I think Michael Franzese once said that the role of consigliere isn’t nearly as important as they depicted it to be in The Godfather. Maybe the importance varies from family to family. For as much as Franzese criticizes the movie for being inaccurate, Sammy Gravano praises it just as much for being the most accurate depiction of the life during the time period the movie took place in. Other mobsters like Dominick Montiglio also cosign the movie’s accuracy.