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When the guys go to Tommy’s Moms house. The studio wanted to cut the scene entirely, Marty left it in the movie. The test audience understood the scene and it’s actually a scene that viewers generally laugh about. His overbearing Mom forces them to stay and have a late snack / meal. They just want a knife to stab Billy Batts and bury him far away. Contrast that to how Karen’s Mom would react to them showing up at her house at zero dark thirty. 😂 She would raise the ire of Tommy and he’d probably want to put her in the trunk with Batts. One Mom is simply over the top in her love for her son, the other is nowhere near as warm in her emotions towards her daughter and son in law.
Little did we know how versatile an actor Joe Pesci was at the time of Lethal Weapon 2. The guy was able to go back and forth between violence and comedy easily. Lethal Weapon 2, Goodfellas, Home Alone, My Cousin Vinny, Home Alone 2, Casino. Except for Casino (1995), all these movies with Pesci were released from 1989-1992. Incredible streak of classic films.
To this very day I believe and feel that Martin Scorsese should have taken the Oscar for BEST Director for Goodfellas, this movie is perfection! I've watched it over two hundred times by now and yes it's no wonder Joe Pesci won his Oscar 'Best Supporting' he was phenomenal per his norm, from 'Home Alone' and sheer humour to his psycho 'turn' in Goodfellas. One of the most incredible movies ever made~~!!!
The Spider scene was one that absolutely happened. The kid was just a neighborhood teen who worked as a gofer for the crew, just as Henry had, Tommy as well. You can probably find it on TH-cam where Howard Stern was talking to Henry Hill when Spider's (the real one) sister called into the show and started laying into Henry Hill. He knew here too, although hadn't seen her in many years. This is when Henry is all spooked up on alcohol and drugs and not long for the world. But she starts screaming at him: you piece of shiz, you murdered my little brother who never did anything but look up to you scumbags ..... Henry was seemingly aghast that she was even upset with him. He was like ... ME? What are you talking about? That was Tommy, I didn't shoot the kid, I liked him. Tommy did it. All I did was help bury him." ... Can you even imagine that kinda mindset? She said to Howard that Tommy ( Tommy DeSimone) actually came to their family home a few weeks after Spider vanished into thin air, or thick dirt, and told Spider's mother that he would do all he could to help locate her son, and he gave her $500 and said "I hope this helps". These guys were absolute scum, pure trash.
You wouldn't say that to their faces and get away with it. Trust and believe. You're right for what they did to spider,but no one would live to tell about it.
I listened to the audiobook. Not the Pileggi one but the other one. It was free, I didn't buy it. Hill comes across as a worthless POS. I don't believe his lies that he was in the airborne either.
Spider should have just shut up and made Tommy another drink. Tommy, who was crazy like a fox, was testing Spider’s loyalty, as he was also doing with Hank.
I love this movie. One scene I love is when Henry pistol whips Karen's neighbor for attacking her and pushing her out of his car. I love the I mean buisness walk and the casual way he tells Karen to hide the bloody gun. RIP Ray Liotta. ❤
In that scene, I remember watching an interview with him and how angry he was because he said, his mother was sick and she had died while shooting that scene…it had to be hard, to not be there for his mom, but as an actor, he captured all his real life emotions, in that scene! And to hear the guy shoot his mouth off, in front of his buddies, angered him even more and he actually and accidentally broke the guy’s nose with the butt of the gun when he pistol whipped him. It was great acting, but in the interview, you could tell, it wasn’t just acting…it was raw emotions.
It is my all time favourite movie. I usually never say a movie is perfect, but this one genuinely is. Everything from casting, dialogue,music and voiceovers and performances by all…and how it’s shot. It’s got a ‘fly on the wall vibe’ for me. The camera follows a lot,makes me feel like I’m there! But that’s great because I feel like I’m living and seeing it all with them.
