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Originally Posted by PHX31
Now a days I still keep in contact with distant cousins and have been to the village where my Grandmother is from. It's absolutely beautiful and it's nice to imagine I partially come from a place like that. However, to my great grandmother it was basically hell and assimilation definitely helped her and the family from just disappearing.
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I've always thought that one of the great strengths of
The Godfather was how it portrayed the crime family's activities in gray/brown and noisy NYC as appropriate for that environment, but somehow all of that darkness was hatched in idyllic Sicily. That physical (and sonic) switch between locations is one of the great moments in American film.
By contrast,
Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, perhaps the most American film of them all, celebrates with a wink young (but hearty) American myths like Texas, biker bars, and empty Western roads while lampooning the predictable ways in which Americans idealize Europe (the female character who leaves for Paris).