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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).
  1. 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 ...

  2. 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 ...

  3. Apr 22, 2015 · For many, it remains the greatest depiction of mobster life on screen, writes Tom Brook. Superlatives abound when people discuss Martin Scorsese’s 1990 gangster film Goodfellas. “No finer film ...

  4. 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 ...

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  5. Jan 7, 2016 · Here are 10 reasons why Henry, Jimmy, Tommy and co will forever be immortalised in cinematic history. 1) The script. The film is an adaptation of Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi and a large part of ...

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  7. 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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