He was born in Sicily like Masseria and he speaks a Sicilian dialect that's different from regular Italian which made him perfect for the role. He also has a commanding presence that's reinforced by the expressions he makes, the way he dresses, and the way he speaks. In that meeting in the beginning of the 4th season with Nucky, Rothstein, Masseria, Luciano, Lansky, Eli, and Tonino, he definitely seemed like the most powerful man in the room.
@@Michelle-ju6vs my favorite is in the gang meeting and everyone’s talking at once and he bangs the seat and mumbles a sound, everyone goes silent. So powerful
Luciano's choice to change his first name to "Charles" or "Charlie", allowing the misspelling of his surname Lucania to Luciano because people in America find it easier to pronounce, his preference to speak English rather than Italian/Sicilian, and his willingness to work with people of other ethnics and cultures, are the reasons he succeeded when Masseria didn't. Masseria was so focused on the past, and only working with certain people, that he was never going to be able to adapt to a new world, a changing world. He was stubborn, and that not only held him back from any kind of success it held everyone else back, too.
If I was a mob boss? I would maybe work with other ethnicities too, but they would always be outsiders who I didn't trust, they would never be considered equal to my own countrymen, they'd just be business related, let's not pretend that racism doesn't exist out there, so we would need to adapt to deal with the racist foreigner
I like how Meyer knows how to speak and understand Italian but acts like he can’t understand what Joe is saying to give him the illusion that his conversation with Charlie is private
The show showed he had at least some basic understanding of Italian but there's not enough evidence to assume he fluently spoke and understood everything in Italian. Same as Lucky knowing a bit of Yiddish.
@@themaddogofcrenshaw7367 well they did know each other since they were like 15 so I would assume someone like Myers that grew up in neighborhood that had alot of Jewish and Italians would probably learn Italian especially after teaming with Lucky to not feel out of the conversation.
Danny Reyna uh.. that’s a whole different fucking show dummy n we could have had that show in between got seasons.. also last two seasons were a waste anyway
@@TheSands83 - It wrapped the story up beautifully. At first, I didn't think we had time to go backwards and learn MORE about Nucky but Season Five was beautiful! It just should have been Season Eight. We deserved at least 2 more seasons.
@@GABRIELA-ACEVEDO. I love Buscemi as Nucky Thompson. He plays the role perfectly and he always has the best one-liners. I wish it would've taken a different direction in Seasons 4 & 5, but it's definitely one of my favorite series.
Really, a show about Rothstein, Lansky and Luciano probably would have been just as good or better than the one we got. They're all compelling and very well acted.
It was good how they did it. Though I admit Nucky got less interesting as the show commenced. It could have been better and deserved more grit and darker shades
The whole Nucky/Margarette thing appealed to the other 50% of the audience. The females. My sister couldn’t stand Lucky/Meyer/Al’s story. But it would’ve been better without Nucky. A little less fluff with the writing and scene transition, but that’s nitpicking. Not dark enough given the subject
kacchan k He speaks it in season 2 when Jimmy meets them in New York. I don't think that means he speaks it fluently though. Luciano speaks a little bit of Yiddish to Siegel in season 5 too.
A lot of the scenes in this show were simply a joy to watch. Not only was there great acting by superb actors but everything else from the production design, to the costumes is amazing. Even going as far as having the characters doing simple things like playing bocce makes it more authentic. What a way to really put you in those times.
Ironically, Ivo Nandi who played Masseria was born in Menfi, Sicily as the real Joe Masseria was. Ivo was the perfect actor to play him in Boardwalk. Of course the real Masseria was much heavier in stature, but Ivo nailed it with the facial expressions, body language, tone of his voice and knowing how to speak Sicilian.
If you read the statement carefully I said it was ironic that the actor who played Masseria was born in the same Sicilian town as the real life Masseria. Pay attention.
Tribalism is a negative, restrictive social force; it ultimately only holds us back from achieving greater things when we cross those boundaries and work together. Lucky Luciano understood this. It's too bad he only put this wisdom to use in organized crime.
I want to see humanity unite and conquer the stars, but I can't help believe that tribalism is a necessary evolved defense mechanism that will always be needed. Europeans and European descendants in the west have all but turned their backs on tribalism, we welcome other races and cultures with open arms. But what happens isn't integration and progress like in our utopian dreams. What happens is self-segregation. Generally, non-Europeans create culturally isolated communities and work towards the interests of their own group. We are told that Europeans and European descendants having a cultural identity is an impediment to progress, while the reinforcement of non-European cultural identity in European countries is declared progress.
Fred Fredson Throughout recorded history, all advancement of human civilization has been directly associated with a diminishing degree of tribalism. Either we get rid of it for good at some point, or civilization -- and our species along with it -- will cease evolving in a constructive direction. Tribalism is a survival mechanism for primitive life. We can either remain hairless apes with delusions of grandeur, or aspire to be something greater.
