1. @emilynussbaum's smart tweets about the Godfather movies (check them out) remind me one way "Miller's Crossing" falls short.
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2. Let's say the 3 great gangster movies are Godfather 1 & 2 (as single movie), Goodfellas, & Miller's Crossing.
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3. There's one striking difference between "Miller's Crossing" (on one side) & Godfather/Goodfellas (on other side): personal experience
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4. Coppola & Scorsese made movies that grew out of their personal experiences as Italian-Americans.
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5. What grounds the Godfather is Coppola's intimate grounding in Italian-American cultural milieu. & Scorsese grew up among wiseguys.
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6. As against the lived experience Coppola & Scorsese drew on, Coen Bros. sense of gangster comes from novels & movies.
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7. Miller's Crossing is a work of high artifice -- the dialogue stylized, the gangland ethos ritualized, the plot taken from movies.
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8. MT @markedoten but death in M's C--"look into your heart"--is more wrenching. Th artifice makes it--when th real comes in.
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9. Last MT makes good point: miracle of Miller's Crossing is that amid high artifice background, moments of emotional intensity flare up.
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