Originally Posted By: Antihero
Originally Posted By: DE NIRO
One of fav films,great cast.Have you read the Book,as they say the books are always beter..


I read the book a few years ago, after watching the movie many many times (Such a great movie). A few things in the book, made me wonder. Joseph D. Pistone, is in movie getting more and more into the mob, and seems to have a hard time getting out. In the book, or should i say in real life, he never lost the sense of rigth and wrong, and could always keep controlled.

Yes, the movie, while quite entertaining and well acted, took a lot of liberties with the story, which is why the book is so much better. Also, the movie completely excluded two important parts of Pistone's experience in the Mob--Tony Mirra (a "very scary guy") and a long interlude in Milwaukee involving Frank Balistrieri, the local Mafia Don. Both should have been in the film.

Ntra la porta tua lu sangu � sparsu,
E nun me mporta si ce muoru accisu...
E s'iddu muoru e vaju mparadisu
Si nun ce truovo a ttia, mancu ce trasu.