I like the way that Lucky was a character who was always looked down upon for having no diplomacy or class and yet he turned out to be more visionary than any of the big names who never gave him credit.
Lucky started as a brash, young upstart at the beginning of the series with a chip on his shoulder and no respect for the Art of Conversation. At the end, the man had developed the skills and smarts necessary to be the most powerful crimeboss in America after Al Capone was defeated.
The real story of Lucky Luciano is awesome. There were so many real life figures left out of this show that Luciano worked with Frank Costello, Vito Genovese, Joseph Bonnano. Nicky Johnson real life head of Atlantic City actually worked with Luciano and Capone in planning the commission.
Lucky: "Historically, Carmine always said that Chicago Outfit are nothing more than a glorified crew. They make anybody and everybody over there. And the way that they do it, it's all fucked up. Guys don't get their finger pricked. There's no sword and gun on the table..."
What most don't realize is how relevant Dr. Narcisses' speech was. "One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever. " It was exactly what's going on in the organized crime during that time.
If Luciano decided to be the boss of all bosses he would've been clipped just like masseria and marazono. The alternative was sharing power and not micro manage every family or territory unless the violence got out of hand, someone was causing too much attention or dealing drugs. He learned from years of being under masseria/rothstein tutelage and his long time friendship with Meyer lansky.
Nope, he really couldn't have been the direct boss, he could have tried doing it behind the scene. But that wasn't his vision, Commission was so much more than that, he created the modern mob.
Lucky disposed the old way where Italians only did business with Italians. He wanted to be able to buy and sell to whoever they were regardless of ethnicity or race. It was a very capitalist way of thinking. An American way of thinking.
And not just that, to end wars, to set up rules and have it like a corporation. That's why Italian mob compared to others look so good, all other organizations had no rules whatsoever.
@@doncarlo9345 historically speaking his name was Nucky Johnson. He’s part of the bootleggers who were also around Rothstein. Lucky had to have met/known him. Also you can’t forget dudes like Schwartz and Bumpy Johnson who was the last black Don. The black mafia in New York was different when he reigned.
Lucky Luciano - _"Problems get settled here by us...before they get outta hand."_ Marlo Stanfield - _"You got a problem, bring it to me or sit on that shit."_
That hit at the end was incredibly well done, the camera work from the POV of the hitmen, the way the actors portrayed suddenly getting shot by surprise, the crowd's reaction just *mwah*
This scene does a great job of representing the 2 parts of Lucky Luciano's new order that he is proposing for organized crime. There is the "carrot" that he is offering those other bosses in which he says that by joining together and running organized crime like a corporation that they can become more successful and powerful, and then there is the "stick" in which anyone who doesn't go along with his new vision is going to killed, which is symbolized by Dr. Narcisse and his bodyguard getting whacked.
"The old way of doing things" with a close up on his scar he just... just... wow. The cinematography is just one of the aspects that makes this one of the greatest shows of all time. Definitely up there with sopranos and the wire.
I'm watching it now and im at season 5, let me tell u this, it's a great series but there is SO MUCH screentime wasted on bullshit characters like Nucky's wife or Eli's son etc.. it is so annoying
@@feelsgoodman9751 those are the parts where I press > on my keyboard. True, I wished they continued showing more of the Comission and stuff. Arnold's death, etc. There are no well done movies on the Comission. We need more insider movies. Gotti (with Assante) had a good insight of how crews ran around. But it was too short.
feelsgoodman - agreed. It would be an amazing show if it wasn’t about Nucky Thompson (and all his bullshit personal life especially). All the stuff about real world New York and Chicago characters is absolutely awesome, but after Season 2 the Atlantic City/Nucky Thompson stuff is boring as fuck, and that is the main story line.
Glad I'm not the only one who noticed that, I'd say he's either done his research or he's straight up seen/felt what happens when someone is shot, his reaction looks so real.
2:18 kind of crazy how the gate makes 3 crosses over narcisse's body in that frame. This show has the most intricate and detailed direction the entire way through, I'm going to miss it dearly.
@@miami8089 the two thieves either side of Christ at Golgotha. If you really want to litgradLOL it you could draw a line directly from the Italian mafiosi murdering Narcisse to the Romans executing Jesus (a black in Jim Crow USA and a Palestinian Jew under Roman rule, both oppressed). But I think the image is more just a macabre juxtaposition of the sanctity of the church setting and the brutality of the assassination taking place before it, one laying bare the contradiction of Narcisse's own character.
You're not going to die that quickly from a gun shot unless it is to your brain. It's like when you see deaths in game of thrones, one stab and the guy is instantly dead on the ground...your heart won't fail until you lose half to two thirds of blood.
Lucky Luciano's involvement against the Nazis on the waterfront and in the US army landing in Sicily in World War II and how that reinforced the Sicilian Mafia in Italy, on the brink of dissolution after 20 years of Mussolini's war on crime. Now, that would be a hell of a spinoff.
