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Article: More honest than 'The Godfather': ; American Gangster is real about victims
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- Charleston Gazette
- Article date:
- November 10, 2007
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WASHINGTON American Gangster opened last weekend, and many of
those who bought tickets $43.6 million worth from Friday through
Sunday surely came away feeling as Mark Twain did when he said his
memory was so powerful he could remember things that never even
happened. Many moviegoers must have thought: I remember seeing this
brand new movie before. They did. Its emulations of The Godfather
are obviously intended to be obvious. But these genuflections to the
archetype make American Gangster more, not less, interesting as a
symptom of something permanent in the American mind cynicism for
sentimentalists. In The Godfather, bloody murders of Michael
Corleones rivals occur while the movie ...