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The Greatest Mob Bosses in Movie History
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Join John Livia as he ranks and reviews the top 5 greatest mob bosses in movie history. From ruthless crime kings to charismatic underworld masterminds, we're counting down the most iconic mafia leaders ever portrayed on the big screen.
Who do you think deserves the top spot? Let us know your favorite movie mob boss in the comments below.
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All right, John Levier here, serious outcast. This is going to be a fun video, actually. I decided that I was going to make a video about the five best actors, in my opinion, that ever played Mafia bosses. Not just regular associates, not main members of the mafia, but capo regimes, the bosses. Okay. They have had to act at least as a boss in a major family. So what's what's great about this is that I'm also a movie buff. So some of them might be obvious, but others might not be so obvious. And I'm going to bring up some movies that aren't as common as you think. And if you haven't seen them, they're great movies. Go and see them. So I brought I I I got five. But then I had two honorable mentions. And what I want to do is I want to show you my five, my two honorable mentions, but then I want to know what you guys think. What do you think? Who am I missing? What do you what are you looking for in a actor that plays a mafia boss in a great role? And the one thing that you'll see out of all the actors that I picked, there's one thing they all have in common. They're very serious people. Because if you guys know anything about the mob genre, once you get to Kapoor Regime, it's a very serious position. You can't, there's no more playing around. You have a lot of responsibilities. You have a crew of guys, you have to earn, and the whole idea is to make money for yourself. The guys have to make money and you have to kick up to the bosses, right? And the higher you go in the hierarchy of the mafia, obviously the more responsibility you have. So these are no nonsense guys, and these actors play the role perfectly as far as I'm concerned. No nonsense. So the first one is gonna be pretty obvious. The first one is gonna be Marlon Brando, and this is a great scene. Marlon Brando in The Godfather obviously plays Don Collion. Marlon Brando, um great American actor, maybe one of the greatest, maybe the greatest American actor to ever grace the screen. I mean, he has played so many parts, so many roles. Everybody knows who he is. He is just a fantastic actor, Apocalypse Now. I mean, he was in Superman. I mean, you go way before that, you know, streetcar named Desire. Um, it just goes, the list of movies just goes on and on and on. But in this scene in The Godfather, he meets a gentleman named Salazo, and it's uh the late 40s, it's right after World War II. And Solazzo wants to start a drug business. Before, in the movie before World War II, the majority of the crime that the mafia was get taking part in was racketeering, extortion, prostitution, gambling, so on and so forth. But now this new business comes, this drug business. And Solazo needs Don Colleone, he is the most powerful mafia boss in New York at the time, in the country, and he needs his help. So he goes to him for help, he sets up this meeting, and the meeting is Solazzo, Marlon Brando, uh his son Santino, and his consular Robert Duval, also his stepson.
SPEAKER_09I need a man who has powerful friends. I need a million dollars in cash. I need Don Corrion, those politicians that you carry in your pocket, like so many nickels and dimes.
SPEAKER_12What is the interest for my family?
SPEAKER_00So, right off the bat, his mannerisms. I mean, amazing. Just, I mean, first of all, the way they make him look. He looks older, he looks distinguished, he looks like he has uh a lot of stress, his jawline, and his mannerisms right away, you know, touching his face and so on and so forth. So many scenes, so many actors and so many scenes, now that I pointed out to you, have tried to duplicate that same mannerism. He was the originator of that.
SPEAKER_0930%. In the first year, your end should be three, four million dollars. And then it would go up.
SPEAKER_00So what happened is he didn't think that they knew about the Titalia family. The Tatalia family was backing him up a hundred percent, and Kamslayeri, which is Robert Duval right here, Tom Higgins in the movie, did his research and delivered it to Marlon Brando. And Solozzo is basically saying, Oh, okay, you know things that I thought you didn't know. And he's always telling him, My compliments, you did your homework.
SPEAKER_09I'll take care of the details. How to my share?
SPEAKER_12So I received 30% for finance, political influence, and legal protection. That's what you're telling me.
SPEAKER_09That's right.
SPEAKER_12Why do you come to me?
SPEAKER_09Why do I deserve this generosity? If you consider a million dollars in cash, just finance.
SPEAKER_00So basically, Salazo is coming to him because he wants a million dollars in cash to finance the drug business. But he also, Don Colleone in this movie, has all the politicians, uh, police officers, uh uh judges. He's they're on his payroll. And if you know the story, as he was coming up through the ranks and he became boss of one of the most powerful crime family, that was his strategy. He's going to have everybody on the payroll, every big wig, right? Judges, politicians, police officers. So he needs that so that this drug business could go smooth.
