Why did Henry, from the movie Godfellas, become a gangster?
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He was enchanted by the life and glamour associated with it.  Found a good way to make easy money and recognition of a bunch of gumbahs was better than no recognition at all.
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So many rappers portray themselves to be gangsters so the what a lot people assume rappers have to be. A lot of new rappers come out like that and they make hit records; people are afraid to be original and be themselves. Now Lupe Fiasco is a rapper but definitely not a gangster and he makes good music. He stepped away from the crowd and hasn't jumped on the band wagon.
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First of all it's Mafia, not mofia!.  Second, most people only know of the Mafia because of Television, and not by personal ties.  The Mob isn't all that it's cracked up to be.  Most people don't have the strength or guts to "pull the trigger" on someone.  You have to be tough, not Hollywood tough either, you have to be real life tough.  Lots of people can talk big %*&#, but when it comes right down to it they get scared.  You should read about the history of the Mafia, and see just how it all started.  I a currently working on a re-write of my Mafia book entitled, The Brotherhood "The New Mafia Story".  I hope to have it done by the end of 2006.
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A mafia is a very organized crime assosiation.Mostly concentrating in trading illiagal goods.A mob is a lot of people that just go charging on something...sort of like a strike go wild.
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Gangster....\n\nAll the songs of this film rockzzzzzzzzz
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money, money, money, money, money. It's all driven by money. The gangster image is a front. They may have been punks (sorry, gangster) before they started rapping, but they certainly need the image to be successful.
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The first movie in The Godfather Trilogy begins with Vito Corleone (Brando) accepting visitors to his offer who ask for favors of him and his political power. Vito can't refuse any of these favors because it is sicillian tradition not to refuse on the day of your daughter's wedding. It just so happens that on this day his daughter Connie (Shire) is getting married to Carlo.\n     Excitement begins as legendary singer Johnny Fontane shows up all the way from California to sing at the wedding for Connie. Johnny Fontane is godson to Vito Coreleone and has also come to ask a favor. Fontane says his voice is going and that he needs a role in an upcoming movie directed by Woltz. The director however won't let him have this part, and he asks Vito to get him this part.\n    Tom Hagen (Duvall), the family lawyer, is sent to Hollywood to meet with Woltz. Woltz still says no to Johnny starring in the movie. Woltz however has Tom over for dinner and tells him he can do anything for Corleone but give Johnny this part. Woltz also shows Tom his prize $600,000 horse. Tom leaves and says he must tell Don Corleone (Vito) about this bad news. Woltz wakes up the next day with the head of his prize horse, he gives Johnny the part.\n    Solozzo, known as a top narcotics agent comes to meet with Vito and his family to discuss a new deal. Sonny (Caan) and Tom say they should get into the business because it is the thing of the future. The Don refuses narcotics though saying that the politicians he carries in his pocket wouldn't be friendly to him if they knew his business was drugs. Vito now sends Luca Brazi to the Tataglias (another mob family) to investigate Solozzo. Luca is killed.\n    With Luca (the main bodyguard) out of the way, an assasination attempt on Vito takes place while he is buying fruit with his son Fredo. Michael, the youngest son who is away (Pacino), reads about the shooting in the paper and returns home to be with the family.\n    With Vito not well enough to take care of family business, the oldest son Sonny is put in charge, with Tom's assistance. Michael, who is not involved with the family, goes to the hospital to visit his family. The guards had left the hospital so Vito could be killed and Michael immediately takes action and questions Captain McCluskey. The captain punches Michael in the face.\n   Michael comes up with a plan of his own, shoot Solozzo and the captain when they meet. Sonny and Clemenza laugh, but Tom listens and says it might work. Clemenza gets Michael a gun and tells him exactly what to do.\n    One of the climaxes in the movie is the scene where Michael meets with Solozzo and the captain. He comes out of the bathroom with a planted gun and shoots them both. He now is banished from America and sent overseas till everything settles.\n    The Don returns home from the hospital.