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The Irishman

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The Irishman	comment	The Irishman (alternatively titled I Heard You Paint Houses) is a 2019 crime biopic film directed by Martin Scorsese. After years of trying to get it off the ground, it was eventually produced by Netflix, and was released on the streaming service on November 27, 2019.The film tells the story of Frank Sheeran (Robert De Niro), an Irish-American mob hitman and World War II veteran who developed his skills during his service in Italy. Now an old man, he reflects on the events that defined his career as a hitman, particularly the role he played in the disappearance of his longtime friend, labor leader Jimmy Hoffa (Al Pacino), and his involvement with the Philadelphia crime family led by Russell Bufalino (Joe Pesci).The film also stars Harvey Keitel as Angelo Bruno, Ray Romano as mob lawyer Bill Bufalino, Bobby Cannavale as Felix "Skinny Razor" DiTullio and Anna Paquin as Peggy Sheeran. Extensive Digital De-Aging technology was used to make De Niro, Pacino, and Pesci look younger.Previews: Teaser 1, Teaser 2, Trailer.
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The Irishman / int_1237828f	type	Anyone Can Die
The Irishman / int_1237828f	comment	Anyone Can Die: ...and everyone will, by the film's reckoning. This is reinforced over the course of the film by the constant use of subtitle cards under various characters listing the dates and (often bloody) methods of their ends.
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The Irishman / int_1645005b	type	Evil Versus Evil
The Irishman / int_1645005b	comment	Evil Versus Evil: Par for the course for a Scorsese film, the mob is portrayed as a gang of unsentimental sociopaths who will have people killed without a second thought if they even seem like they might be inconvenient to their goals. On the other hand, Jimmy Hoffa isn't much better, resorting to dirty tricks in order to ensure the Teamsters get their way. And in the middle of it all is Frank, who will train his gun on whomever his bosses tell him to with little hesitation. The only real innocents are Frank's daughters, who play little to no role in the film's events and completely shun their father by the end of his life.
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The Irishman / int_1869b4b1	type	Unreliable Narrator
The Irishman / int_1869b4b1	comment	Unreliable Narrator: Despite the doubtful truthfulness of the book the film is based on, it takes what Frank says as the truth (although no one who figures in the story is alive in the film's present to contradict him). However, at one point late in the film he dismisses most of the criminal charges besides those he was eventually convicted of as "other bullshit", implying they were relatively minor. Titles immediately flash on screen noting that those charges included murder, arson, and kidnapping.
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The Irishman / int_18baa751	type	Historical Villain Downgrade
The Irishman / int_18baa751	comment	Historical Villain Downgrade: In the book, Frank describes going on many hits on direct orders from Jimmy Hoffa. Leaving aside questions of the book's veracity, Hoffa is never shown directly ordering a killing in the movie. Chuckie O'Brien is often suspected of having been the man who drove Hoffa to his death. While that is depicted in this film, he is wholly unaware and Sheerhan emphasizes he was the victim of an overzealous Justice Department desperate to convict the accomplices of Hoffa's murder.
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The Irishman / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
The Irishman / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: Sort of. Hoffa opens his phone conversation with Frank by saying the title of the book, also the movie's original title.
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The Irishman / int_19fc58a2	type	A Lighter Shade of Black
The Irishman / int_19fc58a2	comment	Jimmy Hoffa is less cruel and destructive than his Mafia compatriots, but he's still a corrupt bully who holds people in contempt if they're even a few minutes late to a meeting and who refuses to let his fellow Teamsters lower the American flag on the day JFK is assassinated.
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The Irishman / int_1b65dfad	type	The Cameo
The Irishman / int_1b65dfad	comment	The Cameo: Rapper and TV presenter Action Bronson makes his film debut as the man who sells a coffin to Frank. Dascha Polanco from Orange Is the New Black appears in the final scene putting a button on the film's major themes, as Frank's nurse who barely recognizes the name Jimmy Hoffa, showing just how little any of the mob's actions meant in the end. Jack Huston appears briefly as Robert F. Kennedy, who grills Jimmy Hoffa at a congressional hearing.
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The Irishman / int_1ba17583	type	The Ghost
The Irishman / int_1ba17583	comment	The Ghost: John F. Kennedy looms over the narrative but never makes a physical appearance (except in TV Stock Footage).
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The Irishman / int_1c445e86	type	Poor Communication Kills
The Irishman / int_1c445e86	comment	Poor Communication Kills: Sally Bugs wasn't rolling on anyone. He had a reason for going to the courthouse and just forgot to tell someone a bit closer to Bufalino than the first person he told. This gets him gunned down.
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The Irishman / int_1c5002bc	type	The Stoic
The Irishman / int_1c5002bc	comment	The Stoic: No matter what degree of violence and drama is happening around him, Frank rarely lets on how he feels about it. He can even kill his good friend Hoffa as coldly as he would anyone else, only losing some degree of composure when he has to call his widow. Russ remains emotionally detached at all times, even when ordering the murder of lifelong friends and associates. He only expresses some anger toward the very end of his life when he realizes how pointless it all turned out to be.
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The Irishman / int_1cf11f13	type	No Sympathy
The Irishman / int_1cf11f13	comment	It's implied that the government broke up the Teamsters and put many of its leaders in prison because Jimmy Hoffa ordered the American flag which was hanging at half mast out of respect for JFK after he was assassinated to hang at full mast, and the heartless comments to the press showing No Sympathy — let alone empathy — for the Kennedy family.
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The Irishman / int_1dfd19f9	type	Papa Wolf
The Irishman / int_1dfd19f9	comment	Papa Wolf: Frank beats the living shit out of a grocer who hits his young daughter. Ultimately, this is deconstructed when one of his daughters reveals that she and her sisters stopped going to him for help because they feared how he would retaliate. His violence ultimately made them less safe.
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The Irishman / int_1f8cdb5c	type	Who Shot JFK?
The Irishman / int_1f8cdb5c	comment	Who Shot JFK?: JFK's assassination is a key plot point in the film, though the story refrains from speculating who was responsible for it; the closest the film gets is when Russ implies to Frank the mob did it due to Kennedy's "betrayal" of them. Hoffa dismisses this as "fairy tales" and the film never outright confirms it. The book is more explicit in claiming that the Teamsters, or at least Tony Pro, played a role in Kennedy's death, but Scorsese didn't find this claim credible and decided to leave it out of the movie beyond a few vague hints.
