"Im funny but I know im not that funny"

@jasonjin5520

5 жыл бұрын

@Here's Johnny You know.. The way you talk, you're just funny

@georgefromjungle5211

5 жыл бұрын

@@jasonjin5520 No, no, I don't know. You said it! Tell me how am I funny, what's so fucking funny about me? !

@Jamie-kv9eg

4 жыл бұрын

George From Jungle ..............get the fuck outta here tommy

@aidenorcutt1738

4 жыл бұрын

Glasgow Rangers 1872 ha I almost had him, I almost had you. You stuttering prick

@MMZ7Z

4 жыл бұрын

This thread was godly

sonny and his good advice. I could listen to this man all day..

@WorldChamp12

6 жыл бұрын

TheEarlymtv Definently

@JuanDiaz-zr1sg

4 жыл бұрын

amen!

@brandiholt447

4 жыл бұрын

Oh yea

@Tigerlily_Fresh

4 жыл бұрын

Absolutely.

@tullyhoffman805

4 жыл бұрын

I met him when he did the one man show here. He is amazing!!!💜💜💜

I use to believe fear and love is equal. But that's not true. Love is received. Fear is instilled. Facing your fears is harder than falling out of love. Thus, fear last longer than love.

@InfamousMedia

9 жыл бұрын

Are you nuts? Falling out of love is one million times harder than facing your fears

@isaiahcorporancruz6562

6 жыл бұрын

exactly...

@mindtrapped9934

6 жыл бұрын

methodize808 losing my 5 year wife leaving me 2 weeks after i got shot was harder to cope with then knowing my fate as I was walkes into the barrel of the piece

@angelsangels8583

5 жыл бұрын

But what is love without respect? It's better respected than loved. Maybe you should also listen to Tina Turner what's love got to do with it. And not only this about respect.

@angelsangels8583

5 жыл бұрын

Respect is better. Love can be perverse. Respectfulness can only be correct/innocent. You can respect a wrong, but you cannot love a wrong. Respect is greater in regards than love

“Nobody Cares” best quote of the whole movie

@Danfrombackhome

3 жыл бұрын

Its also the most true. Nobody cares at all

@leandroleandro2962

3 жыл бұрын

100%. Apply to our politics.

@rogeliosoto6953

3 жыл бұрын

Wow a 2 word quote blows your mind. You must be a genius.

@christopherarellano1796

2 жыл бұрын

Wow a edgy dude commenting on a year old comment, you must get all the bitches!! Lmfao

@michaelc1063

2 жыл бұрын

Nope...that just means you hold no faith

Taken straight out of The Prince by Machiavelli. Fitting since Sunny said he read it while he was locked up

@hardcoredoom5892

6 жыл бұрын

Plus Machiavelli was Italian. His influence must be deep in Italian culture and philosophy.

@BrianGallas

4 жыл бұрын

Definitely not an accidental reference.

@Ameil

4 жыл бұрын

What book is it?

@davitshahnazaryan8977

4 жыл бұрын

@@Ameil Nicolo Machiavelli "The prince"

@dale27488

3 жыл бұрын

It's like Sun Tah-zoo says, a good leader is benevolent and unconserned with fame. The Chinese prince match-ee-uh-velly

I always loved how Sonny kept saying, "Don't forget what I'm telling you," throughout the movie. Considering this is based on a true story, Chazz Palminteri seemed to have done his best to condense all the wisdom he gained from the man into a movie roughly 2 hours long. I hope the real Sonny knows that he never forgot what he told him, wherever he is on the other side.

@Tigerlily_Fresh

4 жыл бұрын

I always wondered if the real 'Sonny' was assassinated too?

@Lioness_Es

4 жыл бұрын

I hope so too and the real Sonny was assassinated just not in front of Chazz. By the time Chazz arrived at the scene Sonny had already been killed. Very sad.

@libraprime6838

Жыл бұрын

It was a play first. Loved that too. Chazz is a great writer!

@mrOGbobbyjohnson

7 ай бұрын

@@Tigerlily_FreshIk I’m late but he himself said a lot of these events for real, and he witnessed them as “C”. Especially the first shooting scene, he was the kid who saw the guy get shot.

