Posted By: southend
Gyp Rossetti/Boardwalk Empire - 01/12/13 04:43 PM
Is he based on a real life gangster like most of the characters on the show? If so, who exactly?
Gyp Rossetti/Boardwalk Empire
Posted By: stevapalooza
Re: Gyp Rossetti/Boardwalk Empire - 01/12/13 08:06 PM
Gyp the Blood maybe? He was a Jewish gangster from the early 1900's. Actually he was dead by the 20's. Executed.
Posted By: Giancarlo
Re: Gyp Rossetti/Boardwalk Empire - 01/12/13 08:18 PM
According to Terence Winter the character Gyp Rosetti was completely fictional.
http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/inter..._season_3_.html
Slate: Speaking of which, in Season 3, you introduce a fabulous but terrifying character, Gyp Rosetti, who is definitely a psychopath. Was there really a Gyp Rosetti?
Winter: No, he’s completely fictional. Gyp represents a new breed of gangster. Things got progressively more competitive and more violent as the 1920s progressed. When Prohibition was first enacted in 1920, most people stockpiled alcohol, thinking they’d have enough to last them for years. By 1923, that was starting to run out, so your average person started to rely more and more on criminals. Hence the profits in the alcohol game went up, and the competition and the violence increased as well. You had people like Gyp Rosetti, who were essentially low-level criminals starting to work their way into the game.
http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/inter..._season_3_.html
Slate: Speaking of which, in Season 3, you introduce a fabulous but terrifying character, Gyp Rosetti, who is definitely a psychopath. Was there really a Gyp Rosetti?
Winter: No, he’s completely fictional. Gyp represents a new breed of gangster. Things got progressively more competitive and more violent as the 1920s progressed. When Prohibition was first enacted in 1920, most people stockpiled alcohol, thinking they’d have enough to last them for years. By 1923, that was starting to run out, so your average person started to rely more and more on criminals. Hence the profits in the alcohol game went up, and the competition and the violence increased as well. You had people like Gyp Rosetti, who were essentially low-level criminals starting to work their way into the game.
Posted By: southend
Re: Gyp Rossetti/Boardwalk Empire - 01/13/13 04:48 PM
Originally Posted By: Giancarlo
According to Terence Winter the character Gyp Rosetti was completely fictional.
http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/inter..._season_3_.html
Slate: Speaking of which, in Season 3, you introduce a fabulous but terrifying character, Gyp Rosetti, who is definitely a psychopath. Was there really a Gyp Rosetti?
Winter: No, he’s completely fictional. Gyp represents a new breed of gangster. Things got progressively more competitive and more violent as the 1920s progressed. When Prohibition was first enacted in 1920, most people stockpiled alcohol, thinking they’d have enough to last them for years. By 1923, that was starting to run out, so your average person started to rely more and more on criminals. Hence the profits in the alcohol game went up, and the competition and the violence increased as well. You had people like Gyp Rosetti, who were essentially low-level criminals starting to work their way into the game.
http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/inter..._season_3_.html
Slate: Speaking of which, in Season 3, you introduce a fabulous but terrifying character, Gyp Rosetti, who is definitely a psychopath. Was there really a Gyp Rosetti?
Winter: No, he’s completely fictional. Gyp represents a new breed of gangster. Things got progressively more competitive and more violent as the 1920s progressed. When Prohibition was first enacted in 1920, most people stockpiled alcohol, thinking they’d have enough to last them for years. By 1923, that was starting to run out, so your average person started to rely more and more on criminals. Hence the profits in the alcohol game went up, and the competition and the violence increased as well. You had people like Gyp Rosetti, who were essentially low-level criminals starting to work their way into the game.
Well, that completely answered my question thanks. And yeah Gyp is definitly a psychopath/sociopath by all means.
Originally Posted By: stevapalooza
Gyp the Blood maybe? He was a Jewish gangster from the early 1900's. Actually he was dead by the 20's. Executed.
He's Sicilian born in Sperlinga,Sicily.
Posted By: DonMega
Re: Gyp Rossetti/Boardwalk Empire - 01/20/13 05:14 AM
Bone-for-Tuna Gyp you'll be missed 