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Re: Grande/Lancelotti article
[Re: Sonny_from_Peoria]
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04/07/18 05:03 PM
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I don't feel so young but I realize that is a relative to whom you are speaking with LOL
Yes since childhood
In the belly of beast
To give you an idea of what it was like:
Bronx Tale was about as close as you could get to the real thing.
1) With C, living within close proximity to a hang-out or club, the olderguys taking a liking to the GOOD KID and watching out for him and taking him under their wing. 2) Then growing up a little bit and the older guys schooling you, us kids looking up to those guys like they were GODS, 3) The younger guys trying to imitate and impress the older guys, they start asking for small favors, a broken window, slashed tire, and we were so happy to do it just to get their attetieion. The problem with that was the older you got the more serious the favors got... Steel a car, Burn a Car and you can imagine where this is going.... A lot like in Good Fella's with Henry Hill and Joe Pesci, you get older and get more involved.. It was no big deal.... It was Normal... It felt like everyone was in on some sort of racket.
4) The scene in the Bar with the Bikers, I have many different versions of that type of story, the part with Pesci getting hit with a bat over a parking spot, stuff on that level very common, All of C's friends acting like wanna bee's, there was a crew of wannab'ees on every avenue. 5) To the part where Sunny gets whacked in the bar, every so often there was a body in the street, or someone disappeared. 6) Goodfella's when Henry Hill was young and the cab stand, again the ineratcion between the younger and older generation. 7) The God Father being the old timers in the neighborhood and how they would act all dressed in suits like business men. 8) Scar Face the newer generation running around selling drugs
There was a side to it that was very neighborhoody you knew just about everyone and everyone knew you and your family. Everyone watched out for everyone. For the most part.
You grew up fast and the neighborhood taught you lessons like respect, Respect your elders, respect woman, children
Mind your business, Keep your mouth shut Never talk to cops
And if you didn't learn your lesson you would end up in a trunk. Most learned...
It was a lot of fun At times scary, sometimes VERY SCARY Some really sad storys as well...
I would imagine Philly was like a mini version of what I described above??
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Re: Grande/Lancelotti article
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04/08/18 02:23 PM
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Re: Grande/Lancelotti article
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04/08/18 03:22 PM
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I agree certain parts were cheesy
I was more giving the background of the story line
Of the parts i could relate to
In one case:
The actor that played "SLICK" when they were teenagers his name is Joe Dinofrio Joey Zane I grew up with him in bensonhurst
He wasn't so much acting as he was re-inacting his teenage years in bensonhurst
He was a very big graffitti artist back then ZANE was his tage name
He was from the Bay Parkway Boys, B.P.B.
He was very close to Richie Greaves AKA Richie Bes was his tag name Zane and Bes they tagged all over Brooklyn, the Trains, Train Stations, Buses and Garbage trucks.
They were both close to Lil Dino and Joey Caves Competello
Richie Greaves was the one they killed in the basement
The other part from Brox tale where Joey Zane was really re-living his younger years was he had his own Graffitti crew, White Boys Run Shit -- WRS
They fought with, Ricans Won Shit the RWS crew from Sunset Park Brooklyn
In the Bronx Tale he was fighting with African Americans
So some of the parts were very real
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Re: Grande/Lancelotti article
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04/09/18 05:33 AM
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Bronx tale was a knock off of the Goodfellas with a little different twist. Some of the lines and actions in the Tale were corny. I love the movie but its half a copy. How was it a knock off? I don't see it at all, completely different. Completley different? Are you kidding Nicky? The story line, the narative, the growing up in the nab, travel true time...etc. it's def a knock off, and don't get me wrong I love the movie very much but good fellas did it first, and the fellas is more complex that's why it's regarded as one of the best movies ever and its a 5 time better movie than the Tale.
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Re: Grande/Lancelotti article
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04/09/18 01:08 PM
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Bronx tale was a knock off of the Goodfellas with a little different twist. Some of the lines and actions in the Tale were corny. I love the movie but its half a copy. How was it a knock off? I don't see it at all, completely different. Completley different? Are you kidding Nicky? The story line, the narative, the growing up in the nab, travel true time...etc. it's def a knock off, and don't get me wrong I love the movie very much but good fellas did it first, and the fellas is more complex that's why it's regarded as one of the best movies ever and its a 5 time better movie than the Tale. Yes, the majority of Bronx Tale is about racial tension and dating outside of your race, Goodfellas has none of that in it. Maybe the beginnings in both are slightly similar, but maybe that would have to do with Deniro directing Bronx Tale and starring in Goodfellas.
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