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This 5 page paper discusses the personal perception of organized crime that people might have gained from films and television shows. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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listed below. Citation styles constantly change, and these examples may not contain the most recent updates. Personal Perception of Organized Crime Research Compiled for The Paper
Store, Inc. by K. Von Huben 6/2010 Please Introduction Everyone has a different opinion of what constitutes organized crime. This paper
explores some of the beliefs regarding these criminal organizations. Discussion Its probably fair to say that most people have a perception of organized crime based largely on what they see
in the movies or on television, or what they read in the newspapers (if anybody still reads them, that is). Films like the Godfather series glamorize the "family" and show
ruthless crime bosses in settings designed to elicit some sympathy for them: they have wife and children that they love; they are good to their friends and so on. This
takes away from the ugly fact that they murder people for a living. One of the best films ever made was the original Scarface, made in 1932 and starring
Paul Muni as Tony Camonte. The film was directed by Howard Hawks and is described as "violent, action-packed and visually expressionistic" (Dirks, 2010) from a script by legendary writer Ben
Hecht, who was a newspaperman at one time, and who also wrote such classics as Stagecoach and Some Like it Hot (Liukkonen, 2008). Hechts experience on the Chicago Daily News
gave him some familiarity with gangland activities, although the film was actually based on a novel by Armitage Trail (the pen name of Maurice Coons) (Dirks, 2010). This film
is notable because so many of its characters are similar to real-life racketeers. Its protagonist, Tony Camonte, is clearly based on Al Capone, though Camonte dies violently and Capone did
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