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Film depictions of Italian-American mafioso eating dinner
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It has become almost cliche for a crime movie to depict Italian American "mafia" type characters at repast. In fact, some of these scenes have become almost iconic in their nature. For example, in the Beat Takeshi film "Brother," at the one hour-thirty five minute mark, this Japanese gangster movie pays homage to this film tradition by showing approximately twenty swarthy, besuited mafioso all eating together passing around a basket of bread, and toasting the healf of "Da Boss." Of course, the "boss" is "whacked" mere minutes later. Furthermore, there is the famous scence in the (1971), in which Michael Corleone, Virgil Sollozzo, and Captain McCluskey meet at the small Italian restaurant where Corleone "makes his bones" by executing both.
Such requisite scenes of Italian gangsters at dinner are not limited to one or two for each film, however. The movie (1990), for whatever reason, depicted its characters eating in nearly every scene, thus having made that Academy-award winning movie the ultimate homage to the depiction of Italian-American mafioso eating dinner.
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