Gangster cinema consistently portrays the brutal consequences of organized crime, demonstrating that the violent underworld operates through fear, betrayal, and lethal force, where characters like Nicky Santoro and Frank Lucas exemplify how the criminal lifestyle demands extreme violence and results in devastating personal losses.
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Most important thing in business is honesty, integrity, hard work, family, never forgetting where we came from.
Thank you, Sean.
>> See, you are what you are in this world.
>> That's either one of two things.
Either you're somebody or you're nobody. Be right back.
I need these fresh. If I come back here and get you, you know what it is. Yes, sir. I hear you. You won't have to come back. No problem.
>> Where's my money?
>> Red cop gave you the package. You supposed to be handing me my money.
Here's a jar right here. 20%.
>> Oh, you got the jar.
>> That's right.
>> The out of here. Oh, what you going to do? The you going to do, Frank? Huh?
What you doing? You going to shoot me in front of everybody? Huh? Come on.
There you go.
>> 20%.
So, what was I saying?
Just stay here. Keep trying, man.
Heat. Heat.
Donnie.
>> [music] [music] [music] >> Heat. Heat.
>> [music] >> Why?
We got married just yesterday.
We were going to surprise you.
>> Jesus. Tony.
Tony. We got to get out of here, man. I got to get out of here, dog. We got to go get you. We got to get out of here.
>> Please.
>> Come on.
God.
We can't stay or we got to go. We got to get out [clears throat] of here.
English, get the door.
Richie, how you feeling?
>> Oh, I'm just peachy. Yeah. How you feeling?
>> I didn't get shot in the stomach earlier, so you know, not bad.
>> Lucky, isn't it? All those bullets flying around, but the L fontains didn't land a single one on you.
>> Not luck, Richie. It's um it's skill. I guess I was too slow. So, where you been?
>> Made some calls. I checked in with a hi-fi shop. I was a favor. They got a machine that could play the tape. I'm I'm going to go over with it this minute.
>> So, you want to take the tape?
>> Yeah. Bronto, >> why don't I go with you?
>> No. No.
You're in no shape to be out there. So, you want to walk out of here with this tape alone? Stay right.
>> That's right.
I'll tell you what, just wait for my pops to get here, you know? Then we can all listen to the tape together.
>> We don't have time.
>> What's the big rush?
>> Every second the rat is alive is another second that your father is in danger.
>> Gentlemen, if we know your father, Master Richie, your father want you both to take a deep breath.
Now, I'm glad you said that.
My father.
My father. Francis.
It's my father who's in danger, not yours.
>> I love your father like he was my own, and I'm trying to help him.
>> Wasn't your father selling tomatoes down on State Street before he died from a lifetime of being nothing to nobody?
Huh? So maybe me and my pops don't need your help. You ever think of that?
>> I'm going to need that tape, pal, right now.
>> Why don't you try and take it?
>> Not tonight. Now give me the tape.
>> Really, Francis? I mean, what's the uh what's the rush? I mean, really, my boss will be here any minute.
Unless you don't want my pops listening to this tape.
>> What are you talking about?
>> Huh?
Why don't you want my pops listen to this tape, Francis?
I said, give me the tape.
>> Now, who's too slow?
Richie.
>> Richie, for your own good, for the good of your father.
I'm going to take that tape now and I'm going to leave.
If you touch me again, I'll break your arm. You understand?
[snorts] You're such a prick. You know that?
>> Thank you. So, smile.
>> Careful.
>> Smiler than ever.
>> Careful, mastery. Careful.
Where's the tape, Francis?
>> You must be out of your mind to point that gun at me.
>> Gentlemen, >> stop playing games. Richie, where'd you put the tape?
>> What was your plan?
>> Did you hide it to try and trick me into confessing something? Cuz that is somehow the dumbest thing you've done all day.
>> Always wanted to be the big man, didn't you? No selling tomatoes for you. No, no, no. You don't want to work for my pops. You want to be him.
>> I owe everything to that man.
>> Well, guess what? As long as me and him are around, you ain't never going to be number one.
>> There's no need for this fighting.
>> You slammy. I had you pegged from day one. You know that? From the second I first laid eyes on you, I said, "Who the is this son of a he ain't family?"
>> No, I'm the guy who took six marbles to save your father's life because family wasn't there.
>> You I run this crew.
>> Now your pops runs this crew and I spend half of every day cleaning up your messes.
>> You want to see me make a mess?
Even back home years ago when we were first hanging out together, he'd know if the quarterback was on Coke.
>> Look at Columbia for 20. if his girlfriend was knocked up >> 20 times on Columbia.
>> He'd get the wing velocity so he could judge the field goals. He even figured out the different bounce you got off the different kinds of wood they used on college basketball courts. You know, >> he'd be working on this day and night.
There was nothing about a game he was going to bet that he didn't know.
>> He's got down at six. I'll be down at >> season after season, the prick was the only guaranteed [music] winner I ever knew. But he was so serious about it all that I don't think he ever enjoyed himself. But that's just the way he was.
[screaming] >> But back then, the bosses didn't give a about whether he enjoyed himself or not.
To them, he was a cash register. All they had to do was ring the bell and take the money. Especially Remo, who was a degenerate gambler who always lost.
>> I didn't do that all those [ __ ] sweeps.
>> I mean, unless Ace made his bets.
