- Joined
- Sep 14, 2021
Also I'd put money on Angel's Mafia ties being extremely downplayed whenever his backstory plays out, because we can't have the audience remotely feel that he's getting his dose of karma with how Valentino treats him.
Because Valentino is a pimp and rapist and people are gonna side with the faggots all the time, especially the bottom. Assuming Viv is not going to fuck up Angel Dust's story, gay men were not allowed in the mafia during his time (I've seen an article in the recent times that a branch of the Ndrangheta mafia began allowing gay men in because the boss's son outside the life is a drag queen, but only for low ranks) so OH NO POOR CWOSETED ANGEL BABY. Here's the thing - many organized crime groups did the same thing, if not worse. OH WOW. OK. Do you care more for his gender or the people he's decided to hurt? Outside pressure to join is not even an excuse for these actions, though it's a tough choice. I've read somewhere there was a mafia group that backed gay bars, but even then, I'm pretty sure they didn't care about the LGBT community and just wanted money, money, money. But again, it's never Angel Dust's fault thanks to gender.
Well, the mafia and organized crime as a whole has been so romanticized in fiction. Usually they are portrayed as the ones to root for in the storylines. However, I know that in the Godfather, Ford Copolla said Michael wasn't someone to root for and gave him a sad ending where he loses everything he cared for because of his bad actions. Casino had the lead get beaten and buried alive. Lethal Weapon 4, though it was a comedy, had the triad dudes killed. Black Lagoon is a cynical show presenting the criminals as jaded, insane, and very stressed out by their lifestyle, ready to die in some way. There are Mafia films centered around the straight-laced cops and snitches (even if the snitches are telling for more selfish reasons) and rooting for them. I mean, look at Corleone, Sicily. It has a reputation for producing outlaws and mafias and they're all so ashamed they made a whole museum thanking the officials who managed to stomp the criminal's shit.
And actually good Angel Dust backstory? To suit the times Angel was born in, how about this? Have him realize he's a gay man while he's already gentle, pacifist, crybaby, and effeminate. Considering the rules against lgbt people in his time, he would be scared and paranoid, and since he's a drug addict already, desperate for money, he'd join a crime family also to prove his masculinity and toughness. There. He's made his choice. He decided to hurt innocent people instead of working whatever normal job there is, like in a shop or something (but I'm not speaking like any 9-5 is easy especially in the past; I'd still choose that over doing such terrible actions then receiving big comeuppance). But no. Viv is going to have Angel Dust and the capo mafiosos kill homophobes and racists on screen to make them look sympathetic instead of showing how they dealt with innocent, desperate people, considering how it was dago against dago in their communities and many Italian-Americans trying to put up businesses or get jobs to scrape by were actually really frightened and ashamed of the mob.