\n     Michael travels to the city Corleone with his two bodyguards. Here, he lies eyes upon Apollonia. He then runs into her angry father and requests her hand in marriage. He agrees and they marry.\n    Meanwhile, in New York, the relationship of Connie and Carlo is not going well and this upsets Sonny very much. He beats up Carlo once after seeing Connie's black eye and warns Carlo that he will kill him if he touches her again. He does beat her up again with a belt and Sonny goes to kill him but is brutally murdered at the toll station. \n    Vito is upset with Sonny's murder, as he was next in line for the family business. Vito and Tom arrange a meeting of the five families to agree on peace and the narcotics business.\n    In Corleone, Michael teacher Apollonia to drive. One of the bodyguards rigs the car and Apollonia is murdered.\n     Michael returns home and sees Kay and asks for her hand in marriage. Michael is put in charge of the family by Vito. The family takes a trip to Las Vegas, Nevada to negotiate buying a hotel and casino from Moe Green.\n    Kay tells Michale that Connie and Carlo want hi
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After spending several years in LA and the Bay Area, and a month or so in Oregon, he's back in New York waiting tables again. He took my daughter with him. \n\nHe was awesome in Goodfellas, but he was a model and got the part specifically because he was a young clone of Ray Liota. He's said he would love to get back into acting again, but the opportunities aren't exactly making themselves available. Child actors really do have a tough break in general, and Chris is not that adorable little kid anymore. \n\nHe's handsome, he's smart, and he's still waiting for that phone call from Hollywood.
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The 'mob' is generally used in relation to the Mafia, however it could be more accurately called 'organized crime.'  Hoffa had used the influence of organizaed crime during his tenure as the union president, and was threatening to run for the union presidency again. Organized crime had already taken control of the new union leader, and didn't need Hoffa anymore.
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The only 1930's gangster that comes to mind is: the one and only AL Capone. I'd be him because of the power to "feed someone to the fishes" or put "cement boots" on them if the double-crossed me. :)
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He got tired of life, wanted something new.\nHis brother hit him, gang life got old, his best friend also needed to get away from his abusive parents, and he didn't like the socioeconomic class distinctions that existed in his town. Later, he also was involved in a murder, and if he stayed around would have ended up in a "reformatory".
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If your Italian friend has NO known job, but mysteriously has a wellspring of cash on hand, then he might be Mafia.\n\nIf your Italian friend is in the market for a car with huge trunk space....he might be Mafia.\n\nIf your Italian friend offers you a great deal on concrete Nikes.....he might be Mafia.
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You can't ask to join the Mafia. You have to be asked. Technically, Mafiosi are not supposed to admit the organization they belong to exists. They don't even call it the Mafia, it's "Our Thing", or "This Thing of Ours", aka La Cosa Nostra. I suppose if you wanted to move to one of the cities with a Family, then start a profitable criminal enterprise, if you could find out who to kick up to, and you would be willing to bash heads if necessary, and did this for a period of several years you could possibly be asked to join.  That's a big if.\n\nBut why? That life gives you three possible outcomes: You will die, or go to jail, or go into the Federal Witness Protection Program.
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The previous answer is not correct. Here is a link to the actual story. It involved a setup by one gang to put a hit on another. Staged as a bootleg alcohol buy.
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The first person STARTED to answer your question but never finished it.  The character of Tony Montana was based on the character of "Tony Comonte" in the 1932 film of the same title played by Paul Muni.\n\nHowever, Comonte was based on...that's right, Al Capone.\n\nAs far as realistic references in the 1983 version?  The character of Alejandro Sosa was based on Columbian drug kingpin, Pablo Escobar (for more on him see the movie "Blow" and the upcoming film "Killing Pablo")\n\nHope this helps.
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gangster is some one who goes around shooting people \npimp is some one who makes girls sell there sell for money and they take the money
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he looks like some mafia guy. his eyes look too creapy. just cause he's all built doesnt make him all hot.