Only Al Pacino can play an Italian godfather, a Cuban drug lord and a Puerto Rican gangster and have all groups in awe of his portrayal. Brilliant, brilliant actor!!
Carlito's main mistake was not listening to his internal voice " The streets are watching, they're watching all the time" - truer words have never been spoken
"When u get outta da joint u can't wait to see ur old crew, but when u see em, everybody got a different face than u remember, MAYBE U DO TOO! You end up yearnin for that one face that looks at u same way it always used to." -Carlito Brigante😢
Well not killing Lalin - it's smart move. If anything would've happened to him, the government knew who would've been responsible, because they sent him to Carlito. It would just bring more heat to Carlito
More than likely the prosecutor's office and the authorities were keeping tabs on the club. Norwalk had egg on his face when Carlito was able to walk on a technicality on a thirty year sentence.
@Lucky_38 in a deleted scene that's included in the special features option in the "Ultimate Edition" DVD of Carlito's Way, Pachanga tells Carlito that Lalin had been killed a short time after he is sent back to prison. How he(Pachanga) finds out about Lalin's death? I'm not sure. But after the conversation, Carlito feels some type of remorse for what happened to Lalin.
Carlito went against his gut every single time. He needed 75G, but he didn't want to borrow it. He thought he could tie up every "loose end". Ultimately forgot, if he Benny is like you, you should known he could come back. And I agree, 1000% saying you retired, but moving like you still in the game is very suspicious.
Ok, in this guide we'll discuss the possibilities. If you watch the movie 37 times. The 38th to the 46th time watching he actually survives and catches the train. I recommend getting someone to watch the movie 37 times and take over upon the end credits. Rewatch and enjoy .
Last of the Mo-Ricans, well maybe not the last. Gail's gonna be a good mom. New improved Carlito Brigante. Hope she uses the money to get out. No room in this city for big hearts like us... Sorry baby, I tried the best I could. Honest. Can't come with me on this trip loaf. Getting the shakes now, Last call for drinks, Bars closing down... Sun's out... Where are we going for breakfast, don't wanna go far.. Rough night.. Tired baby... Tired...
He should not have insulted Benny Blanco even if he didn't like him and thought he was a punk. He could of been polite yet still kept his distance. And yes he went too far for Dave out of loyalty and a sense of debt to him. Carlito got burned in the end because you can't have one foot in and one foot out in that life. Trying to go straight yet hanging out in environments and with people who are anything but on the straight and narrow doesn't work.
I know it’s tough to keep up quality content since you’ve done pretty much every sopranos video you can do. That being said, I want you to know this video was really good and I really enjoyed it just like I did your sopranos videos. Keep it up.
it actually makes a lot of sense from a psychological stand point that he hated Benny Blanco it shows he despised what he was in the past and that's why he was so desperate to change himself
We as viewers got taken in by Carlito's "legend" just like the other mobsters did. We believed he was some streetwise genius but in reality he was just a mid-level hoodlum who made mistakes. Fantastic movie.
Carlito's half in, half out approach was definitely his downfall. As mentioned, if he truly wanted out like he kept insisting he should have hired some sort of go-between to handle his business with the club and kept a safe distance, knowing it to be a hotspot for gangsters. Instead, he employs shifty gangsters directly under him & takes an active role in personally running the club despite trying to "go straight". He lets his ego get the better of him by needlessly showing open contempt and disrespect towards Benny Blanco which eventually turns him into an enemy who makes a very real open threat on his life yet Carlito knowingly makes the fatal error of letting him go because "he's out", which if were actually true, he would have avoided putting himself in that position the first place. I also always had issues with his poor handling of the situation with the Italians. Particularly, the lying about being at the hospital despite knowing that he was almost certainly seen by Vincent & then fleeing which was all but an admission of guilt. He read the situation perfectly yet made the worst choice possible when it seemed like the best choice would have been to be "mostly" honest, particularly about being at the hospital and breaking ties with Kleinfeld for being a backstabbing snake. I'm not sure telling the whole truth by admitting to being on the boat would have gone over well though, so it more than likely would have been best to leave that out.
Michael Franzese commentated on the movie as well and expressed how Carlito should have just never came back to the town. You hang around sick people too long you’ll catch their sickness too. You are who you hang with the most.
Cineranter is king for the genre. Kino is top 99.9% & is pure quality, but if I give Cine the edge and besides Kino there’s 50 fifty feet of manure between those two and the rest of the creators in this space. Every single vid is an eye-opener thought provoker, expert analysis, appropriate human, community connection… like me I don’t know what could be improved. This content is the product pinnacle of the genre and the quality never falters. Color me impressed.
@@1987LionoHis channel name is Pure Kino. It’s pretty much the same as this channel with random videos focusing around mainly Sopranos and Breaking Bad. He recently made a great video breaking down the sopranos crime family.
