A closer look
Real mafia bosses and mob associates were so obsessed with Francis Ford Coppola's film The Godfather that they actually started changing their real-life behavior and speech patterns to mimic Marlon Brando and Al Pacino, adopting the movie's romanticized version of organized crime because their actual lives were significantly less glamorous and involved far more boring logistics, meaning Hollywood accidentally managed to gentrify the aesthetic of actual violent syndicates who just wanted to feel like they were part of a prestige cinematic masterpiece