"Feared, but not hated" is an important distinction. A lot of the world's nastiest people make this mistake by becoming so viscerally despised that the people underneath them no longer feel loyalty or fear towards them because they have nothing left to lose.

@arnoldblashak171

10 ай бұрын

Yes sometimes it'll happen that way

@semperaugustus661

4 ай бұрын

Yep. Obviously it is a fictional story, but in The Sopranos, that is a line Tony wasn't able to navigate. He went past the line of fear to where a good number of the people working with and under him hated him and felt it would be better off removing him from the equation entirely. To be fair, he probably never should have been the boss to begin with. He was insecure, hotheaded and gluttonous in every aspect of his life.

@willclark4449

3 ай бұрын

you mean like slaves?

I never realized that when C asks the question "Is it better to be loved or feared?" it's in direct contrast to when Lorenzo explains to a young C that people on Lorenzo's bus "love" him and the people in Sonny's world "fear" him. Obviously, this is the question that C struggles with throughout the film. Friggin' beyond brilliant writing.

I love Sonny's smile when C asked which is better. He was thinking "Wow, this kid's really listening to me".

Finally, a scriptwriter who's ACTUALLY READ THE CRUCIAL SECTION OF MACHIAVELLI IN ITS ENTIRETY. Every asshole in the world thinks Machiavelli answered the question with a straight out "better to be feared". It's nice to see somebody realizes just how layered and nuanced the answer actually is.

@machomanforeverworldchampion

Жыл бұрын

If we knew who that was to begin with.

@henrlima87

Жыл бұрын

@@machomanforeverworldchampion you dont know who machiavelli is?

@machomanforeverworldchampion

Жыл бұрын

@@henrlima87 No sir.

@henrlima87

Жыл бұрын

@@machomanforeverworldchampion he was a phylosopher, from the renaissance period.

@marcopl17

Жыл бұрын

@@machomanforeverworldchampion Its from a book called "the prince" Its a good book. Check it out

Exactly what C''s father was warning him about Sonny. They don't love him, they fear him!

I wonder if this scene inspired the episode in The Sopranos where Tony intentionally tells a bad joke to see if everyone fakes laughing out of fear of honestly not finding it funny.

@forman208

4 жыл бұрын

But the context of that scene has his crew made out to look like ass kissers, laughing at that corny ass joke to suck up to Tony, not because they're fearful of him

@macfly6237

3 жыл бұрын

forman208 But Tony found out who hated him in that scene, which you can make the point that everyone is a suck ass to him around the table which is true. However, Tony knew that guy who got out of prison wasn’t loyal to him anymore because he wasn’t laughing at the stupid joke... so he had him go.

@dale27488

3 жыл бұрын

Feech knew the joke wasn't funny, so he didn't laugh, haha

@VivaGramsci

3 жыл бұрын

A boring 747

@maxmajfc9668

3 жыл бұрын

Poo poo

“Because, if one is on the spot, disorders are seen as they spring up, and one can quickly remedy them; but if one is not at hand, they are heard of only when they are great, and then one can no longer remedy them” Excerpt From: Machiavelli, Niccolò. “The Prince.”

A fine line between fear and respect.

@mast3rchief536

Жыл бұрын

I worked in a kitchen where the head chef would always be nice when you first met him, develop into sarcasm when you got to know him more and would go absolutely ballistic in the kitchen if you made a mistake. You feared giving him a reason to be sarcastic that you look embarrassed and definitely feared to make a mistake in the kitchen. Safe to say for him he was respected massively but liked at the same time. He had that fine line with people to like him and fear to get on the wrong side of him.

I am so glad Chazz Palminteri ended up becoming somewhat famous (he never became an A-lister, but he did appear in a lot of movies across DeNiro). Few have worked as hard as him on his dream. He was broke at age 38, doing the entire "Bronx Tale" act as one man, until DeNiro saw it and wanted to make it into a film.