For the last 30 years I've watched this film several times times. More than enough, and without watching your analysis yet I can safely say that Carlito not killing Benny was the ultimate downfall. Prior to that I would say disrespecting Benny for no apparent reason when Benny was literally being nothing but a fan of his work.
post video analysis, you made several valid points. The Benny Blanco situation is still the ultimate key to his death, but there were several blunders.
Carlito was never going to escape because the book was written by a judge from the same neighborhood of New York, so just like David Chase after him, he wasn't going to have his likable but bad guy main character get away with everything...that's not the message he wanted to send. If you really want to do a deep dive, I recommend you read 'after hours' and "Carlito's Way" then highlighting the difference between them and the film...I think you'll be pleasantly surprised that there are actually several instances in the book that I believe other popular 'mob' movies /series lift from it's pages. Namely, how is it that there's a situation where an Eastern European or Russian guy runs off into the woods and is never seen again...hmmm...sounds familiar anyone? These stories were written 20 years before The Sopranos aired. I've read the books and taken some notes on the similarities between the books and other later shows, holler if you want to collaborate on a project regarding this subject.
@@myasman I read the two of them just before the pandemic, I'd have to have them in front of me to give you that answer. But there is no question about it because when I read it I said, WTF. It wasn't part of the main story just one of Carlitos, 'other stories'. The books covered a lot; he went over to Europe, he went sailing around on a boat with Gail in the Caribbean, he blew somebody up on the top of a mountain, he stabbed somebody in the streets of Spain, he went to a bullfight.
@@myasman all right I was flipping through some of my notes and I found that answer for you! Ok, yes, After Hours page 130: Carlito speaking or possibly narrating but these are his words... "...he could do a Penn. ( Pennsylvania ) winter in an undershirt...talk about a survivor..." I didn't write down the guy's background details for some reason and I'm pretty far away from the library where I checked that book out but I'm sure if you were able to turn those pages it would say he's some sort of Eastern European ( as I remember ) I'm actually doing some research on some other historical true crime and The Sopranos made at least three storylines out of these events... Either they figured nobody would ever research it or it's a complete coincidence but I'd have to side with the former. The parallels are just too strong.
All Carlito had to do to diffuse the Benny Blanco situation was sit down and have a drink with him!!!!!!!! It would have been the right to do after the man told him you were basically his idol!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Carlito's loyalty to his friends and his code of honor often got him into trouble. Like, his loyalty to his scumbag lawyer, David Kleinfeld. Even though Carlito had street smarts, he was kinda naive thinking he could just leave his past behind and start over. He didn't really get how persistent his old enemies were or how deep the corruption went. Carlito's biggest mistake was not dealing with the threat from Benny Blanco properly. He seriously underestimated Blanco's revenge plans, and that cost him his life.
The only time Fat Sasso grew the balls to bark on Carlito was after Carlito was being willfully disrespectful to Benny. "It makes no sense that u should hate this man, because this man is u 20 years ago!" And Carlito responded like a spoiled son who was raised better. There was a hint of shame in Carlito at that moment because he knew Sasso was right! He wasn't even being a good club owner at that point!! And if somebody snitches on you to get the heat off themselves, knowing that ur clean, were they really trying to sell u out?? The boat situation was another story and I really don't think ppl understand how hard it was to say no to Klinefeld concerning it. Kline got Carlito out of "30 years in Attica maan 30 yrs!"(Pachanga voice)
Carlito was designed to faill, this was the intent of the movie . You're talking about an entirety different movie. It works well and if he had of suceeded it would have been dishonest because as you stated he made too many mistakes to deserve to live the worst being trusting Klienfeild. A movie doesn't have to have a happy ending. A movie needs a satisfactory ending. This has it. All in all a great film. One of the top ten best in the gangster genre.
When Carlito made his break from the club after the Italians found out that he had escaped through the hatch in the floor behind the bar, why didn't he just jump in the backseat of the taxi, duck down, & tell the driver to haul ass to the train station? Your analysis was excellent, BTW...TNX!
I loved the film and have seen it countless times but the pool shot scene has always bothered me, in a pretty flawless and gritty film that part seemed a bit far fetched and every time I watch that part it literally snaps me out of the movie and back to reality because it really stretches believability. The tension of the scene is perfect but surely they could've thought of a better way for him to get out of the situation
I think your point about Carlito going to and depending on the cops on his way out is a great point. He should have used the cops in the train station as an escort to the train to Florida and ultimately to the Bahamas.
I think you missed the point about him going to Kleinfeld in hospital. He still worked under the assumption that mob didn't know about his involvement, and seeing how willing Kleinfeld was to sell him out to the DEA, if the mob would bust in, they would have plenty time to get this information out of him, and Kleinfeld would tell that Carlito was the one who killed Nick's father and brother, cause Kleinfeld didn't know about that life, so he probably was naive enough to believe that he could talk his way out of his death warrant. That's why he wanted him to point a gun at them, so that they would have no occasion to chat, and took the bullets out, so that he also can't say anything to the cops.