The way Meyer says " MR Rothstien" is gold. Regardless of the riff that's grown between them, he constantly shows AR respect even correcting others when they talk ill of him
I like how Joe the Boss didn't move at all when his turn was done playing Bocce, forcing the other guy to play at a weird angle. Shows how he just doesn't consider other people. I bet people let him win all the time.
God, I LOVE this series! The suits, the accents, the writing, the acting, it's all just perfect! I love The Sopranos! I love Sons Of Anarchy! But if there was ever a PERFECT series, this is it! If only it lasted longer!
The individuals who are playing part in Boardwalk Empire - they are remarkable characters. That itself could be good enough to watch these clips over and over. I feel great just to be with them!
Asmah Noordin Finally someone mentions Carlo! I wish he would’ve made a scene because he was in New York at the time as well and as ruthless as Charlie and had the brains like Meyer or even Albert Anastasia would’ve made a good character. Their are so many great people (in the mobster sense) in that world they could’ve worked with but sadly they never made any spin offs
No, Masseria's problem was that he wanted ALL the power and refused to be progressive. Luciano was a visionary and Masseria was a Moustache Pete with none, but wanting all allegiance and respect without giving ground. THAT is why he was knocked off. Luciano was too ambitious to tolerate it.
@@guibox3 not fair, Masseria wasn't even the only italian boss in NY at that time, he had a territory. It was luciano that united everyone and wanted all the power, under a facade of "everybody needs to get along"...
Alex Yates At the end joe was always loyal to other Italians and he especially liked Charlie . This is proven many times because instead of having him whacked he kept letting him off. Even gyp warned him about Charlie’s plan “ they are building something Joe and it doesn’t involve me or you he’s not like us he works with Jews” and even then joe didn’t wanna hear that.
The progression of the 20's young elite vs the old guard. Lucky understanding business comes first (American way) and the old Sicilian way of doing things is just exhausting to them. Was inevitable that Joe the Boss would go. Amazing series, wish the whole series was based around Lucky, Meyer, Lucchese and Albert Anastasia.
@@Kruppt808 The Boardwalk Empire book was primarily about Atlantic City in the 20s so they had to of course feature Nucky's storyline in the HBO Series...many are crying about how Adonis, Anastasia, and Lucchese were excluded from the show but what about giving guys already included in the show like Remus, Frankie Yale, and Obanion more air time for the fascinating lives they lead?
This is more than just about new guard vs old guard...but moreso about Boardwalk Empire emphasizing the empowerment of it's main characters (real life or fictitious) in their ambitious pursuit of "self-actualization" with regards to Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs...even if it meant risking their lives. Luciano and Lansky were not just guys looking to "make it to the top" but true innovators with a real entrepreneurial mindset. Coming from a guy who felt that Buscemi was great as Nucky though Gandolfi was absolutely revolutionary on the Sopranos, there is really nothing fascinating about Tony as a character. He was mainly a benefactor of the established bureaucratic hierarchy who wanted to retain his power & viewed "the mafia family" as an end. What about Phil Leotardo? A guy who just wanted vengeance & power? On the other hand, the primary mobsters (real life or fictitious) on Boardwalk usually viewed power as a means to continually achieving different types of ends. This makes Boardwalk the perfect successor to the Sopranos & that much more fascinating at least for myself. Terrence Winter is an absolute genius understanding human tendencies to the core as it definitely shows in his adapted screenplay work in Boardwalk & Wolf of Wall Street.
Lucky was the Star of the Mafia Meyer was the Brains , very important figure of the Mob Bugsy liked to brawl so he was the Muscle and had women calling his name Franky liked to worry so he bribed cops
I can't tell if that shot at 0:40 is funnier if Lansky can or can't understand them. On the one hand if he can't understand then he's stood there awkwardly hoping it's going well. On the other hand, if he can understand then he's having to try to keep a straight face while Lucky brags about his prowess in bed.
he can understand; earlier in the series, it is implied luciano taught italian to meyer and meyer taught yiddish to lucky, in a scene where they both meet with jimmy darmondy
There were bocce greens here and there around where I live, always wanted to play. I'll fucking buy a summer suit with ya dude, we'll eat fresh fruit, drink wine, and play bocce.
@@leroyhovatter7051 I like him too (as a character) but you got to admit that a guy who was both large and in charge and ran New York through brutal means was scary enough, let alone that he seems to make threats in every scene he was in.
People learn a few gutter words and everyone says "HE WAS FLUENT!" Have you actually ever LEARNED another language? It's REALLY HARD. I learned college level Spanish. Went to Spain. Did great, understood every word. Married a Mexican. Couldn't understand A WORD they said. They talk 100 miles an hour. Every fifth word is "f*ck," their accent is incomprehensible, and none of their sayings and idioms and slang make any sense. EXAMPLE: A jet you fly on in Spain is "Avion a Chorro." In Mexico, you say that, everyone looks at you funny. "Chorro," in Mexican Spanish it means explosive diarrhea. In Spain, Ramon is a man's name. In Mexico, it's skid marks on your underwear. In Spain, panocha means rice pudding. In Mexico, it means a woman's private parts. In Spain, camote means sweet potatoes. In Mexico, it means a woman's breasts. In Mexico, the way to say "it went well for me," is how you say in Spain, "I fell down." And so forth.
