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* [[Becoming the Mask]]: While discovery puts Donnie at risk of being [[Deadly Euphemism|clipped]], staying undercover isn't safe either: where does the act end? He identifies with his fatherly mentor, and life makes more sense on the wrong side.
** The real Joe Pistone mentions this as a case of artistic license. While he had real friendship with Sonny Black, and found the rest of the wiseguys superficially charming, having to deal with their brutality and lack of any basic humanity day in and day out more or less reinforced his negative views of the Mafia.
* [[Composite Character]]: Lefty in the movie is a composite of the real Lefty, the real Sonny Black, and several other wiseguys Joe Pistone met during his undercover work. The movie's Sonny Black has 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.
{{quote|'''Lefty''': "This is my family. More even than my own family."}}
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* [[Deconstruction]]: Not only do the book and the film totally deglamorize the nature of organized crime, they make it look ''boring''.
* [[Dramatization]]: The film takes as its starting point the hair-raising exploits of Joseph Pistone, an real life FBI agent who infiltrated the Bonanno crime family over several years, living the role in deep cover. Who did what, even who lives and dies, was changed around to serve the story. Some characters are [[Composite Character|Composite Characters]].
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