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Originally Posted by lucifer_sam
Francis Ford Coppola might not have wanted to elicit mob violence, but he didn't write The Godfather. Mario Puzo certainly romanticized about the mafia's power. Whether he wanted to perpetuate mob violence, I don't know, but he sure as hell had no problem writing about it.
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Did I say Francis Ford Coppola wrote
The Godfather? I was making a comparison between movie directors and musicians. If you'd like we could make the comparison between authors and musicians as well though, since I don't think Mario Puzo is any more of an advocate of mob violence than Stephen King is an advocate of people abducting and torturing their favorite author.
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