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Did anyone catch Marlo put the check down on Chris in Munk. how do you think this little road block will effect Marlo in his crew
O'yeah what do think of Marlo finally gettin a cool line
"My name is my name"
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May 11, 2008 4:23 PM
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violence when needed
the key phrase
never so obvious and hot that it drew the HEAT, and done with lawyers and courthouse personnel in pocket, more proactive with Levy than reactive after one gets in trouble, the very thing Marlo found hard to get through the thick skull
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all modeled after Lucky Luciano, and his Murder Inc
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May 10, 2008 1:28 AM
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Also, it's not as if Prop Joe hasn't dropped bodies. You don't hold half the city for any appreciable length of time without using violence when needed. He definiteley preferred using non-violent means to achieve his desired outcome though.
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May 9, 2008 5:24 PM
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but from 1970 to 2008, they pretty much were, enough for Joe's purposes anyways, he seen a plenty come and go, probably watched Avons daddy and granddaddy
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> Did anyone catch Marlo put the check down on Chris in
> Munk. how do you think this little road block will
> effect Marlo in his crew
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> O'yeah what do think of Marlo finally gettin a cool
> line
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> "My name is my name"
? I could never stand marlo he was always riding off snoop and chris and i think he's really a punk..
? They had to give him something since his character lasted so long. How ever his skills are limited to one liners and looks, anything beyond that his done.
? If that was supposed to be a demonstration of Marlo's "rage", it was disappointing. He had a bitch fit in lock-up. It was a temper tantrum. I felt embarrassed for him.
Chris's beatdown of Michael's stepfather was real rage. That was straight-up the most brutal depiction of one man's raw anger.
I think Marlo was a real and true representation of the "new breed" of gangsters. Jamie Hector did a superb job of playing the character; it was restrained, understated, and pensive. When you as an actor can verbalize pages of script with just a look, that's talent! From the very first time he appeared as Marlo, I was afraid of him, I kept saying "Dam he look like a lizard!" He was COLD, ruthless, and such a savage. He wasn?t a punk and he most definitely put the murder game down, to seize and maintain control. Have you ever seen an old school cat walk by an imminent murder scene and say ?Do it or don?t do it, but I got somewhere to be? Like he ordering ice cream from the ice cream man?! This is the way of the ?youngin?s?. I believe if he had played the character any other way it would have been laughable. That's why the "My name is my name" quote got people up in arms...but as quickly as he dressed down Chris, and Monk he got right back to being Devil spawn Marlo.
? like it or not,marlo is the man, he represents the criminal today. marlo is very smart,ruthless,ambitious. man Barksdale weak today.
? Lake.
He got a quick 100k while having Joe killed at the same time. Avon is sitting on millions. And running Jessup to a gangster is better than being shot in the back of the head in your own house before running out of town from a one man stick up kid... And anyone getting locked up ( Chris and Monk ) now answer to Avon just like Sergi. Avon will be eventually released from jail paid. Unlike Joe.
? ?Avon was a more powerful, thorough gangster. Who is not dead and still paid running Jessup. And played a major part on having old Joe killed.
? Avon isn't going to do 24 more years. Parole right after his seven. Guaranteed with Levy as his lawyer. You say Joe was champ for decades? Where in the show does it say that? That's speculation. No where does it say he ran E. Bmore for decades. I get you like Joe ( a lot ) me too. He just can't fukc with Avon as far as being the top gangster on the Wire. As said before Avon's Achilles heel was Stringer. His fault no doubt but, take Stringer out of the situation and Avon kills Marlo and is running all of Bmore.
? did say we have to assume Joe didnt just start and that he been hustling the whole time low key since the late 60's early 70's, a major assumption i know, but its what i get from the show, and reminds me of the many real players I know with houses, businesses and kids in college in PG that Rayful Edmond wishes he could trade his 5 minutes of fame for their lives. WE tried to tell that late 80's crew to stop flashin so much, and lay low, and enjoy the fruits of your labor rather than just working for your lawyer, but they laughed at us old heads?.
I think that Prop Joe was the biggest "drug dealer" in the series, the Greek ran the biggest "criminal enterprise", and Avon was the biggest "gangster". That said, Avon could have never got to where he did without Stringer Bell. Bell was the big picture visionary and entrepreneur, without his influence I don't think Avon would have remained King of the Westside. Barksdale was kinda? ?new/old school?, he definitely wasn?t a punk, he did put in work and rose to become ?King?. One of his biggest mistakes was not LISTENING to Stringer sooner! That was a big part of why he fell.
