![]() ![]() Goodfellas glorifies the gangster lifestyle from the start, showing how much of yourself you need to get rid of to succeed, and a movie like The Godfather shows the transformation of Al Pacino’s character from an upstanding citizen to a man spiraling downward, into the family business.īoiler Room, ostensibly, takes a nice kid like Seth and transforms and molds him into this money-hungry guy. Even though he gets caught up in it, we’re told that he’s different than the rest of these guys, and that’s because we’re meant to identify with Seth, which is where the movie, I’d argue (and I am arguing, I guess) breaks down.Ī movie like this or a gangster movie is all about the corruption of the soul. Through a sometimes painfully awkward narration, Seth describes how strange this world is. ![]() The world of the financial broker is as foreign to him as it is to us. Seth, beyond just being the protagonist, is the audience surrogate. The characters in Boiler Room operated under a different set of rules as our protagonist Seth (Giovanni Ribisi) observes. Still, the world of a movie like this is just as foreign as a gangster movie. Maybe their hair is a little more slicked back, their strut a little more strutty and their ego a little more inflated, but they look like real people. That’s because men like the characters in this movie or Wall Street or The Wolf of Wall Street look like people you’ve seen on the street. ![]() So when The Sopranos specifically references The Godfather, it’s a bit jarring, reminding you that these are real people in the ‘real’ world.Ī movie like Boiler Room doesn’t have that same ‘unreal’ feeling. Sure, you’ve heard about real people like Al Capone or more modern gangsters, but I can’t really think of any modern figures. In gangster films like Mean Streets, The Godfather, The Untouchables, Goodfellas, Casino or Scarface and a show like The Sopranos, the world of the story feels as isolated from our own as a fantasy or sci-fi story. ![]() Watching this movie, particularly the scene when the ensemble cast of characters watch the movie Wall Street on tv, I was reminded of the way characters in The Sopranos would speak so glowingly of The Godfather, letting the genre reflect back on itself. It’s predictable, with the rise and fall customary of the genre and of gangster films as well. Boiler Room follows the template of other financial broker makes it big through unsavory means stories. ![]()
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