@@ClaudeMagicbox Their roots are straight from Siciliy, every mobster going in the 80's was by some degree American-Italian and you couldn't even be made without provable Italian routes.
@@stevem2323 Well unfortunately here it's a bit different, it's an actual secret paramilitary organization with over 150 years of development during which it spread it's tentacles inside all aspects of government, law enforcement and politics. How many mayors and townhall administrations have been disbanded by Federal government because of heavy mafia infiltrations in the US? In Italy 221....here is teh list: it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consigli_comunali_sciolti_per_infiltrazione_mafiosa Each township oviously had it's budget, it's local police and it's plateau of furbishing comanies, this gives you an idea of the difference. As an estimate the three major italian mafias that operate in all Europe, Australia, Canada and Africa, have a revenue of over 100 billion Euros per year and count over 40.000 "made" members plus tens of thousands of "cooperators". Mafia here is inside the system, not a bunch of fatsos that are easily spottable and more like cartoon chartacters.
Stefano Magaddino never really gets mentioned enough in organized crime lore. Hell, he ran buffalo and Canada also. They used Canada to run their heroin business. Where Carmine Galante pretty much built most of his power.
Also Cleveland never gets talked about. The Scalise bros ran cleveland for generations. I think it was Vito Genovese that went to war with Scalise. I could be mistaken though.
@@Jffeeney3rd Yeah I was going to say. HBO at least gave these guys a last (shortened) season, they don't throw shows out there just to die in 1 season like Netflix.
@@hosvet_animation that’s why I never trust Netflix. I backed off from watching anything when I heard the punisher was dropped. Then finally, I gave Mindhunter a chance. It was great, and they dropped it lol. I hate Netflix.
@@Jffeeney3rd Watch season 1 and 2 of Punisher then watch Punisher Warzone and pretend that it's the same actor. It actually lines up very nicely thematically.
It truly aggravated me to no end that we have thousands of channels, dozens of streaming services, ALL these platforms full of cookie cutter BS shows like fucking Kardashians & sitcom shit shows, but NO mob shows, no spin offs... BWE was genius, but it’s early demise was rushed & disrespectful to the gentleman it represented!! Lucky, Myer, Al, etc could all have enter twined spin offs for fuck sakes
@Mikeyy12 C.Lennz a lot of was probably by people from other tribes conquered through wars, at the time being from another tribe was much akin to as being from another race. e.g. from what i understand is that the aztecs didnt sacrifice so much of their own people as they did sacrifice people from conquered/vassal/tributary peoples. I could be wrong tho
Obviously in reality the meeting to setup the Commission had way more than 8 guys at the table. In this scene however Luciano states that there are 7 bosses. Al Capone is the boss missing at this meeting. The people present are the following: 1) Lucky Luciano (head of what is now the Genovese family) 2) Meyer Lansky 3) Bugsy Siegel 4) Joseph Profaci (head of what is now the Colombo family) 5) Tommy Gagliano (head of what is now the Lucchese family) 6) Joseph Bonanno (the only New York family to have the current name dating back to 1931) 7) Vincent Mangano (head of what is now the Gambino family) 8) Stefano Magaddinho (head of the Buffalo family). It would be nice if HBO did a mini-series emphasizing the beginning of the Commission in a bit more detail and then bring in all those other big name players they couldn't cover on the show. On an unrelated note I always thought the show runners missed an opportunity by not giving their take on who was responsible behind Arnold Rothsteins' murder. I was looking forward to it from the first episode when The Brain was at the sit-down with Luciano, Nucky, Torrio and Big Jim. However the time jump from Season 4 to Season 5 robbed us of the opportunity.
"One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh" -- never picked up the relevance of this here before, thought it was usual doctor's bullshit preaching..
But he was arrested and his Outfit fell apart after that, if memory serves. He probably would have been the first Chairman instead of Luciano if he hadn’t fallen.
@@ANTHONY0808able Dude was classic double-talker: All his bluster and pretense of being his generation’s Malcom X(before Malcolm X, even) and the dude was little more than a heroin-peddling pimp exploiting his community’s poverty and desperation for money while using his own charisma as a shield for his evil.
and the most famous hits from the different decades in each season, like anastasia in the 50s, gallo in the 60s, galante and colombo in the 70s, and of course castellano in the 80s
Vince was absolutely amazing this final season. He was good the first 4 but he really upped the game with this final season and 7 year time jump. He nailed this role and really conveyed who Salvatore really was and what he accomplished. (It was actually very realistic that he allowed Nucky to live and simply took all his territory).
Loved Boardwalk Empire. In the real world, however, "Dr. Narcisse" didn't die. There was Mookie Jackson, Bub Hewlett, Red Dillard, Bumpy Johnson, Pop Freeman, Nat Pettigrew (Bumpy's man) and a few others. Mafia couldn't move on them and needed them. They were the kingpins. Controlled most of the distribution from NYC to around the US. Again, LOVED Boardwalk but they got this part wrong .
