- If you wanna torture em', it would be a shot
to the shoulder, to the hands, to the knee,
and meticulously kill em' slowly.
(building music)
- I'm John Alite, known in my neighborhood
actually as Johnny A, like the best.
I was raised around a mafia, I grew up
around the Ruggiano family, murdering.
I started off as a kid running errands for George Gatti
and his brother that were Lucchessi soldiers,
but slowly I worked my way up as an enforcer
and a hitman for the Gotti regime.
I was around some really nice guys
but really famous mafia guys as a kid.
When these guys were being raised
and then when I was raised to be a very quiet society.
Over the years, some of that stuff changed.
Later on, I was around Lucky Ruggiano's cousin,
Charlie, that was my father and uncle's partner.
In nightclubs, card games, and I looked up to them
like people look up to movie stars or ball players.
I mean at about three, four years old,
I was already in a boxing ring.
When my dad was a fighter in the navy,
his friends were all boxers.
I think that's part of our neighborhood,
you know, because of the area we grew up with,
it was all gangsters, and everybody's into sports
and boxing, it's one of the top sports
everybody's into, so as a young kid
we got accustomed to being fighters, being tough,
used to blood, used to being hurt,
and it just elevated me into that life,
and so I didn't have any qualms
with watching somebody get hurt, somebody bleed,
or even I've seen people obviously at young ages
that were killed or baseball batted.
And by the time I'm 16, George Gatti asks me
can I collect some money for him, I go to baseball bat
somebody for him, as a young kid,
that was my first experience
really hurting somebody that way.
You know, as I kept moving forward,
I became more and more aggressive,
so as I was running through the neighborhood
and I started making, selling drugs, loaning money,
hijacking, I started doing everything there was to do
on the streets, a whole gander of crimes.
And you'll hear people say, oh he's fearless,
it was just a way of life, I don't think I was any different
than a lot of kids that grew up with me in my neighborhood.
We also got baseball batted, we also got stabbed,
we also got shot, and again, we took that in stride
of the way we grew up.
So as I was growing up, I was losing friends,
they were getting killed.
We'd compare it all the time, I guess street guys do,
to the being at war, you're expecting to lose friends,
and you're just gonna take it in stride.
And I think as I just kept getting older
and moving forward in my life,
I wanted to make money, I wanted to make more for myself,
I wanted to continue to have that name
as the enforcer, but also have that name
of being level-headed, and a reputation of being a gentleman
and a nice guy, and it's hard mix to do.
During some of those trials, tribulations,
I'm also going to prison.
You're going to prison for assaults, you're coming home.
You're going to prison for carrying guns,
you're coming home, and then you're going to prison
for more serious crimes.
Attempted murders, murders, drug dealing,
and at one point when I got hit with several recall charges,
I went on the run, and I think that's really,
that was the final straw of my life in the mob,
where I went on the run, and people,
and I really understood that the loyalty in this life
went from me believing truly in it,
and it was pill that I just finally learned
I need to swallow, that this life
isn't what I thought it was, and when I came home
I changed my life, and I became an advocator
for the youth, communities.
I'm able to give kids the insight or future
of what their lives will be like if they continue
on the path that I used to be on.
I've heard of these games, but I don't know
about Mafia itself, or the video game.
I think the video clip you're about to show me,
I think are gonna be over the top crazy, wild.
(hysterical crying)
- Don't kill me, please!
I got a wife!
Don't do it!
- You should've thought about your wife before.
- It reminds me of the old days, 50's or 60's kind of thing.
- Don Clemente sends his regards.
- I mean I would never say anything like that.
- Oh (beep).
- Sometimes guys sneak up on another guy
who thinks he's in control with a pistol.
That's kinda realistic, that could happen.
Nah, those are just ridiculous lines in the media
and TV shows.
Actually, the set up ain't bad itself,
except for the Tommy-gun, unless you're trying
to depict it back in the day, I mean otherwise,
it's kinda pretty realistic.
(weights clanking)
- Hey O'Neill, I got a little business to settle with you.
- Yeah, words that are used are kinda stupid.
- I'm not gonna be so gentle this time!
- The fighting skills are terrible.
If he's gonna come stab him in prison
it's not gonna be like that, he's gonna wait
until he's walking out the door,
or when he's got his back turned,
or he's gonna come in and sneak him,
that's prison, there's no rules there.
