Is Peaky blinders a poor version of GodfatherII?

[netzerkaiser]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMVAqU8fmio

[Dickson_Pizdah]

Rather a strange question.

They are different productions, and there is room enough in life for both. If you mean, is the clip you provided a 'better killing' than the ones in Peaky Blinders I would probably answer no, but that is a matter of taste - if we can talk about 'taste' in comparing filmed representations of wet jobs.

In broader terms, G2 is only a very well executed (!) Mafia movie, while PB is that and also a sustained account of the development (some might say, arrested development) of its central character, which also delivers a fascinating examination of social and political events in Britain in the years after WWI.

So my answer in brief would be: no? why?

[netzerkaiser]

Rather a strange question.

They are different productions, and there is room enough in life for both. If you mean, is the clip you provided a 'better killing' than the ones in Peaky Blinders I would probably answer no, but that is a matter of taste - if we can talk about 'taste' in comparing filmed representations of wet jobs.

In broader terms, G2 is only a very well executed (!) Mafia movie, while PB is that and also a sustained account of the development (some might say, arrested development) of its central character, which also delivers a fascinating examination of social and political events in Britain in the years after WWI.

So my answer in brief would be: no? why?

Good points. Maybe it would have been better if I'd asked could the creation of Peaky Blinders have been subconsciously inspired by the 1920's scenes in Godfather II.

[Dickson_Pizdah]

better if I'd asked could the creation of Peaky Blinders have been subconsciously inspired by the 1920's scenes in Godfather II.

Ah, put that way, yes I am sure it must have been even consciously a point of reference.