I’m going to nerd out for a second. Scorsese had seen a local ad in the NYC area for a guy’s small business. He loved the feel of it so much that he tracked down the company and discovered the owner had created the ad himself. He hired that guy to create Morrie’s wigs’ ad.
I love De Niro's "Look what that mutt did to my shoes" as if Billy Batts' face assaulted his shoes. Also for some reason Henry yelling "Just do it ya stupid hick" always makes me happy. Maybe because I've never said anything that insulting to anyone in my life, and probably never will, and she doesn't even blink.
My favorite deep cut pull is after Henry's arrest when the police are bringing in Sandy's coke mixing equipment and that one officer tries the powder while the arresting officer taunts Henry about the evidence. "What we gonna bake a cake? We making a fuckin' cake? Is it good? Hahaha see you in Attica, fucko."
According to Rita Coolidge, Clapton heard her playing the piano and stole the riff for Layla. When Rita asked him about it, he said, “You’re a girl. What are *you* gonna do?”
Great show guys. Enjoyed it. Always loved the scene when Jimmy tells Karen to walk down the ally to pick out some free swag but she doesn't trust him and scampers away. Can really see the reptile in DeNiro's character in that moment. Off to rewatch Goodfellas yet again.
It's been a while since I've seen Goodfellas -- definitely need to rewatch it and spot these details -- but one of my favorite scenes is where Jimmy tells Karen to check out that sketchy building "right around the corner," and you just know she was this freakin' close to gettin' whacked. Nothing in the scene is explicit -- it's all subtext and the power of suggestion -- but it's one of the darkest scenes in the film, IMO.
Okay, so I gotta point out another very deep cut, again, based off the commentary here. Fun fact: the original "Deborah," the FBI agent on the Sopranos who "befriends" Adriana--that role was originally played by Debi Mazar. Turns out that she didn't want the recurring role and dropped out, but you can still find the original scene where she meets Adriana at the mall on TH-cam.
My favorite scenes or shots are, and two were mentioned, the very brutal scene, and true, also imo, the most violent scene, of Henry Hill beats up Karen's neighbor (and especially the sound design, I think it's metal knocking on a wooden table lol), Jimmy looking at Morrie (at the bar, with Sunshine of Your Love), probably my favorite scene of the movie. And the most intense scene, with Henry waking up with Karen pointing a revolver at his face (actually at the audience pov), and the scene when Jimmy and Henry sitting across at the diner (dolly out, zoom in, or vice versa, like everything changes from then on, the freeze frames and Jimmy's looking at Henry, with his thick eye glasses, and the stupid look of Henry on his face hahahaha), and Henry realizes at that moment that Jimmy wants to wack him. Greetings from the Netherlands. Oh, and that beautiful shot of outside the bar, with its title on the screen ''June 11, 1970 Queens, New York'', with The Crystals - ''He's Sure the Boy I love'' song.....actually, that's a very pivotal momen that has huge consequences for all of them....
I've always thought that pistol whipping scene is one of the most violent moments I've ever seen on film. Scorsese is so good at making you feel the violence and that's probably the best example of it.
I often try to work out exactly how the foley get their sounds, and it's probably something very ordinary and unexpected - such as dropping a bag of groceries, or thumping some vegtable!
It certainly wasn't old De Niro curb stomping in The Irishman. It's astonishing how bad that scene looks. Reminds me of Sonny phantom punching Carlo in Godfather. Both directors get a pass but it is strange those moments made it to the final cut.
Great one, so far. I'm pausing to point out that the walking scene--Henry's walk with the gun--with the cherry trees: that shot is borrowed from "The Searchers." Homage, if you will.
Hi there, guys ! First time caller. Love your show !! Quick question - set the wayback machine for episode #51(the terrific "Zodiac" one). Evan is wearing a black baseball hat with a design that just sent me !!! Loved it !!! 😎It looked kind of "Robert Crumbesque" ? Anyway, just wondering where Evan might have acquired it ? Thanks and keep up the amazing work !! 😎
Hello there, it’s a IWA pro wrestling hat (japanese pro wrestling) I bought on Instagram, can’t remember where! and the design is based of the wrestler Leatherface which is of course based on TCM.
Thanks for the info and for writing back ! I also asked you guys a question about "Cruising" on that page whenever you have a chance. Again, love your show and we obviously have similar taste ! 😎
Jim Gordon, the drummer from Derek and the Dominoes, wrote the piano coda of Layla. He's in jail for killing his mother. Turned out he was schizophrenic. Great musician, bad brain.
