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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 6 Dec 2019

      1. I have a few thoughts on The Irishman, the editing of The Godfather II, the Italian communist party, the CIA, method acting, and vocal range.

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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 6 Dec 2019

      2. There's been much discussion/criticism of about Anna Paquin lack of dialogue in The Irishman. But that near-silence has to be understood as part of the spectrum of vocality that is crucial to the movie's story.

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 6 Dec 2019

      3. A spectrum of vocality: You have the Hoffa (a loud, expressive public figure, hammed up by Pacino); the mobsters like Bufalino & Sheeran (who speak in hushed tones and elliptical, coded language); and the female family of the gangsters (who are silenced.

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    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 6 Dec 2019

      4. If we see a spectrum from the loud to the quiet to the silent, then what we see is that the quiet mobsters silence both ends of the spectrum: they silence Hoffa by killing him, they silence their wives/daughters by patriarchy. It's telling 2 gangsters are named Whispers.

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    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 6 Dec 2019

      5. The spectrum of vocality is tied to acting styles. Paquin acts with her eyes; Pesi/De Niro/Keitel are old style method actors -- immersed, mumbling; Pacino a method actor in James Dean mode: theatrical. It's a movie about a gang of understated actors killing a ham.

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    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 6 Dec 2019

      6. Also silent (indeed off-screen) but very important to the movie is Fidel Castro. Like the Godfather movies, The Irishman highlights the counter-revolutionary nature of the mafia, which links criminality with the corruption of empire.

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    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 6 Dec 2019

      Jeet Heer Retweeted David 2022-RELATED PUN Walsh

      7. There's a deleted scene in Godfather II (which Coppola later restored in an extended version) showing Michael Corleone in Sicily watching a famous May Day parade in 1947.https://twitter.com/DavidAstinWalsh/status/1201614352719196167 …

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      David 2022-RELATED PUN Walsh @DavidAstinWalsh
      One of the most significant scenes of "The Godfather" is one that Coppola deleted from the final cut: the Italian Communist Party in Sicily marching to its doom to Portella della Ginestra, where it would be massacred by the Mafia on May 1, 1947. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7HjHWYbyEQ …
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    8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 6 Dec 2019

      8. The communist parade Corleone witnesses is famous in Italy because it was smashed by the mafia in a massacre. This resonates with the later scenes of the Cuban revolution in Godfather II & with The Irishman's showing the CIA working with the mob.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 6 Dec 2019

      9. More thoughts about the The Irishman and American history here: https://www.thenation.com/article/irishman-hoffa-godfather-martin-scorcese/ …

      9:26 AM - 6 Dec 2019
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        2. Timothy Noah‏Verified account @TimothyNoah1 6 Dec 2019
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          Good piece.

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 6 Dec 2019
          Replying to @TimothyNoah1

          Thanks!

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        1. Christopher Ames‏ @SagePrez 6 Dec 2019
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          I would note also Scorsese’s choice to show the scene of Sheeran contacting Hoffa’s wife after the disappearance as a phone call in which her side cannot be heard. Is this because we are only interested in Sheeran’s inner conflict and guilt and whether it exists at all?

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