Godfather III is worth watching as long as you keep in mind it is apocrypha rather than canon. The real Godfather III is The Irishman, which does for the mafia mythology what E.P. Thompson's "history from below" did to British history. https://twitter.com/sunraysunray/status/1245525090353152003 …
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Replying to @HeerJeet
I'm not sure how you speak about fiction as apocrypha.
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Replying to @HeerJeet
Okay but was The godfather meant to be factually true?
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It's loosely based on history but I'm not sure about that horse in the bed over Frank Sinatra not getting that part in from here to eternity.
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That's right -- loosely based on history. But I'm not talking about it's facticity but what parts of the story I want to see as primary and what I want to dismiss.
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The Apocrypha are intertestamental books, e.g. Wisdom, Ecclesiasticus, 1 and 2 Macabees, which were part of the Septuagint (Greek Old Testament), and which Roman Catholics and Eastern Orthodox regard as inspired scripture-they call them Deuterocanon, but Protestants reject.
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Right -- that's how I wanted to use the word -- as one part of a body of work which some people accept but which other people reject as not being part of the whole
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Replying to @HeerJeet @GerardPerry13
Having been brought up as a Catholic my Bible knowledge is limited. We didn't study that much.
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