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7, A Bronx Tale, Chazz Palminteri, Gangster, Lillo Brancato, Mafia, Robert De Niro, Three Great Ones
Eventually I will explain this further, but Robert De Niro is the greatest actor to ever live. This will never change. Ever. I’ve always been a fan since I was a kid and knew it was important to catch all of his classics. To most people, those films are usually Goodfellas, Casino, Godfather Part II – the list goes on. But as I got more and more into studying films, I grew even more fonder of his acting. But for the film, A Bronx Tale, I discovered this classic entirely differently
When I was in middle school, San Diego was a hotbed for the Pop/Punk scene. This consisted of bands like Rufio, Ozma, MxPx, No Use For A Name, and at one point, my favorite, The Ataris. On their album, Blue Skies, Broken Hearts…, the 4th track on the album was called Your Boyfriend Sucks. My adolescent years were filled with video games, orange soda, and heartbreak. I would immerse myself in these sappy suburban-youth albums about teenage fictional love. Your Boyfriend Sucks was my song for every girl I fell in love with that was taken (happened fairly often). In the song, there was a rip after the chorus that was from some movie. The rip was taken from The Door Test scene in A Bronx Tale. Like Sonny said, “You dump her, You dump her fast”. From there, I was compelled to eventually watch the film, and eventually, I fell in love with it.
The film is filled with great quotes. Too many to list off. But ironically enough, The Door Test dialogue is not my favorite in the film. It comes second, to The Three Great Ones with Sonny and C talking about women, and finding true love.
“You gotta do what your heart tells you to do. Let me tell you somethin’ right now. You’re only allowed three great women in your lifetime. They come along like the great fighters, every ten years. Rocky Marciano. Sugar Ray Robinson. Joe Louis. Sometimes you get ’em all at once. Me? I had my three when I was 16. That happens”
Do you know your three great ones? These are mine:
1. My mom
2. My grandmothers (yes, they count as one.)
3. IN PROCESS