The inspiration for countless movies and games, has perhaps the image of the 'Mafia' crime family, in particular those of Sicily and Italian America, become a little too glamourised?
'Mafia' seems to be a 'cool' word in much popular culture... B.U.G. Mafia, Swedish House Mafia, Mafia Wars... but it's not cool to be a murderous profit-motivated thug, is it? Or a drug dealer, or arms trafficker?
Some of us might refer to the 1% as 'Mafia', certainly I think of European royalty in those terms... it conveys some kind of leech-like criminality.
Does the code of honour and fraternity portrayed in 'The Godfather' really make being a crime family any better?
Found this link, with charts of the present Italian families. Would be interested to know more about others... the Catholic church's relations with Italy's Mafia; Ukrainian and Russian; Yakuza; Chinese Triads, South American drug cartels? A gang like Jamaica's 'Yardies' probably wouldn't qualify... but that's what I mean. Are the more well known gangsters of Brando, Pacino, DeNiro et al really any different, just because they're movie stars?
Hollywood had been very bad about glamorising crime. The criminals become the good guys and the police trying to stop their crime spree in which they gun down innocent people become the bad guys.
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