You're giving them a power they don't really have. One of the things he tells C is that you cannot live your life on the basis of what other people think you should do, because when the chips are down, nobody really cares. That's heroism." But Sonny gives sound advice, too. Lorenzo, the bus driver, gives sound advice: "You want to see a real hero? Look at a guy who gets up in the morning and goes off to work and supports his family. It's about two men with some experience of life, who love this kid and want to help him out.
#A BRONX TALE WASTED TALENT DRIVER#
It doesn't tell some dumb story about how the bus driver and the mobster have to shoot each other, or about how C is the hostage in a tug of war.
#A BRONX TALE WASTED TALENT MOVIE#
There have been a lot of movies about neighborhood Mafiosos (Martin Scorsese's "GoodFellas" was the best), but this movie isn't like the others. "A Bronx Tale" was written for the stage by Palminteri, who plays Sonny with a calm grace in the film, but was Calogero in real life. And in the year when most of the film is set, he learns lessons that he will use all of his life. When C is 17, he goes to work for Sonny, against his father's wishes.
He likes the way Sonny exercises a quiet authority, and talks with his hands, and dresses well. The kid, whose name is Calogero but who is called C, idolizes Sonny. He doesn't like the Mafia and doesn't want the money. He is a workingman, proud that he supports his family by driving a bus. Then Sonny looks him in the eyes, hard, and the kids gets the message: "Don't squeal!" Sonny (Chazz Palminteri) wants to do something for the kid, and offers a cushy $150 a week paycheck to his father, Lorenzo (Robert De Niro). Sitting on his front stoop, he sees Sonny, the gangster, shoot a man in what looks like a fight over a parking space. His father gives him a piece of advice: "Nothing is more tragic than a wasted talent." A street-corner gangster gives him another piece of advice: "Nobody really cares." These pieces of advice seem contradictory, but the boy finds that they make a nice fit. A boy comes of age in an Italian-American neighborhood in the Bronx.
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