Why would anyone want to cut the dinner scene with Tommy's mom? It's one of the best scenes in the entire movie. It's a great depiction of how Tommy and Jimmy could be so happy and cavalier after just committing a murder, having fun and cracking jokes over dinner while their car is parked right outside with (what they believe is) a fresh corpse in the trunk. It's a perfect demonstration of how different the two of them were compared to normal people (and an excellent demonstration of how while Henry was a member of the Mafia he was nowhere near the level of sociopath that the others were).
@@nemya9586 Every time I watch this film I become more and more tempted to go online and find a reproduction of his mother's painting to put on my wall
They wanted to cut the most vital and best scenes ; that figures. Ray Liotta was perfect for this part like he was for few others; he always had a distinct look and vibe which only worked for those men you don't want as friends or enemies.
@@hudsonmilbank Whitey Bulger and his mom. He would kill without hesitation or remorse, but adored his mother. The Bird Man of Alcatraz. Robert Stroud would kill without remorse but adored his mother.
@@BigBillKelly-x2z It's kind of more unique how the thing blows up over a comment about shoe shines. It might have been homophobic comments in real life, but everyone's heard that before and this was actually more interesting.
I am Italian, of Sicilian and Calabrian origins and now I have been living in Brazil for a few years, every time I see this masterpiece I find myself at home. For me Italian-American artists are the best in the world, they have an edge, and are very natural because they don't have to invent anything, they interpret pieces of their lives ❤
Was an extra in the scene where Henry is busted sitting at table getting grilled by Bo Dietl. I'm a cop wearing a maroon t-shirt walking right to left. My best memory was during one of the takes someone drops the gear for cutting coke...Marty exclaimed we might use it "accidents are the friend of art"...I never heard him use that quote in subsequent interviews; but it works for me and certainly worked in the making of this picture.
Arthur Penn called them ''wonderful accidents of filmmaking''. when Bonnie leaves Clyde & the gang behind, to hide in the big cornfield, it's a boom shot ( that means elevated scene, right?), and while Clyde chases Bonnie, a black cloud passes overhead unexpected, but it was purposely left in, as it foretold of a dark end on the way. brilliant accident.
The "how am I funny?" Scene has several versions of its source. Agent Joe Pistone claimed he overheard two soldiers having a friendly conversation that turned sideways. Explaining how it was funny but also summed up the danger he was constantly in. It's one of those iconic scenes that others claim to have really been involved in.
Supposedly Scorsese filmed this without everyone else, except Joe and Ray, knowing whether it would end up in smiles or another murder by Tommy. He wanted the other actors to be duly nervous. Brilliant direction if the story is true.
Goodfellas clearly should have won best picture Oscar in 1991, hands down. It seems like a no-brainer now, but prior to the Oscars, it was getting very little attention. "Dances with Wolves" was the film getting the most buzz. With its grand scale, historical backdrop, and a powerful social message that seemed timely, it fit the archetype for films that Oscar voters tended to favor. I think for many people "The Godfather" and its sequel were still seen as somehow the be all end all of that genre. I think it took some time for people - and certainly Oscar voters - to wrap their heads around Martin Scorsese's less romantic view of life in the mafia. On Oscar night only Joe Pesci's unforgettable performance as Tommy DeVito brought home the gold that night for the film. It surely deserved more - Best Picture and Best Director at the very least. Time, though, has brought the acclaim and recognition that Scorsese's "Goodfellas" deserves as one of the true masterpieces of cinema and storytelling.
My father had a gas station in Brooklyn, All the mobsters brought their cars to him to be repaired, I was a kid then and used to fill their cars with gasoline and wash and wax them. In my mind those days are STILL clear as a bell !!!
Aside from the fact that the scene with Scorsese's mother brought some comic relief, it also showed how these vicious sociopaths were capable of conducting themselves as perfectly "normal" people when they wanted to.
Goodfellas. Full Metal Jacket. Falling Down. All have the same power of putting the viewer into moments of so many of the characters in various places in the viewer's own life events. While not exact, the metaphor and real life event are visceral, and palpable. Such genius lives on far longer than a fleeting award. Scorsese, Kubrick, Stone, are all genius in bringing the art to us. Just a few, there are more. But these feel like a trip to me, and how they relate to moments in my life.
