Donnie Brasco: Difference between revisions

*** The less sympathetic aspects of the real person.

* [[Damn, It Feels Good to Be a Gangster!]]: Lefty draws his life from being a gangster. He's fully signed up to the whole mystique.

::No matter how Lefty ''feels'', events show the trope is ultimately subverted. These gangsters are not always living the high life. These are the guys at street level in a grubby, overlooked corner of the mob world. A visit to a high-class Manhattan nightclub only shows how out-of-place the Brooklyn crew is. Lefty himself has been burned by his own guys for thirty years and had gotten to resent it.

* [[Deconstruction]]: Not only do the book and the film totally deglamorize the nature of organized crime, they make it look ''boring''.

* [[Witness Protection]]: Where Donnie and his family end up.

* [[Worthy Opponent]]: Many central scenes show Donnie and Lefty sparing. And when Lefty finally accepts the possibility that Donnie is FBI:

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