As some have alluded too, we are apt to confuse danger with the appearance of danger. Whether or not one Mafioso is more dangerous than another does not preclude the fact that they all achieve a certain minimum level of dangerousness. However, GFI was consistent with what we were exposed to in previous organized crime films in which the violence was not disguised as it was to a large extent in II and III. All of the characters in II and III met the minimum violence-capable threshhold I referred to above, but they were capable of achieving their nefarious ends through other means which the increasing sophistication of society almost required.