He (and Eric Clapton) allegedly stole it from Rita Coolidge...who he was dating during his stint as Derek and the Dominoes drummer. Listen to her song “Time”
love the weird scene in the jail during the family visit, where the kid's toys/blocks are re-stacked in every reverse-shot... Easy to miss on the first viewing, but once you notice it, it's obviously so intentionally done. Just a weird Scorsese detail...
When I was a starving student I rented an old rundown biker house. The city took the place for a road widening project and when they tore the house down and started digging. 2 bodies were found. I blamed it on the bikers.
I’ve seen Goodfellas well over a dozen times but it’s been quite a few years since my last viewing. So, any of the interesting minutiae has since vacated my memory. There’s always this one scene though that comes to mind when I think of Goodfellas and it’s when Jimmy tells Karen to walk down the street to pick up some dresses. Appears thoughtful and kind at first, but soon turns menacing. While she’s walking, the paranoia begins to set in and she sees these two shadowy figures inside the place where Jimmy is directing her to go. Karen quickly turns tail and books it the hell out of there. I recently read an article where it was pointed out that the camera climbs upward to where the street signs read ‘don’t walk’ and ‘one way’. Of course it plays out to be ambiguous and unclear, but I reckon Karen sensed impending doom. That whole scene has a gradual creepy vibe going on that’s unsettling. The line between close ally and deadly enemy is now blurred. Monsters possibly lurking under the bed, in the closet or around the corner. A sudden awareness that you’re now vulnerable and there’s no more certainty, security or safe haven. That’s truly frightening.
...and all the more creepy because we will never know for sure if Jimmy had some weird ambush planned or if it was just an innocent moment. I'm sure everyone has their opinion, but we don't know conclusively.
Great episode! The keyboards on Layla were composed by, and played by session drummer, Jim Gordon. Gordon was a member of The Wrecking Crew and appeared on multiple classic songs, and albums like All Things Must Pass. Gordon battled with substance abuse and schizophrenia and tragically murdered his mother. He died in March 2023 at the age of 77 while serving his sentence. Goodfellas, in my opinion, is one of the three greatest films ever made that wasn't directed by Stanley Kubrick. The other two are Apocalypse Now, and Citizen Kane, for what it's worth. Congratulations on nearing 100 episodes. I hope you guys do more Scorcese, and more Kubrick, in the future. Also would love to see you take on a personal favorite, John Huston's The Man Who Would Be King. Seems like everyone on TH-cam has forgotten or overlooked this treasure featuring superb performances by Sean Connery, Michael Caine, and Christopher Plummer.
Amazing show, fellas. And you did it again: I was hoping you’d single out Morrie’s cheapo but fantastic commercial! No one does these movies better than you three... “And remember, Morrie’s wigs don’t come off!”
Totally do an audio commentary for this one. I'm fascinated by Scorcese's use of music in this. Why Layla for the corpses? Can someone tell me? It... seems to work? But defies logic. Some kind of farewell? Did he just want another option to differentiate his montage from the baptism/hits montage of Godfather? I kind of think it's Scorcese communicating directly to his boomer audience. I don't think any of these guys listened to Derek and the D.'s Even so, what is being communicated? Another weird choice that somehow works.
It's pure taste and creativity at work. He just had the idea, and if he knows what it means, it's because he pieced together the meaning afterwards, but in reality he's not really sure. Pure emotion. I bet this is how it happened, it's more often than not how creatives work, it's how i work.
I guess I'm interested in why it works more than where he got the idea. I think art always communicates something, even though it needn't be literal or direct. @@brunoactis1104
Two of my favorite scenes in the movie have Karen in them. I love the hostess party scene. Great use of the song "Leader of the Pack". I like the woman sitting across from Karen. Especially that moment where she crosses herself after hearing the story about the shooting. There's some interesting discontinuity. There's also some interesting discontinuity with Paulie's cigar when he's talking to the restaurant owner who's having problems with Tommy. And other places in the film. The other scene I like a lot is when Jimmy offers to give Karen some dresses. "No Jimmy. I'm in a hurry. My mom's watching the kids and I gotta get home. I'll come back later". That is a great, great scene.
The fact that DeNiro was supposed to be such a perfectionist that he had to know how Jimmy would shake the Ketsup bottle. It's back and forth between his hands by the way. 😮😮😮
Tom definitely has the right take on the decor of the apartments/houses you guys were talking about. I was raised on Long Island and I was around in the 70's. That is most definitely your dumb suburban nouveau riche idea of what rich & classy looks like. Around 1976 I actually sold vacuum cleaners by appointment to those kind of households. Whoever did the that set design for Karen Rossi's apartment got it spot on! And the other place with the entertainment center and standing metal houseplants and all those tacky nick nacks and furniture? Fucking nailed it!!!
