The more movie gangsters change, the more they stay the same. In the 1930s they were Irish (The Public Enemy) and Italian (Little Caesar, Paul Muni’s Scarface). Since then, the hoods have become Jewish (Bugsy, Once Upon a Time in America), Cuban (Pacino’s Scarface), and African-American (New Jack City, American Gangster). It’s the ethnicities that change while the sociolo (...)
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