Everything you said here was true. However, the bosses of Cosa Nostra were in control of everything. From the 30s to early 90s, the Italian Mob were running everything and became more and more powerful. They, were Kingpins.
@@binalmistry Then I guess above the mafia were the Corsicans and the Chinese-lol. What good is having it, if you can't move it? Look the NY Mafia clearly was operating on another level because of their numerous rackets (the docks, trucking, Cuba, Vegas) and their ties to various levels of the Gov't. But the mob didn't run Harlem, Bed Stuy, Jamaica, and the South Bx. They were the ones who took it to Philly, Boston, Cleveland, Baltimore, Chicago, Atlanta...etc. So once the product changed hands, that was it. And Frank Lucas wasn't the only one heading down south. Plus there was a Chinatown in NY, Greeks and Cubans in upper Manhattan. Then there's this... drug epidemics follow US intervention overseas. Heroin? Southeast Asia after WWII. Remember the US went there to help the French. In the 70s and 80s, America took the fight against communism to Central and South America. What followed? Next up? Afghanistan and Pakistan to drive out the Russians. US foreign policy is a mother, Pee Wee Kirkland just drove flashier cars-lol
Every one of those guys you mentioned paid s tax to the five families, lol. I’ll never understand the need for people to act like there was some all powerful black gangster around this time-there wasn’t.
@@JoeSmith-dl9ok And the mafia paid the tax to the cops and pols, and didn't mess with the Nation during their heyday. Who said there were all powerful Black gangsters? But the reality is the mafia needed the Bumpy's of the world because they couldn't sell the drugs in those neighborhoods without them. Also, once the 70s came around the game changed in part because of Black power and in part because the drug changed.
@@JoeSmith-dl9oktrue. Those were some bad boyz mentioned above, but they had no chance of developing the power and reach of the other ethnic mobs. As Chalky said, "They're everywhere...we're just here."
Vincent Piazza.. to think this punk once raised his glass to Tony Soprano saying 'signore'. Mannn did he act the hell out of this character. The Luciano storyline in Boardwalk is one of the best crime TV ever. It's so important this series was made, even with the fictional liberties. Scorsese and Van Patten should make a follow up on Murder Inc and Siegel/Las Vegas. I think the series suffered a great loss by not showing the second gap of the 20s. The day Scorsese will no longer be around will be dreadful.
He accepted it just fine. Chicago and NY are, and always have been, two distinctly separate factions of organized crime. They just don’t fuck w each other
My guess as to who the other guys are, starting from Bugsy: Joseph Bonnano, Thomas Gagliano, Joseph Profaci ("Pay your taxes, fellas!"), Stefano Maggadino, and Vincent Mangano.
Boardwalk Empire IMO was good but not great. I love organized crime stuff but have never had the desire to re-watch the show like The Sopranos. A lot of these mobsters like Capone and Luciano came across more like caricatures of 1920s-1930s gangsters than as developed characters.
🤔🤔🤔 You know, I always wondered about this specific scene. If Dr. Narcisse didn't stumble to the gate (at 2:12) once he stood up would he have been shot in the head? From what looked like, to me at least, was that the shooters were fleeing the scene until Narcisse was seen by them still alive. Mmmmmm I guess we'll never know 🤷🏽♂️🤷🏾♂️🤷🏻♂️
Luciano: "Five families in New York plus Buffalo and Chicago.. and then this pygmy thing over in Jersey."
They were a glorified crew
@@ahmagebishoor7675 they made anybody and everybody
With that animal Bloondetto
Jersey? Gimme a break, huh?
Like Carmine always said....
Nothing but a glorified crew
I like the way that Lucky was a character who was always looked down upon for having no diplomacy or class and yet he turned out to be more visionary than any of the big names who never gave him credit.
Literally a mastermind, he created the greatest criminal organization in the history.
@@stevem2323 yep, gotta give Lansky and Torrio credit too
@@gannon8594 Absolutely, Lansky was there all the time.
Lucky started as a brash, young upstart at the beginning of the series with a chip on his shoulder and no respect for the Art of Conversation.
At the end, the man had developed the skills and smarts necessary to be the most powerful crimeboss in America after Al Capone was defeated.
@@jackdaone6469 He was way more influencal and important than Al ever was.
Was nice to see that Luciano learned the art of conversation
Efe Yenibayrak thanks
haha, he was successful out of all of the previous og's
Only took 5 seasons
Nino Schibetta Lol
Conversation rules the Nation
It’s crazy how Luciano went from some small time punk to basically the father of the mafia
The real story of Lucky Luciano is awesome. There were so many real life figures left out of this show that Luciano worked with
Frank Costello, Vito Genovese, Joseph Bonnano.
Nicky Johnson real life head of Atlantic City actually worked with Luciano and Capone in planning the commission.
And you used to sell laser printers out of the back of your crown Vic.
