of the picture and the remarkable thing is that they're more like normal people than we'd ever like to admit. Such as being such a good father that he never missed one of his son's games. That's just the mark of a good father, taken out of context that the fact is he either has murdered people before or has had them murdered. But again, 99% of the time targets are other criminals and it's pretty much a cardinal sin that will beget punishment from the commission if innocent people do get caught up accidentally or otherwise. The best of them went out of their way to see to it than no harm comes to the innocents.
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  3. I guarantee off camera if he like was greeted at the door by Michael who was just in his socks, he asked "shoes on or off?". For one thing he looks like he comes from a family or region that would have an opinion on it, so it shouldn't be a foreign idea to him. I know me personally, the first thing that would pop in my mind as I noticed is: "OK, on a cultural level among other things, I am going to ask if he has a preference on the shoe thing or not -- if only to save my own life, cause, yeah, that's how Mafia works.". Cause some cultures I know like Indian people (well, I had a friend who dated an Indian chick -- she was hot af, too -- but the one or two times I went over there it was a shoes off house for sure) ask that you leave your shoes at the door. But in America no it's not even close to being a standardized thing, I know feet are generally smellier out of shoes than in them but it really all just depends what the priorities of the homeowner are I guess.
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  4. I love how he acts like he's a reformed criminal, how he's happy he was able to leave the life behind, but every time he talks about it without the Christian crap behind it he is almost waxing poetic like he actually MISSES it. So on the one hand he acts like "Oh it's an evil life" but from the way he talks about it beyond that he actually sounds like he'd still be doing it if push never came to shove like it did. In other words, dude's kind of a hypocrite.
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  5. Question: Is this how Mafia works?
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