SPEAKER_12I said that I would see because I heard that you were a serious man and you treated with respect.
SPEAKER_00Once again, the way he's treating him, he's treating him like uh with a lot of respect. You know, he he wipes the uh the dust off his clothes, he pours him a drink. And again, you'll see this in other movies after this, but this was the first time that we've seen this in on cinema. And Brando was the originator of this. Okay, I guarantee you, now that I told you this, you will notice in other movies, and I guarantee you, this movie was made in '72. These gestures, these mannerisms were copied. That's how great he was in this role. You'll see in other roles. Guaranteed now that I told you.
SPEAKER_12And I'll give you my reasons. It's true, I have a lot of friends in politics. But they wouldn't be friendly very long if they knew my business was drugs instead of gambling, which they regard as a harmless vice, but drugs is a dirty business. It doesn't make any difference to me what a man does for a living, I understand.
SPEAKER_00See, that's fantastic. When he tells him drugs is a dirty business, but he also knows that he's a hypocrite. And he says, look, I don't care what you do for a living, right? It makes no difference to me. Basically, we're all in the we're all swimming in the same pool of shit, only yours is a little dirtier than mine. That's basically what he's saying there.
SPEAKER_12But your business is uh a little dangerous.
SPEAKER_09If you're worried about security for him again, that the taliers will guarantee them. Oh, are you telling me that the taliers guarantee our investment?
SPEAKER_00So in this scene right here, Sonny is Marlon Brando's firstborn son. And everybody knows in uh Mafia hierarchy, the firstborn son takes over the family. So he's being bred to be the new Don once Marlon Brando passes away. Now, if you see the movie and you watch the movie, you obviously know that this is this doesn't happen. If you haven't seen it, watch it. It's an amazing movie. Probably one of the best movies you'll ever see. But in this instance, Sonny is impatient. He's a hothead. And he's like basically, he's basically just giving away information. And Brando, as you see, he's looking at him, he's gone, he's basically saying, What are you doing? Keep your damn mouth shut.
SPEAKER_12I have a sentimental weakness for my children, and I spoil them as you can see. They talk when they should listen. Anyway, Senor Sonotso, I know it's final. And I wish to congratulate you on your new business. I know you do very well, and good luck to you. As best as it's your interests, don't conflict with mine. Thank you.
SPEAKER_00So he just said no, but the other families want in because the other families know the drugs are the future, but he knows that the drugs are a uh is going to be the downfall of the mafia, which it turned out to be that way, right? That was one of the biggest problems with the mafia, was that was that was the drugs once it came, you know, the 60s and 70s, if you know anything about mafia history. So he says no to him. So this starts a whole issue if you watch the the movie. This starts this starts a whole problem within the mafia in the five families in New York City.
SPEAKER_12Santino. Come here. What's the matter with you? I think your brain is going soft. From all that comedy you're playing with that young girl.
SPEAKER_00He says Santino has a girl on the side. He has a uh a mistress. He's obviously married, has children, but he has a mistress. And when he says you're playing comedy with that young girl, comedy is an old, old school term for having an affair, for sleeping with somebody, for having sex with somebody. And he's basically scolding Santino right here because because he he basically spoke out of line. He gave away the the the things that they shouldn't be talking about to strangers outside of the family. He because he said um the Titales are guarantee our one million dollar investment, and he immediately got hot. And and in this movie, Brando plays a cool-headed, well-thought out, very strategic mafia boss, and he lets nothing go get by him, and he certainly doesn't let his enemies or people he does business with know what he's truly thinking. And this is what he's trying to breed and teach Santino, but Santino is a little bit different in the movie. He plays somebody that uh can't control his temper. Alright, my number two pick, and by the way, this is in no particular order. I have top five, two honorable mentions. They're in no particular order. It's not like one through five, five is the best, one is the best. I'm just picking top five, in my opinion. So obviously, this is another obvious one. This is Goodfellas. And Paul Sevino plays such a great mafia boss. He's supposed to be a mafia boss in the Lucchese crime family. And if you haven't seen Goodfellas, I don't mean you might be living under a rock, but I'm sure you have. If you haven't, go see it. It's a tremendous movie. Um, Paul Sevino plays a mafia boss, and here's another one. It's more real. He plays more Italian, more street, more gritty than obviously a Marlon Brando, who's more of a Brando was more of a Hollywood actor. And this is more realistic of how a mafia boss would really act, right? But his mannerisms, his facial expressions, the way he sits, the way he eats, the way he talks, it is just tremendous acting all the way around. So I mean this first part of the scene, this is two scenes that I'm gonna show you. The first part of the scene is Ray Leota is narrating and he's telling you how the mafia works, how what Paul Savino is as a boss, what he does, and so on and so forth.
