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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 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 ...
- David Fear
- Why Goodfellas Is Such A Celebrated Movie
- How Goodfellas Is Different from The Godfather Trilogy
- How Goodfellas Changed The Mob Movie Genre
From its opening scene onwards, Goodfellas is a self-aware mafia movie. Although based on the real life of Henry Hill, Goodfellas uses Ray Liotta’s quippy, quick-moving narration to underline an important fact: that the movie is told from the point of view of a self-aware gangster. It adopts his blustering bravado to show what makes the antihero's ...
The Godfather trilogy, like fellow New Hollywood hit Bonnie & Clyde, was a necessary corrective after decades of Hollywood movies moralizing to their audiences. After the introduction of the Hays Code, Hollywood productions were forced to abide by comically didactic rules that made it difficult for directors to depict morally compromised antiheroes...
Goodfellas arrived in theatres at a time when the mob movie was in transition. In the early '90s, with the help of Scorsese’s hit, the sub-genre moved from glamorizing gangsters with melodramatic outings like Once Upon A Time In America and The Untouchables to depicting their harsher, bloodier side in the likes of Carlito’s Way, The King of New Yor...
- Senior Staff Writer
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
Apr 22, 2015 · Goodfellas had such an impact partly because it depicted the ruthlessness of mobster life quite differently from the mafia movies that preceded it. Jerry Capeci, ...
Sep 8, 2020 · GoodFellas is a movie defined by an extraordinary, almost anthropological attention to experiential and procedural detail, a stylistic virtuosity that ranges across freeze-frames, majestic ...
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Dec 21, 2022 · So with such a lauded career, Spielberg's words carry weight when praising another filmmaker's work. In an essay Spielberg penned for Variety, he details his love for Martin Scorses's 1990 gangster film Goodfellas, calling it an "epic cinematic masterpiece." He praises the cast, the script, Scorsese, and even the depiction of food, pointing to ...