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The Irishman / int_222dc873	type	Black Comedy
The Irishman / int_222dc873	comment	Used for a Black Comedy joke. A guy named Whispers hires Frank for a job. Frank clarifies that it was "the other Whispers", not the guy who was killed by a car bomb. Then there's a quick cutaway to a car exploding.
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The Irishman / int_22f6000b	type	Everybody's Dead, Dave
The Irishman / int_22f6000b	comment	Everybody's Dead, Dave: An elderly Frank refuses to talk to the Feds about Jimmy Hoffa without his lawyer Bill, only for them to tell him that Bill and everybody he knew back in the day are already dead.
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The Irishman / int_237404cc	type	Ironic Echo
The Irishman / int_237404cc	comment	Ironic Echo: Russell and Frank repeat their Italian dialogue from their first dinner over the bread and grape juice they eat when in prison together.
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The Irishman / int_23e32a30	type	Genre Deconstruction
The Irishman / int_23e32a30	comment	Genre Deconstruction: Quite possibly one of the bitterest, most depressing deconstructions ever filmed of the entire Mafioso mythos: If associating with hostile criminals, making tough decisions, ruining your life, and killing a great friend is not enough, in the end, all you get in the modern day is to create resentment among your loved ones and live a lonely life. This article emphasizes how well the last half-hour of the movie deconstructs the aftermath of the classic American Mafia, particularly from Mafia movies like GoodFellas where the aftermath of said lifestyle in modern times is never shown. The result of such deconstruction is an incredibly depressing epilogue to the genre. In many ways, the film undermines what came before, and the central characters don't go out in a blaze of glory. Instead, they march towards a lonely and desiccated retirement where everything they worked for means nothing for modern times. The movie drives home relentlessly how men like Frank, Russell, Jimmy, and other wiseguys are nothing but a pitiful shadow of what they once were. In other words, they are just people who belong to the past. All these attributes make this film one of the biggest deconstructions ever made of the Mafia genre, which is especially remarkable considering that Scorsese's own GoodFellas was already a deconstruction of its own film genre (albeit one that was nevertheless accused of still making it look quite cool), yet this film takes things to a new level of deconstruction, especially in the downfall of the classic American Mafia. Frank Sheeran himself is a Deconstructed Character Archetype of characters such as Henry Hill and Jimmy "The Gent" Conway, showing just how miserable and pitiful a man like them could become if they reached old age and lived in modern times. Another deconstruction is the ultimate fate of most, if not all, of the Mafioso who make an appearance. Very little of the excess of Mob life is seen at all, mostly appearing in the background with the film instead highlighting the constant tension and politics behind the activities of the various families. Over time as characters start dying, no one goes out in a blaze of glory instead being quietly whacked or dying in prison, and once the excitement ends and we see what's left, it's not a pretty sight. Close to the end of the film we view the truly pitiful existence of Russell Bufalino, Tony Salerno and Frank Sheeran spending their time rotting in jail, playing mind numbing games and struggling to eat foods they once enjoyed. Men who once had all this power and influence in their youth are reduced to sad, hollow shells simply waiting to die.
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The Irishman / int_266a9dd6	type	Heel–Faith Turn
The Irishman / int_266a9dd6	comment	Heelâ€“Faith Turn: Russell rediscovers his faith while in prison, and his final appearance in the film has him being taken to Sunday Mass in a wheelchair. Frank seems to have had one of these as well, as he is talks regularly with a priest while in the nursing home. Whether it's sincere or if he just wants someone to talk to is not revealed. However, note Russell's last words to Frank in the prison, when Frank expressed surprise that he was going to the prison chapel.
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The Irishman / int_272abb98	type	Shoot the Shaggy Dog
The Irishman / int_272abb98	comment	Shoot the Shaggy Dog: The bleak nihilism of the narratives makes a lot of the story seem meaningless. For example, the main conflict involves killing Jimmy Hoffa over his refusal to play ball with the mob. But even then, all the mobsters end up brought down either way, be it by violent murder, prison or simply old age doing them in, making the Hoffa murder seem ultimately pointless.
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The Irishman / int_278dedf1	type	Personal Seals
The Irishman / int_278dedf1	comment	Personal Seals: Russell has obscenely expensive signet rings made for his innermost circle. When presenting Frank with his, he notes that "only three men in the world" have one (himself, Frank, and Angelo Bruno) and "only one of them is Irish".
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The Irishman / int_2d4fa515	type	Ax-Crazy
The Irishman / int_2d4fa515	comment	Ax-Crazy: Tony Pro...
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The Irishman / int_2eb94abd	type	Deadly Euphemism
The Irishman / int_2eb94abd	comment	Deadly Euphemism: "I heard you paint houses." The euphemism is all but explained very early on via scene with a Gory Discretion Shot with splatter on an unpainted wall, making it abundantly clear what kind of "paint" they're referring to.
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The Irishman / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
The Irishman / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: It's clear even the other mobsters are genuinely disgusted by Tony Pro's psychopathic behavior.
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The Irishman / int_32785419	type	Redemption Rejection
The Irishman / int_32785419	comment	Redemption Rejection: Nearing the end of his life, Frank is visited by two FBI agents who once again ask him what happened to Jimmy Hoffa. By this point everybody who had anything to do with the murder besides Frank himself is already dead, most of his family has disowned him, and even the mafia has basically forgotten he exists. Nevertheless, he still refuses to tell them anything rather than come clean.
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The Irishman / int_33987735	type	Disposing of a Body
The Irishman / int_33987735	comment	Disposing of a Body: Jimmy Hoffa's body is shown being burned in a crematorium after Frank kills him, providing an explanation for why Hoffa's body has never been found after his disappearance.
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The Irishman / int_3451115d	type	Loved by All
The Irishman / int_3451115d	comment	Loved by All: The film has a recurring motif whereby the causes of several characters' deaths are displayed on screen upon their introduction. When it's time to talk about Tony Jack, he is described as "dying of old age in 2001 and by all accounts, well-liked by all".
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The Irishman / int_3618ebb9	type	TheSixties
The Irishman / int_3618ebb9	comment	The '60s: The trailer shows a "Kennedy for President" sticker being put on a wall, as well as his funeral on TV.
