Know this: after ‘Wiseguys’ all bets are off for the mob movie
Pitting De Niro against himself, the chance arises to call the film the last hurrah for the genre
Blame it on The Godfather. In the 50th anniversary of the release of the film that gave the American gangster movie a second much-needed gust of creative wind and fundamentally changed the way gangsters were portrayed and thought about in cinema forever, there has been plenty of nostalgia for one of the US’s once most popular, beloved and uniquely American film staples: the mob movie.
Some of this recent wave of nostalgia has been specifically focused not on Francis Ford Coppola’s groundbreaking masterpiece’s content but rather on the madcap story of its making. The recent Paramount limited series The Offer tells an entertaining tall tale of that story, including the fabled deal reached with the real-life mob not to mention the word “mafia” in the film, which allowed for its shooting in New York to proceed. The making of the story is also due for big screen treatment soon in the Barry Levinson directed Francis and the Godfather, which stars Oscar Isaac as Coppola and Jake G...
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