SPEAKER_06For a guy who moved all day long, Paulie didn't talk to six people. If there was a union problem or, say, a beef in the numbers, then only the top guys could meet with Pauly to discuss the problem. Everything was one-on-one. Pauly hated conferences. He didn't want anybody hearing what he said, and he didn't want anybody listening to what he was being told. Hundreds of guys depended on Pauly, and he got a piece of everything they made. It was tribute, just like in the old country, except they were doing it here in America. And all they got from Pauli was protection from other guys looking to rip them off.
SPEAKER_00I mean, right there. The way he's dressed, his watch, the way he's holding the the uh his food, his mannerisms, his facial expressions, even his hair do. I mean, this is this is causing Australia all the way. Paul Savino did his homework when he did this, when he took this role. Uh just a tremendous actor. Uh he was a great TV actor. He played a police policeman. I mean, he was another uh movie called Blood Brothers, where he plays an electrician and um uh uh he's uh the uncle to the star of the movie. And it's just a tremendous, he has a tremendous career, but this this really stamped his career. This really put an exclamation of how good he really was as an actor.
SPEAKER_06That's what it's all about. That's what the FBI could never understand. That's what Paulie and the organization does is offer protection for people who can't go to the cops. That's it. That's all it is. They're like the police department for wise guys.
SPEAKER_00But I'm worried. I mean, uh So now in this scene, a friend, associate, comes to him for help. This person has a restaurant, bar, and one of the guys played by Joe Pesci is a psycho lunatic if you watch the movie, and he's threatening him. He beat him up. It was it was a really bad uh scene, really bad look. So he goes to Paulie to see if Paulie could become a partner in the in in his restaurant. And he's begging him and pleading him and asking for asking him for help.
SPEAKER_04I'm hearing all kinds of fucking bad things. I mean, he's treating me like I'm a fucking half a fag or something. I'm gonna wind up a lamist. I gotta go on a fucking lamb in order to get away from this guy. This ain't right, Paulie.
SPEAKER_03I mean, I can't go here, I can't go there. You think you're the only one? I talk to them a million times. They don't listen.
SPEAKER_04If you tell them he'll he'll stop. I mean, what am I gonna with? I'm gonna wind up being declared an MIA, they're gonna find me in the back of a car somewhere in the weeds. Come on. You know this fucking Tommy all your life. Who knows better than you? This guy's a large premier. I mean, when I leave my house in the morning, before I get to the car, I'm looking over both shoulders. This is no way to live. You know I'm no fence, jump. I'm around you all my life. You tell me what I gotta do. Whatever the fuck I gotta do, I'm gonna do, no? What could I do?
SPEAKER_03There's something I could do, don't you think I would do it? You know me. I would like to help you out.
SPEAKER_00His facial expressions right there. It's just fantastic. I mean, that is that is typical Italian. I mean, I had family members that made facial expressions if they didn't understand something. This that this was fantastic. This is my favorite favorite scene in the movie, and it's just his acting makes it my favorite scene. It's not even a significant scene, it's just his acting and how he acts as a mafia boss made this scene my favorite scene in the entire movie. Tell him what we talked about.
SPEAKER_04I think it's all right. What? Well, you know, look, I maybe you could come in with me. You know, take a piece of this fucking joint. It'd be good. What do you mean? The restaurant? Yeah, I mean, it just a classy place. I mean, look at the layout. When you've been in there a million times, you know what it looks like. I mean, it Tommy taking over this fucking joint is like putting a silk hat on a p on a pig. I mean, I don't mean no disrespect on that, Henry, but uh that that's the way it is. I know you're his friend. I'm begging you, what can I say?
SPEAKER_03What am I gonna do? What am I gonna do? What do you want from me? I don't know what I don't know anything about the restaurant business. Nothing. All I know is to sit down and order the meal. I don't know how to make it.
SPEAKER_00I really think you need to be Italian from New York to enjoy his acting because he nails it. He I mean, look, it's not much of a stretch for him. He was Italian from New Jersey, but he his mannerisms and the way he says that well, I don't know nothing about the restaurant business. What do you want from me? It was perfect. You can't get more of an Italian mafia boss mannerism, the way he speaks to him, so on and so forth. It's it was just perfection. Like a restaurant. No, uh not for you, it's just a place to hang. I mean, that face is classic. When he looks at Henry and he's like, that face is just classic.