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The Irishman / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
The Irishman / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: Joe Pesci plays Russell Bufalino. At some point in early 1961, Russell instructs Frank to go to Baltimore to pick up a shipment from "a fairy" (i.e., gay man). This guy turns out to be David Ferrie (who was played by Pesci in Oliver Stone's 1991 film JFK), who would later be associated with the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. "Crazy" Joe Gallo, played by stand-up comic Sebastian Maniscalco, scoffs at Frank's attempts to quiet him down after insulting Russ, asking if Rickles (played by Jim Norton) is "the only one that can make jokes".
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The Irishman / int_3ac583f4	type	SlidingScaleOfIdealismVsCynicism
The Irishman / int_3ac583f4	comment	Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism: As if the tropes above and below didn't clue you in, this is perhaps Scorsese's most nihilistic work to date.
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The Irishman / int_3bc88a7f	type	Foregone Conclusion
The Irishman / int_3bc88a7f	comment	Foregone Conclusion: The fact that this film will cover Jimmy Hoffa's disappearance and the aftermath.
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The Irishman / int_3d699462	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
The Irishman / int_3d699462	comment	Curb-Stomp Battle: Frank literally stomps on a curb, and on the easily breakable fingers of a grocer, after the grocer shoved his daughter Peggy at work.
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The Irishman / int_3f7a958b	type	Secret Test of Character
The Irishman / int_3f7a958b	comment	Secret Test of Character: Attorney Bill Bufalino does this with his clients to see if they're a rat or not. If they're not, then he works his corrupt magic to help them beat whatever charges they face. If they are, then he tells the Mob and the person is dealt with.
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The Irishman / int_41d5f145	type	Fluffy the Terrible
The Irishman / int_41d5f145	comment	Fluffy the Terrible: A dead-eyed, sociopathic mob hitman nicknamed "Sally Bugs".
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The Irishman / int_43a831db	type	Epic Tracking Shot
The Irishman / int_43a831db	comment	Epic Tracking Shot: A Scorsese tradition. The first shot of the movie is a long tracking shot through the old folks' home where Frank lives, snaking through the halls and doorways before ending with Frank in the common room. The Real Life murder of Albert Anastasia is dramatized by a complicated tracking shot that starts with Anastasia getting a shave, then tracks through a shopping area following the various Mob hoods there to make the hit, finally freezing on a display in a florist's shot as Anastasia is shot to death in the barbershop offscreen.
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The Irishman / int_44fc28e8	type	Honor Before Reason
The Irishman / int_44fc28e8	comment	Honor Before Reason: Frank refuses to give any further information about Jimmy Hoffa to the Feds in present day, despite everyone else involved being dead or too old to matter, all for a pointless code.
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The Irishman / int_46f3f271	type	From Camouflage to Criminal
The Irishman / int_46f3f271	comment	From Camouflage to Criminal: Frank's experience as a WWII veteran who killed without remorse led to him becoming a mob hitman.
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The Irishman / int_47d35854	type	Intergenerational Friendship
The Irishman / int_47d35854	comment	Intergenerational Friendship: Frank's daughter Peggy befriends and greatly admires the much older Jimmy Hoffa. When she puts together how he "disappeared", it utterly destroys her already shaky relationship with her father.
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The Irishman / int_48d87e94	type	Planet of Steves
The Irishman / int_48d87e94	comment	Planet of Steves: Invoked by Hoffa with regard to Italians after Frank tells him that Tony is upset with his course of action:
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The Irishman / int_4ab9c868	type	Pretty Little Headshots
The Irishman / int_4ab9c868	comment	Pretty Little Headshots: Played straight and justified, since Frank preferred small-caliber, concealable pistols for his assassinations. They were easy to procure, didn't make too much noise, and didn't leave brains and blood splattered everywhere (including all over the man firing them). Most of the time, there's little evidence the victim was shot at all, until you see the red holes.
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The Irishman / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
The Irishman / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: Frank murders Jimmy Hoffa and, with the help of Bufalino family associates, gets away with it. Unfortunately, Frank's daughter Peggy, who became friendly with Hoffa, realizes what her father has done, and never speaks to him again. Frank's relationships with his other daughters also suffers. Eventually, Frank's wife and all his friends and associates predecease him, and with his children no longer speaking to him, he is destined to die alone in a nursing home. Furthermore, the march of time means that barely anyone remembers or cares about Jimmy Hoffa and the events leading to his disappearance, rendering Frank's actions meaningless.
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The Irishman / int_4ebc2ce5	type	Opposed Mentors
The Irishman / int_4ebc2ce5	comment	Opposed Mentors: Frank spends most of the film stuck between the influences of the calm, collected Russ and the fiery, charismatic Jimmy Hoffa, who are often at crossed purposes.
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The Irishman / int_500696c6	type	Seinfeldian Conversation
The Irishman / int_500696c6	comment	Seinfeldian Conversation: Done several times for dramatic effect, notably: Jimmy scolding Tony for showing up to a meeting late, which leads to an argument about the "appropriate" amount of time to keep someone waiting. The conversation eventually escalates to a physical confrontation that sets in motion Hoffa's downfall. Sal demanding to know what kind of fish Chuckie had brought and left in the backseat, while driving to pick up Jimmy for the hit.
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The Irishman / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
The Irishman / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: It's implied that the government broke up the Teamsters and put many of its leaders in prison because Jimmy Hoffa ordered the American flag which was hanging at half mast out of respect for JFK after he was assassinated to hang at full mast, and the heartless comments to the press showing No Sympathy — let alone empathy — for the Kennedy family. The grocer physically abusing Peggy is inexcusable, not to mention blaming it on her, but Frank had no right to beat him half to death.
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The Irishman / int_537dd8fe	type	Affably Evil
The Irishman / int_537dd8fe	comment	Even though Russell Bufalino has forbidden anyone from smoking in his car, when his wife insists on lighting up, Russell doesn't start a fight. He just has the car pull over so she can smoke. While waiting, he and Frank flash back to how they met, when Russell volunteered to help Frank fix his truck. These scenes contrast with a montage of Frank explaining how Russell is a big-shot mobster, establishing Russell as Affably Evil.
