A Bronx Tale

A Bronx Tale is a one-man show written and performed by Chazz Palminteri. Palminteri based the character of Calogero on himself, partially upon his childhood.
A Bronx Tale was filmed in three New York City neighborhoods. Though set entirely in the Bronx, only one of these locations was actually in that borough. The Fordham neighborhood in which Calogero lives was actually filmed in Astoria, Queens; the black neighborhood said to be on and around Webster Avenue was actually filmed at East 15th Street and Gravesend Neck Road in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn; finally, the scene set on the Bronx’s City Island was actually filmed in that location.

Academy Award winning actor Robert De Niro attended a performance of A Bronx Tale in New York City and offered to buy the film rights to the show. Palminteri agreed to sell the film rights on the condition that he will be casted as the role of Sonny. The film version of A Bronx Tale premiered in 1993. The film version marked the directorial debut of De Niro and helped catapult Palminteri’s film acting career.

The cozy word tale could hardly be applied to even a small segment of The Sopranos, David Chase’s epic television serial about the strange fusion of bourgeois domesticity, operatic feeling and gruesome violence that constitutes mob life today. But Palminteri’s warmhearted memoir is infused with tasty doses of broad comedy.

A Bronx Tale may not possess the emotional breadth or sophistication of The Sopranos. But, appealingly, it lacks that show’s brutality too which shows the trails of a bit revolted by the clinical realism of the bloodletting as in The Sopranos, thus making others to feel soiled for taking a sympathetic interest in the personal foibles of the men perpetrating it. Palminteri may present his childhood hero through the worshipful eyes of youth, but even the nicest mobsters can benefit from a little fairy-tale airbrushing here and there. The tale never had the motive to instigate the evil minds rather it is the true depiction of the era where the innocent often becomes the victim of mobsters and mafia world, which is always ready to grab all.

A Bronx Tale
A Bronx Tale is a name of a film, which is based on a play and it was released in the year of 1993. The story of the film is set in the New York City, during the era of 60s, which was considered to be an era of great change in the whole wide world. The film was directed by a legendary actor named Robert De Niro, for the first time. The story of the film was adapted from the play with same name, written by Palminteri, which has a close relation with his own past.

The story of the film starts with the introduction of a young man, who has two different dimensions in his personality and life, due to the inclusion of two other men with fatherly concerns. De Niro had played the role of the father named Lorenzo Anello’s, and the role of the role of a leading young man was played by Francis Capra with the name of Calogero, while the character of equally important other man named Sonny was played by Chazz Palminteri. The movie revolves around the plot of a witness of a murder scene by a local Mafia boss [Sonny]. It is by chance being watched by Lorenzo Anello’s and son Calogero. The twist of the story starts, when Calogero decides to not speak anything of the incident to the police investigations. The act has really won the heart of mafia Chief Sonny, and he starts to like the young boy very much, like a son. Despite the offence of his father, Calogero keeps on visiting Sonny and his posse almost every day in the bar downstairs. His father [De Niro] is a hard-working bus driver, who has to struggle hard to have a decent living.

The relationship between Calogero and Sonny has been carried on for eight long years later. Calogero has grown into a young man; Lillo Brancato Jr. had played the older version of the character in the film. The real dilemma of the story starts as the Calogero has to decide on which path to follow, as both his mentors are leading an entirely different kind of life. The film also depicts his relation with a black girl named Jane Williams (Taral Hicks). It is even hard for him to deal with the situation as being a friend of a mafia man, who is a thorough racist, and quite coincidentally has attacked the girl’s brother and his friends.

Maria is a professional writer for A-Bronx-Tale.com. Music and Art is her passion and she enjoys writing on various Arts events including concerts and theaters. She can be reached at maria@a-bronx-tale.com.

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