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Good. Fellas (1. 99. The Film Spectrum.

Director: Martin Scorsese. Producer: Irwin Winkler (Warner Bros.)Writers: Nicholas Pileggi (book), Pileggi and Scorsese (screenplay)Photography: Michael Ballhaus. Music: Tony Bennett, The Crystals, The Harptones, Cream, The Rolling Stones, George Harrison, Harry Nilsson, Derek & The Dominoes. Cast: Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci, Robert De.

Wise Guys & Movie Stars. The duo of Joe Pesci and Robert DeNiro had seen big success before as the Brothers LaMotta in Scorsese’s Raging Bull (1980), which won. The dog days of summer are here, so shouldn’t astronauts hurtling through space get to enjoy some Earthly delights? Today, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch some.

Niro, Lorraine Bracco, Paul Sorvino, Frank Sivero, Tony Darrow, Mike Starr, Frank Vincent, Chuck Low, Frank Di. Leo, Henny Youngman, Gina Mastrogiacomo, Catherine Scorsese, Michael Imperioli. Introduction. The gangster picture has undergone quite the transformation in its storied place in American cinema. It was pioneered in the 1.

Edwin S. Porter’s The Great Train Robbery (1. D. W. Griffith’s The Musketeers of Pig Alley (1. It exploded in the ’3. Edward G. Robinson, James Cagney, Paul Muni and Humphrey Bogart played rags- to- riches anti- heroes in Little Caesar (1. The Public Enemy (1.

Scarface: The Shame of a Nation (1. High Sierra (1. 94. Over the next few decades, the genre turned more violent and sexy with Raoul Walsh’s White Heat (1. Joseph Lewis’ Gun Crazy (1. Arthur Penn’s Bonnie and Clyde (1. By the ’7. 0s, Francis Ford Coppola elevated it to the high- class opera of family dynasty in The Godfather (1. The Godfather Part II (1.

And by the ’8. 0s, Brian De Palma made it both deliciously over- the- top in Scarface (1. The Untouchables (1. By 1. 99. 0, you may have thought the genre had been done to death, left lying in the gutter, riddled with bullet holes. But there emerged a film that, for the first time, let us in on the “inside baseball” of the mob, replacing operatic styles with a focus on gritty realism. Martin Scorsese’s Goodfellas was a game changer, less a “gangster picture” and more a “how to be a gangster” picture.

Rather than merely show the gangster life, the film narrates the details directly to the viewer, an approach adopted by countless subsequent films, from Scorsese’s own Casino (1. Johnny Depp’s Blow (2.

The Sopranos (1. 99. Plot Summary. As the film’s tagline says, Good. Fellas chronicles “three decades of life in the mafia” from 1. The plot follows the true story of Henry Hill (Ray Liotta), a real- life Irish- Italian American whose life progresses from the impressionable son of a New York postal carrier, to a full- fledged gangster lounging at the Copacabana and orchestrating one of history’s biggest airline heists (The Lufthansa Heist at JFK Airport). Along the way, he meets quiet mob boss Paulie Cicero (Paul Sorvino), the increasingly paranoid Jimmy “The Gent’ Conway (Robert De. Niro) and the hot- headed, trigger- happy sidekick Tommy De. Vito (Joe Pesci).

He also marries a half- Jewish wife Karen (Lorraine Bracco), who is seduced by the danger and glamor of the profitable gangster lifestyle. Bigg Boss Season 8 Day 17 on this page. Surely the good times can’t last, and Henry’s reckless lifestyle turns him into a womanizer and cocaine addict. It all comes crashing down in a series of mob hits where longtime friends can no longer trust each other, leading Henry and Karen to escape the life as FBI informants in the government’s witness protection program.

Wise Guys & Movie Stars. The duo of Joe Pesci and Robert De. Niro had seen big success before as the Brothers La. Motta in Scorsese’s Raging Bull (1. De. Niro the Best Actor Oscar and provided Pesci his breakthrough role. The two re- united in Sergio Leone’s Once Upon a Time in America (1. Pesci began the recurring role of Leo Getz in Lethal Weapon 2 (1.

