On The Godfather (Interesting analysis)

Lew Rockwell.com ^ | March 19, 2003 | Craig Russell

[MarkL]

Funny...I can't remember where my keys are, but trivia like that never escapes me. Must be Senioritis coming on.

Don't worry: Not being able to find your keys, that's NOT an indication of "Old Timers" disease... On the other hand, forgetting what your keys are for ...

Mark

[My back yard]

But I didn't know, until this very day, that it was Barzinni all along.

I got the 4 DVD set for my birthday. I love the Godfather movies. Even the 3rd with its flaws. I have seen them all maybe 40 times.

I enjoyed what you wrote, but would just add that everything the Don did might have been for power, but in his world, from when he was a child, power meant - not money, but safety, for those he loved. That was his priority, and what separates him from the bad guys.

[stylin19a]

LOL. I have a friend of mine who calls me up with obscure questions. i asked him why he calls me. He said i know more useless sh&t than anyone he knows.

[SUSSA]

The state has successfully muscled the Don out of the numbers racket. It's now exclusively their "game".
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Not only did the State muscle the numbers game away from the entrepreneurs who started it, they don’t run it nearly as honestly or as efficiently.

When you could play the numbers on the street, the payoff was 600/1. The state pays 250/1 in some places. The true odds are 999/1.

The private sector ran the game, paid off cops, judges, etc., paid runners who picked up the bets and brought you the winnings, and made a very nice profit for the bookmaker on the 299/1 grind. The State can’t make enough to run the schools on a 749/1 grind.

Of course, this is no surprise. The State is never as efficient, or as honest, as the private sector.

[stanz]

That's funny. My daughter says I'm a storehouse of useless trivialities. She's right.(But some of my little ditties come in handy when she's researching papers.)

[stanz]

How about the fact that each of my keys are color-coded?

[The Lake City Gar]

mm

[The Lake City Gar]

My only problem with the picture (And I think this is "Cinamatography) is that it's so dark. So dark in many places that you can't even make-out the actors faces. It really bothers me.

[The Lake City Gar]

In 1973 Marlon Brando sent 'Sasheen Littlefeather' to reject his Best Actor award as a protest against Hollywood's portrayal of Native American Indians. It turned out that she wasn't quite as native american as she first appeared, but actually actress Maria Cruz, one time winner of the Miss American Vampire contest and later to appear nude in Playboy Magazine...

[mr.pink]

My only problem with the picture (And I think this is "Cinamatography) is that it's so dark. So dark in many places that you can't even make-out the actors faces. It really bothers me.

To each his own. I enjoyed that aspect of the film very much. I think that dramatic style of lighting is called "chiaroscuro" (originally a term for a type of painting style...i.e.- Carravagio).

[MarkL]

How about the fact that each of my keys are color-coded?

If you got them color coded AFTER forgetting you were color-blind, then I'd start worrying!

Mark

[stanz]

Nah. There's hope for me!

[Urbane_Guerilla]

Re:22

Perfectly expressed, every sentence.