Martin Scorsese, in 2019, made a gangster epic-level movie, “The Irishman,” which some netizens have rated highly, even ranking it as another peak of gangster movies after the “Godfather” series.
Indeed, Martin Scorsese’s film reveals some of America’s untold secrets for us through the perspective of a gangster. These secrets, real or not, will attract a lot of attention as long as they are told. People seem to be interested in uncovering secrets, and this interest seems to go beyond the secrets themselves.
Martin Scorsese’s film about the tug-of-war between multiple forces intertwined behind a legendary mobster does look grand, but it doesn’t actually have much appeal.
The story itself is not attractive enough to compete with the acting of these leading actors. The reason for the high rating is to give Martin Scorsese face. After all, this has been dying director in the modern film system of the kind of uncomfortable, only through one or two of the best songs to find a balance, this, Quentin’s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” as one.
And the film we recommend to you today depicts the same thing, only this one is more resonant for us, don’t get me wrong, this resonance does not mean that you have to be a gangster, but that this is a film that consists of a sense of leap from the bottom up, such a film, to a large extent, will make many people feel comfortable, this comfort is a grounded comfort. Because it is enough to resist the sense of dismay of the audience triggered by the fact that the main actors are not so well-known.
Kill That Irishman is, in a sense, a tragic and epic gangster movie, and the sense of value of such a type of gangster movie lies in telling the story for us in an almost heroic way, and ultimately the story will have a heroic ending in general. This is not the same concept as Martin Scorsese. The former brings us a sense of mystery, while this film brings us a heroic and tragic atmosphere, which in a sense is common with the sense of mystery.
Both directors create such a feeling or atmosphere, so as to minimize the discomfort generated by the crime of the main character. Simply put, it’s “whitewashing”. By creating a special atmosphere or the character’s sadness, in order to achieve the negative image of the character is weakened. From the result, it seems that this purpose has been achieved.
Kill the Irishman” is about an Irishman who grows from an unknown laborer in a mafia-infested area to a mafia boss who is considered a thorn in the side of both the police and the mob. And the gangsters repeatedly failed to assassinate. Just when everyone thought he was a man who could not be killed, he died in a legendary way.
This is a simple story, yet the story itself does not have many twists and turns. The reason why people think this story seems exciting and interesting is that this film shows those hearty criminal minds in some people’s hearts through the actions of the main character in a reasonable way.
Danny Greene himself is a bad guy, this attribute is certain and at the same time unquestionable. How to make this bad guy play the personality and how to make this bad guy’s personality play to the extreme is the biggest reference point to distinguish a good gangster movie from a good gangster movie.
People think that a good gangster movie will generally give the bad guy an explanation, the explanation can be why the bad guy became bad, but also the bad guy after becoming bad is not simply only bad.
Through the rational explanation of the behavior of the bad guys, we can give the bad guys some other labels, such as this person is more honest, more caring, etc.. When such a label, which usually only good people have, is projected onto the bad guy, the bad guy’s persona has a contrast, so that the impression left on the audience is deeper.
This is a method, if this method to the extreme, as in this film, we see the characters of the legendary story and the characters of the personalities have been the peak of the charm. At this point, the criminality of the character’s actions are downplayed, and almost everyone will ignore the fact that the character is a bad guy, and instead shout for the character’s “heroic” act of a flash in the pan, and let this act grow into a legend.
Martin Scorsese’s “The Irishman” uses the same logic. He rationalizes the unanswered questions that people are concerned about to the greatest extent possible, and finally achieves the purpose of attracting the audience. This is similar to the way this film engages the audience.
If we just use the gangster movie point of view to measure these two works, this film is undoubtedly better, because “The Irishman” has to some extent given a gangster a thorough exaltation, this exaltation can be called gold-plated. Think about it, the reason why Du Yuesheng is legendary is because he was involved in the politics of the Republic of China, otherwise, he would have been a gangster.
And the Danny Greene in this film, just a gangster can reach the peak of power, of course, a little bit worse, because further up the “Irishman”, then you can not trigger the switch Robin Hood. So, the scope of his power stays on the edge of the legendary that everyone can think of, and the eventual death echoes it, and the characters in this film immediately sublimated and became excellent in reason.
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