A CLASSIC MOVIE 🍿!! I remember the first time I saw it I was on a date and we watched it in his car! This was in the early to mid 2000’s when people could install TV 📺’s in cars! Since that day I’ve been a SUPER FAN OF GOODFELLAS AND CASINO!!!
Goodfellas, The Godfather, and The Godfather Part II. All three tied for my favorite movie. Brilliant acting and direction. I’ve seen them countless times.
Couldn’t agree more on all three. Goodfellas was pure gold. However The Godfather and The Godfather II were next level. Those can’t be beat. Do The Departed and No Country for Old Men. Another couple of all timers.
Goodfellas is a gangster saga that will always stand the test of time, brilliantly directed by Martin Scorsese. It’s truly a shame that he has only has one ☝️ Oscar.
I remember watching Goodfellas for the first time in 1990. I was excited to see Joe Pesci in the role. I remember seeing him a year before as Leo in Lethal Weapon two and how funny his character was and expecting something similar. After watching him as the actor, Tommy, I thought he was one of the most frightening people I ever saw in cinema. What a change in characters.
Little did we know how versatile an actor Joe Pesci was at the time of Lethal Weapon 2. The guy was able to go back and forth between violence and comedy easily. Lethal Weapon, Goodfellas, Home Alone, Casino, My Cousin Vinny. And that's just over a couple of years!
@@SThompsonRAMM_1203 Thanks, I even left out Home Alone 2! Except for Casino (1995), he did all those movies from 1989 to 1992. What an incredible streak of movies in such a short time...
Did you even watch the movie? Tommy’s mom did throw them a dinner party at 2 am in the morning, she did what all mothers do ( or use to do) when her son shows up after a long absence with his friends, she feeds them. The music spanned 4 decades of songs not 2 ! Karen and Henry weren’t married yet in the astounding said iconic steady cam scene . Watch the movie ya mommaluke
I was a criminal investigator in a Seattle area law enforcement agency back in the mid '80s when we learned that Henry Hill, under another name of course, was one of our new residents. We only found out after Henry got caught early one morning crawling out of a small local mini-mart through a broken window with a couple of bottles of wine in hand. Apparently he didn't know about the alarm. The next day we got to meet some nice federal folks who only then informed us who he was. Even though he was in the witness protection program Henry loved to regale everybody at a local lounge as to his exploits and eventually after our local narcotics task force nailed him and a few others on a cocaine deal the feds found him a new place to live. Ray was a lot better looking than Henry BTW... 😅
As mentioned elsewhere - the tracking shot scene was invented by Scorsese who saw this happening with real mobsters when he was a kid - in real life Henry Hill was too small to get these kind of perks.
Goodfellas glamorized the Mob too much which is why I like Donny Brasco more it seemed like the mob guys were really struggling and hurting just like everyone else
Dude this movie was around 98% true. The characters in this movie were actual mobsters. Henry Hill was a real person. And this was a story about his life as a mobster.
Henry Hill was a real person who was full of crap and never looked as good as he did in this film. About half of this story is accurate, the rest of it is Henrys BS coupled with Hollywood exaggeration. Check out the interviews with the real Henry where he often had trouble putting a coherent sentence together. Still one of the greatest movies of all time.
Ray Liotta in this, Unlawful Entry, Narcs. Just wow. I know he did a lot of films, but still, I always felt he didnt get the parts he should have somehow. He absolutely made these movies. a real raw talent.
Ray wasn't even nominated--HE should've won an Oscar for this! He was a great guy & NOTHING like his sometimes psychotic, villainous roles. He wasn't even Italian. RIP Ray.
This is a great mini-documentary. You did a great job. However, there is one major mix up at 4:20 - The Ronettes' "Be My Baby" was used as the introductory song for Scorsese's "Mean Streets" NOT "Goodfellas."
Like everyone else, I liked it when it came out, but in light of recent history I think it played a role in the coarsening of the current society we live in.