I absolutely love this movie. I've read the two books which inspired the film as well by Edwin Torres. Carlito's Way, the first novel, served as inspiration for the prequel Carlito's Way: Rise to Power. The film is just ok, not great. Carlito's Way, the subject of this video, is based on the sequel After Hours, which is much more epic in nature. This film is a masterpiece in quality and a tragedy in subject, Shakespearean. Carlito is trapped by fate, by his code. Very much a Hemingway code hero. I would not classify Carlito as an anti-hero, but an orthodox hero. He lives in a tough world, and he does the right thing, but for the wrong people. He has their back, but they put a knife in his.
He made those mistakes cause he was human, but his biggest mistake was trusting Pachenga and that stupid lawyer. If he didn't trust anyone at all he would have succeeded
The script had some problems though. Like why Carlito would waste time visiting Kleinfeld in the hospital or why Kleinfeld would be dumb enough to rip off a made five families guy in the first place.
Or let Pachanga kill Benny and kick him a couple grand. Besides thinking Carlito was weak, Carlito was also paying Pachanga peanuts, the film explicitly says so. You gotta spread the wealth. A gangster wo eats alone never lasts.
As others have said, the one part I disagree with is the suggestion that Carlito should've killed Lalin. That would've been the worst move he could make. The cops were itching to throw Carlito back in prison, killing Lalin, an informant, even if they couldn't prove it on the spot, would've been enough to put the pressure on him to astronomical levels However, I do think if he had just broken down to Pachanga why killing him on the spot would've been a terrible idea, I think he may have won him over and save himself from giving him another reason to look weak. Just throwing him outta the room like he was room service didn't help in making Pachanga not feel resentful and maybe jumping to greener pastures.
I started to watch this movie today for the first time in probably 12 years. I was so annoyed at carlito"s complete stupidity during his encounters with benny blanco i had to stop watching lol. It was so in your face obvious he would look for revenge.
Well in the scene with Carlitos cousin he could have taken that 30 k and just done his thing. Met gail and didn’t do the club or bring in Pachanga. 30 grand in 1975 was a lot of money. Carlitos roots of never forgetting where he came from was his downfall in my opinion. Great movie definitely
Carlito ways suffers from revealing the end at the beginning, as does American Beauty. Bith missteps IMHO. currently look for a chevy Nova to build his nephew's car
I think he should have agreed to testify against Kleinfeld, and should have been honest with the mobsters. But…… that still probably wouldn’t have saved him from Benny Blanco.
I never could take that movie seriously. The Pacino character is not making the choices a guy with that life experiences would make especially after doing hard prison time. Just doesn’t make sense.
Go ahead and watch it man. I saw a poll where Pacino was named the top gangster actor of all time HIs portrayal of Carlito is his best role in my opinion. This is a great story. There is also a real mob guy in the movie. This guy is tough as nails! You've got to see this movie!
Just watch the movie! The cinematography, the music, the way they play their roles and the plot itself will leave you stunned! Also, this movie has the best interior monologue in the history of cinema (the monologue will literally speak to your soul).
I love this movie but haven't seen it in years. Did I hear that the fat guy that owns the other part of club (Ron) warned Carlito that his right hand man might be spying on Carlito for Benny from the Bronx? I do not remember that dialog in the movie. Did this really happen? Anyone?
“The moral of the story is: I chose a half-measure when I should have gone all the way. I'll never make that mistake again. No more half-measures, Walter.” - Breaking Bad
Carlito got what was coming to him. He should've never disrespected Benny Blanco the way he did. Benny Blanco was clearly a serious guy and had shown Carlito nothing but respect.
Someone else said in another comment that "Carlito saw Benny Blamco as a younger version of himself, and since he was going straight, hated his old self- ie. Benny Blanco"
It's been a while since I saw this movie, but from what I remember, Carlito's biggest mistake was simply to have been as rude to Benny as he was. It was just ridiculous. He was a young gangster who clearly respected Carlito, and all Carlito had to do is say, "No, thanks: but good luck to you!" or something similar. Instead, he acted like a complete fool.
Dear CineRanter: I know you're British, Irish, or Aussie etc.. But "Ese" is not a NY term especially with Puerto Ricans / Dominicians. Only a Chicano (So Cali) expression.
Only mistake he made was put too much trust in his so called friend - everything else is what made him a man and a legend on the streets. The guy who wrote the story was a judge who came from the streets so he knew what he was talking about. I think he said that he based Carlito's character on 3 or 4 guys that he knew and who were about that life. You can't be half in and half out in the big leagues is what he was alluding to.
Great film and Al Pacino nailed this from start to finsh. In my mind Sean Penn did two great films, this one and State of Grace which is a very underrated ganagster film and has a great line up. Maybe a video on this for the future. Back to the plot Carlito seemed doomed from the start to be dragged back into the life. He is out of prison, years in the past and need money and only knows one way.
Haven't watched the video yet there were multiple ways that he could have made it he just had to be a little bit more cold-blooded and a little bit less loving also he got betrayed at the end of it
I saw this in the theater and it was awesome. The quote unquote twist at the end actually got me And, loved the chase scene and how he dealt with Davey.