Nucky Johnson had hosted many AC conferences and had guided Luciano and were friends with Luciano and Lansky
Luciano: "This table...it's round for a reason. Let me tell you a couple of three things."
I did 20 years in the can!
Lucky: "Historically, Carmine always said that Chicago Outfit are nothing more than a glorified crew. They make anybody and everybody over there. And the way that they do it, it's all fucked up. Guys don't get their finger pricked. There's no sword and gun on the table..."
@@greatdude7279 I agree with you in spirit, but I gotta counsel
@@angryanakin
"Forget Coco, forget Fat Dom who goes over to Jersey and never comes back, forget my brother Billy."
@@greatdude7279 Al Capone has no respect for this thing
“One more thing, price of the brick going up”
30 more.
Marlo vs. Salvatore 🔥
@@z.i.6134 easy win for Salvatore
"I'm doubling the bounty. A 100 large for a whiff of that dicksuck"
Chris, tell our people to tool up!
Lucky Luciano: "The 5 families of New York plus Buffalo and Chicago."
Phil Leotardo: "Plus this little pigmy thing we got over in Jersey."
1:03 - "The Jews, the Irish, what have you... there's no point in limiting our opportunities."
"What about the blacks?"
"Nah, fuck that."
Bumpy was around....
@@kingofbloccs718 Hes the only one. The Eminem of his time.
There was limited cooperation but given the racism of the day no real partnerships. Black organized crime was its own separate entity.
"There is no buooss there is seven buoosses" 😂
“Tahnks for aaksin” another one of his great lines
Hey b0ss
A commision of sorts like the old way of doin things,
Hey Phelasss!
🤣🤣🤣
that animal narcisse, i can’t even say his name
How many years did you do?
Gordon Ferrar 20 FUCKIN YEARS IN THE CAN
Jayan Shah Now go home and get your fucking Shinebox
Borko had said no more Sopranos clips, so..I compromised. I made sopranos comments on other shows....see where I'm going with this?
Javier B. so that’s it eh? no discussion, no compromise, just stupid fuckin jokes
What most don't realize is how relevant Dr. Narcisses' speech was. "One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.
" It was exactly what's going on in the organized crime during that time.
i think it's pretty clear to most people with half a brain.
@@terrificjohnny4244 why so rude?
Charles Schwab over here
He was an upety n****r
Quasimodo predicted all this
If Luciano decided to be the boss of all bosses he would've been clipped just like masseria and marazono. The alternative was sharing power and not micro manage every family or territory unless the violence got out of hand, someone was causing too much attention or dealing drugs. He learned from years of being under masseria/rothstein tutelage and his long time friendship with Meyer lansky.
Nope, he really couldn't have been the direct boss, he could have tried doing it behind the scene.
But that wasn't his vision, Commission was so much more than that, he created the modern mob.
@@stevem2323 I like this perspective.
Lucky disposed the old way where Italians only did business with Italians. He wanted to be able to buy and sell to whoever they were regardless of ethnicity or race. It was a very capitalist way of thinking. An American way of thinking.
And not just that, to end wars, to set up rules and have it like a corporation. That's why Italian mob compared to others look so good, all other organizations had no rules whatsoever.
He learn that from Nucky Thompson from Atlantic City
Money is but one color
@@doncarlo9345 historically speaking his name was Nucky Johnson. He’s part of the bootleggers who were also around Rothstein. Lucky had to have met/known him. Also you can’t forget dudes like Schwartz and Bumpy Johnson who was the last black Don. The black mafia in New York was different when he reigned.
Sadly once he got exiled to Italy, that old way you mentioned came back especially under the likes of Gambino.
Bugsy: "Uptown, downtown, it's all New York". Narcisse: "My experience says otherwise." It didn't say too much after this.
And then Eunice Carter said to lucky " hold up bruh" one more thing (Colombo style)
“That’s what I love about the city…everything is so close” -Luciano
Lucky Luciano - _"Problems get settled here by us...before they get outta hand."_
Marlo Stanfield - _"You got a problem, bring it to me or sit on that shit."_
Goes to show why the Commission lasted for decades and Marlo’s order quickly collapsed.
@@jackdaone6469 yea there’s no comparing the 2 lol
That hit at the end was incredibly well done, the camera work from the POV of the hitmen, the way the actors portrayed suddenly getting shot by surprise, the crowd's reaction just *mwah*
The scene of a shootout is a masterpiece. Very brutal and realistic. Narciss attempt to get up especially.
This scene does a great job of representing the 2 parts of Lucky Luciano's new order that he is proposing for organized crime. There is the "carrot" that he is offering those other bosses in which he says that by joining together and running organized crime like a corporation that they can become more successful and powerful, and then there is the "stick" in which anyone who doesn't go along with his new vision is going to killed, which is symbolized by Dr. Narcisse and his bodyguard getting whacked.
"The old way of doing things" with a close up on his scar he just... just... wow.