Pay close attention to that tracking shot in the kitchen of the Copa Cabana. As soon as they walk into the kitchen, Henry and Karen take a left and walk amongst refrigerators, prep tables and the like, taking three more rights before taking a left. This was done to provide the illusion that the kitchen was a labyrinth that Henry and Karen had to navigate to get to their front-row seats. Actually, if they had taken a right when they initially entered the kitchen, instead of that first left, they would have gone straight into the club's main room. But, of course, we wouldn't have gotten that iconic tracking shot.
Another thing about the tracking shot is that all those standing in line are also the seated audience in the restaurant. All the actors had to go from being outside in line to being seated inside after the camera had passed them by.
Sunshine of Your Love playing when Jimmy decides he's gonna whack Maury always gets me, it's like you can see the gears turning in his head, just cold blooded calculation personified.
De Niro is like 4 actors in 1. He can play the part of an Italian guy from Brooklyn, Queens, The Bronx or Staten Island. Manhattan was too much of a stretch for him.
Michael Franzese who is shown in the movie played by an actor said that Henry never looked as good as he did in Goodfellas. We all know now that he was a sad addict who ratted on his friends to save his own skin and not , as he likes to say, because they were psychopaths.
Franzese and Hill knew who each other were, but they never hung together. They were parts of different families. Scorsese just put in the name of a known Mafioso.
I think I saw Goodfellas when I was abt 10 with my Dad. I loved it! I tht it was exciting! I wanted to be a Gangster! But I wasn't a terrible kid so i wanted to be a fair Gangster. Lol! Later I wld run with some rough crews and prone to violence. My Grandpa was a gangster type and my Dad was pretty bad news so I guess that made me prone to my ways. I was always impressed with tough guys, and I guess lived by a certain code that wasn't the norm. But I cldnt be a Mafioso, I wasnt a bully, cldnt kill my friends or hurt anybody unless they deserved it. I was pretty crazy, but not sadistic, psychopathic, nor cld I ever put any organization before my Family like LA Cosa Nostra asks of their members. But a hell of a movie! I'm glad I saw it came out the time it did. Kids these days can't understand the power and philosophy of the movie. Favorite scene was when Jimmy (Robert DeNiro) is standing against the bar smoking with a cold stare contemplating the murder of Morry with the song Inagotadavita playing.
Back then, a lot of cursing seemed fake. Later, people realized it's actually realistic. Kids today won't quite understand that. It really makes me think.
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Where was the scene that was cut that you advertised?
Nicely done, very professionally. Learned some things . 300 + f¥¥k bombs 2 / min . Sounds like a teacher meeting!
All Martin Scorsese does is violent shit heads killing one another. Bad acting in all of his films and lousy directing.
The demise of spider , proof positive that hanging with Goodfellas
doesn't a wise guy make you , Tommy Gone knows !
Why don’t you talk about the racist undertones… everybody forgives about black people as if doesn’t matter.
What was "the infamous scene that was cut from Goodfellas" then? Must have missed that bit.
Same here
The scene that was cut was the stabbing scene in the trunk. I went from 7 stabs to 3
Billy Batts in the trunk. The extra stabs and blood. Thats it.
Goodfellas is definitely in my top 20 favorite movies of all time!
When the guys go to Tommy’s Moms house. The studio wanted to cut the scene entirely, Marty left it in the movie. The test audience understood the scene and it’s actually a scene that viewers generally laugh about. His overbearing Mom forces them to stay and have a late snack / meal. They just want a knife to stab Billy Batts and bury him far away. Contrast that to how Karen’s Mom would react to them showing up at her house at zero dark thirty. 😂 She would raise the ire of Tommy and he’d probably want to put her in the trunk with Batts. One Mom is simply over the top in her love for her son, the other is nowhere near as warm in her emotions towards her daughter and son in law.
Rest in Peace Ray Liotta , Paul Sorvino, and Frank Vincent.
Amen✝️
Kind of depressing. Especially Ray being gone
@@TrueNovice too young
The one that shocked me was Ray Liotta. He was young than me!
You forgot Scorceses mum.