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The Irishman / int_56515a39	type	Artistic License â€“ History
The Irishman / int_56515a39	comment	Artistic License â€“ History: Allen Dorfman was murdered in 1983, while the movie states he was killed in 1979. The scene with the news reporting on John Kennedy's assassination makes it appear as if the news flash had reported the events almost instantly; in fact, it took almost an hour between the initial breaking news broadcast announcing the assassination attempt to the confirmation that Kennedy was indeed killed in Dallas. Joe Gallo's assassination, which admittedly follows one of the more dubious claims from Frank Sheeran's book. Eyewitness accounts and contemporary news reports agreed that a team of four gunmen killed Gallo,note At least two of them were identified as Colombo Family associates Philip Gambino and Carmine DiBiase. This was further backed up by former high-ranking mobster Michael Franzese, who had connections with numerous people depicted in the movie, and was in fact at the restaurant the very night Joe Gallo was shot. He was adamant that Frank Sheeran's claim of killing Joe Gallo was a lie. while the movie shows Frank as the sole assassin. On a similar vein, former mob boss Michael Franzese also confirms that it wasn't Frank Sheeran who killed Jimmy Hoffa, making a major part of the movie completely ahistorical.
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The Irishman / int_569a95e9	type	The Teetotaler
The Irishman / int_569a95e9	comment	The Teetotaler: Jimmy Hoffa doesn't drink and won't let anyone else drink in his presence. He's usually seen drinking soda pop. One gangster goes so far as to spike a watermelon as a way to get drunk during a meeting with him.
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The Irishman / int_585db628	type	Vote Early, Vote Often
The Irishman / int_585db628	comment	Vote Early, Vote Often: Mob guys vote repeatedly under different names to help throw Illinois to John F. Kennedy in the 1960 presidential election.
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The Irishman / int_599f943f	type	Karma Houdini Warranty
The Irishman / int_599f943f	comment	Several mobsters show up who are not connected to the main story, or else only tangentially connected. These are usually accompanied by on-screen text explaining who the person was and their eventual fate (generally a Karma Houdini Warranty).
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The Irishman / int_5a7c48f	type	Dig Your Own Grave
The Irishman / int_5a7c48f	comment	Dig Your Own Grave: A flashback to Frank's Army days shows him forcing two German soldiers to dig their own graves, after which he shoots them to death.
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The Irishman / int_5d6db368	type	Four Eyes, Zero Soul
The Irishman / int_5d6db368	comment	Four Eyes, Zero Soul: Salvatore "Sally Bugs" Briguglio, who commits and abets brutal murders while decked out in a pair of Coke bottle glasses.
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The Irishman / int_62f9d08e	type	Freeze-Frame Bonus
The Irishman / int_62f9d08e	comment	Freeze-Frame Bonus: The very opening words of Frank Sheeran in the film was him explaining the term "painting houses"—interspersed with a kill that splatters blood on the wall (hence the term). It's not until Frank finally kills Jimmy Hoffa that you realize that you already saw him kill Hoffa from this very beginning scene—just from a different angle obscuring Al Pacino's (Hoffa's) face. At the end, when Frank asks the priest leaving his room to leave the door open just a little, on the table next to the door is a framed picture of his daughter Peggy. The daughter who stopped speaking to him years ago and won't even look at him.
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The Irishman / int_63b02752	type	Hair-Trigger Temper
The Irishman / int_63b02752	comment	Hair-Trigger Temper: As friendly as he can be, Hoffa does a very bad job controlling his temper, and won't hesitate to assault people physically when they push his buttons, even fellow Teamsters or well-connected mobsters.
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The Irishman / int_63d861f8	type	Even Evil Has Loved Ones
The Irishman / int_63d861f8	comment	Even Evil Has Loved Ones: For all his heinous deeds and his lack of remorse in committing them, Frank truly loves his daughters, especially Peggy.
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The Irishman / int_65acf9db	type	He Knows Too Much
The Irishman / int_65acf9db	comment	He Knows Too Much: This is ultimately what gets the hit put on Hoffa. After hearing that the Mob wants him away from Teamsters activities for good, he starts to threaten them with information he can go to the Feds with. Even Russell, who was trying his best to get Hoffa to step down from trying to take back the Teamsters peacefully, gives up on Hoffa once Hoffa threatens him and Fat Tony Salerno at Frank's Teamsters award party, sealing his fate.
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The Irishman / int_66ef1fa1	type	Hauled Before a Senate Subcommittee
The Irishman / int_66ef1fa1	comment	Then there's Jimmy being Hauled Before A Senate Subcommittee (well, more precisely, before a hearing conducted by Attorney General Bobby Kennedy), which definitely recalls Michael Corleone being investigated by the Senate in The Godfather Part II.
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The Irishman / int_6bd689ca	type	Meaningful Echo
The Irishman / int_6bd689ca	comment	Meaningful Echo: Frank, as president of Local 326, repeating word for word the advice Bill Bufalino gave him years before when he was in the same situation.
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The Irishman / int_6bd9e644	type	Meaningful Look
The Irishman / int_6bd9e644	comment	Meaningful Look: Frank and Russell share one hell of a look at Crazy Joe's birthday party at the Copa. Joe stupidly causes a scene for laughs, drawing attention to the fact that he, his entourage, and many people in attendance are Mafiosi; moving to their table, he then goes so far as to insult Russell's IACRL pin by calling it "that bullshit league" (an allusion to the hit he possibly took out on Joe Columbo that started a war). Russell, visibly restraining himself, resumes dinner as if nothing's happened... and, after a sip of wine, pointedly glances at Frank to let him know Gallo is now dead. Frank, in turn, doesn't say a word, but commits himself to killing Joe.
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The Irishman / int_6da4d56e	type	Conspicuously Public Assassination
The Irishman / int_6da4d56e	comment	Conspicuously Public Assassination: A lot of Frank's murders are committed right out on the sidewalk, just walking up to the victim and putting a few bullets in them. Then there's Crazy Joey Gallo, shot to death in a busy restaurant while dining with his wife and 11-year-old daughter. Frank justifies this trope, explaining that using loud guns to scare bystanders creates plenty of confusion. In the book, he also explains that witnesses know better than to give police an accurate description of a shooter, since that would put the witness next on the list to get whacked.
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The Irishman / int_71105dfc	type	Everybody Smokes
The Irishman / int_71105dfc	comment	Everybody Smokes: Given the time period the movie takes place in, this is to be expected. Only a select few like Russell, Frank, and Hoffa don't smoke. This unfortunately claims the life of Frank's second wife through lung cancer. After that, it's implied Frank, too, gives up smoking.