His voice is so fatherly, it really soothes my heart.

life in plain brutal terms without any pretense. this is how it works even with your family and friends. when you give people an inch, they'll take a mile if you let them

@zakur0hako

3 жыл бұрын

harshest truth to learn out there

@K0ntakt5

2 жыл бұрын

@Jane Shepard grow up and learn something about life

And in the end, only one person was weeping for Sonny at his funeral.

@bobbyscalchi4013

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah Eddie Mush...lol

It's a sad truth but fear is stronger than love.

@JasonIsKing227

10 жыл бұрын

Mothers have died for their young because they have loved them. Men have sacrificed themselves for their families because they loved them. I once knew a young man who loved his girlfriend so much that he fought the man who robbed them at gunpoint. This man pointed a gun at the bf and told him to beat it and leave the girl. The bf refused and fought the man barehanded to protect her. He got shot in the arm cause of it, but he managed to survive and protect her. He loved her enough to take a chance. He didn't let the fear of a gun stop him. That`s just an example of love being stronger then fear.

@IIIJeMIII

10 жыл бұрын

Lewis Kincaid bullshit....

@thekiller678

10 жыл бұрын

***** I agree that dude is full of shit

@Bootstrap193

9 жыл бұрын

that's because the need for survival is our first-most important human instinct

@ThePeacePlant

9 жыл бұрын

Lewis Kincaid If its not a "true" story he personally know of... But i believe the dude. I would fight too if someone came to my face with a gun especially around the people i love. " like what i got to loose right now" "dude , has a gun and pointing at my family and me which makes me fell as I'm in danger and ill go into survival mode and start f*cking the dude up". But then again people might not believe me because this is the internet and people will think I'm acting hard. But i shouldn't have to prove myself to dudes on the internet that don't even know ME , yet the real me.

"Would I rather be feared or loved? Um, easy, both. I want people to be afraid of how much they love me." - Michael Scott

I knkw its just a movie, but you know what i love the most about sonny? Hes never sloppy, dudes always in a crisp suit, never drunk and slurring, hairs never outta place. Never talking crazy or throwing money around. Just always very powerful and reserved. The only time you see him fly off the handle is the bar fight and even then you dont see him till after the scuffle. And hes still clean, implying he mopped the floor with those guys. Awsome character.

@arnoldblashak171

10 ай бұрын

He's a sick puppy

He might be a gangster but at least he's honest and real about what goes on around him. Agree?

Straight out of Machiavelli's Masterpiece * The Prince*

He is damn right, it's better to be feared than loved. Because fear helps get shit done.

@joegrimm9629

10 ай бұрын

But the trick is not to be hated

@arnoldblashak171

10 ай бұрын

Well that's your conjecture

@STONESGAM

3 ай бұрын

Fear does last longer than love especially in that business and on the streets. People can love you and then all of a sudden you do something or say something or make a couple of moves and then they decide they don't love you so much all of a sudden. Look at romantic relationships or friendships how quickly love can turn into despising someone. But fear of someone doesn't dissolve that quickly if ever.

I'm not italian-American, but I love this movie & the life lessons it teaches.

He mix the Book The Prince & 48 laws of power! 👏👏

Don Lucciano taught me this in the 1970's . I have always used this with my workers.

@luisdaniel7027

Ай бұрын

Lucky Lucciano?

Now This is one of the KEY elements on being A great MAFIA BOSS.

Fear is a basic emotion, and love is not. Those who have strength should love, and those who are weak should be afraid. Fear controls more people because more people are mentally weak, but Love instills values that outlast any basic feeling. In reality, it's impossible to choose one without the other and still rule.

@marcopl17

Жыл бұрын

Fear is hardwired into us via our primitive brain. Its a survival.mechanism, part of our flight or fight response. We're social animals too, however, its through this first primitive love that we learn to care for each other. Grooming, nesting, feeding and partnering all stem from love. It too is a survival mechanism. Fear is stronger because its about self protection, whereas love is about self actualization. Love only blossoms when basic safety is achieved therefore fear must be minimized for love to take root but they are both primal and last equally as long. The difference in how we experience them is the purview of our higher brain. Most people understand that they can without love to reduce their vulnerability. That's easy. What they fail to understand is that they can choose not to be fearful as well. This is called strength of character.

