SLEEPERS (1996) dir. Barry Levinson

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SLEEPERS (1996) dir. Barry Levinson
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What would you want to see in a Mafia 4 or more Mafia Prequels?
Young Leo Galante and Frank Vinci as protagonists in Vinci-Moretti war
Rise of the Marcano family
Rise of young Salieri and Morello under Don Peppone
Louie Romeo in Los Ondas
Casino in the 70's
Make the cancelled Vito DLC in M3 a entire game and ends with reuniting with Joe
70's/80's with the Mob hit by RICO
Havana mob in it's peak and their fall during the rise of Castro
Sopranos like story during the 90's in a Philidolphia/New Jersey like city
Mafia II remake(but bonus all the cut content and alternate endings)
Miami/Atlantic City Based City
Modern setting of the modern Mafia struggling to cling to life and thrive
Context
it’s been a week heres chapter five
actually i'm coming into your inbox about it. explain the sal tag 👀
honestly i really like sal as a villain. as a character, even, not (disclaimer) as a person, obviously.
it's so hard to describe hector. who even is sal? he's an enigma. there's something so complex about him. let's start with the obvious: he let his father die. carillo offered sal to wipe away his father's debts, and sal said no. and then he gets out of prison, tells his brothers that they should get revenge on carillo (despite y'know. being the technical one behind their father's murder), and suddenly he's got the whole of new bordeaux under his thumb. sure, he doesn't love his father enough to save him, and i do think that his brothers never found out carillo offered a way out, but damn. he needed his brothers to do the coup, and the only way to do that was to kill two birds with one stone.
a sharp axe cleaving forward. and god, the his little brother. the way sal wanted to give tommy the world, wanted him to go down the straight and narrow. but tommy grew up around sal, idolized sal, wanted so hard to be his big brother that he threw everything to the wind to be exactly like him. sal, forever moving forward, no time to look behind. valerio, lucio, his wife, names best left in the past. sal marcano is a man with no time for ghosts (and it will be his undoing.)
okay, i already told you this, but the deep down he'd rather be taming horses is about him going legit and doing all of this because he's tired of the life. he wants giorgi to grow up and see old age without constantly looking over his shoulder. and maybe fucking people over was the only way to do it, because his whole life sal had done nothing but fuck people over. but he fucks up this time, and god if his whole world doesn't come crashing down around him.
sal doesn't know what it's like to not be scheming every second of the day, but then again, no one in his line of work or his life does. the only thing that might be untainted of yet is giorgi, and i don't know. giorgi...... giorgi is a good boy. he does what his father tells him, and he reminds sal so much of tommy that it hurts.
(sidenote here but i do hc that tommy was really the only brother sal genuinely loved, and he regrets it every day bc their closeness was what tied tommy down to him. if sal had been more distant, tried to push, tommy would've definitely gone down a crime-free path.)
sal's is just. like. he isn't a good man, like hector, and hector wasn't a good man, either because no one is truly good. they're only human. it's the humanity in sal that brings his downfall, his capacity for love that still exists, his want for something other than this blood and violence. but the problem with that is he has built his empire, his whole being on that sort of death and destruction. and once you wade into that treacherous river, you'll be swept away by the current.
Marcano family
1 giorgimarcano
2 salmarcano
3 tommymarcano
4 oliviamarcano
5 loumarcano
the tag is dead so i’m just gonna post my hot takes with no repercussions
and no, i will not be taking constructive criticism
When John & Tommy kill Nokes, it’s one of the most satisfying movie scenes I’ve ever seen 👌👀