The cinematography is just one of the aspects that makes this one of the greatest shows of all time. Definitely up there with sopranos and the wire.
I actually liked it more than Sopranos. The wire and Boardwalk empire are my favorites. Like you said, the cinematography was amazing in this show.
Breaking bad is the best
Even better on rewatch
"Pay your taxes, fellas."
Danielle Musella facts
its fellas how can u not get that right.
Pœnitet that's a woman fur you
Danielle Musella What episode is this from?
“Set up shell companies to mask your income, gentlemen”
I think his bodyguard acted well when shot, what a good show.
Yeah...that was well done.
Yeah...I noticed him too.
True
*acted well
@@srsieg1155 thanks
best tv series ever. has all the important historic events and people.
Lucky really rose from nothing to being the most powerful person.
I'm watching it now and im at season 5, let me tell u this, it's a great series but there is SO MUCH screentime wasted on bullshit characters like Nucky's wife or Eli's son etc.. it is so annoying
@@feelsgoodman9751 sounds like the sopranos
@@feelsgoodman9751 those are the parts where I press > on my keyboard. True, I wished they continued showing more of the Comission and stuff. Arnold's death, etc. There are no well done movies on the Comission. We need more insider movies. Gotti (with Assante) had a good insight of how crews ran around. But it was too short.
feelsgoodman - agreed. It would be an amazing show if it wasn’t about Nucky Thompson (and all his bullshit personal life especially). All the stuff about real world New York and Chicago characters is absolutely awesome, but after Season 2 the Atlantic City/Nucky Thompson stuff is boring as fuck, and that is the main story line.
@@feelsgoodman9751 Season 3 proves it. It could have been one of the best seasons ever but it ruins it with filler plots.
If chalky and narcisse had worked together they would've been unstoppable.
Yup
That sadly still wouldn’t be enough against the Italian mafia. Like chalky said “ they everywhere we just here “
The fence posts after Narcisse falls to look like the 3 crosses is so bad ass. What amazing symbolism.
Seven bosses: Luciano, Mangano, Gagliano, Bonanno, Profaci in New York. Magaddino in Buffalo, and of course Capone/Nitti in Chicago.
seven bawses
hahahahahaha
Its that NY accent
If itsh gud fo businesh, itsh gud fo ush
@Bobby Care u mean if it was sean connery saying it
what is this the fucking UN NOW?!
This could’ve been the perfect starting point for a spin-off
Narcisse's death was so gratifying. Chalky white was one of my favorite character !
The bodyguard deserved an Oscar for that acting when shot 👍
Glad I'm not the only one who noticed that, I'd say he's either done his research or he's straight up seen/felt what happens when someone is shot, his reaction looks so real.
2:18 kind of crazy how the gate makes 3 crosses over narcisse's body in that frame. This show has the most intricate and detailed direction the entire way through, I'm going to miss it dearly.
+PolarOpposite33 Good eye thanks
Great catch. Question, is there a significance of 3 crosses as opposed to 1?
@@miami8089 the two thieves either side of Christ at Golgotha. If you really want to litgradLOL it you could draw a line directly from the Italian mafiosi murdering Narcisse to the Romans executing Jesus (a black in Jim Crow USA and a Palestinian Jew under Roman rule, both oppressed). But I think the image is more just a macabre juxtaposition of the sanctity of the church setting and the brutality of the assassination taking place before it, one laying bare the contradiction of Narcisse's own character.
@@lmmn5780 Thank you. Great detail.
wow, I never caught that before .... awesome.
dr narcisse bodyguard is great actor, watch his eyes and body mannerisms when hes shot
True, but he paid too much attention to Narcisse´s every utterance instead of looking around and being more bodyguardish.
@Slippery Storm they both did a pretty good job. Looks like a good ol hit you'd see right outta Brazil. Minus the 75cc bike and flip flops.
You're not going to die that quickly from a gun shot unless it is to your brain. It's like when you see deaths in game of thrones, one stab and the guy is instantly dead on the ground...your heart won't fail until you lose half to two thirds of blood.
@@darj617 depends on the caliber of the weapon you get shot with.
@@darj617 If you've seen clips of people actually succumbing to gunshot wounds then you'd know this statement is false.
hope they do a spinoff of lucky and his gang.
yea!! im obsessed with lucky luciano
Fuck yea !! 🤙🏽
Charles De Rosas 6/28/18 Ludacris they haven't done anything yet. Plenty of history with Lucky after the commission meeting and HBO hasent done shit.
Lucky Luciano's involvement against the Nazis on the waterfront and in the US army landing in Sicily in World War II and how that reinforced the Sicilian Mafia in Italy, on the brink of dissolution after 20 years of Mussolini's war on crime. Now, that would be a hell of a spinoff.
They did it's called the Sopranos
Creator of the modern mafia, visionary gangster Lucky Luciano.
steve mcquen
The mafia is in Italy, the American one is a pretty comical spinoff.