One of Chaz' best roles. The young man idolizes the mob boss. He gets long with him better than his own father because there's no pressure; the pressure coming from getting his father's approval. The mob boss actually enjoys being a father figure and mentor.

I adore his character as a film role. It's exactly what you want to imagine about it...even if it's not quite so...but that's what makes people love it

Sonny changes sometime between when C is a little boy and when he grows up. Sonny becomes more aware and more understanding. In the beginning, he comes off as cold and callous. You can see he cares about C, but it doesn't really come to full fruition until C grows up.

How inspirational.

I love this scene... just love this movie, really. I have no desire to be feared and a great desire to be loved... I would make a TERRIBLE gangster. xD

@padgetd8517

8 жыл бұрын

+Don Johnson A. You have no right to tell me what I am or what I can or can't be. B. You are a disgusting chauvinist. C. Way to take someone's carefree comment and sink it to the bottom of the gutter. D. No one asked you. E. You can't even spell.

@jesus4lyfe00

8 жыл бұрын

Get in the kitchen and put on that apron...i like my steak well done...snap snap!

@wsmokr

8 жыл бұрын

+Don Johnson Sounds more like what you do with our friends after a night out on the town.

@jesus4lyfe00

8 жыл бұрын

wsmokr nice comeback douche bag...now get in the kitchen with her and make my steak before i give you a swift smack to your crossdressing face.

@totalba69

6 жыл бұрын

Don Johnson cmon dude, medium rare for sure lol

This would ultimately lead to Sonnys downfall, if you lead with fear you will eventually get struck down from behind by the same ones that feared you, if you lead with love you can always tell which ones don't feel the same, this is why it is wiser to lead with love. They aren't 2 opposing forces, love is actually the understanding of fear.

@Tigerlily_Fresh

4 жыл бұрын

And fear ultimately turns into hate.

@hello6089

3 жыл бұрын

Tigerlily Fresh everyone eventually gets tired of being treated unfairly. I don’t feel that it’s easy to tell if someone doesn’t love you. That’s why half of the marriages in USA are divorced.

@hungryowl1559

3 жыл бұрын

Love doesnt get the job done. Love leads to hate and anger more often than not.

It is better to be feared than to be loved. Yes, being loved is the best feeling but once that goes south you'll be left crumbling on your own shit. If you are feared no one will disobey you and everyone will know not to mess with you. But this is just my opinion

@louisbaker7477

8 жыл бұрын

Couldn't agree more

@tonygambino5905

8 жыл бұрын

+Jacob suarez The problem is that if you don't have love, you will be a miserable human being; devoid of even having a soul.

@donttalktomeeee

8 жыл бұрын

Tony Gambino what is a soul? Isn't it the essence of you. You don't have to be love by others to have a soul or be happy. You can love yourself and the things you do; let others fear you and you'll still be happy and have a "soul"

@tonygambino5905

8 жыл бұрын

Jacob suarez I respectfully disagree Suarez. Without love, you cannot be happy. Period. Not possible.

@donttalktomeeee

8 жыл бұрын

Tony Gambino​ and i accept your opinion. I just don't trust others easily and its easier to keep them in line when they are scared of you

The fear like love is temporarily emotion. The strong muscles will not last forever.

All this shit is basically Machiavelli's "Il Principe". The European 'Art of War'.

Best advice ever! Everyone should listen to Sonny!

Lilo Brancato was high during that scene. He had a bright future, suddenly turned to waste. :(

@Sam-zu6wy

7 жыл бұрын

"The saddest thing in life is wasted talent." - Lilo Brancato 1992 set of A Bronx Tale

@bri-guy8757

5 жыл бұрын

He actually grew up down the block, from my brother-in-law, in Yonkers.

@Charsi_Escobar

4 жыл бұрын

Bri-Guy 875 did you know him?

@Tigerlily_Fresh

4 жыл бұрын

That's crazy, I wonder if Chazz knew?

@93pinkrockgirl

4 жыл бұрын

Tigerlily Fresh He absolutely did. He did an interview after Broncato got out and basically said he wanted nothing to do with him. Here’s the article: www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/chazz-palminteri-blasts-fellow-actor-lillo-brancato-article-1.1566625

Interesting that Sunny has his own personal philosophy in order to maintain power in the community, guided by certain principles to achieve that, which reflects his time studying Machiavelli.