SPEAKER_04You know what I mean? The chef is great, you gotta the fucking shows are good. It's a lot of who is coming in here all the time.
SPEAKER_03Look, what do you want from me? What am I gonna do? Tommy's a bad kid, he's a bad seed. What am I supposed to do? Shoot him? It wouldn't be a bad idea.
SPEAKER_00And that's the look of death he gives him. Uh these are his crew members. Now they're not maid. Some of them are maid, some of them aren't made. Tommy is not a maid member, but he's known him since he's a kid. And he said, jokingly, what am I supposed to do? Shoot him. And this guy was like, eh, that's not a bad idea. And the look he gives him is the look of death. And watch, the actor that plays the associate, immediately apologizes and immediately knows that he fucked up. Watch this.
SPEAKER_04I'm sorry I said that. I didn't mean to say that. I just mean that he's scaring me. You know, uh, I just uh I need help. Uh help me, please.
SPEAKER_03You know. You know anything about this fucking restaurant business? He knows everything about it.
SPEAKER_04I mean, he's in the joint 24 hours a day. I mean, another another fucking few few minutes, it could be a stool. That's not the often he's in there. You understand? You want me to be a partner?
SPEAKER_03That's what you're trying to tell me. You want me to be a partner? Yeah, what the fuck you think I'm talking about, Paulie? Please, come on. It's not even fair. No? You don't understand. The joint is over. Well, you run the joint. Uh maybe I'll I'll try to help you, all right.
SPEAKER_00Even right there, even right there, the way he's putting a cigar in his mouth. It was just. I I think honestly, I'm gonna put him as my number one pick. If I said no, no particular order, but he was just tremendous in this movie, man. He really was. Okay. This movie is pretty obvious too. Gotti. But who I'm going to pick is not so obvious. I didn't pick Omana Sante, even though he was uh a capo. He plays John Gotti, obviously. I picked Anthony Quinn. Anthony Quinn plays Neil Delacroach. Neil Delacroach was either the underboss or the Conseil 2 Carlo Gambino or the Gambino crown family during the uh 70s into the early 80s. In this scene, John Gotti had killed a maid member. And you can't kill a maiden member. You can't even lay your hands on a maid member. So Paul Castellano wanted John Gotti killed because he broke the rules. And back then, that was the penalty. If you put your hands on a maid member, you died. Uh but since John Gotti was a captain already, and he was already he was obviously a maid member and a captain, um, Neil Delacroach, who looked at John Gotti as a son, negotiated his life. And Carlo Cambino and Paul Castellano, they gave him a pass. But now what's happening is Anthony Quinn is walking into Gotti's club. Anthony Quinn is obviously Neil Delacroach. He's walking into Gotti's club and he's gonna give him a lecture. Because Gotti broke the rules. And Neil Delacroach plays an old school gangster, and his attitude is you do not break the rules. Because if you break the rules, then the hierarchy that they have developed over the years is no good anymore. It works on rules and regulations. But the way he walks in and the way he talks and his mannerisms, now Anthony Quinn was actually Mexican. He was born in Mexico, but made incredible movies, Zorba the Greek, Recorim for a Heavyweight. I mean, the list of movies that he did was just tremendous. So this was a no-brainer for me because even though he was Mexican, he looked European. So he could play an Italian, he could play a Greek, but his mannerisms, the way he dresses, the way he the way he talks, and even the way he talks to Gotti here in this scene, just a tremendous uh mafia boss and knows what kind of weight he's throwing around. Immediately, as soon as he walks in, you can see the energy, and the whole room changes. It's like, oh shit. Oh shit. Neil Delacroach is here. Everybody, you know, everybody at attention. Now Amanda Sante did a great job playing Gotti. But and if you see these two guys, everybody knows these two guys were in the Sopranos. This movie was before the Sopranos. But uh Amanda Sante played a great role as Gotti, but Anthony Quinn, he's got such a small role in this movie because Neil Delacroach dies shortly after this. And this was just fantastic, the way he lectures him about uh how Cosa Nostra works. He might get killed, he might not. He doesn't know that what decision was made yet. That's why he said stick around.
SPEAKER_02Negotiate one. Your fucking life. Just take it out of fucking cocaine. Be quiet! Sit down. Sit down. You know, I've clipped a lot of guys in my life. Close friends. Guys I didn't know. I didn't always agree that the guy should be clipped. But I never questioned the orders. And I never went off half-copped. And clipped somebody I wasn't supposed to. You shut up. You just listen. You know, Big Paul went to Don Carlo for permission to have you whacked. It came this close. I told Don Carlo, you were like a something. I touched the old man. He told Paul to give you a pass. But if Don Carlo had said, you gotta go, I would have come here today with these two zips. And you would go.