@@ClaudeMagicbox Their roots are straight from Siciliy, every mobster going in the 80's was by some degree American-Italian and you couldn't even be made without provable Italian routes.
@Jacklyn Demon What if i don't want to, you gonna do something keyboard warrior?
@@ClaudeMagicbox Comical, well you certainly know your mafia ha?
@@stevem2323 Well unfortunately here it's a bit different, it's an actual secret paramilitary organization with over 150 years of development during which it spread it's tentacles inside all aspects of government, law enforcement and politics. How many mayors and townhall administrations have been disbanded by Federal government because of heavy mafia infiltrations in the US?
In Italy 221....here is teh list: it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consigli_comunali_sciolti_per_infiltrazione_mafiosa
Each township oviously had it's budget, it's local police and it's plateau of furbishing comanies, this gives you an idea of the difference.
As an estimate the three major italian mafias that operate in all Europe, Australia, Canada and Africa, have a revenue of over 100 billion Euros per year and count over 40.000 "made" members plus tens of thousands of "cooperators".
Mafia here is inside the system, not a bunch of fatsos that are easily spottable and more like cartoon chartacters.
The most underrated show in the history, masterpiece
I’m with ya on that. Overall, you never hear it mentioned with the other greats.
0:12 lmao Capone's turning in his grave
Smart man, willing to accept everyone and be humble
While the mob does work with everyone, only those of Italian descent can get made and become full mafia members.
how true lucky started it all under shadow. by nucky I wish broardwalk would continue with the rise of this mafia
***** you shut the fuck up bitch
Fuck you come to my face and say that
@@Justin-ug3qy lol
Lol! Savage fuck
I'm shocked the world actually acknowledges buffalo buffalo has a lot history in the criminal underworld that people don't know about
Pretty sure they like it that way.
It’s right on the Canadian border. Nuff said
Stefano Magaddino never really gets mentioned enough in organized crime lore. Hell, he ran buffalo and Canada also. They used Canada to run their heroin business. Where Carmine Galante pretty much built most of his power.
Also Cleveland never gets talked about. The Scalise bros ran cleveland for generations. I think it was Vito Genovese that went to war with Scalise. I could be mistaken though.
Where Roth ran his trucks
I appreciate that the hair and makeup people ensured that his hair was styled exactly how Luciano wore it.
Boardwalk Empire and Game of Thrones are the stories of the crews working so damn hard on everything and it all looking amazing ON TV.
HBO would be swimming in cash if they made a spin off featuring Lucky and the commission. But they like to cancel good shows so it would never happen
Could be worse. They could drop shows like Netflix does.
@@Jffeeney3rd Yeah I was going to say. HBO at least gave these guys a last (shortened) season, they don't throw shows out there just to die in 1 season like Netflix.
@@hosvet_animation that’s why I never trust Netflix. I backed off from watching anything when I heard the punisher was dropped. Then finally, I gave Mindhunter a chance. It was great, and they dropped it lol. I hate Netflix.
@@Jffeeney3rd Watch season 1 and 2 of Punisher then watch Punisher Warzone and pretend that it's the same actor. It actually lines up very nicely thematically.
“if it’s good for business, it’s good for us”!! Thank you Lucky! u included others bc we’re better together!!!💪💪💪💯💯💯🤙🤙🤙
It truly aggravated me to no end that we have thousands of channels, dozens of streaming services, ALL these platforms full of cookie cutter BS shows like fucking Kardashians & sitcom shit shows, but NO mob shows, no spin offs... BWE was genius, but it’s early demise was rushed & disrespectful to the gentleman it represented!! Lucky, Myer, Al, etc could all have enter twined spin offs for fuck sakes
His accent ❤️...Lucky LUCIANO ❤️
Sicilian accent with Brooklyn twang on it
it sucks Frank Costello was never mentioned in this show, especially in these scene. it's still a great scene though
you're right
Costello was no Vito Genovese
He was way more powerful.
ManUfan300 that was Frankie yale
Yea and Carlo Gambino
"The old way of doing things is over" during a close up of his infamous scars. I haven't seen this show yet, but I'm binging it this weekend
Cool to see they put Meyer in that scene. They say there wasn't a vote he wasn't involved in
They called him the accountant of the mob
his narcissism led to his demise.
geddit?
hahahaha
ok ill see myself out.
lol
I see what you did there.
few things are as disgusting as a man who on one hand speaks of uplifting his people and on the other peddles them heroin
@Mikeyy12 C.Lennz a lot of was probably by people from other tribes conquered through wars, at the time being from another tribe was much akin to as being from another race. e.g. from what i understand is that the aztecs didnt sacrifice so much of their own people as they did sacrifice people from conquered/vassal/tributary peoples. I could be wrong tho
Mikeyy12 C.Lennz well im not disputing that in any way
@Mikeyy12 C.Lennz Fuck you.
