How to Act Like a Supporting Character in a Mob Film

Everyone wants to be a gangster (if not a gangsta), so why not emulate one of those bizarrely memorable weirdos that populate mob films. Here are tips on how to do it.

Difficulty: Moderate

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Sharkskin suit
• Cigars
• Connections
• Disastrous grammar

1. Look the part. Slick that hair and get the threads befitting a man of your credentials. You'll need that style to blend in during those critical backroom card games.

2. Get a nickname. It can refer to some inexplicable verbal tic (see Jimmy Two-Times from "Goodfellas") or to a physical characteristic. Often nicknames are purposefully inappropriate, as in pretty much any mobster named "Big" or "Little" something. Sometimes these names do not make any sense.

3. Hang out and do mobster stuff, before inevitably getting whacked two-thirds of the way into the film because some job went terribly wrong.

Tips & Warnings

• Fun with mobster names: Bald Tommy, Jimmy Tightlips, Big Lou, Little Lou, Little Tim, Big Tim, Paulie Knuckles, Johnny Mustard.
• You may get arrested, and almost certainly shot.