As far back as i can remember , i always wanted to be a gangster ,Ray Liotta,s best opening line ever
I have never heard 'Rags to Riches' since, w/ out seeing 'GOODFELLAS' in my head. same w/ 'APOCALYPSE NOW' and the DOORS.
Yep Me too
Little did we know how versatile an actor Joe Pesci was at the time of Lethal Weapon 2. The guy was able to go back and forth between violence and comedy easily. Lethal Weapon 2, Goodfellas, Home Alone, My Cousin Vinny, Home Alone 2, Casino. Except for Casino (1995), all these movies with Pesci were released from 1989-1992. Incredible streak of classic films.
Joe was also a guitar player for Joey D and the Peppermint lounge in NYC.
@@handyrus Right, I remember that
JFK.
And crucial to the formation of The Four Seasons!
@@ajraven101 You're right. Amazing the careers they all went on to have.
To this very day I believe and feel that Martin Scorsese should have taken the Oscar for BEST Director for Goodfellas, this movie is perfection! I've watched it over two hundred times by now and yes it's no wonder Joe Pesci won his Oscar 'Best Supporting' he was phenomenal per his norm, from 'Home Alone' and sheer humour to his psycho 'turn' in Goodfellas. One of the most incredible movies ever made~~!!!
I also thought that he should've won best director for Raging Bull, over Redford for Ordinary People. I mean, c'mon.
And dont forget Joe Pescis comical role as Nicky the Plumber in Easy Money from 1983 with Rodney Dangerfield 😎
I literally watch Casino and Goodfellas once a week. 😅. FCKn masterpieces 🤌🏽🥂🏆
Should’ve won for Raging Bull. Voted best movie of the decade!
@@samanthab1923 Awesome movie!!! The weight gain on DeNiro OMG>...
I honestly believe that “Goodfellas” was and is one of the best movies ever made. The soundtrack is absolutely awesome!
I don't believe, i know.
How many quotable lines came out of Goodfellas? Tons
The song "Layla" makes the movie!
@@mkp3824 The whole soundtrack was really good.
@ottokokko6343 yes!
Goodfellas AND Casino were two of the best movies ever in my opinion. Two movies based on actual events? Awesome!
Glad to know that you discovered something new about Goodfellas. Who is your favorite cast?
I agree, I just got through watching Casino again.
@MrHeart1 - Indeed they were. I think the Sopranos was the best Mob "TV series" though.
i don’t know what’s crazier, how bizarre Pesci acted as Tommy or the fact that Henry Hill said his acting was spot on
They kept a lot out to
They could’ve made them 2 part movies
The Spider scene was one that absolutely happened. The kid was just a neighborhood teen who worked as a gofer for the crew, just as Henry had, Tommy as well. You can probably find it on TH-cam where Howard Stern was talking to Henry Hill when Spider's (the real one) sister called into the show and started laying into Henry Hill. He knew here too, although hadn't seen her in many years. This is when Henry is all spooked up on alcohol and drugs and not long for the world. But she starts screaming at him: you piece of shiz, you murdered my little brother who never did anything but look up to you scumbags ..... Henry was seemingly aghast that she was even upset with him. He was like ... ME? What are you talking about? That was Tommy, I didn't shoot the kid, I liked him. Tommy did it. All I did was help bury him." ... Can you even imagine that kinda mindset? She said to Howard that Tommy ( Tommy DeSimone) actually came to their family home a few weeks after Spider vanished into thin air, or thick dirt, and told Spider's mother that he would do all he could to help locate her son, and he gave her $500 and said "I hope this helps". These guys were absolute scum, pure trash.
You wouldn't say that to their faces and get away with it. Trust and believe. You're right for what they did to spider,but no one would live to tell about it.
@@renaz630who cares? All men live and die, just like these scumbags thought they would live forever but will rot away
I listened to the audiobook. Not the Pileggi one but the other one. It was free, I didn't buy it. Hill comes across as a worthless POS. I don't believe his lies that he was in the airborne either.
@@renaz630 I'd give them a smack right in the mout. And you'd get one too.
A lot of the scenes in the movie were taken from actual events.
The scene with Spider makes the “how am I funny” scene more powerful.