My great grandfather actually worked with Lucky Luciano and Meyer Lansky. I wish I could go back in time and ask him what it was like working with those two men.
The best thing about the Vincent Piazza, the actor that plays Lucky Luciano, is he actually played “Hernan” A.J.’s wastoid friend on the Sopranos. They look and sound nothing alike you’d have no idea it was the same person, this guy is a great actor ruclips.net/video/sG9NZliCNaU/видео.html
There's a lot of people on Boardwalk Empire that were also on The Sopranos that people might not recognize right away. Some are more obvious than others because they have bigger parts but some I wouldn't have recognized right away. Nucky, Bader, Luciano, Hymie Weiss, Torrio, Chalky, Angela Darmody, Leo and Ignacious D'Alessio, Ehtan Thompson, Halloran, Knox (Toliver), Leander, Agent Sebso, Supervisor Elliott, and Tonino who Buscemi killed twice lol.
it got my attention that like in this scene, sometimes lucinao got to talk to joe the boss like an equal. luciano wouldn't talk to rothstein like that, and no one else could talk to masseria like that either. was there something significant about luciano and masseria's relationship?
Joe looked at him as sort of a protege. He really did like Lucky besides the amount of money that was brought in for him. Lucky thought Maranzano would be different than Joe, so he secretly switched allegiances. Joe found out and ordered him killed, but the guys botched it by leaving him alive after a brutal beating and stabbing. It is said on the day Masseria was killed, Luciano was there playing it off like he thought Maranzano was behind it.
In my opinion the early 20th century New York is a very beautiful scenery. Like in this scene. Italian men who actually still have traditions and relations to the old country, unlike Italian Americans today, are enjoying time together, playing a game, drinking wine and eating their food while you can see the New York style apartment houses in the background. They must be somewhere in Bronx? Nowadays if you go there I guess there's nothing else but African Americans and Latinos everywhere. Another example of a similar scenery is in a movie called Once Upon a Time in America. Makes me wanna live there during that period :D
Fructuoso Torres-Leite ..now thats funny considering there were Black Americans in New York city just like the rest of the country a very long time before Italians
Chorizoflex 2929 I'm pretty sure it was much more cultured since many were recent arriving immigrants and the neighborhoods in such as bronx becoming black is naturally since the lowest of economic society tend to flood poor neighborhoods in this case blacks and immigrant groups.
There wasn't a significant population of Italians arriving the NYC until the 1860s, and the group that Masseria is connected to came from the biggest wave which was from the 1900s-1910s in which approx 2mil immigrated to America. Meanwhile, black communities have been in New York since before America was even a country. Since before the English even arrived and the whole island was a Dutch colony, really. In fact, there was black communities in lower Manhattan about forty years before Italians started to come in. And plus, it's a TV show. It's supposed to be entertaining. So you'll see scenes of people being outside playing bocci ball or whatever just because it looks good to camera. Sure, they make efforts to be historically accurate, but it's not a documentary. Plenty of Italians lived in shit back then, as they do now. These guys were gangsters; they had money so they had time for leisure. Most of the other Italians at the time could barely eek out a living doing industrial work. Why does every youtube comment section of something of the past have some idiot going "those where the days! My, how have things changed!" It always is weird and kinda creepy to me.
Robert Lacey presented more credible view of a small time crook with a big ego who loved the public attention bloated tales of his exploits brought. Far from being some great financial wizard, Lansky’s talents never got beyond arranging the skim from casinos and having some associates cart it in suitcases to Switzerland where most was lost in a bank crash.
People learn a few gutter words and everyone says "HE WAS FLUENT!" Have you actually ever LEARNED another language? It's REALLY HARD. I learned college level Spanish. Went to Spain. Did great, understood every word. Married a Mexican. Couldn't understand A WORD they said. They talk 100 miles an hour. Every fifth word is "f*ck," their accent is incomprehensible, and none of their sayings and idioms and slang make any sense. EXAMPLE: A jet you fly on in Spain is "Avion a Chorro." In Mexico, you say that, everyone looks at you funny. "Chorro," in Mexican Spanish it means explosive diarrhea. In Spain, Ramon is a man's name. In Mexico, it's skid marks on your underwear. In Spain, panocha means rice pudding. In Mexico, it means a woman's private parts. In Spain, camote means sweet potatoes. In Mexico, it means a woman's breasts. In Mexico, the way to say "it went well for me," is how you say in Spain, "I fell down." And so forth.
lifelessdead89 Bocce....it’s a very ancient game and dates back to the Middle ages, it was popular untill the ‘80s...in France it’s still very popular and calle Petànques.