SPEAKER_00Look at the facial expression Amano Sante, but I'm still on Anthony Quinn. Amano Sante is taking this in, but he obviously doesn't digest it because everybody knows the Gotti story. You can't whack a made man. There are rules to this thing. And obviously everybody knows Gotti winds up killing Castellano, which is the biggest sin that you could possibly make in the mafia. Killing a boss. A boss of the family, no less. But Anthony Quinn is basically telling him, you cannot go off half-cocked, like he just said, and just kill a man and a maid man and another one, another one's crew.
SPEAKER_02You break the rules in this whole goddamn thing of ours, cracks and bumbles. You never break the rules.
SPEAKER_00And that's foreshadowing because everybody knows that John Gotti breaks the biggest rule. But if this scene is accurate, then John Gotti had been warned by one of the greatest Italian American gangsters in Mafia history, and he just dismissed it. But the facial expression on Anthony Quinn and his mannerisms and the way he's dressed and the way he's talking to him caused an Austra 100%. Tremendous, tremendous, tremendous work. Now, these next two choices are not obvious. You guys may have not seen this movie, but you should go and watch the movie. It is a tremendous movie. In this movie, there's a mafia boss in New York City. This movie takes place from the early 60s to the early 80s. The mafia boss is King Benny, played by Vittorio Gasman. Vittorio Gassman was a tremendous Italian actor. I mean, he he was acting. He was born in uh Genoa in 1922. He was acting from the night from world from the World War II days all the way up until he died. He died. This movie was made in 1996. He died shortly after this in 2000. He was already 77 years old. He plays an old school Italian mafia mafiosa. Now, in this scene, what happens is if you haven't seen the movie, there were these four boys from I think it's the Lower East Side during the early 60s, and they get arrested for killing somebody, accidentally killing somebody, and they have to go to Ju V, or they used to call it boys' home, or whatever the case may be. And the guards would have their way with them, sexually and physically. So they would sexual, they would sexually have their way with them and they would beat the hell out of them. One particular boy who was not part of their crew that they knew, uh his kid was named as Rizzo. He got killed. He he died at the hands of security. King Benny is helping these four kids because he watched them grow up and he knows what they went through. So he's helping them in any way he can. Now, in this scene, the other kid that's dead, that is not part of their crew, his brother grows up and becomes one of the largest drug kingpins in New York City. And King wants the guard that killed his brother because he was also one of the guards that abused the four boys. So he has this strategy and it's real street, and it is a tremendous scene. Here we go.
SPEAKER_05This guy Addison, the one who works for the mayor, he quits his job in two weeks. He don't want nobody to know what kind of a guy he is. You don't want nobody to see pictures of him. They shouldn't see. He will. The boys he buys for parties are expensive. Now, Addison makes good money, but he doesn't make real money.
SPEAKER_00Now, did you hear that? He said the boys he buys for parties are expensive. So he is in debt to somebody. And King Benny takes that debt over and hands it over to his brother. Watch this.
SPEAKER_05How much does he owe? Eight grand with a heavy vic. I paid that off. You pay. Addison's debts belong to me now. You hate debts. I hate Addison. You're in the dirty end of the field now. That's where I play. I like to play alone. You're a nice kid. You always will. Don't let this change it.
SPEAKER_00So in this part, even though he's working and helping the boy that he watched grow up, when it can't when it comes to the real gritty street shit, he leaves him out of it. Because this particular kid, there's four of them, this particular kid grows up to be a journalist. One is also played by Brad Pitt, grows up to be a lawyer. The other two are founding members of the Westy gangs on the west side of New York City. If you have not seen this movie, go watch it. It is a tremendous movie. Sleepers 1996.
SPEAKER_01After her favorite actor. To continue the Hollywood connection, Eddie Robinson took the street name Little Caesar as he made his way up the ranks of the lucrative drug trade. He had a 12-year-old son in a private school in upstate New York. He named him Rizzo after his youngest brother, who died while in the custody of the Wilkinson home for boys.
SPEAKER_00Now this exchange is tremendous because even though King Benny is at Little Caesar's shop and Little Caesar's guys are around him and he's on his territory, King Benny is not afraid. And his energy shows that. And his energy basically is I'm gonna give you a gift for no particular reason. And he also tells him about everything that happened to his brother in so many words. Like he almost speaks in riddles, but you understand it. It's just a great scene.
SPEAKER_05I want you to give me some money. Alright.
SPEAKER_13I'll play along. How long before you pay it back?
SPEAKER_05I ain't paying it back. Somebody else's.