@@SinewRending no, fuck you
@@HelloThere-fc5ll No, fuck YOU, you racist piece of shit.
The Sunday truce been round as long as the game itself.
Lucky Luciano: The Winner 🏆 of Boardwalk Empire. This is the Victory Speech
Obviously in reality the meeting to setup the Commission had way more than 8 guys at the table. In this scene however Luciano states that there are 7 bosses. Al Capone is the boss missing at this meeting. The people present are the following:
1) Lucky Luciano (head of what is now the Genovese family)
2) Meyer Lansky
3) Bugsy Siegel
4) Joseph Profaci (head of what is now the Colombo family)
5) Tommy Gagliano (head of what is now the Lucchese family)
6) Joseph Bonanno (the only New York family to have the current name dating back to 1931)
7) Vincent Mangano (head of what is now the Gambino family)
8) Stefano Magaddinho (head of the Buffalo family).
It would be nice if HBO did a mini-series emphasizing the beginning of the Commission in a bit more detail and then bring in all those other big name players they couldn't cover on the show.
On an unrelated note I always thought the show runners missed an opportunity by not giving their take on who was responsible behind Arnold Rothsteins' murder. I was looking forward to it from the first episode when The Brain was at the sit-down with Luciano, Nucky, Torrio and Big Jim. However the time jump from Season 4 to Season 5 robbed us of the opportunity.
Jewish never had a seat ..
It was over a gambling debt. In his dying moments AR refused to name the persons responsible.
even though they acknowledged Copones absence, i believe Paul "the waiter" Ricca went to represent Chicago!
That voice. That accent. I’m melting😍
Daaam....Jeffrey Wright is great!...even when he dies he makes it look like art!..
Never got the credit it deserved this series.
At the end, Luciano finishing what we wish Chalky would’ve a season or 2 ago ☹️
"One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh" -- never picked up the relevance of this here before, thought it was usual doctor's bullshit preaching..
He was speaking about the book of Ecclesiastes which delivers the message that there is a time for everything. Check out 3:1-8
@@brettoberry3586 He means that Narssise was speaking about his own death. His time was up.
PraiseTheAlmightyGod 👈🏾 this is man and 👆🏻 that comment are what we call 👉🏼 FACT STATEMENTS👈🏿 ☺️😉😬
Five families of New York, plus Buffalo and Chicago. And then we got this pygmy thing in Jersey.
Meanwhile New Jersey is a “Glorified Crew”
Don't get cunty 🤘
In truth the Commission was established with Capone in charge of the Outfit. He even threw the after-party and hosted this meeting.
But he was arrested and his Outfit fell apart after that, if memory serves. He probably would have been the first Chairman instead of Luciano if he hadn’t fallen.
"One generation passeth away...another generation cometh."
Some foreshadowing there....
Amusing bit of irony there, the writers loved doing stuff like that. Narcisse was a real douche-waffle though and he had it coming.
Shouts Out to Casper....Real Life Character... Retired He Had Greater Visions
He forgot one "vengance is mine sayeth the lord."
Went from hating Lucky after Nucky beef to immediately loving him again after wacking the Dr
One of the most satisfying moments in the series. Narcisse character was a complete scumbag low life.
@@ANTHONY0808able
Dude was classic double-talker:
All his bluster and pretense of being his generation’s Malcom X(before Malcolm X, even) and the dude was little more than a heroin-peddling pimp exploiting his community’s poverty and desperation for money while using his own charisma as a shield for his evil.
As another pointed out: He learned to appreciate the art of conversation
Everybody's equal and nothing is done without a vote.I like the sounds of it already Lucky !
It's like setting up the United Nations Security Council with five permanent members who have the veto right
I always wondered if that was Chalky funeral he was standing on his soap box at went he got got
Lucky Luciano my favorite character on BE
and the most famous hits from the different decades in each season, like anastasia in the 50s, gallo in the 60s, galante and colombo in the 70s, and of course castellano in the 80s
Gallo was in the 70’s
I'm sure he would talk about the Commission, with a waiter standing in the back ground.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waiting_staff
You could say lucky always had the makings of a varsity athlete 😏😎
Vince was absolutely amazing this final season. He was good the first 4 but he really upped the game with this final season and 7 year time jump. He nailed this role and really conveyed who Salvatore really was and what he accomplished. (It was actually very realistic that he allowed Nucky to live and simply took all his territory).
"In fact, I ain't really one for meets no how. If anyone got a problem from here on out, bring it to me or sit on that shit."
1:52 Narcisse's bodyguard put his hat on twice
Sharp eyes
It was another take on the scene, different angle same scene.
Back when Buffalo was actually a decent city lol
Loved Boardwalk Empire. In the real world, however, "Dr. Narcisse" didn't die. There was Mookie Jackson, Bub Hewlett, Red Dillard, Bumpy Johnson, Pop Freeman, Nat Pettigrew (Bumpy's man) and a few others. Mafia couldn't move on them and needed them. They were the kingpins. Controlled most of the distribution from NYC to around the US. Again, LOVED Boardwalk but they got this part wrong .