Trill Gates it's called bocce it's a really old traditional italian game. This scene couldn't be more Italian then it already is they're playing bocce in a bocce court and drinking wine and eating imported Italian food.
Joe the Boss exudes power. The actor playing him knocked it out the park because around this time you really didnt wanna fuck with Masseria.
Should have been played by a fatter actor
Hell yeah he did. Joe was a G
@@Nilz-ie8li Lol Joey Diaz auditioned for the part. Glad it went to the actor they chose.
Nope, he was perfect, nobody cares the real masseria was a fatass. the actor almost steals every scene
@@boredlowpaidinternettroll6515 What you mean nope? I literally said the actor playing him knocked it out the park lol.
The actor who plays Joe the Boss was electric...the look, the attitude, the voice - well done
The whole cast was on point.
He was born in Sicily like Masseria and he speaks a Sicilian dialect that's different from regular Italian which made him perfect for the role. He also has a commanding presence that's reinforced by the expressions he makes, the way he dresses, and the way he speaks. In that meeting in the beginning of the 4th season with Nucky, Rothstein, Masseria, Luciano, Lansky, Eli, and Tonino, he definitely seemed like the most powerful man in the room.
@@Michelle-ju6vs my favorite is in the gang meeting and everyone’s talking at once and he bangs the seat and mumbles a sound, everyone goes silent. So powerful
Lol. Italians get many haters! We sure do.. 👍 🇮🇹
I agree 💯
This scene makes me want to go buy a summer suit.
Me, too. And I'm a woman 😂
I've had one for years. It would be a smart investment for any man.
You are a man of class then.
They’re great, I have a two pieced one in red linen from Brooks Brothers.
@@TheSeanoops I've got a linen one, even have a panama hat which is essential.
Luciano's choice to change his first name to "Charles" or "Charlie", allowing the misspelling of his surname Lucania to Luciano because people in America find it easier to pronounce, his preference to speak English rather than Italian/Sicilian, and his willingness to work with people of other ethnics and cultures, are the reasons he succeeded when Masseria didn't.
Masseria was so focused on the past, and only working with certain people, that he was never going to be able to adapt to a new world, a changing world. He was stubborn, and that not only held him back from any kind of success it held everyone else back, too.
Wow exactly!!
Great comment
Didn’t he end up working with both Narcisse and Rothstien though?
@@wyettmuth8411 it was too little too late
If I was a mob boss? I would maybe work with other ethnicities too, but they would always be outsiders who I didn't trust, they would never be considered equal to my own countrymen, they'd just be business related, let's not pretend that racism doesn't exist out there, so we would need to adapt to deal with the racist foreigner
I like how Meyer knows how to speak and understand Italian but acts like he can’t understand what Joe is saying to give him the illusion that his conversation with Charlie is private
@pukeylukey199 shut up butt hole
And Charlie goes with it cause they make him out to be a j lover
The show showed he had at least some basic understanding of Italian but there's not enough evidence to assume he fluently spoke and understood everything in Italian. Same as Lucky knowing a bit of Yiddish.
@@themaddogofcrenshaw7367 well they did know each other since they were like 15 so I would assume someone like Myers that grew up in neighborhood that had alot of Jewish and Italians would probably learn Italian especially after teaming with Lucky to not feel out of the conversation.
@@MrHamSandwhich Maybe he is speaking in another dialect of italian that Meyer doesn't understand.
HBO really shit the bed by not making a Lucky Luciano spin off. Waste of an amazing story
HBO Murder Incorporated (ice picks and backstabbing mandatory)
Danny Reyna uh.. that’s a whole different fucking show dummy n we could have had that show in between got seasons.. also last two seasons were a waste anyway
@@dannyreyna2821 GoT doesn't compare to Boardwalk Empire.
@@TheSands83 - It wrapped the story up beautifully. At first, I didn't think we had time to go backwards and learn MORE about Nucky but Season Five was beautiful! It just should have been Season Eight. We deserved at least 2 more seasons.
freddybeer it was rushed
this show is a total masterpiece that not nearly enough people watched. it should be as famous as the sopranos
I love Sopranos, but i love Boardwalk empire a little more.
@@GABRIELA-ACEVEDO. I love Buscemi as Nucky Thompson. He plays the role perfectly and he always has the best one-liners. I wish it would've taken a different direction in Seasons 4 & 5, but it's definitely one of my favorite series.
Agreed.
@@Michelle-ju6vs
Hahaha yeah his one liners were top shelf witty
This is better and i love sopranos but this is a masterpiece
Really, a show about Rothstein, Lansky and Luciano probably would have been just as good or better than the one we got. They're all compelling and very well acted.
True but I also liked that they showed Torrios and Capones rise in Chicago.
