MOB RULE
Moral debasement by degrees. It’s a literary trope that plots the story arcs of characters from Macbeth to Walter White via Count Dracula, Dorian Gray, Anakin Skywalker, and even the ultimate fictional villain — Satan, as depicted in John Milton’s Paradise Lost.
In the case of Michael Corleone, played in the trilogy by Al Pacino at the dogged behest of Francis Ford Coppola — who’d seen the young actor play