Jesus proved being loved is better. All the feared men have come and gone. 2000 years later Jesus still plays a part in millions of christians heart today

Sonny tells him to look after his family, and that he'd prefer to be feared rather than loved--but never wants to be hated. Then he ends up getting killed by the son of the guy he murdered, right in front everybody.

How my older brother use to sit me down. and talk to me before he died. this hits home

That saying goes all the way back to the Roman Empire.

@ahoosifoou4211

6 жыл бұрын

Damian Lopez cruel but powerful for a bery longtime

@anonanon6764

3 жыл бұрын

@Time Warp Oderint dum metuant

@otisbeck5327

3 жыл бұрын

@@anonanon6764 let them hate so long as they fear

@otisbeck5327

2 жыл бұрын

@Jane Shepard here is the paradox: Sonny wants to be feared because he walks in fear himself. Why do you think that it was hard for him to trust anyone around him? He really didn't fully trust the men under him. That's why he gave them enough but not too much. Again tyrants rule by fear because they live in fear themselves.

@vibovitold

2 жыл бұрын

​@@otisbeck5327 you don't feel fear when you have nothing, but if you have nothing, you're the one who's ruled by someone else. that's the price of this (relative) comfort

Tupac Shakur found that out and lived by that during his last years...

@Igetsitin89

5 жыл бұрын

so true that's why he changed his name to makeveli

@johntore6108

4 жыл бұрын

@@Igetsitin89 Tupac Shakur was a CIA Asset and Sell out, just like everyone else. Everything you think you know is a lie. Smh.

@marceljackson727

4 жыл бұрын

John Tore look here you little bitch. You don’t know shit about Tupac. Shut yo lost ass up. You faking hater. If you ask me. You the real sell out

@uzibitch1

4 жыл бұрын

@@marceljackson727 lol quoting Carlton from fresh prince with that last sentence.

@marceljackson727

4 жыл бұрын

Free, but not quite 😂😂😂😂

One of the best movies ever

It's so much game about life in general in this 🎥. For All Races & Creeds

Fearing someone is easy. Loving someone is hard.

@arnoldblashak171

10 ай бұрын

Not for me

Wise wits and wisdom but only da wrong choice will become ones demise

“Fear is what gives loyalist to me so true and so valid love this character 😊

Chazz Palminteri was great in this movie. I still remember him getting in his Cady and driving backwards down the street.

What a genius! I love this movie.

Pure quotes in this movie 🔥

I like how when C was young and went to meet sonny, he asked C if he was afraid of him and he was pleased to hear he wasn't. it's almost as if he looked at C completely different, and had no need to make c fear him. because he didnt fear and love sonny, he loved and respected sonny. Probably a prime reason sonny would have absolutely refused to officially bring C into his family. he seriously wanted a good life for him.

“I give them just enough...where they need me...but they don’t hate me”

Un mafioso de la época y un hombre honesto nos dan sabios consejos, tengo49, desde Argentina,LA MEJOR PELÍCULA QUE VI, IMPERDIBLE!!!

Beautiful scene ❤

So glad I grew up in this kind of neighborhood people on the west coast would never understand this.

One of the best gangster movies ever made..

Amazing movie. I’m gonna go watch it tonight.

I LOVE THIS MOVIE!

"Better to be feared than loved". It works in the short term but in the long term, you'll get overthrown because people will start to turn against you. At first they fear you and later they turn against you because you'll abuse your power.

@vibovitold

2 жыл бұрын

so basically they'll make their move ONCE THEY NO LONGER FEEL FEAR. but that's exactly his point

@morganslaw

2 жыл бұрын

Whether you're feared, respected or adored you will be overthrown some day or somehow. Fear is the highest form of respect and that of course is a fact

@DynamicDurge

2 жыл бұрын

@@morganslaw every "tough guy" is gonna say that, but at the end of the day, there are always bigger fish. You piss off enough people, and the vitriol coming your way is gonna be a whole lot of hurt. If everyone is bound to be overthrown, dont unnecessarily hang yourself out to dry just because you thought might was right.

