I’m just curious because I’m not sure if it’s like the Italians.
Kept wondering, if the show had ended up going as long as 15 seasons, what if they got into it with an entirely different criminal organization outside of their own to the point where they were forced to join forces? I remember they got into it a bit with the Russian mafia.
Its anithing left?
Hi just sought out this sub to ask this question. I'm watching the first film for probably the third time, but the first time in a while. All I keep thinking is where is the Irish mob???
I love mob/mafia/organized crime content. I'm no expert by any means like some who post on r/mafia. However, I feel like I'm very sure that Bostons dominate criminal element was always Irish, Winterhill Gang, Whitey Bulger. Etc.
Of course there was an Italian presence in the North and closely in Providence. But especially in South Boston where the film is explicitly set, all the crime was Irish.
So in the movie you have two good Irish catholic boys going John Wick against the evil Italians and Russians. The only thing I can think is that the brothers' motivations against the vices and sins of the other ethnic groups might not play as well if their own people are shown doing the same things.
However, I just see it as either a huge oversight or more likely a really odd omission/creative choice. I know the film is supposed to be very ethnocentric and rah-rah let's go Irish. I'm Scotch-Irish myself and really get up for that kind of thing so I love it. It just seems like anybody who knows anything about Boston might watch this film going okay what about Whitey Bulger and co.?
I feel like it would play just as well if the film showed the brothers attacking Irish gangsters for crimes against their own people in South Boston, betraying their good Irish Catholic roots, etc. I could be completely off like I said I am no expert. It's also possible that this has already been addressed or explained elsewhere, and if so I apologize. However I googled for a whole ten minutes and searched reddit before posting
Thanks for reading. Any thoughts or input would be dope.
And yes, these organized crime groups had been in act, before the prohibition, but the prohibition was what allowed them to gain even more power through the black market for alcohol.
Any info on this group? How long have they been around? It seems like they have 5+ murders but are a relatively new mob.
My whole family's been in it since forever. We're a small organization in nyc. I'll answer anything that's not culpable.
We all know the LCN Italian mob makes guys. But did Irish mafia families such as "The Westies" and Bulger's "Winter Hill Gang" make their guys as well?
I've seen Goodfellas, the Irishman, Miller's Crossing, Road to Perdition, Public Enemies (more of a general gangster movie), Gotti (sorry), and The Untouchables. I already know about the mainstream mob movies like the Departed, Godfather trilogy, Donnie Brasco, and Casino. Any lesser known movies out there?
