Gangland Politics in Sin City, Gomorrah

Angeline 2022-08-31 09:15:11

There is only one country in the world where yakuza is legalized, Japan. Tattoos, severed fingers, and samurai swords are the standard three-piece suits for YAKUZA (the general name for Japanese gangsters). Although they look very bluffing in Japan, under the trend that gangs are globalizing and going international, YAKUZA is in Chinese gangs. There are at most two words in my eyes, garbage. However, Daquan Gang, Hongmen and even the Triads (the three major gangs of Chinese origin) talk about the Italian gangsters that originated on the other side of the Eurasian continent, but it is another word, respect.
When it comes to Italian gangsters, it is always the "Godfather" trilogy. The trilogy can basically be said to be a blockbuster image of the Italian mafia, just like the "Young and Dangerous Series" to Hong Kong gangsters. Yimei's "The Godfather" has been said too much by too many people, and it would be too pretentious to talk about "The Godfather" today, although the main reason is that I have not seen the "Godfather" trilogy. But fortunately, I came across "Gomorrah", an American drama that is as classic as the "Godfather" trilogy, oh no, Italian drama.
If the "Godfather" trilogy is an elegant cello piece, then "Gomorrah" is an eye-popping sad song, because it is too realistic and cruel. For example, "Young and Dangerous" fully expresses loyalty and pride, but the real gangster is as cruel and bloody as "Despicable Street".
"Gomora" means "Sin City" in Italian, and it is also the name for the underground gangs entrenched on the coast of Naples. Because it is real, it presents a complete Italy, in addition to sun and sand, drugs and guns, in addition to romance and luxury, violence and darkness. Dirty streets, guns and drugs, incompetent police, gangsters running the government, if it weren't for Italy, I'd really think it was some small poor country in South America. Gang leaders do not have luxurious villas and live in the same unit buildings as ordinary people; the gangs here give up their seats to pregnant women, bring food baskets to the elderly, and pull the trigger without blinking an eye, causing people to explode in cold blood. head. So the realism of the whole show is outrageous.
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In the play, the fate of the four protagonists is the main line. The male protagonist Ciro, who looks exactly like Guardiola, is dubbed "Guo Shuai" by Danmu Jun; the original Naples gangster, the leader of the Savastano family, Don Peter ; Don Peter's son Genaro, commonly known as Adou; another boss of the Neapolitan gang, Conte with a small braid. The pictures and plots that are too real make the images of the four of them distinct and vivid on paper. The four were either killed or wanted, or survived and succeeded in usurping the throne. The fates of the four were intertwined, and it was all blood and contradictions. And behind all this, there is gang politics that I am most interested in.
Gua Shuai, Adou and Don Peter belong to the same faction of the Savastano family. At the beginning of the story, Gu Shuai and several famous thugs of the Savastano family burned down the house of Conte's mother and became the two major gangsters in Naples. The fuse of the war between the Sa family and the Kong family. Sitting on a large group of thugs, Taizutang Peter was strong and strong, and the Kong family lost their soldiers and armor, and Kongte had already packed his luggage and was ready to run away. But Taizu didn't seem to want Conte to retreat, and arranged for his thugs to kill Conte in secret to avoid future troubles, but Conte was not stupid, he squatted and killed the most trusted eldest brother of Guashuai. Although Conte was not destroyed, at least he fled to the yacht in Spain with his tail between his legs. Taizu also officially became the king of the Naples gang. The first reconstruction of the political power of the gang came to a perfect end, and the power of the gang was highly concentrated. In the hands of Peter in Taizutang.
It seems that this gang war ended with the overall victory of the Savastano family. Taizu has all the right to speak in the Naples area, and even the election of the mayor will follow his lead. Taizu has a young heir, Genaro ( A Dou), has a large number of heroes who are loyal to him, it seems that Taizu has successfully forged an unbreakable family dynasty, but as I said, it seems.
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The strongest fortresses are broken from within, as Lenin once said. Facing the tragic death of his big brother, he saw Taizu's ambition to dominate Naples and spy on the world. Gua Shuai began to reflect on his future, which was the beginning of his mutiny. It seems that the word mutiny is not very appropriate, because Gua Shuai, who has the halo of the male protagonist, should call his mutiny ambition. Therefore, the theme of the first season, only five words, the collapse of power. It is the history of Gua Shuai's struggle as a horse boy, how to deconstruct the political power of the Savastano family's gangster step by step, and how to personally destroy the Sa family dynasty that Taizu painstakingly established as a horse boy.