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The Irishman / int_71268450	type	Adaptation Title Change
The Irishman / int_71268450	comment	Adaptation Title Change: The Irishman is based on the novel I Heard You Paint Houses: Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran and Closing the Case on Jimmy Hoffa. However, the film's alternate title does use the book's name.
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The Irishman / int_72856b70	type	Godzilla Threshold
The Irishman / int_72856b70	comment	Godzilla Threshold: A TV reporter mentions in the wake of Gallo's death that Little Italy, where he was killed, had long been considered neutral territory by the mob as a whole, implying he should reasonably have felt safe there.note In fact, the restaurant where he was killed was, unbeknownst to Gallo, owned by a mobster in a rival family that wanted him dead at the time.
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The Irishman / int_729c69f3	type	Politically Incorrect Villain
The Irishman / int_729c69f3	comment	Lampshaded by Hoffa, who when referring to the multiple Tonys remarks that Italians can only come up with one name.note "Hoffa" does sound like an Italian name to some people, but Jimmy's father was of German descent and his mother Irish.
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The Irishman / int_73e152ad	type	"Rise and Fall" Gangster Arc
The Irishman / int_73e152ad	comment	"Rise and Fall" Gangster Arc: The film depicts Frank Sheeran's ascent from a lowly truck driver to a trusted Mafia associate, Teamster executive, and close friend of Jimmy Hoffa; however, in spite of the lengths he goes to in order to prevent his allies in organized crime from getting exposed, a cavalcade of minor crimes ends up sending them all to prison anyway, where most of them die pathetic, ignominious deaths. After getting out of prison, Frank himself spends his last days in a nursing home, crippled by arthritis and disowned by his own children.
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The Irishman / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
The Irishman / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: "It is what it is..."
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The Irishman / int_79a60aec	type	For Want of a Nail
The Irishman / int_79a60aec	comment	For Want Of A Nail: Sally Bugs is killed because Bufalino thinks he talked to the feds, evidenced by him going to a federal building without telling anyone. Turns out Sally did tell someone. That person just forgot to tell someone else. His murder was wholly pointless based on bad communication. If Frank's truck hadn't broke down at that gas station on that day at that time, he'd likely never have met Russell Bufalino and embarked on everything else in the movie.
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The Irishman / int_7b6e47a5	type	Armor-Piercing Question
The Irishman / int_7b6e47a5	comment	Armor-Piercing Question: Peggy asking Frank why he hasn't yet called Jo Hoffa a full two days after Jimmy's disappearance. Frank's lack of a good answer convinces Peggy, correctly, that he had something to do with it. This is notably Anna Paquin's only line in the film,note Though the character does speak in an earlier scene as a little girl. specifically to make it stand out.
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The Irishman / int_7c862b8a	type	Chronic Backstabbing Disorder
The Irishman / int_7c862b8a	comment	Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: Loyalty is a hard thing to come by in the criminal world, so everyone in the film tends to switch sides at least once. Protagonist Frank Sheeran is truly remarkable in-story for his high degree of loyalty compared to everyone else. And even so, by the end, he ends up betraying Jimmy Hoffa.
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The Irishman / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
The Irishman / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: Even though Russell Bufalino has forbidden anyone from smoking in his car, when his wife insists on lighting up, Russell doesn't start a fight. He just has the car pull over so she can smoke. While waiting, he and Frank flash back to how they met, when Russell volunteered to help Frank fix his truck. These scenes contrast with a montage of Frank explaining how Russell is a big-shot mobster, establishing Russell as Affably Evil. Jimmy Hoffa is introduced during a phone call with Russell. After Russell calls Frank over and gives him the phone, his first words are "I heard you paint houses?" This makes it clear that not only is Hoffa well aware of the type of people he is dealing with in the Mob, he is willing to hire a known hitman in the underworld to help him out, establishing his corrupt nature and what he is willing to do to keep control of the Teamsters.
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The Irishman / int_8411ab92	type	Red Oni, Blue Oni
The Irishman / int_8411ab92	comment	Red Oni, Blue Oni: The cautious, collected Bufalino and loud, demonstrative Hoffa both serve as mentors and friends to Frank.
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The Irishman / int_87bb6874	type	Villain with Good Publicity
The Irishman / int_87bb6874	comment	Villain with Good Publicity: Jimmy Hoffa and Tony Pro are well-liked union leaders who receive cheering adoration from their union brothers, but they are little better than gangsters.
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The Irishman / int_8b6e8d7	type	Anachronic Order
The Irishman / int_8b6e8d7	comment	Anachronic Order: The film cuts back and forth between Frank's years working his way up the Teamsters' and Mafia's respective ladders, a fateful road trip in 1975, and his latter days in a nursing home.
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The Irishman / int_90ff49cb	type	Robbing the Mob Bank
The Irishman / int_90ff49cb	comment	Robbing the Mob Bank: Frank is paid to do a side job blowing up a laundry business by a small-time gangster named Whispers that wasn't officially sanctioned by Frank's mafia contacts. When they find out and summon him to explain himself, he tells him that Whispers told him it was owned by a bunch of Jewish businessmen. In fact, the company was partially owned by both the Kosher Nostra and the Italian family Boss, Angelo Bruno. Frank's life is spared because he did not know this in advance, and because his friend and patron Russell Bufalino strongly vouched for him to Angelo. When he offers to give back the money he made off the job anyway, they tell him to keep it, since Whispers "won't be needing it anyway".
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The Irishman / int_93dc4e37	type	Villain of Another Story
The Irishman / int_93dc4e37	comment	Villain of Another Story: Several mobsters show up who are not connected to the main story, or else only tangentially connected. These are usually accompanied by on-screen text explaining who the person was and their eventual fate (generally a Karma Houdini Warranty). Several references are made to the Watergate Scandal throughout the film. The most notable one reveals that FBI agent Huntnote The one with the ears was actually E. Howard Hunt, one of those jailed over the scandal.
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The Irishman / int_94945ef	type	Punctuality Is for Peasants
The Irishman / int_94945ef	comment	Punctuality Is for Peasants: This is Jimmy Hoffa's pet peeve and Berserk Button. He expects punctuality from everyone, and flies into a rage if anyone is late for a meeting, viewing it as being disrespected. His opponents know this, and therefore show up late for meetings in order to get under his skin.