SPEAKER_13Somebody I know? Your little brother knew him. Rizzo? Mm-hmm. How did he know Rizzo?
SPEAKER_05Henry Addison was a god in an upstate reform school. He was there at the same time as Rizzo. Before and after he died.
SPEAKER_13Count out $8,000. Put it in an envelope.
SPEAKER_00So now in this next few minutes, uh Little Caesar knows he has a very powerful man in front of him. And he also knows that he could uh utilize him if he wants to continue growing in the drug trade and in the street thing. So he kind of starts brown nosing a little bit. King Benny cuts this off immediately.
SPEAKER_13You uh go back a long time, old man. Old men always do. Ran with the Guinness back when the Guineas were tough.
SPEAKER_05I ran when I could.
SPEAKER_13Look good, doing it too. Gave the business some style, some class. Made it a call for respect the way you wore it, the way you talked it. Always like that about you.
SPEAKER_00I'm no help to you. See, he cuts it off immediately. He knows he's brown ozone, he goes, I'm no help to you. This is a gift I'm giving you for my personal reasons.
SPEAKER_05My tailor's dead.
SPEAKER_00And as you can see, he doesn't want to spend any more time there than he has to. He gets the $8,000, tells him that he's not paying it back, that this guard Addison is in debt to you now, and he leaves.
SPEAKER_13Oh look up our friend. And collect the money he owes me.
SPEAKER_05He owes you something more than money.
SPEAKER_13Ain't nothing worth more than the green. What old man? What's this guy owe that means more than dollars? He owes you rhizom.
SPEAKER_05He's the man that killed your brother.
SPEAKER_13They said that he died of pneumonia.
SPEAKER_05They said.
SPEAKER_00Alright, I know. I'm in a different outfit. It took me a couple of days to put this one together. Just because I was a little pressed for time. But here we are. This is number five. You guys may or may not know this movie. This is a movie called Raging Bull. It came out in 1980. It was a huge success. The movie was about a fighter, it was a true story. The movie was about a fighter named Jake LaMata. And Jake LaMotta was the middleweight champion during uh World War II. And he had great fights with Sugar A. Robinson. There were great middleweights during that era. But Jake LaMotta was Italian and he was from the Bronx. And in the 1940s and 50s. If uh you were Italian and you wanted to be a champion, well, you had to deal with the mafia. This one's a little bit different. If you haven't seen the movie, this is a fantastic movie. Go and watch it. It is uh it is actually filmed in the Bronx in different parts of New York, but it really brings you back to the 19, the late 1940s, post-World War II, the clothing, the cars, so on and so forth. Now, the guy who plays the mafia boss in the Bronx, the name of the movie is Tommy Como. But his real name was Nicholas Colistano, and he was an actor for years, but he was best known for his role as coach in the television show Cheers, and he actually died of heart disease in 1985, and then Woody Harrelson took over the role in uh in 1985 in Cheers on the show Cheers. But in this 1980 movie, he plays the mafia boss that is trying to help Jake LaMotta become the middleweight champion. But of course, in the movie, when you watch it, Jake LaMotta doesn't want his help, he doesn't want his help at all with the mafia. Now, this was a little bit difficult to get this scene, but I finally got it. So in this scene, Joe Pesci is meaning for Tommy Como, and Tommy is telling him in this scene look, he's not gonna get a shot without us. He doesn't have a choice. But his mannerisms, the way he's speaking to him, the way he is talking to him, uh he plays a great mafia boss. It is just tremendous acting. So here we go. So uh forgive me if it's a little off. This is the only video footage I could I could have got from this. It was very difficult to get this video, but it's here.
SPEAKER_08Yeah, fine.
SPEAKER_11Everybody's fine. Oh, what is it? Kentuck? Talking about me? I don't know. Why have you got this funny attitude, Joey? I can't figure it out. What is it with all the quick answers? Yeah, yeah, they're all right there.
SPEAKER_00So now in this role, he's annoyed. He's annoyed because Jake LaMata is from his neighborhood, and Jake doesn't want anybody help from anything. And what is happening is he's looking like an embarrassment to the rest of Cozinostra because there's a kid from his neighborhood who is a great fighter that everybody knows, and he's not able to deliver him. So he is really frustrated and really embarrassed.
SPEAKER_11Listen to me. I'm taking the guy's becoming embarrassment. He's embarrassing me with people. I'm looking very bad. I can't go with people got that name. This why does he have to make some reason?
