1. Goodfellas
Watching the Goodfellas movie kept me very well entertained, and interested in the movie. There was never a point where I was bored. Martin Scorses" Goodfellas gives the classic gangster movie vibe, along with a star cast and story line that keeps you watching. Drugs, a cast of great actors, and a true gangster story kept me watching.
Cocaine was the drug of choice for these fellas, as well as murder (which I consider a drug), and succeeding in the biggest money heist in their time kept them ticking. Cocaine made these guys money. Even when they were locked up in the joint they were still making money off of selling their product. The murders, well, that's a different story. If these guys don't like you, you better watch out. Sometimes I think they wanted to hurt or kill someone just for fun. They killed guys in their own mob! The money heist was great. It is the famed Lufthansa heist. These guys actually heisted a cargo container from Kennedy Airport filled with money. .
Ray Liotta, Robert De Niro, and Joe Pesci are just a few of the star cast in this movie. Joe Pesci won Best Supporting Actor at the Oscars for his role playing Tommy DeVito. These guys work so well together, and give the mob/gangster feel to the movie. They made this true story come back to life with their performances. I had o watch it again just to pull everything together, and really see if there were any flaws in their acting together. As far as I could see there were no conflicts, and you could tell they loved working together by the chemistry displayed on screen.
The shootem" up, steal their money and sell some drugs is a classic story for gangster movies. The fact that this was a true story makes it all the better. When I found out that this movie was based on a true story I couldn't believe it. Just everything that happened, and how things worked was unreal. Honestly I wouldn't want to be a gangster, there's too much that can go wrong.
Comparison between Characters, Settings and Resolutions in Little Caesar and Goodfellas All movies can be divided into genres. ... The characters used in Little Caesar and Goodfellas are typical of the gangster genre. ... Though in both Little Caesar and Goodfellas, women are used as an aid as well as an object. ... Goodfellas demonstrates the evolution of gangster hideouts that are used in the gangster genre. ... Resolutions for the gangster genre are used correspondingly in both Goodfellas and Little Caesar. ...
Explicit verses Implicit There is a surplus of ways one could analyze the hit gangsta flick Goodfellas. ... However it is implied that in the end, being a "goodfella- will eventually cause the gangster to endure a downward spiral. Thus by the hands of the judicial system, the "goodfellas- may be locked up or even worse meet a violent death. ... The scene cuts and then the viewer are shown Henry getting released with a crowd of "goodfellas- to praise him outside of the courtroom. ...
The two films I shall be focusing on are "Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels" (1998, Guy Ritchie) and "GoodFellas" (1990, Martin Scorsese). ... GoodFellas describes the life of one man as travels up a mafia hierarchy. ... In Lock, Stock it is the flogging of stolen goods, in GoodFellas; it is the hijacking of cigarette lorries. ... In GoodFellas, there is the scene where a man is beaten to death by two of the gang because of an argument. ... GoodFellas has strong connections with Mafia, although it never directly states that. ...
In order to do this we will focus on The Godfather (1972) and Goodfellas (1990). ... This is particularly evident in Goodfellas where many of the scenes take place in the Bamboo Lounge and the Copacabana Club. ... Again, this is apparent in Goodfellas when Henry appears at home one day dressed in a beige double-breasted suit, silk shirt and tie, and black lizard shoes. ... The directors of both Goodfellas and The Godfather have adopted the attitudes of the code (despite the fact in 1968 it was scrapped and the industry adopted the present day rating system), particularly in the portrayal of...
Outsider vs. Insider One of the more prevalent themes in Goodfellas is the idea of outsider vs. insider. The mafia was always considered to be a very tight group, and the gangsters" mob family was just as important as their own family. Occasionally, there were outsiders who tried to get in on t...
In this essay I will be considering how Martin Scorsese's, Goodfellas (1990) presents a naive attitude towards crime and its relation to violence through the main character, Henry Hill's view on the mafia. ... The ideological awareness of American gangsters is challenged in Goodfellas. ...
Two films which convey some of these stereotypes are Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather and Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas. ... Tommy DeVito, played by Joe Pesci in Goodfellas is a hot-headed character who has very little regard for anyone outside of his circle of friends. ... For example in Goodfellas, food preparation in prison is a big deal, as explained by Paulie, as he slices the garlic thin enough to melt on the pan. ... The Godfather stresses the family's roots to Sicilian customs much more than Scorsese portrays in Goodfellas. ... Scorsese's Goodfellas strays from t...