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The Irishman / int_973d220f	type	Never My Fault
The Irishman / int_973d220f	comment	The grocer physically abusing Peggy is inexcusable, not to mention blaming it on her, but Frank had no right to beat him half to death.
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The Irishman / int_97926168	type	Rewatch Bonus
The Irishman / int_97926168	comment	Rewatch Bonus: At the start of the film while Frank is still monologuing, there's a brief shot of him executing someone. His victim is facing away from him and the screen, but judging by his clothing he seems to be Jimmy Hoffa himself.
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The Irishman / int_9a1d239e	type	Been There, Shaped History
The Irishman / int_9a1d239e	comment	Been There, Shaped History: Frank Sheeran gets around in the history of 20th-century America, most prominently by providing a helping hand in the Bay of Pigs invasion. And of course, being responsible for the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa.
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The Irishman / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
The Irishman / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: Interspersed throughout much of the film are scenes of Frank, Russell, and their wives taking a road trip to attend a wedding. Blink and you'll miss it, but as Frank's getting ready to leave in an early scene, the wedding invitation is dated for July 31, 1975 ... the day after Jimmy Hoffa disappeared forever.
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The Irishman / int_a0db7803	type	It's Personal
The Irishman / int_a0db7803	comment	It's Personal: How Frank sees Bobby Kennedy's singleminded pursuit of Jimmy Hoffa, even forming a special task force solely for the purpose of putting him in jail.
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The Irishman / int_a4905771	type	Double-Meaning Title
The Irishman / int_a4905771	comment	Double-Meaning Title: There are multiple Irishmen involved in the plot: the viewpoint character Frank Sheeran, labor union leader Jimmy Hoffa, and President John F. Kennedy's family.
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The Irishman / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
The Irishman / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: As with any of Scorsese's gangster movies, like Goodfellas, Casino and The Departed, there's the usual, whiplash-inducing juxtaposition of petty, humorous arguments with violence. But there's also a sharp tonal divide between the movie's conventional (by Scorsese standards) first 2Â½ hours and its quiet, slow-paced and increasingly nihilistic final hour as Frank realizes he's been ordered to kill Hoffa, starkly carries out the murder, and spends the next three decades growing old and wallowing in regret, alone.
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The Irishman / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
The Irishman / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: Played with. Frank never does time for any of his murders, especially for killing Jimmy Hoffa. But he does do prison time for union-related fraud when the government comes down hard on the Teamsters after JFK's assassination. Along the way, he also alienates his family and is left to wonder "Was It Really Worth It?" in his old years.
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The Irishman / int_a8559a9f	type	RealLife
The Irishman / int_a8559a9f	comment	While it is based on the circumstances under which it happened in Real Life, the scene where Frank kills Joe Gallo suggests the final scene of The Sopranos and what most theories hold happens after the screen goes black. It's helped by Frank's voiceover discussing how he usually goes to the bathroom in this situation — much like the suspected assassin in that scene does.
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The Irishman / int_aabe2fb	type	Deliberate Values Dissonance
The Irishman / int_aabe2fb	comment	Deliberate Values Dissonance: Characters make prejudiced cracks against other races and religions fairly regularly, the Italians and the Jewish being the most frequent targets. One reason other mobsters hate "Crazy Joe" Gallo so much is that he employs black and Hispanic criminals in his crew alongside "his own people." The fact that Russ won't let people smoke in his car (which necessitates frequent stops for Carrie and Irene to light up) is considered very unusual.
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The Irishman / int_aba8065b	type	Fatal Flaw
The Irishman / int_aba8065b	comment	Fatal Flaw: Hoffa's pride and ego. It literally gets him killed.
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The Irishman / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
The Irishman / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Frank undergoes a silent version of this when he realizes that not only has Jimmy Hoffa been marked for death, but he himself is to carry out the hit regardless of his personal feelings toward the man.
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The Irishman / int_ad9fbc1e	type	Pyrrhic Victory
The Irishman / int_ad9fbc1e	comment	Pyrrhic Victory: You're a big bad, feared hitman, Frank? You kept your mouth shut like a good mafioso and did your time in the slammer? Where's it gotten you? All your friends are dead, some at your own hand. Your family despises you and won't have anything to do with you. You're alone, forced to plan your own funeral because nobody else cares. The world's moved on and forgotten you, leaving you stuck in a nursing home to waste away slowly till death claims you. Was It Really Worth It?
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The Irishman / int_aed65980	type	All for Nothing
The Irishman / int_aed65980	comment	All for Nothing: There is a lingering sense of nihilism over the film as we contrast the seeming huge importance of the Mafia power plays with the insignificance of Frank in his old age. This is made clearer in one of the final scenes where Frank's nurse can't recognize Jimmy Hoffa in a picture and admits to not knowing who he is, showing just how little all this ultimately meant: Jimmy Hoffa, his disappearance and all the incidents around it are ultimately forgotten with the passage of time just like Frank himself. This is underscored by the fact that almost every major figure we meet is introduced with a title card identifying the date and circumstances of their death; for all their self-importance and all the violence and intrigue they get involved in, the inevitability of death applies to them just as much as to everyone else, including the people whose deaths they order.
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The Irishman / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: Jimmy Hoffa. Mobsters who regularly have people murdered at the slightest provocation warn him politely to back off. Hoffa refuses all of them, sealing his fate.
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The Irishman / int_b5b3599d	comment	Amoral Attorney: Bill Bufalino, the Teamsters attorney played by Ray Romano, who sees no issue with Frank embezzling goods to make some extra money and turns out to be a cousin of mob boss Russell Bufalino.
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The Irishman / int_bac9f95d	comment	Sweet Tooth: Hoffa drinks only soda pop and scarfs down ice cream sundaes at every opportunity.
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The Irishman / int_bb30b9e9	comment	Danger Takes a Backseat: "Sally Bugs" Briguglio strangles Tony Castellito from the backseat of a moving car. Also referenced when an edgy Frank takes a short ride with Sally and Chuckie and insists on taking the back seat, even though it's wet with frozen fish runoff.
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The Irishman / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: Never be late for a meeting with Jimmy Hoffa.
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The Irishman / int_be30e493	comment	Undignified Death: A recurring theme. All deaths in the film, violent or otherwise, tend to be shown as rather anti-climactic, pathetic affairs.
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The Irishman / int_c3585f4a	comment	Boom, Headshot!: This being a mob film, there are many, many of these depicted. Jimmy Hoffa gets two, courtesy of Frank.