It was good how they did it. Though I admit Nucky got less interesting as the show commenced. It could have been better and deserved more grit and darker shades
100% should have been the spin-off
The whole Nucky/Margarette thing appealed to the other 50% of the audience. The females. My sister couldn’t stand Lucky/Meyer/Al’s story. But it would’ve been better without Nucky. A little less fluff with the writing and scene transition, but that’s nitpicking. Not dark enough given the subject
@@jswin2084 I agree
This is even funnier when you realize Meyer actually speaks italian.
apokAlypse does he now. Example?
kacchan k He speaks it in season 2 when Jimmy meets them in New York. I don't think that means he speaks it fluently though. Luciano speaks a little bit of Yiddish to Siegel in season 5 too.
Ted87 mesugunnah mensch
I think in this scene Joe and Lucky speak sicilian which is very different from standard italian
Thanasis Papageorgiou similar to Italian albeit Napolitano. So any relationship to Greek as I’ve heard?
A lot of the scenes in this show were simply a joy to watch. Not only was there great acting by superb actors but everything else from the production design, to the costumes is amazing. Even going as far as having the characters doing simple things like playing bocce makes it more authentic. What a way to really put you in those times.
I really thought this show would hit the heights of “The Sopranos”
I was sadly mistaken
I could listen to the actor playing Masseria all day.
Hahaha fc yeah
Nocky Fompson
I love how Lansky turns away at the end, he was only there on business, when the deal went through, anything else was a waste of his time
nah that was just his way of letting lucky tell joe the boss in "private"
Ironically, Ivo Nandi who played Masseria was born in Menfi, Sicily as the real Joe Masseria was. Ivo was the perfect actor to play him in Boardwalk. Of course the real Masseria was much heavier in stature, but Ivo nailed it with the facial expressions, body language, tone of his voice and knowing how to speak Sicilian.
What's ironic about a Sicilian playing a playing a Sicilian?
If you read the statement carefully I said it was ironic that the actor who played Masseria was born in the same Sicilian town as the real life Masseria. Pay attention.
you waann eee-nglish. fine
Sean Pagan LOL
Ivo Nandi absolutely bossed the role as Joe Masseria. He was my fave character on the show along with Charlie, Meyer and AR.
Hahahaha yeah man he was slick asf!!
The ignorance of others fueled Lucky's rise to the top
True that
Tribalism is a negative, restrictive social force; it ultimately only holds us back from achieving greater things when we cross those boundaries and work together.
Lucky Luciano understood this. It's too bad he only put this wisdom to use in organized crime.
+CognizantCheddar well... Lucky helped american army take over Sicilia from nazis.
I want to see humanity unite and conquer the stars, but I can't help believe that tribalism is a necessary evolved defense mechanism that will always be needed.
Europeans and European descendants in the west have all but turned their backs on tribalism, we welcome other races and cultures with open arms. But what happens isn't integration and progress like in our utopian dreams. What happens is self-segregation. Generally, non-Europeans create culturally isolated communities and work towards the interests of their own group.
We are told that Europeans and European descendants having a cultural identity is an impediment to progress, while the reinforcement of non-European cultural identity in European countries is declared progress.
Fred Fredson Throughout recorded history, all advancement of human civilization has been directly associated with a diminishing degree of tribalism.
Either we get rid of it for good at some point, or civilization -- and our species along with it -- will cease evolving in a constructive direction.
Tribalism is a survival mechanism for primitive life. We can either remain hairless apes with delusions of grandeur, or aspire to be something greater.
It was among the Italians. It was real greaseball shit.
It was more Jews than italians.
Goodfellas line
That peach slice looks really good
Dat look good as hell
here in Europe,every peach is like that hahaha
@@dabome4001 The Women too ..
@@jefffromjersey52 more or less...here on Balkan and eastern europe yes...west europe not so much 😏
@@dabome4001 hahahaha true
The way Meyer says " MR Rothstien" is gold. Regardless of the riff that's grown between them, he constantly shows AR respect even correcting others when they talk ill of him
These intelligent men have such a vocabulary and formalwear. Those are gangsters, not gangstas
those guys have made las vegas
I like how Joe the Boss didn't move at all when his turn was done playing Bocce, forcing the other guy to play at a weird angle. Shows how he just doesn't consider other people. I bet people let him win all the time.
God, I LOVE this series! The suits, the accents, the writing, the acting, it's all just perfect! I love The Sopranos! I love Sons Of Anarchy! But if there was ever a PERFECT series, this is it! If only it lasted longer!
The individuals who are playing part in Boardwalk Empire - they are remarkable characters. That itself could be good enough to watch these clips over and over. I feel great just to be with them!
da bom bom bom
@Jack Walsh bed bangin
Da bom bom through the sheets
Lol how primative
@@unorthodoxgameuog7059 what are you, some kinda fanook?
Ivo Nandi has an economy of words and movement that is superb, very convincing as the most powerful don in America.
Meyer Lansky was the brains behind all of the situations without being so violent just watch his real life documentary.
there was carlo gambino too
Meyer was more of the financial brains....he advised Luciano, Adonis, Costello, Siegel, and others on how to invest their illegal earnings.