(choking noises)
- Shut the (beep) up.
(grunts)
- Completely ridiculous.
Everything about it's ridiculous.
So the only part that was realistic
I was gonna say is when he's doing the curls
with the dumbbells, after that, nothing's realistic.
(gun cocking)
(eerie music)
(gun shots)
- This is for Marty.
(gunshots)
(horn honking)
Now it's over.
Let's go to my place.
- Again, these are Tommy-gun things
back in the 50's it looks like, and when he jumps in the car
he goes let's go to my place, that's kinda realistic,
everything else besides that, the way they do it
and some of their language is kinda over the top.
But again, I know it's only a game.
- Henry's different these days, guy's gotta real--
- What the (beep) going on?
(faint yelling)
- (beep) That's Henry!
(heavy breathing)
- [Man] What the (beep) are they hitting him with?
- The language he used about what are they hitting him with
it's something somebody would say,
and they start running towards him,
it's too late, they already clipped him.
Actually that happens all the time,
so that really wasn't a bad scene either.
When guys are just talking, walking,
they're going to meet somebody,
and they walk upon their friend being beat to death
and then shot, so to me, it would look like a guy
that did something, obviously owed somebody something,
tried to hit somebody, they caught him short, what we call.
That's something also that would've happened back in my day.
Yeah, that was all nonsense.
The words were terrible, everything they said
was just completely killed the first scene,
but prior to that.
- What is it that you want?
(smack)
- What the (beep) do you think we want?
- We wanna know why you had our friend killed.
We also want the money you took from him.
- I had no choice.
Your friend was a government informer.
- What the (beep) are you talking about?
- You saying Henry was a rat?
- Yes.
- The conversation, it wouldn't be there,
the conversation would've went from one organization
to another that the guy's an informer,
and they would have a sit down prior to all that,
it wouldn't end up like that.
- So where's our money?
- It's not here anymore.
- What?
- Where the hell is it then?
- I cannot tell you.
If I told you, I'd be dead anyway.
- Fine, your choice.
- The point is to get the money,
he wouldn't be shooting him in the head
until you have the money.
First off, all the talking and pointing the guns,
they always gotta point the guns at everybody,
that part is silly.
I mean just the whole thing is way off
of what really would occur.
If really they wanted revenge,
there wouldn't be all that talking,
they would've grabbed him, they would've tied him up,
they would've beat him a little bit maybe,
and then kill him.
Either tortured him, killed him, but without the words,
without the language, if you wanna torture them,
it would be a shot to the shoulder,
to the hands, to the knee,
and meticulously kill them slowly.
It just wouldn't have happened that way.
(ominous music)
(car rumbling)
(brakes squealing)
- Mr. Angelo?
- Yes?
- Mr. Salieri sends his regards.
(gun cocks)
- Rolling up on him while he's doing something on a garden
and hitting him is pretty realistic.
When he turns around and he says yes,
I don't think you would say yes,
because he knows what's coming.
The scene itself when they roll up on the car,
and if they would've just got out
and then shot the (beep) out of them,
and then shot him in the head after he goes down,
then I'd say and go back in the car, that's realistic.
But, you know, sending regards and all that
is just being dramatic.
- You know something Carlo?
For the last 10 years, all I done was kill.
I killed for my country, (gunshot) I killed for my family,
(gunshot)
I killed anybody that got in my way.
(gunshot)
- Shooting him a couple of times like that,
all different places, to make him feel the pain
before he just kills him quickly is pretty true.
- You-- (gargling)
- (beep) Prick.
- If he's really mad at somebody like that,
I think he would say a couple of things,
not those words though.
Overall, needs a lot of work,
they better hire me, and they need somebody
that understands that stuff,
and is able to redesign that to make it more realistic
if that's what they're looking to do.
When you're watching these video games,
the first thing I always think about,
what I always talk about is being the street guy,
a gangster, is the adrenaline rush,
so these kids get the same idea of an adrenaline rush
through these games, but they don't see a realistic part
of the consequences of a game compared to life,
which is an issue.
So now I am in touch with several agencies,
several police departments, in different cities and states,
also with parent groups that contact me to deal
with some of the kids that they can't reach.
Somebody got in touch with me yesterday,
by listening to me and hearing me talk,
it opened his eyes to see that there's something else
he can do for himself besides staying on the street.
It changed his life.
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