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The Irishman / int_c39846a3	comment	Pride: Hoffa just could not grasp that there are more powerful and ruthless men above him calling the shots. As far as he's concerned, the Teamsters are his union (even when he isn't president), and by virtue of that fact alone, he believes he can dictate orders to Mafia dons.Unsurprisingly, they eventually get tired of his attitude and have him killed.
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The Irishman / int_c4240537	comment	Moral Event Horizon: In-universe, Peggy realizes that Frank murdered Hoffa and refuses to speak to him for the rest of his life.
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The Irishman / int_c601fc37	comment	Professional Killer: Frank is a hitman, professional and calculating enough to kill Crazy Joe Gallo point blank even in a crowded restaurant with his wife and child there. There's even a montage of him disposing of the guns he uses after each murder; it's implied he'd dumped dozens of them off that bridge.
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The Irishman / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: To other Scorsese movies: The film's opening echoes several lengthy tracking shots across his career to demonstrate the glamorous side of gangster life, most famously in GoodFellas, except this time it's moving through a sad, drab nursing home. Henry Hill's opening monologue in GoodFellas also recalls the prelapsarian mob of that film's early scenes — "before Crazy Joe killed a boss and started a war", an event depicted in The Irishman. The scene where Sheeran looks at his collection of guns laid carefully on a bed echoes a similar scene in Taxi Driver. The entire subplot of the Teamsters funding the building of casinos and being secretly run by the mob is the main plot of Casino. Just before Frank shoots him dead, Hoffa enters the house expecting a meeting, but finds nobody home and realizes the meeting was never going to take place. The scene closely mirrors Tommy's murder in GoodFellas. Frank telling the audience during narration that the person chosen to hit someone in the Mob is usually a friend of the victim whom they trusted. This echoes Henry Hill pointing this out in GoodFellas as a way of him knowing he was being setup and why he ran to the Feds. Only Frank is the hitman this time, confirming Henry was right. And like Frank, the character Jimmy Conway who would have killed Henry, was also played by Robert De Niro. The scene where Russell and Frank speak Italian to each other is very much an homage to The Godfather. Even the song playing in the background during that scene, which is the main theme from Touchez pas au grisbi, sounds very similar to the "Love Theme from The Godfather." Frank telling Jimmy about the meeting also echoes Don Corleone's counsel to Michael that the friend who tells you about the ostensible peace conference is the one who's betrayed you already. Then there's Jimmy being Hauled Before A Senate Subcommittee (well, more precisely, before a hearing conducted by Attorney General Bobby Kennedy), which definitely recalls Michael Corleone being investigated by the Senate in The Godfather Part II. While it is based on the circumstances under which it happened in Real Life, the scene where Frank kills Joe Gallo suggests the final scene of The Sopranos and what most theories hold happens after the screen goes black. It's helped by Frank's voiceover discussing how he usually goes to the bathroom in this situation — much like the suspected assassin in that scene does.
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The Irishman / int_d080f396	comment	The Napoleon: Tony Pro, a.k.a. "The Little Man," is a diminutive New Jersey mobster and union leader with an extremely fiery temper.
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The Irishman / int_d17eaa9f	comment	Postmodernism: This work, quite atypical by the standards of what would be expected in a typical Martin Scorsese work, could be considered the definitive example of postmodernism brought to mafia cinema. The film is full of patterns, symbolism, deconstructions towards archetypes typically found in the mafia genre, and references to other mafia genre films. Furthermore, Martin Scorsese has achieved in this film elements of meta-analysis and intertextuality, especially as the film draws to a close, not to mention the mix of genres (combining elements of mafia cinema, historical film and drama), juxtaposed interconnections (combining both real and fictional elements due to the context of the times), and the fact that the film presents ironic and critical approaches to mafia cinema. The film's deconstructive reflection near the end on old age and death further enhances its postmodern nature.
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The Irishman / int_d52d28b6	comment	Hypocrite: Jimmy Hoffa, who built his career with Mafia help, blasts Tony Pro for his mob connections during the Union election.
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The Irishman / int_df5d7746	comment	Artistic License â€“ Prison: At the end, when Frank and Russell are eating bread and drinking grape juice together in the prison mess hall, the grape juice is in a glass bottle. They wouldn't be allowed to have a glass bottle in prison, it's a potential weapon.
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The Irishman / int_e16217f8	comment	Historical Villain Upgrade: For most of the Kennedy family except for Bobby Kennedy (who hated Hoffa every bit as much as the movie shows). Kennedy patriarch Joe Sr. is explicitly tied with the Mafia and helped rig John Kennedy's first election to Congress. While Joe Kennedy's relationship with the mob is still a matter of dispute, claims that he worked as a bootlegger himself during Prohibition are generally considered a myth. The film repeats rumors of his rigging the 1960 presidential election to swing Illinois to Jack by Sam Giancana, a claim which is widely believed, but probably impossible to prove. Richard Nixon is a regular golf buddy with Fitz, the leader of the Teamsters and a stooge of the Mafia. Nixon did cultivate an alliance with the Teamsters, and was alleged to have pardoned Hoffa in exchange for illegal campaign donations in 1972. note something Sheeran's book expands upon considerably, as he claimed to have worked as a go-between for payments between the Teamsters and Nixon's campaign On the other hand, crime historians Jeff Burbank notes that while Nixon had second degree connections with organized crimenote Notably his closest friend, businessman Bebe Rebozo, was widely suspected of having close ties to organized crime in Miami. and certainly was a Corrupt Politician in his own right, he also prosecuted a number of leading mob bosses and pushed for passage of the RICO Act.
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The Irishman / int_e16cd24e	comment	Know When to Fold 'Em: Subverted with Jimmy Hoffa. He refuses to walk away and let the Teamsters go, even after he clearly understands how he is making enemies of the Mob and putting his life in danger, to the point he goes into hiding and only goes anywhere with people he trusts, which is why Frank was chosen to do the hit.
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The Irishman / int_e1acc872	comment	From Nobody to Nightmare: Frank Sheeran starts off as an average truck driver, but he goes on to become one of the most prolific killers employed by the mob. A lesser example is Frank Fitzsimmons, who is treated by Hoffa as a toadying Number Two for most of the movie, but when Hoffa ends up in prison he takes over the Teamsters and refuses to relinquish power afterwards. While Fitz isn't any less corrupt than Hoffa, he's better at avoiding bad publicity and uses his connections (including his friendship with Richard Nixon) to solidify power.