The close up of Karen stuffing the gun into her panties.I got to admit the truth. It turned me on. Also, during the dinner scene it always cracked me up when Tommy tells his Mom that they "took a ride out to the country." Jimmy saying "the hoof" too!
Controversial, but i never cared for Goodfellas . Too much narration, and it drags imo. I would put Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and King of Comedy all before it.
I loved this film because I discovered who Don Rickles was through it. In the UK he was never talked about despite being a comedians comedian. How about 'The Conversation' soon guys?
@@OneFuckingHour of course you do, that’s what happens when you box into that identity, it’s totally predictable, you guys hit on all the same political aspects of modern Hollywood, right down the line, 123, but it’s more complicated than that, and more balanced that’s what those older films that you’ve commenting on represent, you’re selling out to the establishment in the worst way, also Eric Clapton is easily more timeless than he is cringe
I’m going to nerd out for a second. Scorsese had seen a local ad in the NYC area for a guy’s small business. He loved the feel of it so much that he tracked down the company and discovered the owner had created the ad himself. He hired that guy to create Morrie’s wigs’ ad.
True! And dang it, you beat me to posting that!
Beautiful 💥
@@gregmcdougall7589Such a great fun fact! I know. I discovered it on Twitter and my mind has been blown ever since.
Love it, didn't "morrie" also cameo in the background of another movie that the guys covered ?
Yeah, King of Comedy I believe!
I love De Niro's "Look what that mutt did to my shoes" as if Billy Batts' face assaulted his shoes.
Also for some reason Henry yelling "Just do it ya stupid hick" always makes me happy. Maybe because I've never said anything that insulting to anyone in my life, and probably never will, and she doesn't even blink.
I swear every moment of every scene is riveting…and only gets better with a million rewatches
FBI Agent "If he's legitimately bronchial, we'll take that into consideration. "
My favorite deep cut pull is after Henry's arrest when the police are bringing in Sandy's coke mixing equipment and that one officer tries the powder while the arresting officer taunts Henry about the evidence.
"What we gonna bake a cake? We making a fuckin' cake? Is it good? Hahaha see you in Attica, fucko."
According to Rita Coolidge, Clapton heard her playing the piano and stole the riff for Layla. When Rita asked him about it, he said, “You’re a girl. What are *you* gonna do?”
@@terrymbridgesI also can’t believe he didn’t write Tears From Heaven… he co-opted someone else’s song to use for
his dead son.
Great show guys. Enjoyed it. Always loved the scene when Jimmy tells Karen to walk down the ally to pick out some free swag but she doesn't trust him and scampers away. Can really see the reptile in DeNiro's character in that moment. Off to rewatch Goodfellas yet again.
I’m right there with ya. Love that scene.
Great choice. Mad we didn’t talk about that.
In the scene where Tommy shoots Stacks, if you play the DVD frame by frame, you can see the blood being flung onto the bed, from behind Pesci.
I believe Cary Grant was noted for his "Oh"(s) in various films!!
"You gotta slice the garlic reaaal thin ... ".
It's been a while since I've seen Goodfellas -- definitely need to rewatch it and spot these details -- but one of my favorite scenes is where Jimmy tells Karen to check out that sketchy building "right around the corner," and you just know she was this freakin' close to gettin' whacked. Nothing in the scene is explicit -- it's all subtext and the power of suggestion -- but it's one of the darkest scenes in the film, IMO.
Okay, so I gotta point out another very deep cut, again, based off the commentary here. Fun fact: the original "Deborah," the FBI agent on the Sopranos who "befriends" Adriana--that role was originally played by Debi Mazar. Turns out that she didn't want the recurring role and dropped out, but you can still find the original scene where she meets Adriana at the mall on TH-cam.
My favorite scenes or shots are, and two were mentioned, the very brutal scene, and true, also imo, the most violent scene, of Henry Hill beats up Karen's neighbor (and especially the sound design, I think it's metal knocking on a wooden table lol), Jimmy looking at Morrie (at the bar, with Sunshine of Your Love), probably my favorite scene of the movie. And the most intense scene, with Henry waking up with Karen pointing a revolver at his face (actually at the audience pov), and the scene when Jimmy and Henry sitting across at the diner (dolly out, zoom in, or vice versa, like everything changes from then on, the freeze frames and Jimmy's looking at Henry, with his thick eye glasses, and the stupid look of Henry on his face hahahaha), and Henry realizes at that moment that Jimmy wants to wack him. Greetings from the Netherlands. Oh, and that beautiful shot of outside the bar, with its title on the screen ''June 11, 1970 Queens, New York'', with The Crystals - ''He's Sure the Boy I love'' song.....actually, that's a very pivotal momen that has huge consequences for all of them....
