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uh alan uh you saw the alto knights it
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stars robert dairo in dual roles i don't
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know the story i've seen the trailer
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alan tell me about the alto knights okay
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so this is a movie uh directed by barry
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levenson written by uh nicholas pelgi
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and it's uh robert duno plays two roles
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frank costello and veto genovi uh two
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childhood friends who uh grew up who
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became mobsters uh at one point veto is
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sent away to prison for uh for many
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years uh and so power of the mob is
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transferred to frank and frank over the
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years has kind of moved the the mob
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along he's uh made it slightly legit uh
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he's become a very powerful man now veto
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has returned and he wants everything
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back and he doesn't like the fact that
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uh things have changed he doesn't like
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the the speed in which he is getting his
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power back so the movie opens with the
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assassination attempt of frank costello
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and because frank miraculously survives
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he realizes he needs to get out of the
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mob business and hand over everything to
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veto um this is a very interesting movie
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because this is uh this takes place you
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know i i think right before the 60s and
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so uh this is when the drug trade starts
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coming in starts affecting things um and
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this movie just uh becomes this
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character study of these two men uh one
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who wants to get out of the mob and
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bring a little bit of legitimacy to it
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and the other is this old school mobster
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in veto genevvisi one of the interesting
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things is as you note uh robert nero is
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playing the lead roles uh the question
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is did he need to uh narratively
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speaking no yeah he looks the trailer
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looks dumb i'm sorry it's dairo in a
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just well let me let me talk about that
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yeah in terms of narrative you could
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have hired someone to play either frank
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or veto and then dao take the other um i
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believe the reason uh dairo took the two
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roles is because of the acting challenge
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uh frank is very much your typical dairo
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role he's uh the diplomat he's the tough
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guy um veto is the unhinged uh you know
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this guy he he sees conspiracies and
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everything uh in the beginning of the
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movie he's in a restaurant one of his
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rivals walks in doesn't notice him and
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then walks out and he is insensed that
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that that this guy his rival uh walked
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into the restaurant just to annoy him
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and then he and then walk out and he he
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this this idea this conspiracy starts to
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unravel in his head he he he says well
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why did he come in obviously because of
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this this this and this and he builds
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this entire story that is just not true
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and they wind up killing the guy later
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and this happens throughout the film
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that veto you see veto as this uh loose
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cannon a guy who uh if you you know the
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his driver played by cosmo jarvis says
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"oh yeah look we're in uh out we're in
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upstate new york this is where the
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mormons came from." uh and that that
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comment about the mormons just unravels
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and and this is that type of character
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veto is um the thing about veto in terms
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of dairo's performance uh plays that
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unhinge and then they pitch up the voice
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a bit so it's higher which is weird so
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i'll say this h how does this go as a
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film i actually like this movie uh what
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yeah this is it's it's an interesting
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mob movie i think what i really like
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about it is it feels like an indie film
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uh you've got barry levenson nicholas
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pelgi and it it just feels like they
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didn't spend a lot of money at 50
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million which is pretty small compared
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to you know compared to films today uh
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and uh and he he does a really good job
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of telling a story uh making it feel
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like a a good mob story but keeps it
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contained in in kind of the indie realm
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versus the these large epics that the
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movie studios produce constantly you
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know i mean godfather is a great is the
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greatest mob movie ever um but there is
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this epic feel to it uh and then now to
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bring it down to kind of this indie
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level this indie feel to it uh it has
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this charm uh that i really enjoyed i i
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do like the story uh that that plays out
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it's about i believe it's a true story
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uh about how uh a gathering of all the
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mobs across america uh took place in new
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york um and so i would say look it's a
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small it's weird but it's a small film
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uh it was enjoyable it had a lot of
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charm and i would i would recommend it i
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gave it an eight out of 10
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based on the trailer i really um was
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underwhelmed but maybe i'll check this
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out on streaming yeah i had i had zero
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expectations especially because of the
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trailer um but you know they they were
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you know if dairo wants to play two
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roles i guess you let dao play two
