The Godfather

The Godfather and the Mafian-American Culture of Crime

The reality of an underground workforce that primarily deals with drug syndicate , alcohol market , organized crime and prostitution had shocked the entire America when it discovered that Mafia had succeeded thriving in the urban American way of life . In the 19th century Mafia had entered the United States and started an organized crime and syndicate . The portrayal of the film in reflecting America 's society and its moral degradation and its forms - corruption , murder , bootlegging , and drug-running mirrored the past , present and the future

of the American people (Reuter , 2

In 1972 , after the eradication of the Mafia mob , a film starred by Al Pacino and Marlon Brando was released , titled The Godfather .The movie was directed by Francis Ford Coppola . The film primarily depicted the challenges and the pursuits of Mafia from their native Italy to America , bringing with them the secrecy of the organization , family 's closet of felonies and the misdeeds of the gang . Effectively , the 1972 The Godfather ' strongly exposed America 's own Achilles ' heel . In the film , for instance , a Mafia master was scrutinized before the Congress legislative inquiry (Coppola ,1990 . Believing that the Congress can ferret out truth from their hearings , the United States own 14th Amendment was used by the slippery Mafia to escape his way out and had his stage laughing , by repetitiously invoking his right against self-incrimination (Reuter , 3 ) This was Mafia 's own way of juggling the law and hiding their felonies so safe from the teeth of the law . The very law that seeks to protect the innocent was utilized to abscond the guilty (Paoli , 67

The murderous trail of Mafia to efficaciously bring their trade of crime had been a boggling series to US law enforcers (Paoli , 66 . It seems that the group used much of their money , influence and their own guns to circumvent the law and to subdue a moral life in exchange of an affluent status . The film presented how gangsters of first rate , like the Mafia , as any American family strived to survive in the concrete jungle life (68 . The Italian-American family had shown their interest in alleviating their mediocre lifestyle to a more well-to-do living

In the film , the staggering truth behind the syndicated crime epitomized the kind of values Americans have . It can arguably said that Mafia is no real American , in its sense . These people were of Italian descent (Mannino , 2 . But a closer look in the film reveals that the continuance of their crime was not supported by any Italian connections They blended well with the American culture and standards of living . As it can be seen , their easy infusion in the very vein of American lifestyle proves the susceptibility of America to accept the commensal existence of any corrupt kinship or human coteries . Two arguments can be deduced in this thought , either they camouflaged so well to deceive or they have truly been beneficial to any evil American society possess (Shadoian...