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Martin Scorsese 's 1990 masterpiece GoodFellas immortalizes the hilarious, horrifying life of actual gangster Henry Hill (Ray Liotta ), from his teen years on the streets of New York to his anonymous exile under the Witness Protection Program. The director's kinetic style is perfect for recounting Hill's ruthless rise to power in the 1950s as well as his drugged-out fall in the late 1970s; in fact, no one has ever rendered the mental dislocation of cocaine better than Scorsese. Scorsese uses period music perfectly, not just to summon a particular time but to set a precise mood. GoodFellas is at least as good as The Godfather without being in the least derivative of it. Joe Pesci 's psycho improvisation of Mobster Tommy DeVito ignited Pesci as a star, Lorraine Bracco scores the performance of her life as Hill's love interest, and every supporting role, from Paul Sorvino to Robert De Niro , is a miracle (www.amazon.com....51-6304914)
When Martin Scorsese , one of the world's most skillful and respected directors, reunited with two-time Oscar-winner Robert De Niro in GoodFellas , the result was one of the most powerful films of the year. Based on the true-life best seller Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi and backed by a dynamic pop/rock oldies soundtrack, critics and filmgoers alike declared GoodFellas great. It was named 1990's best film by the New York , Los Angeles and National Society of Film Critics. And it earned six Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture and Best Director. Robert De Niro received wide recognition for his performance as veteran criminal Jimmy "The Gent" Conway. And as the volatile Tommy DeVito, Joe Pesci walked off with the Best Supporting Actor Oscar. Academy Award nominee Lorraine Bracco , Ray Liotta and Paul Sorvino also turned in electrifying performances. You have to see it to believe it then watch it again. GoodFellas explores the criminal life like no other movie. (www.amazon.com....51-6304914)
"Goodfellas " is an entertaining look inside inside an iconic American subculture. The Italian/Sicilian mafia is a fringe culture which, for some reason, never ceases to fascinate the mainstream no matter how ugly or petty it gets. I admit to not understanding or sharing this fascination. Wiseguys are never smart or complicated men. They are simple, laughably predictable people who exist in a very straightforward environment of their own making. The most challenging aspect of making a gangster film based on a true story may be making the characters interesting. Martin Scorsese accomplishes this by using the camera to immerse the audience into the world of these wiseguys. They are interesting within their own circles, so they become interesting to us. "Goodfellas " displays some of Scorsese's most masterful and seductive work. It contains some great performances, and it gives us a window into the culture of organized crime. Gangster movies must have the highest rate of being true stories of any film genr (www.amazon.com....51-6304914)
"Goodfellas " is based on "Wiseguy", Nicholas Pileggi's biographical novel about the life of mobster-turned-state's witness Henry Hill, who lived nearly 30 years as a small-time New York wiseguy before being arrested and entering the witness protection program in 1980. Martin Scorsese directed the film with a mind not to glamorize the gangster life, but to accurately portray the world of minor mafioso, a world driven not by violence -the violence is incidental, but by money. Scorsese succeeds in getting the audience inside of this world. Robert DeNiro gives one of the best performances of his career as Jimmy, who starts out level-headed but is eventually unhinged by greed and paranoia. Joe Pesci is fantastic at conveying Tommy DeVito's unfortunate combination of easily bruised ego and itchy trigger finger. Lorraine Bracco is a convincing mafia wife, but her performance is at its most interesting when she first discovers how truly bizarre the domestic lives of mob wives are. Paul Sorvino gives a nice supporting performance as the patriarch of this extended famil (www.amazon.com....51-6304914)
Goodfellas is on of my favorite movies of all time and remains the benchmark by which I compare all other movies. Some movies, very few, are technically better. Some may hold a plot better but none combine the two aspects as effectively. Every character is meticulously developed and the camera work belongs only to Mr. Scorcese. Women may not love this movie as much as men however, Ms. Bracco has given us a strong and important female lead. If you love movies and haven't seen this movie. see it. This is a great movie, telling of Henry Hill's 30 years in organized crime. I get teared-up thinking about how amazing some of the scenes in this film are: Joe Pesci asks if Ray Liotta thinks he's funny, Ray drives around in a drug haze, Ray and his girlfriend walk through the kitchen at a nightclub, Ray pistol whips his girlfriend's date who was all hands, Ray shows off his new TV, Ray's wife tries to break down the door of his girlfriend's house, Robert DeNiro receives upsetting news on a payphon (www.amazon.com....51-6304914)
