Godfather's Hierarchy In Mob Movies

I love mob movies. One of my favorites being The Godfather. The first time I saw it, I was very young when I watched it with my mother. When the movie was over, my mom was talking about the actors, the performances, and how great the movie was. All I could think about was the message. The message in mob movies is equivalent to the message of human nature. It all starts off with love, loyalty, honor, and friendship. It always ends up with betrayal, murder, manipulation, and everyone ratting each other out to save their own ass. There is also a hierarchy in the mob movies, from the lowest mob enforcer all of the way up to Don Corleone. This hierarchy exists in society and, since it is human nature to protect your own ass and do what is in one’s …show more content…
Because police officers are in a position of power, for years in generations, we idolized the uniform, we looked at the uniform and not the person. We’ve created a toxic environment and relationship has been created. If human nature is to do what is in one’s best interest, and people in a position of power go unsupervised, that’s a very lethal combination. Human nature, at its core, is survival of the fittest, which causes a great divide among people in every aspect of life. We’ve talked about religion and family, but human nature permeates any field and any business. We’re no longer a society where people get the job because they’ve got the best skill set or they are the most deserving, they often simply get the job based on who they know and how they play the game. My dad owned a restaurant and, although we weren’t close and didn’t agree on anything, I had immense respect for how hard he worked and how disciplined he was, two qualities I lacked in spades. Every Sunday, I would go with him to the restaurant and I would be forced to clean the place from top to bottom, although I resisted with every fiber in my being. I would always notice a couple hours after we would go there, that he would go into the back and I would always hear him talking to a couple of people for ten to fifteen minutes, but I was always told to stay out front. One Sunday, I crept back there and noticed …show more content…
Although racism may have started hundreds of years ago, it’s been perpetuated and endorsed by the dictionary. If you look in Webster’s Dictionary, who was white, and you look up black and white, you will see definitions that, at their heart, are racist in nature. My degree was in journalism, there was always the inherent belief that if something was in print, it must be true. When in reality, most of the things that have been printed, are nothing more than someone’s opinion or belief. All it takes for an opinion or a belief to become fact in the minds of people is for someone to be first in that opinion or belief and to shout at the rain long enough to where it’s accepted as fact. In business, to own a name, a phrase, or a slogan, you have to trade mark and copyright it. The only difference between this and hundreds of years ago, is copyright and trade mark laws weren’t in existence. There are very few things universally statements of fact that are almost always based on opinions and beliefs where someone is enforcing this on us for their own self-serving benefit. Advertising and marketing companies, have made billions off of slogans and phrases that, if repeated long enough, become ingrained as fact in the mind of consumers. Our belief system and opinions are rarely based on our experiences or how we feel at our core, they are often based on a belief system and opinions of the people that were