SPEAKER_08Jack respects you. You know, you talk so he likes you. It's just that uh when he gets something on his mind, you know, he's got a hard head, he likes to do things his own way. I mean, Jesus Christ can come off the cross sometimes. He don't give a fuck. He's gonna do what he wants to do, he wants to make it on his own, you know? Thinks he can make it on his own.
SPEAKER_11He thinks he's gonna walk in there and become champion on his own. He's crazy. He's got no respect for nobody, he doesn't listen for nobody. That's not crazy. He doesn't respect anybody. Now you do this for me, you understand? You tell him. I don't care how colorful he is, how great he is. You could beat all the sugar ray Robinsons and the Tony Janeiro's in the world, but we ain't gonna get a shot at that title, not without using.
SPEAKER_00So if you watch the rest of the movie, there's plenty of other scenes in the movie, but that really shows how powerful of a mafia boss is in that movie. He basically is saying there's no way he's gonna get a shot at the title without me. I'm the I'm the boss of this neighborhood. He's from my neighborhood, I'm gonna deliver him, and that's it. So obviously, what happens is because they're gangsters, he has to throw a fight so they can make some money, and then he will get a shot at the title. The movie is tremendous because Jake LaMata's life was crazy, and De Niro plays a tremendous Jake LaMata, and Joe Pesci plays his brother. It is a tremendous movie with great acting, and there are other scenes with uh Nicholas Colistano, but he plays a great mafia boss. Check it out. Okay, I had two honorable mentions in mind. I didn't know which way I was gonna go, but then I made a choice. So this is the one honorable mention. This movie is called True Romance, and there's only one scene about a mafia boss, but the scene has become iconic in cinema history. Anybody who knows anything about movies or is a movie buff knows this scene. And it is with the great Christopher Walken and Dennis Hopper. Christopher Walken plays the mafia boss. Now, in this scene, what is happening is Christian Slater goes to a pimp, and he's trying to get his girlfriend to go with him. Because his girlfriend is a prostitute and belongs to this pimp, played by Gary Oldman. Now, during that scene, there's confusion, there's craziness, there's a shootout, and he thinks he grabs a suitcase full of clothes, of his girlfriend's clothes. Turns out the suitcase is full of cocaine, and he doesn't realize it until he gets home. So now he has him, this cocaine, and his girlfriend, and they don't know what to do. So they're driving cross-country. They go see Christian Slater's father, who's played by Dennis Hopper. He doesn't know what to do. He goes to see him, he visits him, and what happens is the next day the mafia is on his ass because they want their drugs back. And they go to see Dennis Hopper knowing that he saw his son. But in this scene, everybody knows this as the Sicilian scene. I'm going to cut out the part that is really popular because it gets vulgar and it gets racist, and I don't want to put it in here, it would be too much bleeping out. But even the first half of the scene, Christopher Walken playing a mafia boss is amazing. You don't think he could do it. He plays a mafia boss fantastic. Again, his mannerisms, his facial expressions, and he's trying to get Dennis Hopper, the father, to tell him where his son is. That's basically the scene. Now, as the scene goes on, Dennis Hopper decides I'm not gonna give up my son. And he knows he's gonna die. So he insults him, and that's where the racism comes in and the uh cursing and it gets a little gritty. Go and watch it for yourself, okay? But let's start. Here's the scene.
SPEAKER_10You know one.
SPEAKER_11I found it.
SPEAKER_10You know who I am, Mr. Woolley. I give up you. Antichrist. You got me in a vendetta kind of mood. You tell the angels in heaven you've never seen evil so singularly personified as you did in the face of the man who killed you. My name is Vincent Kircutti. I work as counsel for Mr. Blue Loo Boyle. The man your son stole from. I hear you were once a cop, so I can assume you've heard of us before.
SPEAKER_00The only thing that's a little bit uh far-fetched is his vocabulary and grasp of the English language. No Mafia boss speaks like this. I mean, he speaks like a uh graduate student, right? But even with that, and it's a little exaggerated and it's a little far-fetched, he still does a great job as a mafia boss. And that's why I made it an honorable mention, because there were the the other the other characters that I picked, they were more real, they were more convincing as Mafia Boy, really true, gritty, hard mafia bosses.
SPEAKER_10Correct? I've heard of Blue Lu boy. Well, hopefully that will clear up the handful of shit on my question you've been asking yourself. We're gonna have a little QA. And at the risk of sounding redundant, please make your answers genuine. I have a son, my own, at your boy's age. I can imagine how painful this must be for you. But Clarence, an objectful girlfriend of his brother Solomon sounds an employer not to go down that road with him.