Of all of the "mob" movies that have graced the silver screen over the years, "Goodfellas " most certainly stands a head taller than the majority of them and it can be said that this film is one of the "definitive" mobster movies. Few movies, if any, can compare to the compelling "based on a true story" nature of this film and the graphic realism that is so brilliantly portrayed by Scorsese's direction and the exceptional cast member (www.amazon.com....51-6304914)
"Goodfellas " is a powerful film based on the true life best seller "Wiseguy" by Nicholas Pileggi. More specifically, it's based on the true story of Henry Hill (Ray Liota), who along with his pals Jimmy "The Gent" Conway (Robert DeNiro ) and Tommy DeVito (Joe Pesci ) who received a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for this film. Needless to say, the performances by these actors, Lorraine Bracco and Paul Sorvino are nothing short of super (www.amazon.com....51-6304914)
Narrated by Henry Hill and his wife Karen Hill, "Goodfellas " tells the tale of how he grew up admiring the local mobsters, gained their friendship and then came to be employed by them. After all, how could anybody resist a life in which if you're part of the "organization," there is nothing that you cannot have and you have the fearful respect of everybody around you, as long as you're continuing to make money and not stepping on any of the important people's toes. (www.amazon.com....51-6304914)
From the opening frame to the final credits, "Goodfellas " is a gripping, suspenseful and enlightening gangster movie that bears multiple viewings quite easily. I highly recommend this film to any and all fans of gangster movies. Fair warning though, this movie "is not" for the faint of heart or the squeamish, for it is fairly graphic at times, which serves to enhance the nature of this film but is not too good on the eyes. {ssintrepid (www.amazon.com....51-6304914)
Of all of the "mob" movies that have graced the silver screen over the years, "Goodfellas " most certainly stands a head taller than the majority of them and it can be said that this film is one of the "definitive" mobster movies. Few movies, if any, can compare to the compelling "based on a true story" nature of this film and the graphic realism that is so brilliantly portrayed by Scorsese's direction and the exceptional cast members. (www.amazon.com....51-6304914)
"Goodfellas " is a powerful film based on the true life best seller "Wiseguy" by Nicholas Pileggi. More specifically, it's based on the true story of Henry Hill (Ray Liota), who along with his pals Jimmy "The Gent" Conway (Robert DeNiro ) and Tommy DeVito (Joe Pesci ) who received a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for this film. Needless to say, the performances by these actors, Lorraine Bracco and Paul Sorvino are nothing short of superb. (www.amazon.com....51-6304914)
Narrated by Henry Hill and his wife Karen Hill, "Goodfellas " tells the tale of how he grew up admiring the local mobsters, gained their friendship and then came to be employed by them. After all, how could anybody resist a life in which if you're part of the "organization," there is nothing that you cannot have and you have the fearful respect of everybody around you, as long as you're continuing to make money and not stepping on any of the important people's toes (www.amazon.com....51-6304914)
From the opening frame to the final credits, "Goodfellas " is a gripping, suspenseful and enlightening gangster movie that bears multiple viewings quite easily. I highly recommend this film to any and all fans of gangster movies. Fair warning though, this movie "is not" for the faint of heart or the squeamish, for it is fairly graphic at times, which serves to enhance the nature of this film but is not too good on the eyes. {ssintrepid} (www.amazon.com....51-6304914)
Disc 1 of the two-disc Goodfellas Special Edition DVD set contains the feature film plus both commentary tracks, all on one side of the disc. I make a point of this because there was an earlier DVD version of Goodfellas where you had to flip the disc to see the whole movie (homevideo.about.com....VDSa_2.htm)
Disc 2 of the two-disc Goodfellas Special Edition DVD contains bonus materials with a combined running time under an hour. My favorite was the 4-minute-25-second featurette Paper Is Cheaper Than Film, which compares Scorsese's thumbnail sketches of scenes with the corresponding actual footage used in the film. I also liked the eight-minute featurette The Workaday Gangster, which is commentary on the lifestyle of the low-level mobster for example, Henry Hill admits that he was scared every day of his life. The disc also contains what I thought was a rather ordinary 29-minute making-of documentary consisting of clips interspersed with interviews similar to those heard on The Cast and Crew Commentary. Another featurette on the disc is the 13-minute The Goodfellas Legacy, where filmmakers Jon Favreau , Albert and Allen Hughes , Joe Carnahan , Richard Linklater , Antoine Fuqua , and Frank Darabont tell what Goodfellas has meant to them (homevideo.about.com....VDSa_2.htm)
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