@keifer7813

Жыл бұрын

You're forgetting one vital point he made. Not to be hated. Good parents instill fear in their kids, but not so much that they're hated. Parents who instill no fear in their kids are walked all over. Parents who instill too much fear end up in a retirement home forgotten about when they're old or sometimes even killed by their own children. Fear is absolutely necessary for respect and authority. The challenge is finding the right balance

Lilo was high for the first time in his life in this scene (pot). A life of drugs that eventually lead to jail and the death of an innocent man. Sad. He has talent.

@j2times2006

9 жыл бұрын

chazz said that he said the lines but didnt listen to the words. he missed the entire message of the movie...and HE WAS IN THE DAMN THING!!!

@Tomern121

7 жыл бұрын

gleventhal innocent man my ass, the cop shot him and he was unarmed. fucking cops get away with everything

@TheBacknblack92

4 жыл бұрын

@@Tomern121 the cop was shot and killed. Sure the kid was unarmed but his accomplice wasnt. Thats why one went to prison for life for murder and the other only went down for 10yrs for burglary. How is an off duty cop literally dying in a shootout with some drug addicts breaking into his neighbor's house "getting away with everything". He was waiting on backup when they opened fire so he returned. How the fuck is the cop supposed to know only one is armed when there are two criminals and you're getting shot at? It's a shame they both didnt die. Fuck this druggie piece of shit

@chrissporty9872

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheBacknblack92 fuck you the cop shot first and an unarmed man at that. The cop wasnt no hero he got what he deserved .

It would be really cool to do a fictional sequel to this. Kid could become a gangster and run the place or become like his father and maybe own a business in town, with a twist that he has the same issues with his own kid, and then loses his kid because he gets killed.

Great scene

As someone very wise from dunder Mifflin once said - both fear and love- I want people to fear how much they love me

@arnoldblashak171

10 ай бұрын

Yeah I think you got a way to go yet

I love this scene

"Fear lasts longer than love" >never lives to see old age, and the only one who cared his funeral were a few old friends who loved him

It’s better to be loved. If you are feared people will look the other way to any plots against you. And no matter how much you are feared in that life there will be plots against you. If you are loved people will die for you

0:48 love Sonnys smile haha

People who fear you want you gone. People who love you want you there.

That is some great advice, definitely words to live by!

Love is a key element in family and family is power.

Now this guy is headed for a life of paradise I will tell you that right now

sounds like the book, the prince, by Machiavelli.

Best movie ever.

feared "than" loved, not feared "then" loved.

Great Movie

So is it better to be feared or loved. The obvious answer is loved. Now yes when they fear you they think twice before crossing a boundary but when they love you that lets you know they have no intentions of ever crossing you in the first place because they know it's wrong and they don't want that done to them. But another reason it is better to be loved than feared is because when you're loved the moment you are seen vulnerable they will not take advantage of your vulnerability , you become weak and dependent they love you they help you back to strength if they fear you when they see you weak they no longer have to be afraid of you and now they will leave you.

Very important info right there for any kind of leadership roles

The advice never stuck cause he shot that Moltisanti kid.

Give them enough for them to need you but not enough to where they can leave you

very smart man..

I would choose love, as fear does not last after death.

Straight Up Life Knwledge For Real

Lillo was geeking during that scene

The line at 0:46 is lifted almost directly from Machiavelli’s “The Prince”

True ! Sad but trueL

Its better to be loved than it is to be feared. When people love you they go to war for you. The problem with fear is that it can be transferred to someone else it's not reliable long term.

That's a good question!

The Wire showed that Respect last longer than Fear

'Tis wiser to choose LOVE

Just came across this on WhatsApp after it's been here over the past 11years. Wow!

The bar scene brawl was a very great scene.

Some of us don't scare too easy

@arnoldblashak171

10 ай бұрын

Nobody cares you're wrong I care

when you make a spelling error but just go with it

Chaz is awesome in this part.

Never give people too much so they don’t need you any more. Work, relationships, or friendships

Sonny truly did love C like a son