Carmine Falcone

So he must've been feeling right at home on the set.

He also did the voice of, uh, Falcone in, in, uh, Batman: Year One-

Oh, okay

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Yeah.

So basically Batman's biggest villains are actually his best friends And it's an interesting conundrum 'cause this Bruce actually at one point, um, he, him and Selena had robbed a gangster and they got caught and, um, he owed a debt to that gangster and his friends, you know, raised money to repay the gangster, but Bruce ended up going to work for Falcone as an enforcer with a baseball bat calling him the Batman.

Calling him the Batman.

Um-

So

the F word in the Batman The Long Halloween Part 2 is near the end of the movie when Two-Face confronts Carmine Falcone and the quote Two-Face tells Carmine to just pull the effing trigger.

Oh, yeah.

And now I can hear it in that wonderful Falcone voice.

I'm like, is he just, he got like really stoic.

You were stoic and I was like, oh my God, he totally disagrees with me about this.

He's intimidating like Carmine Falcone.

He's very

Yeah.

Yeah, this one's really great with the Carmine Falcone, you know, the bit that she's staying in his place.

And to your point about the rich having some form of buffer, they feel a little safer than everybody else scurrying around.

I do see how the Carmine is has some reasons to help certain people and to be able to provide resources for that purpose.

We're sitting up top.

And there are minions who are going in his mind who can kind of control the things that are going on.

This is a strategic Carmine Falcone, which is what he's used to being.

And seeing him interact with this event makes this book feel different.

You know, Bruce Wayne puts on the suit and goes to war with deep, systemic municipal corruption.

He is fighting the mob, specifically the empire of Carmine Falcone and the fundamentally rotten Gotham City Police Department.

Right, because Carmine Falcone represents the entrenched power structure of the American city.

I mean, the politicians, the police commissioner, the judges, they are all on his payroll.

He owns them.

But even at that point, we're really only...

We, we have Carmine Falcone, the criminal, and we can believe him or we can believe Alfred, the good guy.

But the truth is we'll never know.

Uh, all very well said.

But, uh, I, I certainly think he's thinking about that toward the end.

Um, one last thing on Selina Kyle.

The, r- you know, we talked about when Batman says, "Cross that line, you'll become just like him." And, uh, the other one that I wanted to highlight was when he was preventing her from shooting Carmine Falcone and said, uh, y- you know, she says, "He has to pay." And he says, "You don't have to pay with him." And I thought that was an interesting statement on the true personal cost of building one's life around seeking vengeance.

That, that's, that's a real thing, and I think it's a, a, it's a thing that, um, on some level I have wrestled with at various parts.