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We get a good idea at how the mobsters saw themselves - basically, untouchable. GoodFellas looks at the how the mob affects one's personality and presentation. It had a fair bit of comradery, more so than Godfather (IIRC; haven't seen it in over a year). GoodFellas doesn't present the mob as a good thing. Despite their successes, it shows us a ...
- 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 2, 1990 · GoodFellas. Action. 148 minutes ‧ R ‧ 1990. Roger Ebert. September 2, 1990. 8 min read. For two days after I saw Martin Scorsese’s new film, “GoodFellas,” the mood of the characters lingered within me, refusing to leave. It was a mood of guilt and regret, of quick stupid decisions leading to wasted lifetimes, of loyalty turned into ...
Box office. $47.1 million [4] Goodfellas (stylized as GoodFellas) is a 1990 American biographical gangster film [5] directed by Martin Scorsese, written by Nicholas Pileggi and Scorsese, and produced by Irwin Winkler. It is a film adaptation of Pileggi's 1985 nonfiction book Wiseguy. Starring Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci, Lorraine ...
Apr 22, 2015 · Goodfellas is based on author and screenwriter Nicholas Pileggi’s 1986 bestseller Wiseguy. At the heart of the film is a striking performance from Ray Liotta who plays mobster Henry Hill.
Sep 21, 1990 · Goodfellas: Directed by Martin Scorsese. With Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci, Lorraine Bracco. The story of Henry Hill and his life in the mafia, covering his relationship with his wife Karen and his mob partners Jimmy Conway and Tommy DeVito.
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Nov 24, 2002 · The way kidding-around in a bar leads to a man being savagely beaten. The way the violence penetrates the daily lives of the characters is always insisted on. Tommy, Henry and Jimmy, with a body in their trunk, stop at Tommy’s mother’s house to get a knife, and she insists they sit down at 3 a.m. for a meal.