SPEAKER_00You can all his his mannerisms are really good, even the way he's dressed. I remember watching this as a young man, thinking he was dressed so amazing with the tie and the cufflinks and the scarf, and I was just like, Oh God, he Looks like he just came out of a GQ Mafia magazine.
SPEAKER_10We take comfort in the fact you never had a choice.
SPEAKER_07Look, I'd like to help you if I could, but I haven't seen Clarence.
SPEAKER_10You see that? I'm smart, done the slander in the nose. Fucks you all up. Get that pain shooting through your brain, your eyes fill up with water. I don't any kind of fun. But what I have to offer you, that's as good as it's gonna get.
SPEAKER_00He knows he's lying to him because he knows he saw him the day before. But Dennis Hopper refuses to give him up.
SPEAKER_10And it won't ever get that good again. We talked to your neighbors. They saw a Cadillac. Purple Cadillac. Clarence's purple Cadillac. Parked in front of your trailer yesterday. Mr. Wally. Have you seen your son? I seen him. I can't be sure of how much of what he told you, so in the chance you're in the dark about some of this. Let me shed some light. That whore your boy hangs around with. A pimp is an associate of mine. I mean, just pimping and other affairs. He works for me in a courier capacity. Well, apparently. A dirty little whore found out I'm gonna do some business. Because your son, the cowboy, in his flame, came in the room blazing and didn't stop until they were pretty sure everybody was dead. What are you talking about? Talking about a massacre. They snatched my narcotics. Hightailed it out of there. Would have got away with it, but your son, fuckhead that he is, left his driver's license in a dead guy's hand.
SPEAKER_00So now this scene is like 10 minutes long of probably the greatest cinema chemistry of two actors ever, and it's all dialogue. I mean, there's a little bit of violence, but the majority of the chemistry between these guys is all dialogue. And it is just fantastic between two professional actors. And I can't express that enough. If you haven't watched the movie, go and watch the movie. The entire movie's great, but this is only the one scene where you see Christopher Walken as the mafia boss.
SPEAKER_10You know, I don't believe you. That's of minor importance. What is of major fucking importance is that I believe you. Where did they go?
SPEAKER_07On the honeymoon. Getting angry asking the same question a second time.
SPEAKER_10Where did they go?
SPEAKER_07They didn't tell me. Now you just wait a minute and listen to me. I haven't seen Clarence in three years. He shows up yesterday with a young girl, saying that he got married. He asked for uh some quick uh cash to go on a honeymoon. He asked me if uh he could borrow $500. I felt like helping him, so I wrote him out a check. We went to breakfast in the morning. And that's the last I saw of him. So help me God. They never thought to tell me where they were going.
SPEAKER_00And his face right there just reads, You're lying to me, and I know it.
SPEAKER_07And I never thought to ask.
SPEAKER_00And yes, that's James Gendolfini, Tony Soprano.
SPEAKER_07Don Vincenzo. Incenti. Questa non è buono.
SPEAKER_10You know, Sicilians are great liars. Best in the world. I'm Sicilian. My father was the world heavyweight champion of Sicilian liars. From growing up with him, I learned the pantomime. There are 17 different things a guy can do when he lies to give himself away. Guy's got 17 pantomimes. Woman's got 20, guys got 17. But if you know them like you know your own face, they be lie detectors all to hell. Now, what we got here is a little game of show and tell. You don't want to show me nothing, but you tell me everything. I know you know where they are, so tell me.
SPEAKER_00In this split second, Dennis Hopper's face knows I'm a dead man and I'm not giving up my son. I'm gonna stop it here because you guys need to go and finish watching this on your own. Whether you look up the scene on YouTube or watch the entire movie, I recommend watching the entire movie. True romance. Incredible cast, incredible movie. In this split second, Dennis Hopper makes a decision that he is going to die right here because he is not gonna give up his son. And whenever consequences happen from him not giving up his son, he's ready to take. So in the next part of the scene, which I'm not going to show you, because it gets really gritty and uh dirty and racist. He decides that I'm gonna insult this man and I'm gonna go out dying, but I'm gonna go out my way, I'm gonna go out, I'm gonna go out with guns blazing. You know, for lack of a better term. And this entire scene is all anybody spoke about it after this movie came out. This was a strong uh honor I mentioned. And the other one I mentioned was Michael Madison from Don Nebrasco. But this one blew him out of the water. I had to have this in this list. So yeah, there you have it. Top five, one honorable I mentioned. What I want one from you guys is I want you to tell me if you agree with it, if you don't agree with it, who do you think, what movies did I miss. Let me know who you think played a great mafia boss in uh movies, in TV shows. And leave the comment, like, share, subscribe, and I'll see you guys soon later.