1. A few thoughts on Martin Scorsese, the tri-state douchebag as a character type & Anthony Scaramucci.
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Similar, non-Scorsese effect with Wall Street's Gordon Gecko.
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Witness Don Junior's hairstyle
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7. Here's my larger analysis of Scaramucci as tri-state douchebag:https://newrepublic.com/article/144103/trump-mooch-rise-new-york-douchebag …
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Also Scorsese even more than David Chase walks a line between satire and glamorization, esp. in WofWS.
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This ties into Trump’s postmodernism—a fake businessman turning the reality TV persona/simulacrum into actual power.
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The movie the DT guys remind me most of are the dudes in Boiler Room. Want to be frauds.
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Ethnicity plays a role in this. His characters are working class or lower middle class, outer-boro, white ethnics.
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Acting out the stereotypes is almost an identity reaffirming ritual of being different from the rest of white America or the transplants.
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Describes 1/4 of my highschool growing up in Brooklyn
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I read that Crazy Joe Gallo was influenced by the movies.
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