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The Irishman / int_e4bb68b8	comment	The Charmer: Hoffa is a charming, gregarious man who has built an empire out of uniting people under his banner through the force of his personality. It's notable that Frank's daughter Peggy actively dislikes the sedate Russell Bufalino but adores the feisty Hoffa, even though they're both Affably Evil crooks who treat her just as nicely.
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The Irishman / int_e5f568e6	comment	Furnace Body Disposal: Jimmy Hoffa's body is disposed of in this way.
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The Irishman / int_e9784ee6	comment	Epic Movie: The movie runs 209 minutes and covers nearly 70 years of history, including the rise and decline of the American mafia, World War II, the decline of organized labor, and the assassination of JFK, among other things.
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The Irishman / int_e993da98	comment	One reason other mobsters hate "Crazy Joe" Gallo so much is that he employs black and Hispanic criminals in his crew alongside "his own people."
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The Irishman / int_e9f517e1	comment	Artistic License â€“ Geography: Frank makes it very clear when planning the route to Detroit they are crossing Ohio by way of Interstate 80, most of which comprises the Ohio Turnpike. The Ohio Turnpike traverses the most northerly part of the state. At one point on the group's drive, we see a road sign stating they are 64 miles from Columbus, 86 miles from Dayton, and 272 miles from Detroit. Firstly, nowhere on the Turnpike is one only 64 miles from Columbus and 86 miles from Dayton (it's much further). Secondly, nowhere on the Turnpike would both places be listed as control cities on the same sign. Thirdly, even at the extreme eastern edge of the state, it's only about 230 miles to Detroit when one crosses into Ohio from Pennsylvania on 80. We see this sign around the time they stop in Fremont, which is only 90 miles from Detroit.
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The Irishman / int_ec9a5f50	comment	Frank Sheeran himself is a Deconstructed Character Archetype of characters such as Henry Hill and Jimmy "The Gent" Conway, showing just how miserable and pitiful a man like them could become if they reached old age and lived in modern times.
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The Irishman / int_ee7a60e9	comment	One-Steve Limit: Averted, given that most of the characters are based on real people. There are two Jameses, three Tonys, and five Franks among the cast. Lampshaded by Hoffa, who when referring to the multiple Tonys remarks that Italians can only come up with one name.note "Hoffa" does sound like an Italian name to some people, but Jimmy's father was of German descent and his mother Irish.
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The Irishman / int_eeb4a5eb	comment	Anti-Climax: Done deliberately. When Frank murders Jimmy Hoffa, there isn't a dramatic scene of Frank telling Hoffa how he brought this on himself, or Hoffa giving a grandiose Face Death with Dignity speech. It's the same as all of Frank's other murders. Two quick shots to the head with no emotion or remorse, that's it.
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The Irishman / int_eedee4d	comment	The Starscream: Jimmy loathes Anthony "Tony Pro" Provenzano, whom he views (correctly) as an ambitious loudmouth out to take over the Teamsters. Frank Fitzsimmons as well, though he's subtler than Tony.
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The Irishman / int_f511ea9b	comment	Product Placement: People are always drinking soda pop when around The Teetotaler Jimmy Hoffa, and at least one will have a bottle of Canada Dry ginger ale.
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The Irishman / int_f65b8cf3	comment	Flashback Within a Flashback: Most of the movie is a story told by a very old Frank in a nursing home. In the story, Frank and Russell flashback to when they first met at a Texaco gas station.
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The Irishman / int_f70bcdc3	comment	External Combustion: Used for a Black Comedy joke. A guy named Whispers hires Frank for a job. Frank clarifies that it was "the other Whispers", not the guy who was killed by a car bomb. Then there's a quick cutaway to a car exploding. Later there's a car bomb and a boat bomb as Hoffa and Fitzsimmons fight for control of the Teamsters. The sequence ends with Hoffa's wife Jo flinching before starting her car, which does not blow up, using the previously seen footage of Whisper's car blowing up as a fake out.
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The Irishman / int_f765e2d3	comment	Dying Alone: By the end of his life, most of Frank's mob friends have died of old age, disease or violence, his wife passes away, and his daughters want nothing to do with him. He's so alone that he has to arrange his own impending funeral.
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The Irishman / int_fa7d3dfe	comment	A lesser example is Frank Fitzsimmons, who is treated by Hoffa as a toadying Number Two for most of the movie, but when Hoffa ends up in prison he takes over the Teamsters and refuses to relinquish power afterwards. While Fitz isn't any less corrupt than Hoffa, he's better at avoiding bad publicity and uses his connections (including his friendship with Richard Nixon) to solidify power.
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The Irishman / int_fd176af9	comment	"Well Done, Dad!" Guy: Frank desperately wants to be a part of his daughter Peggy's life, but she's disturbed by his mob connections and capacity for violence. By the end of Frank's life, he's alienated all his daughters.
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The Irishman / int_fe64d5a1	comment	Evil is Petty: A running theme throughout the movie. Jimmy Hoffa is less cruel and destructive than his Mafia compatriots, but he's still a corrupt bully who holds people in contempt if they're even a few minutes late to a meeting and who refuses to let his fellow Teamsters lower the American flag on the day JFK is assassinated. Tony Pro and Hoffa's feud is perpetuated by trivialities. Pro is enraged by a casual slight made at his Italian background and holds it against Hoffa for years. Hoffa hates that Pro makes him wait 15 minutes for a meeting and wears casual clothing. When both refuse to apologize for their minor offenses, they start a brawl.
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The Irishman / int_ff6d8ad9	comment	Adaptational Nationality: It's never mentioned in the film that Frank's mother, Mary (nÃ©e Hanson), was of Swedish descent.
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The Irishman / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: Frank Sheeran's stories remain controversial, but the film accurately depicts many events in mob history. Joe Gallo really was murdered at a seafood restaurant, and Albert Anastasia really was murdered while he was getting a shave. In the film, Al Pacino's Hoffa is seen hanging up a pay phone before he's picked up for his fatal rendezvous; in Real Life the last anyone ever heard from Jimmy Hoffa was when he called his wife from a pay phone at the Machus Red Fox Restaurant and complained that Tony Giacalone was late for the meeting.
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