Prop Joe did in fact hold down the Eastside for quite sometime (with his beginnings as chronicled in the prequels), and he was a wholesaler, he sold weight. He was in love with making money, and that?s why his approach may have seemed like he was a ?punk? but in reality Prop Joe was a monster manipulator, shrewd, and incidious. He liked to keep the peace only so that BUSINESS could prosper without detection from law enforcement. No trouble, no bodies, no police means Mo? money. Keep ya? head...do it low and slow and everybody gets to stack dough. Great philosophy, but it?s not so simple when you try to apply it to a grimy ass, violent, unstable game. I think the quote: ?Your man need to reconcile himself to this here way of thinking.? Sums up Prop Joe perfectly. In his efforts to keep things moving along nice and quiet like, he forgot that not everyone will ??reconcile himself to this here way of thinking? that rogues, thugs, and thieves tend to not be so gentlemanly.
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If that was supposed to be a demonstration of Marlo's "rage", it was disappointing. He had a bitch fit in lock-up. It was a temper tantrum. I felt embarrassed for him.
Chris's beatdown of Michael's stepfather was real rage. That was straight-up the most brutal depiction of one man's raw anger.
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Because I am a female fan of the wire and female fans of anything get a bad rap and because I want people to respect my opinion I NEVER, NEVER, NEVER make comments like this but Marlo's tirade was sssssooo sexy. Sorry but I had to put it out there.
But for real, the "my name is my name" line was one of my favorites along with snoops "how my hair look" line and Clay Davis' "you aint nothing but a shake down artist".
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> WTF is running Jessup?? when you need marlo to get yo
> fam 100k
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> thats like owning the all you can eat dog food
> buffet
Man, this is easily the funniest shit I've ever seen.
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Mar 17, 2008 6:46 PM
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Marlo was wrong...
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Mar 11, 2008 9:38 PM
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The Wire: David Simon Q & A
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>" We know that Prop Joe is the biggest drug dealer in
> the city with the main connect."
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> Again, just because a movie is about Don and Michael
> Corleone, do not sleep on the money and influence
> wielded by Hyman Roth
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Mar 11, 2008 9:36 PM
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> Lol...as I said I like Joe and he has skills. Some
> of which no one else has equal to on the Wire. The
> way he went out though shows the difference between
> him and Avon. Both had more than enough money never
> to have their kids ( if they had any )work ever. He
> did stay in the game though. At the end he was
> getting out of town becuase he was shook of Omar, let
> Marlo to close for numerious reason ( all of which
> had to do with some kind of weakness). That's why he
> just isn't as good as Avon was. Your right you can't
> take Cheese out but, Joe should of.
remember he did this to save Cheese, he coulda easy handed Cheese over when Omar first came a lookin, but you right, he had no idea that the person who should have most benefitted from his teaching, would so much forever remain such a dumbass, but tall man paid attention, didnt even want no corners, but defaulted himself right into them
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Mar 9, 2008 12:28 PM
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GUYS I CANT STAND MARLO. HE IS JUST LIKE SOME OF THE B888CH I DEAL WITH IN LOCK UP. WHEN HE GOES HE WILL SNITCH THEM ALL OUT.
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Mar 7, 2008 11:19 PM
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Lol...as I said I like Joe and he has skills. Some of which no one else has equal to on the Wire. The way he went out though shows the difference between him and Avon. Both had more than enough money never to have their kids ( if they had any )work ever. He did stay in the game though. At the end he was getting out of town becuase he was shook of Omar, let Marlo to close for numerious reason ( all of which had to do with some kind of weakness). That's why he just isn't as good as Avon was. Your right you can't take Cheese out but, Joe should of.
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but I cant say take Cheese out of the picture?? and he was there by birth right
I did say we have to assume Joe didnt just start and that he been hustling the whole time low key since the late 60's early 70's, a major assumption i know, but its what i get from the show, and reminds me of the many real players I know with houses, businesses and kids in college in PG that Rayful Edmond wishes he could trade his 5 minutes of fame for their lives. WE tried to tell that late 80's crew to stop flashin so much, and lay low, and enjoy the fruits of your labor rather than just working for your lawyer, but they laughed at us old heads and i am here talking to you today not on a prison computer, talking bout they taking the game to a new level, yeah the Federal RICO level, stepped right into the new traps that Bush daddy had set for them
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Mar 7, 2008 10:36 PM
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Avon isn't going to do 24 more years. Parole right after his seven. Guaranteed with Levy as his lawyer. You say Joe was champ for decades? Where in the show does it say that? That's speculation. No where does it say he ran E. Bmore for decades. I get you like Joe ( a lot ) me too. He just can't fukc with Avon as far as being the top gangster on the Wire. As said before Avon's Achilles heel was Stringer. His fault no doubt but, take Stringer out of the situation and Avon kills Marlo and is running all of Bmore.
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