Both needed each other wasnt just lansky
Asmah Noordin Finally someone mentions Carlo! I wish he would’ve made a scene because he was in New York at the time as well and as ruthless as Charlie and had the brains like Meyer or even Albert Anastasia would’ve made a good character. Their are so many great people (in the mobster sense) in that world they could’ve worked with but sadly they never made any spin offs
Joe was right not to trust these two, doing so led to his downfall.
No, Masseria's problem was that he wanted ALL the power and refused to be progressive. Luciano was a visionary and Masseria was a Moustache Pete with none, but wanting all allegiance and respect without giving ground. THAT is why he was knocked off. Luciano was too ambitious to tolerate it.
Exactly, at least in terms of the series plot. Them knowing of nucky's plans to move against him should have told him how flexible their loyalty was.
@@guibox3 not fair, Masseria wasn't even the only italian boss in NY at that time, he had a territory. It was luciano that united everyone and wanted all the power, under a facade of "everybody needs to get along"...
@@mphstudent2704 The only other boss in NYC was Maranzano, and they were fighting each other trying to wear the crown.
Alex Yates At the end joe was always loyal to other Italians and he especially liked Charlie . This is proven many times because instead of having him whacked he kept letting him off. Even gyp warned him about Charlie’s plan “ they are building something Joe and it doesn’t involve me or you he’s not like us he works with Jews” and even then joe didn’t wanna hear that.
Damn, this plate of fruits looks tasty! Watermelon, my precious.
+Baddy187 best job on earth
We all die, but how many of us would make a deal to live like a king even if that time was short?
Mr. White and Mr. Purnsley ate it all.
The progression of the 20's young elite vs the old guard. Lucky understanding business comes first (American way) and the old Sicilian way of doing things is just exhausting to them. Was inevitable that Joe the Boss would go. Amazing series, wish the whole series was based around Lucky, Meyer, Lucchese and Albert Anastasia.
MrIlleism , yah it just seemed Nucky/ new jersey wasn't as interesting as Chicago or new York.
MrIlleism Don’t forget about Carlo Gambino or even the Costello family
so many good actors though. capone. darmondy (both him and his mom). harrow. all of them would warrant a spinoff
@@Kruppt808 The Boardwalk Empire book was primarily about Atlantic City in the 20s so they had to of course feature Nucky's storyline in the HBO Series...many are crying about how Adonis, Anastasia, and Lucchese were excluded from the show but what about giving guys already included in the show like Remus, Frankie Yale, and Obanion more air time for the fascinating lives they lead?
This is more than just about new guard vs old guard...but moreso about Boardwalk Empire emphasizing the empowerment of it's main characters (real life or fictitious) in their ambitious pursuit of "self-actualization" with regards to Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs...even if it meant risking their lives. Luciano and Lansky were not just guys looking to "make it to the top" but true innovators with a real entrepreneurial mindset.
Coming from a guy who felt that Buscemi was great as Nucky though Gandolfi was absolutely revolutionary on the Sopranos, there is really nothing fascinating about Tony as a character. He was mainly a benefactor of the established bureaucratic hierarchy who wanted to retain his power & viewed "the mafia family" as an end. What about Phil Leotardo? A guy who just wanted vengeance & power?
On the other hand, the primary mobsters (real life or fictitious) on Boardwalk usually viewed power as a means to continually achieving different types of ends. This makes Boardwalk the perfect successor to the Sopranos & that much more fascinating at least for myself. Terrence Winter is an absolute genius understanding human tendencies to the core as it definitely shows in his adapted screenplay work in Boardwalk & Wolf of Wall Street.
Lucky was the Star of the Mafia
Meyer was the Brains , very important figure of the Mob
Bugsy liked to brawl so he was the Muscle and had women calling his name
Franky liked to worry so he bribed cops
I can't tell if that shot at 0:40 is funnier if Lansky can or can't understand them.
On the one hand if he can't understand then he's stood there awkwardly hoping it's going well. On the other hand, if he can understand then he's having to try to keep a straight face while Lucky brags about his prowess in bed.
he can understand; earlier in the series, it is implied luciano taught italian to meyer and meyer taught yiddish to lucky, in a scene where they both meet with jimmy darmondy
@@saint_gales Maybe a few words - but Sicilian is WAY different than other Italian dialects so I doubt Meyer knew that much of it.
Man,I wish they would bring back bocce!! I would dress just like Joe! Who's on board!
There were bocce greens here and there around where I live, always wanted to play. I'll fucking buy a summer suit with ya dude, we'll eat fresh fruit, drink wine, and play bocce.
bocce ball... my uncles still play this lol
The Man who re-operated the Mob into what it was ladies and gentlemen I give you Mr. Charles “Lucky” Lucianoooo!!!
Love Meyers grin circa 2:04 😂
Kblogg 777 James Cagney in Public Enemy sinister smile
Kblogg 777 He's like "these Sicilians are even greedier than us Jews".
@@MB-fo2sk XD
This was the scene that got Owen killed...