I've always thought that pistol whipping scene is one of the most violent moments I've ever seen on film. Scorsese is so good at making you feel the violence and that's probably the best example of it.
I often try to work out exactly how the foley get their sounds, and it's probably something very ordinary and unexpected - such as dropping a bag of groceries, or thumping some vegtable!
It certainly wasn't old De Niro curb stomping in The Irishman. It's astonishing how bad that scene looks. Reminds me of Sonny phantom punching Carlo in Godfather. Both directors get a pass but it is strange those moments made it to the final cut.
Great one, so far. I'm pausing to point out that the walking scene--Henry's walk with the gun--with the cherry trees: that shot is borrowed from "The Searchers." Homage, if you will.
Hi there, guys ! First time caller. Love your show !! Quick question - set the wayback machine for episode #51(the terrific "Zodiac" one). Evan is wearing a black baseball hat with a design that just sent me !!! Loved it !!! 😎It looked kind of "Robert Crumbesque" ? Anyway, just wondering where Evan might have acquired it ? Thanks and keep up the amazing work !! 😎
Hello there, it’s a IWA pro wrestling hat (japanese pro wrestling) I bought on Instagram, can’t remember where! and the design is based of the wrestler Leatherface which is of course based on TCM.
Thanks for the info and for writing back ! I also asked you guys a question about "Cruising" on that page whenever you have a chance. Again, love your show and we obviously have similar taste ! 😎
Jim Gordon, the drummer from Derek and the Dominoes, wrote the piano coda of Layla. He's in jail for killing his mother. Turned out he was schizophrenic. Great musician, bad brain.
Holy SHIT
Great piano, too many slide guitar overdubs. Sounds like someone left all the tracks on by mistake!
He (and Eric Clapton) allegedly stole it from Rita Coolidge...who he was dating during his stint as Derek and the Dominoes drummer. Listen to her song “Time”
@@patrickthomas8890 100%
Gordon died March 17, 2023.
love the weird scene in the jail during the family visit, where the kid's toys/blocks are re-stacked in every reverse-shot... Easy to miss on the first viewing, but once you notice it, it's obviously so intentionally done. Just a weird Scorsese detail...
"Every time, you two.......dont you work??"😅
great episode.....I'm pretty sure there's an "ohhhhh" in Mean Streets.......possibly even "Saturday Night Fever"
When I was a starving student I rented an old rundown biker house. The city took the place for a road widening project and when they tore the house down and started digging. 2 bodies were found. I blamed it on the bikers.
I’ve seen Goodfellas well over a dozen times but it’s been quite a few years since my last viewing. So, any of the interesting minutiae has since vacated my memory.
There’s always this one scene though that comes to mind when I think of Goodfellas and it’s when Jimmy tells Karen to walk down the street to pick up some dresses. Appears thoughtful and kind at first, but soon turns menacing. While she’s walking, the paranoia begins to set in and she sees these two shadowy figures inside the place where Jimmy is directing her to go. Karen quickly turns tail and books it the hell out of there. I recently read an article where it was pointed out that the camera climbs upward to where the street signs read ‘don’t walk’ and ‘one way’. Of course it plays out to be ambiguous and unclear, but I reckon Karen sensed impending doom. That whole scene has a gradual creepy vibe going on that’s unsettling. The line between close ally and deadly enemy is now blurred. Monsters possibly lurking under the bed, in the closet or around the corner. A sudden awareness that you’re now vulnerable and there’s no more certainty, security or safe haven. That’s truly frightening.
...and all the more creepy because we will never know for sure if Jimmy had some weird ambush planned or if it was just an innocent moment. I'm sure everyone has their opinion, but we don't know conclusively.
Yeah me too. That is the scene i recall the best from the film.
Great episode! The keyboards on Layla were composed by, and played by session drummer, Jim Gordon. Gordon was a member of The Wrecking Crew and appeared on multiple classic songs, and albums like All Things Must Pass. Gordon battled with substance abuse and schizophrenia and tragically murdered his mother. He died in March 2023 at the age of 77 while serving his sentence.
Goodfellas, in my opinion, is one of the three greatest films ever made that wasn't directed by Stanley Kubrick. The other two are Apocalypse Now, and Citizen Kane, for what it's worth.
Congratulations on nearing 100 episodes. I hope you guys do more Scorcese, and more Kubrick, in the future. Also would love to see you take on a personal favorite, John Huston's The Man Who Would Be King. Seems like everyone on TH-cam has forgotten or overlooked this treasure featuring superb performances by Sean Connery, Michael Caine, and Christopher Plummer.