Mel Gibson and Danny Glover. Good. Fellas provided Pesci the role of a lifetime as the wild- eyed Tommy, spitting fire with profanity every third word, blowing away old friends and young teens just because they insulted him and ascending to “Made Man” status. Pesci is both horrifying in his brutality (“I didn’t want to get blood on your floor”), intimidating in his edgy bluffs (“Funny how, like I’m a clown? Like I amuse you?”) and hilarious in his camaraderie (“Hey look, a wing!”). The role earned him the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor, the same year he played Harry to Daniel Stern’s Marv as the Wet Bandits in Home Alone (1. Home Alone 2 co- star was there to present him the Oscar.

Pesci had conquered both ends of The Film Spectrum, winning the art prize for Good. Fellas and the popcorn box office of Home Alone, and he was suddenly in demand for My Cousin Vinny (1. Lethal Weapon sequels.

As for De. Niro,  his role as Jimmy Conway was the complete opposite of Pesci. It was understated, yet capable of anything. Despite appearing in a supporting role, De. Niro received top billing on the movie posters, having already earned four Oscar nominations for such classics as Mean Streets (1. Taxi Driver (1. 97. The Deer Hunter (1. The Godfather Part II (1.

Raging Bull (1. 98. Somehow, he did not earn one for Good.

Fellas, instead getting a nod for Awakenings (1. Robert Mitchum’s Max Cady in Scorsese’s Cape Fear (1. In hindsight, De. Niro should have earned a nomination for Good. Fellas, even if he was sure to lose to Pesci’s show- stealing performance. His performance contains multiple moments of sheer acting brilliance, whether it’s eying down a future victim while puffing a cigarette in slow- motion, or breaking down in a phone booth, smashing the phone receiver upon hearing bad news (as Ron Burgundy would say, in a “glass case of emotion”).

In an odd way, De. Niro’s phone- booth reaction gives new meaning to his Raging Bull phone booth scene, where he tries calling Pesci but can’t bring himself to say a word. The rest of the deep mob cast is extremely likable despite their criminal acts.

Paul Sorvino plays Paulie with a quiet aura (“Paulie didn’t have to move for anybody”); Frank Vincent returns from Raging Bull as the ill- fated Billy Batts (“Now go get your f*ckin’ shinebox”); Samuel L. Jackson appears in a small part as the irresponsible Stacks, who picks the wrong day to oversleep; Scorsese’s own mother, who also appeared in The Godfather Part III that year.

Michael Imperioli and Lorraine Bracco give performances that got them cast as Christopher and Dr. Melfi, respectively, in HBO’s groundbreaking series The Sopranos (1. WGA as the Best Written TV Show of All Time (see Pop Culture below for more on the Good. Fellas- Sopranos connection). Little Ditty, About Henry & Karen. While The Sopranos gave Bracco the chance to work across James Gandolfini during countless therapy sessions, her chemistry was never better than with Liotta in Good. Fellas. Just watch the way she calls him out for standing her up on a date, flashing flirtatious eyes at one another.

The role earned Bracco an Oscar nomination, losing to Whoopi Goldberg for Ghost (1. While Diane Keaton’s Kay was constantly shut out of the action in The Godfather  (1. Bracco’s Karen is smack dab in the middle of it.

When she is handed a bloody gun by Henry after pistol- whipping a neighbor, she enters into her own voiceover narration, the only other character to do so. Still, beyond all the great aforementioned performances, the film belongs to Ray Liotta. Just a year after disappearing into an Iowa cornfield as the ghostly Shoeless Joe Jackson in Field of Dreams (1. Good. Fellas. It’s hard to imagine anyone else in the role, save for maybe Johnny Depp, who borrowed heavily from Liotta’s Henry Hill for his portrayal of George Jung in Blow (2. Liotta as Depp’s father. Liotta is as exciting an actor as it gets: good- looking, dangerous, enthusiastic with an infectious charm and sinister laugh.

Book to Script. Of course, all these great actors would be nothing without great words to read. In 1. 98. 6, author Nicholas Pileggi, who had been captivated by the gangster lifestyle during his time as a journalist, enlisted the help of real- life gangster Henry Hill to write the mob book Wiseguy. So much of that book was just [Hill] telling the story,” said Pileggi, who teamd with Scorsese to adapt the book into the script for Good. Fellas. Fittingly, Pileggi later married screenwriter Nora Ephron, whose When Harry Met Sally (1.