Gua Shuai groped his handsome bald head and thought, and finally understood the only two trump cards in his hand, one is the Prince Genaro, who has played with him since childhood. We can see from the nickname "Adou" that we gave him. What kind of person Gennaro is; another trump card is Don Peter's recognition of Guardiola's loyalty. Gua Shuai here is not a near-deified positive character in the brain-dead anti-Japanese drama. Gu Shuai looks loyal, but in fact he is ambitious and steered by the wind, a bit similar to the old white in "Breaking Bad". Taizutang Peter originally promised that Gua Shuai would become the right-hand man of the successor Genaro and become the second-in-command of the Sajia Dynasty, but Gua Shuai said that Lao Tzu is the protagonist of the play, how can he easily become only the second-in-command? Especially to be the leader of Naples. So, on the surface, after agreeing to Peter with joy on the surface, Guardiola began his first step to dismantle the Sa family, telling the story.
Gua Shuai made full use of Taizu's trust in him, and put the whistleblower conspiracy to Taizu's heroes. After losing tens of millions of white powder, Taizu was so angry that he took an ashtray and directly killed one of his loyal heroes, shaking his clothes and going out handsomely, but he didn't expect the boat capsized in the gutter, and he was killed in a traffic accident on the street. Clang to jail. By accident, Gua Shuai finally waited for this opportunity, the first vacuum period for the power of the Sa family.
At that time, Ah Dou was just a dummy who always depended on Guashuai. Under Guashuai's strong instigation, he was eager to take the position of power, but Taizu, who was in prison, knew how much his fat son weighed and did not let go of power at all. Go to jail with a mobile phone and start remote command. But a warden who admits the truth of death pushed the progress of the story. He just didn't let Taizu live so unrestrainedly in the prison. When Taizu was remotely commanding the massacre of the black community, the warden quietly recorded it, and Taizu had to obediently admit it. , was sent to a higher-level prison dedicated to gangsters, which also means that Taizu must surrender his throne of power. At this time, a vacuum of power appeared in the true sense of the Sacramento Dynasty and even the Neapolitan gangs.
Gua Shuai thought that A Dou could perfectly take over the Emperor Taizu as the leader, and then took the emperor to make the princes, oversaw A Dou, and became the real ruler. But at this time, another person jumped out, Taizu's wife, Adou's mother. Obviously, the queen mother knew that A Dou was not hot enough, and it was not time for him to succeed him. So after getting the acquiescence of the great ancestors, the queen mother became the actual ruler, stomping the feet of Gua Shuai and Ah Dou Qi.
But the seizure of power was not over yet. The queen mother saw that Gua Shuai was not a reliable person at a glance, so she sent him to complete an impossible task and went to Spain to make peace with Conte; on the other hand, the queen mother waved her hand and sent Adou to Honduras. further study. At this point, the empress dowager, who was in power alone, went to prison to visit Don Peter. Don Peter, who was behind bars, had no choice but to acquiesce. At this time, the second power reorganization of the Neapolitan gangs was completed unknowingly, and the queen officially ascended the throne.
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Gua Shuai has a nickname in the play, called Life Hard Boy, you can also understand it in this way, the protagonist halo. In Spain, Guardiola actually completed the task assigned by the Queen Mother and shook hands with Conte, but after returning to Naples, Guardiola was still not welcomed by the Queen Mother. Anyway, Guardiola, who was also a founding general of the country, was only sent by the Queen Mother to see the drug scene. , The depressed Gua Shuai is like eating gunpowder all day long, and the addicts who always buy drugs at every turn are punching and kicking.
At this time, the turning point of fate came to Adou. After returning from his studies in Honduras, Adou completely changed his temperament. Cold-blooded and violence replaced cowardice and dependence, and became a new synonym for Adou. Gua Shuai thought that A Dou came back and his life would rekindle all of a sudden, but he never expected to find out that A Dou had completely changed after meeting, and was no longer under the control of Gu Shuai, and A Dou treated him coldly. Gua Shuai, who was ashamed, began to think about another way out for him. After all, both of his ace cards disappeared at the moment when Adou commented that he was "just a useful soldier".
Immediately after Adou came back, he embarked on his path to seize power, using his original personal connections and a little bit of means to change the mayor of Naples, from a supporter of Taizu to a puppet he controlled. Under the pressure of public opinion, the empress dowager obediently gave up the throne to Adou and retired to the deep palace. The Queen's Politics, which lasted for less than two episodes, quickly declared bankruptcy, and the power structure of the gang was restructured again. Adou came to power and became the nominal ruler of the Sa family. But after Adou came back, the more he looked at the older generation of heroes, the "royalists", the more unhappy they were, and the older generation of Taizu heroes also looked at Adou. One emperor and one courtier.