Amazing show, fellas. And you did it again: I was hoping you’d single out Morrie’s cheapo but fantastic commercial! No one does these movies better than you three... “And remember, Morrie’s wigs don’t come off!”
Tom has such a grudge against the 1980s.
Before Tommy kills Morrie, he’s in the bar joking with everyone and making the same face that Morrie makes when he kills him
" I'll show you helicopters " 🤣
Totally do an audio commentary for this one.
I'm fascinated by Scorcese's use of music in this. Why Layla for the corpses? Can someone tell me? It... seems to work? But defies logic. Some kind of farewell? Did he just want another option to differentiate his montage from the baptism/hits montage of Godfather? I kind of think it's Scorcese communicating directly to his boomer audience. I don't think any of these guys listened to Derek and the D.'s Even so, what is being communicated? Another weird choice that somehow works.
It's pure taste and creativity at work. He just had the idea, and if he knows what it means, it's because he pieced together the meaning afterwards, but in reality he's not really sure. Pure emotion. I bet this is how it happened, it's more often than not how creatives work, it's how i work.
I guess I'm interested in why it works more than where he got the idea. I think art always communicates something, even though it needn't be literal or direct. @@brunoactis1104
Saw it when it was new in theatres . I am very superstitious . The "lucky hat" thing was so relatable !!
Cop-to-young Jimmy Conway: “HEY JI-MAAY! Ya-Got’anytin’goooot???”
Two of my favorite scenes in the movie have Karen in them. I love the hostess party scene. Great use of the song "Leader of the Pack". I like the woman sitting across from Karen. Especially that moment where she crosses herself after hearing the story about the shooting. There's some interesting discontinuity. There's also some interesting discontinuity with Paulie's cigar when he's talking to the restaurant owner who's having problems with Tommy. And other places in the film. The other scene I like a lot is when Jimmy offers to give Karen some dresses. "No Jimmy. I'm in a hurry. My mom's watching the kids and I gotta get home. I'll come back later". That is a great, great scene.
There are many similarities with a Clock Work Orange. The beautiful music and the brutallity. Feeling alive through the violence.
The greatest American film ever made, in my humble opinion
Greatest movie ever made in the Milky Way galaxy
The fact that DeNiro was supposed to be such a perfectionist that he had to know how Jimmy would shake the Ketsup bottle. It's back and forth between his hands by the way. 😮😮😮
Tom definitely has the right take on the decor of the apartments/houses you guys were talking about. I was raised on Long Island and I was around in the 70's. That is most definitely your dumb suburban nouveau riche idea of what rich & classy looks like. Around 1976 I actually sold vacuum cleaners by appointment to those kind of households. Whoever did the that set design for Karen Rossi's apartment got it spot on! And the other place with the entertainment center and standing metal houseplants and all those tacky nick nacks and furniture? Fucking nailed it!!!
Yes! Goodfellas!
the scene where jimmy tells karen to go check out some dresses around the corner. totally creepy
What movie is the clip and music from at 0:08?
DEPTH
The close up of Karen stuffing the gun into her panties.I got to admit the truth. It turned me on. Also, during the dinner scene it always cracked me up when Tommy tells his Mom that they "took a ride out to the country." Jimmy saying "the hoof" too!
Scorcese lived those years. Stone did not.
Are you guys going to talk about "normies" during this video?
Debi Mazar was hotter than Scarlett Johansson back in the day!!!!
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Controversial, but i never cared for Goodfellas . Too much narration, and it drags imo. I would put Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and King of Comedy all before it.
I loved this film because I discovered who Don Rickles was through it. In the UK he was never talked about despite being a comedians comedian. How about 'The Conversation' soon guys?
Wow, The need for Canceling Eric Clapton in a Goodfellas commentary, layers upon layers of mental corruption 🤫
Huh? Canceling? I just think he’s overrated and kinda cringe. -evan
@@OneFuckingHour of course you do, that’s what happens when you box into that identity, it’s totally predictable, you guys hit on all the same political aspects of modern Hollywood, right down the line, 123, but it’s more complicated than that, and more balanced that’s what those older films that you’ve commenting on represent, you’re selling out to the establishment in the worst way, also Eric Clapton is easily more timeless than he is cringe
LOL Clapton fuckin' SUCKS @@ritualistica
@@OneFuckingHouryou have no right to call anyone cringe. Have you even listened to your own podcast?
@@ritualistica Eric Clapton has always been overrated, this isn't a new phenomenon - I've felt that way since the early 1990s.
1st
Scorsese produced Sopranos, which explains so much of the same casting.
Completely untrue 😂