Not much is understood of this opening, not the parts showing the school busses. You see in 1976 in Boston, it was determined that some of the public schools (where the black kids lived) no one was learning anything. You couldn't fire all the teachers, they had unions and seniority. And you couldn't expel all the students who were monsters, students who made life hell for the kids who really wanted to learn, they were guaranteed an education. So the solution crafted by liberals is take a large percentage of the black students out of the schools where they weren't learning anything and send them to the more well-off schools with white/Irish students. Needless to say, the whites/Irish of Boston (who were supposedly very liberal and accepting) went full on racist. They had riots at the schools as parents saw their own children sent to black schools. That is when we had the "Soiling of Old Glory" at Boston City Hall. Not much has changed.
"When you decide to be something, you can be it that's what they don't tell you in the church. When I was you're age they would say you can become cops or criminals. Today what I am saying is this : When you're facing a loaded gun, whats the difference" That is such a powerful line
The mafia = CIA wanted control in Washington D.C. and Kennedy wouldn't give it to them so they took it. May rest in Peace. What he is referring to is the assassination of JFK
The editors are altering the speed Gimme Shelter replays at and also adjusting its position on the beat ever so slightly. Badasses. Also it is modulated.
Martin Scorsese is one of the greatest american directors in history! Thank you Mr. Scorsese for Raging Bull, Taxi Driver, Mean Streets, Goodfellas, Casino, Gangs of New York and The Departed. Greetings from Poland!
No one gives it to you. You have to take it. How you take it is up to you. You can step on everyone's toes, or you can do it with respect. Success isn't simply measured in dollars. You can't take it with you when you die.
Great intro by Scorsese, I mean: Frank Costello voiceover(Jack Nicholson at his best), some Boston footage and Rolling stone's Gimme shelter in the background.
One of my favorite things about this movie is Martin Scorsese's choice of background music. During some of the most brutal parts of the movie (such as the scene in which Billy is screaming in pain as Frank hits his broken wrist with a boot repeatedly), there's usually some sort of classic rock playing. Somehow, the background music works perfectly with almost every scene. I won't say this is a perfect film, but it's pretty damn close. I don't understand why so many people think it's overrated.
I love people who think Costello, a ruthless gangster, means that black people should try harder in the job market or some shit when he says "you have to take it". He's criticizing the civil rights movement for being mostly civil and nonviolent. White people bitch about blacks rioting for what they want all the time, look no further than Ferguson. The opening of the film is an IRISH riot from the late sixties, because they did not want their schools desegregated. That's how Costello thinks social change should be done. So please think twice before you piss and moan about the "animals" in Ferguson and then wax poetic about how black people don't understand Frank Costello.
Zmister517 I agree with you......and the riots are happening and they are destroying their "towns" because BLACK PEOPLE DON'T OWN THAT SHIT. The black people in the neighborhoods live and work but don't own. So they say, fuck the owners,.....ya gotta do what ya gotta do to survive!
"I don't wanna be a product of my environment; I want my environment to be a product of me." Jack Nicholson rules so much. The movie was good, but extremely vulgar at times. Scorsese is easily one of the best directors ever.
I've seen a bit of Scorsese myself and I think this is hands down the best movie I've seen form him, way better than Goodfellas, and my favorite movie of all time.
Costello is an Irish name. It's about as Italian as corn beef and cabbage. Frank Costello used it as a name but it wasn't Italian. His real name was Francesco Castiglia. One of the first Irish prime ministers was John A. Costello. Several Irish names have become anglicised due to immigration. If you went to Ireland and looked in a phone book you probably wouldn't even able to pronounce most of them. Spillane is another Irish name a lot of people confuse as Italian. Knowledge is power!
Best opening scene ever.Exellent writing in this movie.Jack really surprised me,with his portrail of an Irish gangster,kinda reminded me of Wity Bulger.Jack shoulda won Acadmy award,bravo Jack Nicholson!Bravo!
i love the beginning it gives you sort of a goodfellas feeling like showing sullavain as a kid and how he gets started on crime just like what happenes with harry and make it look like crimnals are movie stars and jsut walk around taking money and shit it really pulls you in jack nicalson was perfect for that role
When you're facing a loaded gun, what's the difference?
Iconic.
Man has a point
Martins movies always have killer intros
He starts with character development early which is great cause you get a sense of them from the start.
Not much is understood of this opening, not the parts showing the school busses. You see in 1976 in Boston, it was determined that some of the public schools (where the black kids lived) no one was learning anything. You couldn't fire all the teachers, they had unions and seniority. And you couldn't expel all the students who were monsters, students who made life hell for the kids who really wanted to learn, they were guaranteed an education. So the solution crafted by liberals is take a large percentage of the black students out of the schools where they weren't learning anything and send them to the more well-off schools with white/Irish students. Needless to say, the whites/Irish of Boston (who were supposedly very liberal and accepting) went full on racist. They had riots at the schools as parents saw their own children sent to black schools. That is when we had the "Soiling of Old Glory" at Boston City Hall.
Not much has changed.