Funny seeing the actor that plays Lansky speaking with his natural accent in Preacher now.
Joe Masseria, was a scary mo fo
Why? I like Joe.
@@leroyhovatter7051 I like him too (as a character) but you got to admit that a guy who was both large and in charge and ran New York through brutal means was scary enough, let alone that he seems to make threats in every scene he was in.
Real-life Masseria never looked 10% as good or tough as the show made him appear.
Careful you don't buy too heavy into fiction!
What's crazy is Meyer knew how to speak Italian fluently. Lucky knew how to speak Yiddish in real life and learned from each other
People learn a few gutter words and everyone says "HE WAS FLUENT!" Have you actually ever LEARNED another language?
It's REALLY HARD.
I learned college level Spanish. Went to Spain. Did great, understood every word.
Married a Mexican.
Couldn't understand A WORD they said. They talk 100 miles an hour. Every fifth word is "f*ck," their accent is incomprehensible, and none of their sayings and idioms and slang make any sense.
EXAMPLE:
A jet you fly on in Spain is "Avion a Chorro."
In Mexico, you say that, everyone looks at you funny. "Chorro," in Mexican Spanish it means explosive diarrhea.
In Spain, Ramon is a man's name. In Mexico, it's skid marks on your underwear.
In Spain, panocha means rice pudding. In Mexico, it means a woman's private parts.
In Spain, camote means sweet potatoes. In Mexico, it means a woman's breasts.
In Mexico, the way to say "it went well for me," is how you say in Spain, "I fell down."
And so forth.
meyers suit is dope
Masseria was a severely underrated and underused character
Meyer's accent is the best. Such a hustler accent that can even be cool in legitimate business people.
Caivs Ivlivs Caesar oh please get a life snowflake! I’m praising his accent.
Caivs Ivlivs Caesar go ahead make my day
"Naturaleee? one hundred tousaand."
joe the boss actor is the best of the series
"DA-BOOM-BOOM-BOOM"
you can hear some one say "Hey Mario" at 1:29
Vincent played this role 💯 perfect
Why you come to me ha.....why don you go to you socio d'affari... the other jew
"what else do i get besides a profit" lol that's THE mindset
My great grandfather actually worked with Lucky Luciano and Meyer Lansky. I wish I could go back in time and ask him what it was like working with those two men.
Welcome To my mental breakdown in what way ? And you look fine af drop your IG I’m from nyc babe
the suit game of this show honestly 🔥
JOE DA BOSS
to think that man was in two episodes of teen wolf
The best thing about the Vincent Piazza, the actor that plays Lucky Luciano, is he actually played “Hernan” A.J.’s wastoid friend on the Sopranos. They look and sound nothing alike you’d have no idea it was the same person, this guy is a great actor
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There's a lot of people on Boardwalk Empire that were also on The Sopranos that people might not recognize right away. Some are more obvious than others because they have bigger parts but some I wouldn't have recognized right away. Nucky, Bader, Luciano, Hymie Weiss, Torrio, Chalky, Angela Darmody, Leo and Ignacious D'Alessio, Ehtan Thompson, Halloran, Knox (Toliver), Leander, Agent Sebso, Supervisor Elliott, and Tonino who Buscemi killed twice lol.
Joe Masseria so entertaining...
I like how Joe said, "what else do I get besides a profit?"
Greedy asz motivator
This was how masseria knew about owen right?
I think so.
I love how Joe the Boss thinks every jew is like the Hasidim.. hasidim but I don't believe em - Paulie Walnuts
Masseria: greaseball extraordinaire
Maranzano, Rothstein , Nucky and Natcisse were way classier. Then came chalky the noble savage
0:36 A BOOM BOOM
Joe the boss really was a oldskool gangster, interesting how Red Reddington often dresses quite the same as in Joes oldskool style.
Poor Owen 😂
u notice when he eat, he does not offer to any one ? this is a sign of no respect, to he talking to, he does not like is company.
Not a very smart move at all. Regardless of how a man earns his living.
I NO BE SO SURE
Both luckys suit and meyers suit are dope
Awesome scene
You gotta love how formal Meyer is lol
Sollozzo was more persuasive
I wouldn't be able to deal with so much heroin without onsuming at least half all by myself, as heroin is incredibly motherfucking delicious.
Imagine if it was still $2,000 a pound uncut. $125/ounce or $4.50/gram. Even weed isn't that cheap today.
Italians have contributed so much to our society Fashion, Beauty, Language, Food, Decadence but their music is horrible
Ironic to say that... Most of the worlds music is based off of the Piano Scale, an Italian invention.
Masseria is the cop from West Side Story
Fine, we have deal.
If you pause it at 37 seconds Luckys face is hilarious. Discovered this by accident. Yw
0:22 to 0:40
What kind of wine goes with peaches and grapes?
Number One Gangster in town
Anybody hear eh mario ay 1:28
it got my attention that like in this scene, sometimes lucinao got to talk to joe the boss like an equal. luciano wouldn't talk to rothstein like that, and no one else could talk to masseria like that either. was there something significant about luciano and masseria's relationship?
