Mob mentalities

Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen

PRX

Arts

4.6 • 675 Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Understanding our fascination with the criminal underworld. Jia Zhangke’s takes an empathetic look at criminal brotherhoods in China in his new gangster film “Ash Is Purest White.” Stand-up comics reveal what it was like working in Vegas when mobsters owned the clubs. A brave critic defends “The Godfather: Part III.” And how the late Sue Grafton created the seedy universe of her “Alphabet” crime novels.

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0:00.0	Today on Studio 360, one byproduct of China's stupendous economic growth, criminal brotherhoods.
0:13.5	People bound together because of the crisis that I face or the dramatic transformation of society
0:23.8	to somehow protect one another.
0:26.4	The great director, Jia Zheng-Kuh, on his new gangster epic, Ash is purest white.
0:31.8	Plus, when mobsters tell you to keep your stand-up act clean.
0:37.5	If I did something wrong on the stage, you guys, Hey, Sheko, you mind if I tell me? When mobsters tell you to keep your stand-up act clean.
0:39.6	If I did something wrong on the stage, you guys,
0:43.4	Hey, Shako, you mind if I tell you something? Don't do that.
0:45.9	And one brave critic does the unthinkable.
0:47.8	He loves the Godfather.
0:49.0	Part three.
0:52.5	People told me that I was supposed to dislike that.
0:54.9	But cinematically, it's riveting.
1:00.1	It's a Studio 360 hour all about our fascination with Mafias right after this.
1:10.0	This is Studio 360.
1:10.9	I'm Carnaghan, and I'm sitting on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
1:13.4	This first level of garden.
1:14.7	This is Thomas Jefferson's vegetable garden.
1:16.6	I like to have the roasted chicken base.
1:18.1	Very well done.
1:19.4	Editing is all about timing.
1:21.1	I try to get a little bit away from the actual subject.
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