Mob movies/shows have such shitty fan culture because they've been warped into nostalgia vehicles for violent, old-school masculinity (white masculinity, specifically), even though the best examples in the genre are scathing critiques of that ideal! Scorsese, The Sopranos, etc.
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Resist!!!
His analysis is much broader than just job movies, looking at a variety of edgelord media and how the manosphere warps interpretations.
Breaking Bad, Fight Club, Starship Troopers, Predator, Taxi Driver, and on and on.
it’s like if tony montana knew he’d get bailed out.
More often you take what seems like an hour or 2 of their lives and it is super exciting and they are the stars of the movie.
People naturally feel an affinity.
"I want no one to escape. But even after admitting this, there is no catharsis; my punishment continues to elude me, and I gain no deeper knowledge of myself. No new knowledge can be extracted from my telling. This confession has meant nothing."
The hell even is that?
I joined BlueSky and one of the reasons was to hopefully get away from this kind of ''woke'' bullshit.
I enjoy mob movies and so do others.
Sopranos
Good fellah
Scarface.
Newsflash Emma: It's fun to root for the bad guys.
And If only we had unlimited knowledge at our fingertips and you could understand what white masculinity is after few minutes of reading…
Not my kind of "masculinity", quite frankly.
I love these movies and also the "film noir" movies from the 50s' and the 60s', but not because I had some kind of admiration of these characters.
You'd have to be the most obtuse person on earth not to see all this.
Every other man in the show is portrayed as either a weakling or a coward or a hypocrite.
(The same game that talks about corporate greed/has protest signs AND fucking skeletons right outside the FIRST FUCKING DOOR.)
Tony soprano has lost all his friends and is super paranoid and probably dead (even though never being able to enjoy anything due to paranoia is far worst))
Michael Corleone: lost daughter killed his own brother and lost his oldest and dies alone
Reminds me of this great quote about war movies:
If anything these movies are about LATINO masculinity, not “white”.
I don’t think you can even make a show like that if you don’t glamorize it yourself, if just a little.
by the time you consciously realize he’s evil you’re too addicted. A+ metaphor
To sympathize with the underdog is a noble inclination that has endured for ages, but just as enduring is the human inability to see, or care, that the underdog is frequently a scoundrel.