Interesting pair of scenes, in which the local Boss, Sonny, tells his protoge to go for the black girl he likes, while his Dad, the hardworking, straight civilian blue collar worker, tells him that "we should marry within our own" - "our own" being "white people", not Italians.
It's amazing to see how race plays a role on the streets (even if it is a movie, it seems consistent with how people see race on the street in my experience) and how the meanings of these words is altered. SICILIANS are "white people" now? Even the northern Italian racists don't accept southern Italians as "white" according to my understanding.
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Originally posted by AThousandYoungJames Cagney did a classic called The Public Enemy. There's a famous scene in the movie where he shoves a grapefruit in the face of Jean Harlow's character; famous because leading ladies in the movies of the time simply were not treated like that so the scene was quite effective in showing the Cagney character for the hood he was.
So we've got the Godfather, Goodfellas, and The Sopranos. I heard James Cagney used to do mobster movies too. What was the name of some of them?
Any other great classics?