A Dou, who was already ruthless, gathered a group of good-hearted elements of his age, formed a "princeling" that was different from the "royalists" of the older generation, and began to cleanse the great ancestors. At the same time, Gua Shuai, who was dormant in the drug field, took advantage of the civil strife between the royalists and the princelings to recruit troops. As the youngest hero of the royalists and the most experienced helper of the princelings, Gua Shuai gave full play to his two sides. His skill, it was the right-hand man who killed Conte and indirectly allowed Conte to return to Naples by taking advantage of the civil unrest.
Facing the intensifying conflict between the ruler and the minister, Ah Dou pretended to agree to hold an internal peace negotiation in the Sa clan dynasty, but secretly started to cleanse the heroes of Taizu, assassinated and ambushed. The royalists were killed one by one unsuspectingly, and only one hero "Guan Erye", who was eight feet tall and careful everywhere, narrowly escaped. At this point, the royalists have completely lost confidence in Adou and completely broke with him, and some of them have been transferred to Guardiola. But Adou didn't know this. He took his father's seat with peace of mind with the dawn of victory. He thought that this bloodbath was the prelude to his ascension, but he didn't know that Naples was already surging under the dark.
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Empress Dowager accidentally discovered the evidence that Gua Shuai killed Conte's men, and used this as a condition to coerce Gu Shuai to let him leave Naples voluntarily. , The speeding party that had been arranged in advance whizzed past, making the queen mother into a sieve.
A Dou, who had lost his mother, was still a bit caught off guard by Conte's sudden invasion. In addition, he had cleaned up a large number of heroes, but there was no one available when he was hiring, and his subordinates were all hooligans. Shi only remembered to go to the prison to ask Taizu for good advice, but Taizu just pretended to be stupid with you. Taizu didn't want to talk to you and threw you a set of contemptuous eyes. It's right to think about it, the Sa family dynasty that you created by yourself has been smoky and difficult to return to, and no one is willing to change it.
A Dou, who was unsuccessful in his inquiries, still decided to solve this series of problems in his own way. After all, A Dou thought that he was now Naples's leader anyway, and he should have the spirit of the number one gangster. He imitated his father and decided to kill Conte with a big wave of his hand, but Adou still wanted to do the same thing, which was not even done by Taizu. At this moment, A Dou also suddenly discovered the evidence that the Queen Mother had used to expose Gua Shuai. As a result, Adou changed the main contradiction from the struggle for power with Conte to the elimination of the traitor Guardiola.
Gua Shuai had long expected such a day, so he secretly formed an alliance with Conte. Gua Shuai even used his daughter's chorus as an opportunity to ambush at the entrance of the tunnel and wiped out the princelings. , just like the royalists before them, they have reached the same goal.
Adou, who became a bare commander, decided to go to the meeting alone, and the final confrontation also unfolded in a small theater. But it is obvious that A Dou, who has a big heart and a fat body, must have neglected to exercise on weekdays, and his marksmanship is poor, but Gu Shuai, who is bloody on the streets all day, is different, and he knocks A Dou to the ground with one shot. Gua Shuai exited the venue with the screaming crowd. At that moment, Gua Shuai's mouth was slightly upturned, and he smiled mysteriously. He had planned for so long, and the day finally arrived. Playing the party, the Sajia Dynasty finally collapsed.
The political power of the Neapolitan gang has finally been reorganized towards the idea of ​​​​Guangshuai. Guardiola and Conte joined other princes to carve up Naples. This also means that the originally highly concentrated royal power was divided by greedy food. Obviously, It's just a loose coalition in transition.
The "Second Master Guan" Yi Bo Yuntian, who was lucky to escape, robbed Taizu of the shuttle bus to prison. Taizu no longer pretended to be stupid when he saw the sun again, and his eyes were full of anger and ambition; the moment Adou fell to the ground, his fingers moved slightly. It is obvious to the audience that I am also a male second, how can I easily lead a dog; Conte and Guardiola toast to each other, but obviously, everyone knows that this is just a loose alliance during the power transition period. Everything is far from over. The darkness that shrouded the coast of Naples had only just risen.
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You want me to tell you the ending of the four of them at the end, I'm sorry, it's not that I'm afraid of giving you spoilers, it's just that I haven't finished the second season. But Gomorrah was too wonderful, and after watching the first season, I was shocked, and the urge to create drove me to pick up the pen and write it down.

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