As far back as I can remember I always wanted to be a gangster.
that kid looks so much like Matt Damon, it's insane.
it's his twin brother who has websters disease actually. he's credited as "mini damon"
@@joefagot218 lmfao bruh
@@joefagot218 nah he was just an oops baby Matt’s parents had a bit later on. I guess they figured Matt made it I suppose we can afford another one.
This movie is fucking incredible.
Oh, yes!!
@@Angus73 yess
''no one gives it to ya, you have to take it'' one of my all time favorite lines.
This movie was loaded with stars and actually lived up the the hype. Jack is awesome.
"When you decide to be something, you can be it that's what they don't tell you in the church. When I was you're age they would say you can become cops or criminals. Today what I am saying is this : When you're facing a loaded gun, whats the difference"
That is such a powerful line
I am jacks departed opening.
I see what you did there. Tyler Durden huh
"no one gives it to you, you have to take it" - Life has taught me that. Applies to a lot of things
yes sir, i agree! best quote in the whole movie.
The mafia = CIA wanted control in Washington D.C. and Kennedy wouldn't give it to them so they took it. May rest in Peace. What he is referring to is the assassination of JFK
this exact phrase led me here...
Life can be summed up with this phrase
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"That's called a paradox"
NAILED IT
Gimme Shelter can be applied to anything
What about a funeral
Ha! Totally! Especially when it's played in a Scorcese picture!
probably one of the best intros and intro songs ever
whats the song name?
Gimme shelter - rolling stones
Rituraaj Datta thx 🔥
Not probably my friend; Definitely the best ever!
Amazing opening! Jack is the biggest bad ass, on and off the screen. Come out of retirement Jack. We need you !
7 years later and this comment still holds up
"you did good in school?"
"yeah."
"that's good. i did too. they call that a paradox."
brilliant.
"They call that a paradox." That is such a brilliant line on so many levels.
The slightly wavering voice of Jack Nicholson, the music of the Rolling Stones and scenes chosen by Scorsese .. I think I'm in heaven ..
Great opening scene! I love how Scorcese almost always uses "Gimme Shelter" in his films. It's one of my favorite songs ever.
"gimme shelter" is the best song the stones have ever and will ever do
Jack is an actor who owns his part. One of the greatest actors of our time!
Greatest movie opening ever.
yo
Scorsese is pure artistic genius
what an intro
Jack Nicholson is evilness personified, what a personality and screen presence. And those eyebrows of the devil, loved it
The editors are altering the speed Gimme Shelter replays at and also adjusting its position on the beat ever so slightly. Badasses. Also it is modulated.
Why go to the Navy, when you can be a pirate.
Martin Scorsese is one of the greatest american directors in history! Thank you Mr. Scorsese for Raging Bull, Taxi Driver, Mean Streets, Goodfellas, Casino, Gangs of New York and The Departed. Greetings from Poland!
I just can't get over the fact this clip was uploaded in 2006...
When Gimme Shelter is involved in a Intro then You just know the movie is going to be great.
I hear so many people complain about this and that but jack has it right here. "IF YOU WANT IT, YOU GOT TO TAKE IT"
Clyde Drake he's a fucking racist he called yo Ni****z
Living Buggy words only have power if you give them power, I don't. Sticks and stones you know..
Clyde Drake so you don't give a shit
Living Buggy no words don't effect me lmao, I got bigger fkn problems than a god damn word.
Shit Yeah BTW FUck Racism
The Cum town version of this makes me come back to listen to the original every time
simply brillaint..
"I don't want to be a product of my environment. I want my environment to be a product of me. "
personally this was one of the best scenes to me in the movie, and this music fitted in it very well
No one gives it to you. You have to take it. How you take it is up to you. You can step on everyone's toes, or you can do it with respect. Success isn't simply measured in dollars. You can't take it with you when you die.
RIP Kennedy.
Never Forget - 50 Years On.
2013.
what an awesome movie this is. Love the opening
you can recognize a scorsese movie by the simple fact that there's always a rolling stones song
And n word
And usually a decent movie.
@@dylandoge1627 The n word isn't used that much in his movies.
@@shavooutlaw6514 now if it was Tarantino.....
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Or the n word lmao
THIS TOWN NEEDS AN ENEMA!
oh, wrong movie.
Sitizen Kane Wait til' they get a load of me...
That's how I feel about my hometown.and probably where I am living now.
Jeez...she fell funny.
"They call that a paradox." What a great line.
best intro ever. Goosebumps!
insane - jack and the stones are a perfect match for this scene.
Great intro by Scorsese, I mean: Frank Costello voiceover(Jack Nicholson at his best), some Boston footage and Rolling stone's Gimme shelter in the background.
The very first line tells you everything you need to know about this character.
the song makes the shot of going into the store really awesome.
Gives me chills every time.
"What I'm saying is when your facing a loaded gun...whats the difference?"
So you saw the video too? That's nice.
One of my favorite things about this movie is Martin Scorsese's choice of background music. During some of the most brutal parts of the movie (such as the scene in which Billy is screaming in pain as Frank hits his broken wrist with a boot repeatedly), there's usually some sort of classic rock playing. Somehow, the background music works perfectly with almost every scene.
