
Nevertheless, the mafia syndicate acts as a background to the main narrative. In a few scenes depicted in The Long Halloween, Carmine even sports Brando’s famous rose on the coat and his symbolic scratching gesture. Carmine’s character is heavily inspired by Marlon Brando’s portrayal of Don Vito Corleone in Cappola’s The Godfather (1976).

Chris Palmer’s Batman The Long Halloween fabricates a parallel crime-stricken Gotham city petrified by comic-book Godfather Carmine Falcone, head of a Mafia family, The Roman.
