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- Joshua Rothkopf
- Funny how? Like I’m a clown? I amuse you? Goodfellas is, of course, a mob movie—a rise-and-fall picture, a satire of the American dream, a love story, you name it.
- Goodfellas opened the door to chatty criminals. Developed by an improvising cast of actors (more like old friends) and retroactively shaped by co-screenwriters Nicholas Pileggi and Scorsese, the movie places an unusual emphasis on verbiage: beautiful arias of profanity, neurotic scheming, paranoid delusions.
- The golden age of TV starts right here. Mad Men, Breaking Bad, The Wire, The Shield—all of our ambitious TV sagas, criminal or otherwise, owe a debt of creativity to HBO’s landmark The Sopranos, a show that simply wouldn’t have happened without Scorsese’s 1990 masterpiece.
- Goodfellas saved Martin Scorsese from himself. Scorsese had his classics beforehand (“You talkin’ to me?”) , but by the end of the ’80s, he was flailing between misunderstood passion projects (The Last Temptation of Christ) and studio fare that was beneath him (The Color of Money).
Sep 18, 2020 · “So many times voiceover is used to patch a crack in the script and it doesn’t work,” Pileggi said in the 2004 documentary, Goodfellas: The Making of a Classic. “Scorsese loved the idea of ...
Sep 21, 2020 · Hanna Flint delves into the creation of a piece of cinema history. Thirty years ago, Martin Scorsese’s Goodfellas was released and set a new benchmark for innovative storytelling and filmmaking ...
- Hanna Flint
Sep 16, 2020 · That speaks to not just the influence of it, but also to that the way it was made is still a pertinent and viable way to make gangster pictures,” says Glenn Kenny, the author of Made Men: The Story of Goodfellas, which was released earlier this week. “It’s just a watchable movie. The filmmaking has such a dynamic texture and feel to it ...
- Evan Bleier
- The script. The film is an adaptation of Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi and a large part of the authenticity on Goodfellas comes from the fact that Scorsese had the nous to hire Pileggi as a co-writer of the screenplay.
- The narration technique. It’s a technique that’s frequently used in ‘modern’ films but it should never be overlooked just how innovative and groundbreaking this approach was at the time.
- The narrative structure. Goodfellas is unique because it almost starts in the middle of its narrative before jumping back to its beginning and end sporadically.
- The cinematography. Did you know that the famous Copacabana nightclub tracking-shot was actually the product of improvisation rather than planning? The filmmakers didn’t get permission to film at the front entrance of the building so they were forced to go around the back.
Sep 21, 2020 · Warner Bros. Henry Hill didn’t know from Robert Warshow. He’s a Brooklyn kid, barely a teenager, when he sees those guys hanging out in the cab stand across the street. He probably wasn’t ...
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Apr 22, 2015 · Martin Scorsese’s thriller was released 25 years ago. For many, it remains the greatest depiction of mobster life on screen, writes Tom Brook. Superlatives abound when people discuss Martin ...