I won't say this is a perfect film, but it's pretty damn close. I don't understand why so many people think it's overrated.
One of the coolest intro songs ever!
best opening ever... in 4 four minutes there are lots of important and awesome messages mottos for life.
song is rolling stones-gimme shelter
thank me later
fuck you
John Smith
lol why
fuck you
fuck you
fuck you
"Jeez. She fell funny." XD
I absolutely LOVE that line too!
“Kneel! Stand! Kneel! Stand” in Nicholson’s groaning voice this is a great line
..till this day...I still wonder if he hit up that girl
I think that becomes his chick at the end. The redhead
" you like bologna and cheese? "
Class movie..One of the best ever..
great movie one of my favorites. di caprio, wahlberg, winstone and nicholson. amazing
I love people who think Costello, a ruthless gangster, means that black people should try harder in the job market or some shit when he says "you have to take it".
He's criticizing the civil rights movement for being mostly civil and nonviolent. White people bitch about blacks rioting for what they want all the time, look no further than Ferguson. The opening of the film is an IRISH riot from the late sixties, because they did not want their schools desegregated. That's how Costello thinks social change should be done. So please think twice before you piss and moan about the "animals" in Ferguson and then wax poetic about how black people don't understand Frank Costello.
Do you know the reason why they rioted.
G4nst4Ch33se you're so full of bs
Zmister517 I agree with you......and the riots are happening and they are destroying their "towns" because BLACK PEOPLE DON'T OWN THAT SHIT. The black people in the neighborhoods live and work but don't own. So they say, fuck the owners,.....ya gotta do what ya gotta do to survive!
Zmister517 Fuck the riots and fuck everyone that supports them. And that includes you.
"no one gives it to you... you have to take it"
awesome
I love this scene !
some of the top actors of a generation leo, jack, mark, matt.. SOLID
Costello is an Irish name.
Yes it is only irish pepole know how to pronounce it Wright
Jack Nicholson's role reminded me the Joker
Especially when he dies.
pure brilliance
A great opening scene from an even greater movie!
"I don't wanna be a product of my environment; I want my environment to be a product of me." Jack Nicholson rules so much. The movie was good, but extremely vulgar at times. Scorsese is easily one of the best directors ever.
Seeing the Irish Americans coming out in force against forced integration, brings a tear to my eye
Great movie .. Great actors
Who would have thought that a POV shot walking into a shop could be so awesome!
I adore Scorsese, but this really is not that great a film and I fail to see why everyone thinks it is.
I've seen a bit of Scorsese myself and I think this is hands down the best movie I've seen form him, way better than Goodfellas, and my favorite movie of all time.
Chippy Vortex That's a shame, because it's really quite flawed, and it's far from being in the upper echelon of Scorsese films.
***** It's simply a recycled, unrestrained, hand-over-fisted mess, filled to the brim with unoriginal ideas and a lack of creative control. Hmmph.
I agree completely. Even the Stones music sounds tired and overdone.
***** I thought Django was QT's worst movie, but its all a matter of taste as you said.
Love all of you. Stop killing each other. Please….take what you need no matter what.
We gotta eat no matter what.
great movie
Costello is an Irish name. It's about as Italian as corn beef and cabbage. Frank Costello used it as a name but it wasn't Italian. His real name was Francesco Castiglia. One of the first Irish prime ministers was John A. Costello. Several Irish names have become anglicised due to immigration. If you went to Ireland and looked in a phone book you probably wouldn't even able to pronounce most of them. Spillane is another Irish name a lot of people confuse as Italian. Knowledge is power!
I love that movie
soooo goooooooooood
greatest opening to a movie ever. "no one gives it to ya, you have to take it", no truer words ever spoken lol. awsome movie.
Best ever!!!!
Only Jack could deliver this fabulous opening.
i love this part.
Best opening scene ever.Exellent writing in this movie.Jack really surprised me,with his portrail of an Irish gangster,kinda reminded me of Wity Bulger.Jack shoulda won Acadmy award,bravo Jack Nicholson!Bravo!
Why am I watching this on youtube? Time to dig through my dvd's and watch this on the big screen!
Nice!
they are both great movies
thanks
We all watched the video thank you.
I don't want to be a product of my environment, i want my environment to be a product of me - thumbs up for this words !
I think it's cool how Jack is shown in shadow, and mostly in profile, throughout most of the opening.
Hahahahaha, made my day!
cracking movie...
Awesome flick
ditto man. love this song and jack nicholson does a great job.
Best opening ever
i love the beginning it gives you sort of a goodfellas feeling like showing sullavain as a kid and how he gets started on crime just like what happenes with harry and make it look like crimnals are movie stars and jsut walk around taking money and shit it really pulls you in jack nicalson was perfect for that role
this film gets better the more you watch it
the coolest man alive
Best opening to a movie ever
Thx
In memory of James "Whitey" Bulger (1929-2018)
This movie was perfect. Right up until the 3 Stooges style shoot out at the end, and everytime marky mark opened his mouth.
I love the way Nicholson is in darkness the whole way through this right up to ''Whats the difference''.
gimme shelter is my favorite song of all time. it's a pefect song for mob movies especially for jack nicholsons opening theme