>> Enough.
Ace made more money for them on a weekend than I could do heist and joints for a month.
>> Whatever Ace picked up on the street, he told Remo.
>> I mean, fixed fights, dope courses, crooked zebras, locked in point spreads, he told Remo everything. And to tell you the truth, I don't blame him.
>> Keeping Remo happy with money was the greatest insurance policy in the world.
Son of a How the hell did you get Oklahoma and Michigan? Nobody ever had Oklahoma. How the hell did you do it?
>> Well, that's why they paid so well.
>> You see, he never tells me nothing. Ace, why don't we get out for next week?
>> Well, it's a little too early. I'd say Thursday would be good. I'll know by then. Is that all right?
>> Okay. You come by the house?
>> I'll come by.
>> 7:00.
>> 7.
>> Good job, Keep it up. Okay. He's Hey, Nick.
>> I'll be right up. How's everyone Mickey? See that guy? Keep a good eye on him. He's making a lot of money for us and he's going to continue making a lot of money for us. So keep a good eye like the [ __ ] friends out there with our brains. Okay.
>> All right.
>> Now come on.
>> Yeah.
>> Fine.
>> Want me to take this?
>> So now on top of everything else, I got to make sure nobody around with the golden jewel.
>> Chase couple of shoes.
>> Yeah, we made a great pair. 500 >> I made book and Nikki made sure we always collected. [music] >> The old men loved us. And why not?
>> They all made money with us.
>> They pay.
>> How did Nikki collect?
>> Every week at this most >> don't ask. And where the is money? I don't see the money.
>> Late night.
>> Yeah. Late night.
>> It was eight.
>> It was nine. Late night.
>> It was eight.
Tell the line on the bear.
>> Eight.
>> If you don't know nobody thought it was eight. Well, how come I late night?
>> You're a jagger.
>> Not this. Excuse me.
>> What? This yours? Your pen?
>> Yeah, that's my pen.
>> I got to call this.
>> No, it's a nice pen. I just didn't know it was I thought it was yours. I didn't want it to get lost.
>> Well, thank you. Why did you take that pen and shove it up your ass shag off your mind? [music] I want to change your mind.
I'm going to change your mind.
What's that? You hear You hear a little girl, Frankie? Hear a little girl, Ace?
Is that a little girl? What happened to the tough guy? TOLD MY FRIEND STICK IT UP HIS ASS.
>> While I was trying to figure out why the guy was saying what he was saying, Nikki just hit him. No matter how big a guy might be, Nikki would take him on. You beat Nikki with fists, he comes back with a bat. You beat him with a knife, he comes back with a gun. And if you beat him with a gun, you better kill him because he'll keep coming back and back until one of you is dead.
Came the big night right away. I didn't like it. Kleinfeld was coked out of his mind. The flaps of his nose all red and swollen.
Bad start, Jack.
>> What's with the extra guy? Caro, this is one of Tony's sons. Frankie, not Frank.
Whatever. Well, what is with the extra guy?
>> Oh, excuse me. Is this your boat? Shut the up. I thought I needed help. I brought help. Okay, we're going to take the LaGuardia side through the sound.
Frankie, you take the wheel when we pick up Tony. Carlo, you help me fish him out. Cast her off. It's Frank. Whatever.
Cast her off.
>> What's that? Untie the rope, you spit.
Come on.
>> This guy a friend of yours?
>> Yeah, he's a friend of mine.
>> He's a cockroach.
Take it easy. Take it easy.
>> Oh, I see the buoy.
>> You see it? Where?
>> Slow. Slow. Slow. I can't see a thing.
>> It's right there.
>> Did you hear what I just said to you?
What are you doing?
>> Would you just slow down? You going to run him over?
>> I'm going to pass him. Damn.
>> Hey, slow down.
We've got you passed him, man. You idiot. Oh, Frankie boy. Hold on. You come down up on the fly deck with me. We can't back up from down here. Come on. Up here.
Come on. Come on. Follow me. This way.
Come on.
>> Help.
Come here. Come back.
>> Get out of the [ __ ] way. I can't see a goddamn thing over there.
>> Hey, you missed me over here.
Hey, okay.
You see that? You see that light right there?
>> Huh?
I got the light.
>> Okay. Now, just keep the bow [music] point straight at that line. Okay.
>> All right. Nice.
>> I got the light.
>> Okay.
>> Come on.
Help.
>> Okay. Got him. STOP IT. I GOT HIM. Stop it.
Hurry up. Help me.
>> You got him.
>> Help me.
>> I got him here.
>> Take me on the flight deck. We're starting a turn. I got him. I got him.
Tony, grab a rail.
>> Help me. Help me.
Help me. Help me. Now you tell me how it feels with the [ __ ] crabs coming out of your [ __ ] eyes.
What the you doing?
>> No. [screaming] Now try you getting bastard. Get the off.
>> You killed us, Dave. You killed us.
Oh god.
Come on, Frankie. Oh, excuse me.
Frank. Uh, your daddy's waiting for you, Frank.
Come on. We'll take an end. For Christ's sake, we're falling out of possession.
Okay, Frank. We're going to stand you up and say good night. [laughter] Okay, get him on the other side. One.
Two, three.
There's a line you cross. You don't never come back from.
Point of no return.
Dave crossed it.
>> [snorts] [music]
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