Yeah it was disturbing and sad to watch because the guy didn't do anything. Restaurants are such a fun place, and serve
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geoffrey-jackson — 13 years ago(March 10, 2013 12:50 AM)
Crims and coppers are just alike. They're both scraped off the bottom the barrel. They're like bitter and twisted mongrel dogs. Never turn your back on 'em.
I know a few coppers. One uncle was a sergeant, another was a motorcycle copper. A cousin is a detective last I heard.
I'm the white sheep in my family. I applied to be a copper but was deemed unable to cope with all the stress and violence. Then I applied to be a police radio operator. Got to the interview and when they asked me why I applied I said it was to just get a job. BZZZZ wrong answer - NEXT!
I suppose I'll just have to become a crim. I have to do something to feed myself don't I?
Getting back to the topic, it really got to Donnie Braso didn't it. His missus picked it up. He picked it up. It just spirals down and down. Look at
Serpico
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geoffrey-jackson — 13 years ago(March 10, 2013 10:21 AM)
One uncle got depressed and drank himself do death. The other one wrecked his back on the bike, got a fat pay-out and is spending the rest of his miserable life as best he can. My cousin has crawled his way up to be area superintendent and is getting ready to retire on a fat pension.
I applied to be a security guard too but those jobs only go to the new immigrants. I suspect they look after their own kind. Society is just like the climate, it gets worse every day.
Perhaps I should set up some sort of covert surveillance service with maybe a bit of follow on work to take care of things for jilted clients. Sort of like Private Detective Visser in [/]Blood Simple. I was looking for someone to move into the spare room and help pay the rent. A sleazy character rang but didn't follow through. I rang his number and his wife picked up the phone. She proceeded to tell me all the gory details and then suspected that I was a buddy of her sleazy husband and just trying to wind her up. I convinced her that I wasn't. She then asked if I would get some photos of her husband as evidence for a divorce. I turned her down but later regretted doing so. It all seemed like an old film noir flick.
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PatrickGH91 — 12 years ago(February 17, 2014 06:18 PM)
Disturbed? No. I didn't buy it. I figure wiseguys have, or at least pretend to have, more class than that and, although they're capable of horrific things when necessary, wouldn't go to that extent to prove a point and defend the pride of an associate they've only known for a relatively short time. Seems to me in reality they'd sooner use force against Donnie for being petulant and embarrassing them in public than cause a scene with the innocent waiter in his place of business, which is generally bad manners and not worth their time.
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degree7 — 11 years ago(April 21, 2014 09:46 PM)
Don't forget, "wise guys" are just street thugs dressed in nice clothes. They have about as much class as an axe murderer.
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manage-932-700755 — 11 years ago(June 03, 2014 02:08 PM)
Look, because of the Japs, Donnie had to grow up in a fuxxxckin orphanage. The Americans won the war that the Japs started. Why should Donnie or anyone else have to take of his or her shoes if they don't want to?
This scene reminded me of the somewhat similar scene involving an uppity Korean storekeeper in "Falling Down." Do you know how much money our country has given to these Asian countries?
The Jap in "Donnie Brasco" should have backed off. The customer is always right. And, as Donnie said, we won the war. And the U.S. has given the Japs a lot of money. -
gary_w_trott — 9 years ago(July 17, 2016 04:17 PM)
I've seen Donnie Brasco probably 10 times and the scene where they bash the Japanese guy in the tiolet of the Japanese restaurant never gets any easier for me. Everytime I mention this to others who have seen this film, I get the impression that nobody else is as affected by the scene as me. Anyone else find that scene DEEPLY disturbing?
I agree with you. More than any other scene in this genre I think that this gives a good demonstration of what brutally violent bullies these people actually are. What they did was savagely beat someone because he insisted that they honor the rules of the establishment. So far as we know this man had no connection whatsoever to the mob or any other criminal activityhe just made the mistake of insisting that this bunch of thugs respect his right to run his business the way that he choses.