Joe looked at him as sort of a protege. He really did like Lucky besides the amount of money that was brought in for him. Lucky thought Maranzano would be different than Joe, so he secretly switched allegiances. Joe found out and ordered him killed, but the guys botched it by leaving him alive after a brutal beating and stabbing. It is said on the day Masseria was killed, Luciano was there playing it off like he thought Maranzano was behind it.
Classic scene
Awesome
I got resurvationz tew, lihke I non trus yew...
I love those clothings alot
Stupida fakin' game.
Bu filmin adı nedir
aaaand R.I.P Owen
For all you non Italiano folks he said spaghetti . spaghetti ravioli ravioli mamma mia olive garden
you are all wrong, this is not about tribeibleizem, its about loyalty.
Can someone put the sicilian in the comments??
Masseria stole the show.
Sicilians, does Vincent speak decent Sicilian here? Or in the series in general?
In my opinion the early 20th century New York is a very beautiful scenery. Like in this scene. Italian men who actually still have traditions and relations to the old country, unlike Italian Americans today, are enjoying time together, playing a game, drinking wine and eating their food while you can see the New York style apartment houses in the background. They must be somewhere in Bronx? Nowadays if you go there I guess there's nothing else but African Americans and Latinos everywhere. Another example of a similar scenery is in a movie called Once Upon a Time in America. Makes me wanna live there during that period :D
Fructuoso Torres-Leite ..now thats funny considering there were Black Americans in New York city just like the rest of the country a very long time before Italians
The scene is in Lower Manhattan, not the Bronx.
Chorizoflex 2929 I'm pretty sure it was much more cultured since many were recent arriving immigrants and the neighborhoods in such as bronx becoming black is naturally since the lowest of economic society tend to flood poor neighborhoods in this case blacks and immigrant groups.
Forced diversity
There wasn't a significant population of Italians arriving the NYC until the 1860s, and the group that Masseria is connected to came from the biggest wave which was from the 1900s-1910s in which approx 2mil immigrated to America. Meanwhile, black communities have been in New York since before America was even a country. Since before the English even arrived and the whole island was a Dutch colony, really. In fact, there was black communities in lower Manhattan about forty years before Italians started to come in.
And plus, it's a TV show. It's supposed to be entertaining. So you'll see scenes of people being outside playing bocci ball or whatever just because it looks good to camera. Sure, they make efforts to be historically accurate, but it's not a documentary. Plenty of Italians lived in shit back then, as they do now. These guys were gangsters; they had money so they had time for leisure. Most of the other Italians at the time could barely eek out a living doing industrial work.
Why does every youtube comment section of something of the past have some idiot going "those where the days! My, how have things changed!" It always is weird and kinda creepy to me.
Robert Lacey presented more credible view of a small time crook with a big ego who loved the public attention bloated tales of his exploits brought. Far from being some great financial wizard, Lansky’s talents never got beyond arranging the skim from casinos and having some associates cart it in suitcases to Switzerland where most was lost in a bank crash.
interesting if true.
Bocce ball still played by old italian americans
Do you now joe is my great uncle
Funny cuz Lansky understands Sicilian
People learn a few gutter words and everyone says "HE WAS FLUENT!" Have you actually ever LEARNED another language?
It's REALLY HARD.
I learned college level Spanish. Went to Spain. Did great, understood every word.
Married a Mexican.
Couldn't understand A WORD they said. They talk 100 miles an hour. Every fifth word is "f*ck," their accent is incomprehensible, and none of their sayings and idioms and slang make any sense.
EXAMPLE:
A jet you fly on in Spain is "Avion a Chorro."
In Mexico, you say that, everyone looks at you funny. "Chorro," in Mexican Spanish it means explosive diarrhea.
In Spain, Ramon is a man's name. In Mexico, it's skid marks on your underwear.
In Spain, panocha means rice pudding. In Mexico, it means a woman's private parts.
In Spain, camote means sweet potatoes. In Mexico, it means a woman's breasts.
In Mexico, the way to say "it went well for me," is how you say in Spain, "I fell down."
And so forth.
0:02 Did they put the slices in the wine?
Yea I think that's sort of common my dad is Greek and he puts apple slices in his wine at family dinners. It's actually really nice you should try it
What game is that
lifelessdead89
Bocce....it’s a very ancient game and dates back to the Middle ages, it was popular untill the ‘80s...in France it’s still very popular and calle Petànques.
Wtf are they playing? That definitely isn't bowling.
Trill Gates it's called bocce it's a really old traditional italian game. This scene couldn't be more Italian then it already is they're playing bocce in a bocce court and drinking wine and eating imported Italian food.
Trill Gates You're obviously not a golfer.
it's a form of lawn bowling. Like Petanque or Boules as it's called in France. I have a Petanque set, it's a fun game.
what game are they playing?