Everything you said here was true.
However, the bosses of Cosa Nostra were in control of everything. From the 30s to early 90s, the Italian Mob were running everything and became more and more powerful. They, were Kingpins.
@@binalmistry Then I guess above the mafia were the Corsicans and the Chinese-lol. What good is having it, if you can't move it? Look the NY Mafia clearly was operating on another level because of their numerous rackets (the docks, trucking, Cuba, Vegas) and their ties to various levels of the Gov't. But the mob didn't run Harlem, Bed Stuy, Jamaica, and the South Bx. They were the ones who took it to Philly, Boston, Cleveland, Baltimore, Chicago, Atlanta...etc. So once the product changed hands, that was it. And Frank Lucas wasn't the only one heading down south. Plus there was a Chinatown in NY, Greeks and Cubans in upper Manhattan. Then there's this... drug epidemics follow US intervention overseas. Heroin? Southeast Asia after WWII. Remember the US went there to help the French. In the 70s and 80s, America took the fight against communism to Central and South America. What followed? Next up? Afghanistan and Pakistan to drive out the Russians. US foreign policy is a mother, Pee Wee Kirkland just drove flashier cars-lol
Every one of those guys you mentioned paid s tax to the five families, lol. I’ll never understand the need for people to act like there was some all powerful black gangster around this time-there wasn’t.
@@JoeSmith-dl9ok And the mafia paid the tax to the cops and pols, and didn't mess with the Nation during their heyday. Who said there were all powerful Black gangsters? But the reality is the mafia needed the Bumpy's of the world because they couldn't sell the drugs in those neighborhoods without them. Also, once the 70s came around the game changed in part because of Black power and in part because the drug changed.
@@JoeSmith-dl9oktrue. Those were some bad boyz mentioned above, but they had no chance of developing the power and reach of the other ethnic mobs. As Chalky said, "They're everywhere...we're just here."
Vincent Piazza.. to think this punk once raised his glass to Tony Soprano saying 'signore'.
Mannn did he act the hell out of this character. The Luciano storyline in Boardwalk is one of the best crime TV ever. It's so important this series was made, even with the fictional liberties. Scorsese and Van Patten should make a follow up on Murder Inc and Siegel/Las Vegas. I think the series suffered a great loss by not showing the second gap of the 20s.
The day Scorsese will no longer be around will be dreadful.
Lucky: one more thing....price of the brick goin up
Al Capone wanted everything, no way was he going to accept the commission.
He accepted it just fine. Chicago and NY are, and always have been, two distinctly separate factions of organized crime. They just don’t fuck w each other
My guess as to who the other guys are, starting from Bugsy: Joseph Bonnano, Thomas Gagliano, Joseph Profaci ("Pay your taxes, fellas!"), Stefano Maggadino, and Vincent Mangano.
"Uptown, Downtown.....it's all New York".......
2:05 AHHH! Somebody.. Wha what HALLELUJAH ITS A MIRACLE, OH HE CAN WALK OH Thank ya baby Jesus.
Always loved Lucky Luciano
Boardwalk Empire IMO was good but not great. I love organized crime stuff but have never had the desire to re-watch the show like The Sopranos.
A lot of these mobsters like Capone and Luciano came across more like caricatures of 1920s-1930s gangsters than as developed characters.
Yeah, I wouldn't rewatch the sopranos. But Im rewatching Boardwalk Empire.
Pay yo taxes, fellas.
Luciano: *Slight chuckle*
Gangs should be professionally organized like Mafia families.
Chalky smiling from above.
They need to make a show all about him with this actor!!!!!!
The greatest secret of power is to know when is too much. Drink your fill but don't get greedy and share what you don't need.
Someone should’ve said that to Frank Constallano
Mr. Magaddino was the Boss of the Buffalo crime family.
Also older cousin of Joe Bonnano.
@@rockabillylou3823 uncle of bonanno
A season of the Gangsters in their prime would have been AMAZING
"Seven Bawsses"
And just like that the Castellamarese war ended
What a speech!
Someone give that man a shinebox.
Luciano a true visionary
one group left out of the party
Filmer Ado no oirish either
'The futsha ish oursh boysh'
🤔🤔🤔 You know, I always wondered about this specific scene. If Dr. Narcisse didn't stumble to the gate (at 2:12) once he stood up would he have been shot in the head? From what looked like, to me at least, was that the shooters were fleeing the scene until Narcisse was seen by them still alive. Mmmmmm I guess we'll never know 🤷🏽♂️🤷🏾♂️🤷🏻♂️
I never made that connection till you said something you’re absolutely right
The shooter at the end was albert anastasia
0:57 the mustache pizza in the ground????
Pete’s
Capo di tutti capi.. 💀🔫
*Capo di tutti capi
@@Lietiel 🤙
No one boss, 7 bosses.