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gumstarr • 25 July 2015, 11:12
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The Making Of The Mob. Guess what that is about. Indeed, it is the story of tightly groomed testosterone gushing Italian branskoppers, barking in hand, raking in scandalous mountains of money with everything God has forbidden. The type of testosterone gushing branskoppers that Tony Soprano, Il Lebanese (Romanzo Criminale) and Genny Savastano (Gomorra) had posters hanging above their beds, as if it were the heroin pushing Eros Ramazzotties and Zuccheros of the roaring twenties. The kind of guys Sam Klepper and John Mieremet would make crawling on their knees through the streets of Amsterdam, muttering silently for their mother. The Making Of The Mob is about those guys and that's not bad to watch, if you like gangsters and history at least. 1906. It had been a long journey. Weeks ago they had left Italy, and after all this time at sea, little Salvatore Luciano would finally feel solid ground again. On the way he had heard his fellow passengers on the ship talk about their future plans and dreams and now the time had come… New York. Standing on the railing and with Father's big hands safely on his hips, he could see the statue of liberty slowly getting bigger and bigger from the deck. The impressive structure had not been there very long and the copper, which would eventually acquire its characteristic green color over the years, gleamed at him in the low winter sun. A shining jewel at the gate of their new future. If this was an omen for everything America was going to bring them, then all those dreams could just come true. Once off the boat, reality quickly hits Salvatore full in the face. New York has too many residents and too little work to go around. If you want to sink your teeth into an extra large bacon whopper cheese with twister fries and double fries sauce every night (or whatever it was she was snacking on at the time), you'll have to tap a different barrel. For years, teenage Luciano, along with his friends Meyer Lansky and Bugsy Siegel, crawls through the streets of the growing metropolis, until he encounters the Don, the Capo, the uncrowned mayor of the criminal circuit, Joe “The Boss” Masseria. In his kitchen, he learns the intricacies of gangstership and lays the groundwork for his eventual bootleg-alcohol-borrowing-money-welcome-to-my-whorehouse-bet-wagon? The Making Of The Mob. Is it a series? Is it a documentary? I think it's best to call it a documentary or a serial, if you like. The origins of the mafia are revealed in a kind of Boardwalk Empire-like way, but in between, some 'experts' also have their say and you occasionally see some grainy moving black and white from back then. To top it all off, the whole thing is wonderfully tinkered with by the grinding voice of New Yorker and Goodfella Ray Liotta himself. It's all quite something to me. Of course, the story of Luciano and his crew will be romanticized on all sides and of course having actors from old gangster movies show up as experts is a joke, but that does not mean that The Making Of The Mob is well put together and AMC in the Gumstarr home. at least scored some points.
1Translated from Dutch.
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