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Poor writing

posted 14 years ago by Jebus_Saves
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This movie suffered from some pretty flawed storytelling. Just a couple of examples:

1) He beats up the union president's muscle and then slaps the president around. That's it? The guy never retaliates? He just gives up for life? Never tries to get the drop on Greene? Just poor fiction. It didn't happen like that of course because that would be ridiculous.

2) The FBI gets him a BS sentence but he never has to feed them any info? And they tip him off about a rat in his ranks? Why? Why would the FBI have a one way relationship that they don't benefit from? Again, it didn't happen that way. Just poor fiction. In real life, he fed the FBI plenty of information--none that would mess his own spot up or his friends' but he definitely fed the FBI tons of information.

Also, they portray him as some sort of worker rights guy, when it is well known that he was raising dues and otherwise ripping the small guys off. He made his bones on the backs of hardworking working men. He was a piece of crap.

[–] death_jamm_productions 14 years ago

he seemed small time the whole way through, bit of a fool

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[–] 80s_90s_Cartoon_Freak 13 years ago

You do realize that this is a true story, right? They have to write it like how it happened.

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[–] teddyg86 13 years ago

The OP is saying that's NOT how it happened.
In real life, Danny Greene did feed lots of info to the FBI. He also took full advatage of the unions to line his own pockets.

Now go home and get yer fuccin' shinebox.

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[–] teddyg86 13 years ago

And they tip him off about a rat in his ranks? Why? Why would the FBI have a one way relationship that they don't benefit from? Again, it didn't happen that way.

It was the Cleveland PD that gave up the informants to Greene. Even so, that is still beyond ridiculous.

Now go home and get yer fuccin' shinebox.

[–] JrnlofEddieDeezenStudies 13 years ago

"Not just like I believe the real world is (or was)" = "Poor writing/poor fiction"

No. Not at all. That's rather moronic instead.

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