We absolutely agree! Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts. Be safe and enjoy the rest of your evening!
I thought that you said dat you was alright Spider.
Spider should have just shut up and made Tommy another drink. Tommy, who was crazy like a fox, was testing Spider’s loyalty, as he was also doing with Hank.
“Now you’re gonna dig the hole!”
The scene when Tommy kills Spider is one of the few that are historically accurate.
Goodfellas is one of the all time classics. A directorial masterpiece. Gets better every time I watch it.
Like Scarface, my opinion.
Go get your shine box! A great movie with countless unforgettable scenes. A masterclass in film production.
you are a funny guy
Prove me wrong but I don't think Henry & Karen were "married" when they entered the Copa. Wasn't that just their first date.??? 😮
Yes
Right. not married yet but not the first date. Karen: What do you do? Henry: Im in construction
Youz is right!
I love this movie. One scene I love is when Henry pistol whips Karen's neighbor for attacking her and pushing her out of his car. I love the I mean buisness walk and the casual way he tells Karen to hide the bloody gun. RIP Ray Liotta. ❤
In that scene, I remember watching an interview with him and how angry he was because he said, his mother was sick and she had died while shooting that scene…it had to be hard, to not be there for his mom, but as an actor, he captured all his real life emotions, in that scene!
And to hear the guy shoot his mouth off, in front of his buddies, angered him even more and he actually and accidentally broke the guy’s nose with the butt of the gun when he pistol whipped him. It was great acting, but in the interview, you could tell, it wasn’t just acting…it was raw emotions.
It is my all time favourite movie. I usually never say a movie is perfect, but this one genuinely is. Everything from casting, dialogue,music and voiceovers and performances by all…and how it’s shot. It’s got a ‘fly on the wall vibe’ for me. The camera follows a lot,makes me feel like I’m there! But that’s great because I feel like I’m living and seeing it all with them.
You like murderers and thieves?
Why would anyone want to cut the dinner scene with Tommy's mom? It's one of the best scenes in the entire movie. It's a great depiction of how Tommy and Jimmy could be so happy and cavalier after just committing a murder, having fun and cracking jokes over dinner while their car is parked right outside with (what they believe is) a fresh corpse in the trunk. It's a perfect demonstration of how different the two of them were compared to normal people (and an excellent demonstration of how while Henry was a member of the Mafia he was nowhere near the level of sociopath that the others were).
Tommy's commentary on the painting is so freaking hilarious 😂
@@nemya9586 Every time I watch this film I become more and more tempted to go online and find a reproduction of his mother's painting to put on my wall
This video explains that.
The only film I watched twice at the cinema within a week. I had to go back a second time take everything in. Incredible film.
Yeah, same with me. I was like, "I'm gonna see Goodfellas. See Goodfellas."
@@waynej2608 😀
Me too...saw it twice within a few days. Sept 1990...
Bro, I never left the cinema...I lived in a toilet room for weeks...I saw the movie almost a hundred times.
Get the papers get the papers
This is my most favorite movie of all time... It's a cult classic. R.I.P. Ray!!
I've watched this film a zillion times Martin Scorsese is brilliant
❤ R.|.P Ray you were my Hollywood Crush
Preach sister..🥰❤👍
I watch this movie every time it's on
Mine too. He was Beautiful!
Correction; The Ronettes "Be my Baby" is in the opening scene of "Mean Streets". The opening track of this movie is "Rags to Riches" by Tony Bennett.
Martin Scorsese's vision was spot on,I know for fact.
What's the scene that wasn't just edited but entirely cut out of the movie?
I don’t recall the Ronettes “Be My Baby” being in this movie. It was in the opening of Scorsese’s “Mean Streets”.
They wanted to cut the most vital and best scenes ; that figures.
Ray Liotta was perfect for this part like he was for few others; he always had a distinct look and vibe which only worked for those men you don't want as friends or enemies.
Yeah, seriously. When he mentioned the "How am I funny" and "Tracking shot" scenes, I half expected him to say movie execs wanted to cut those, too! 😆
The scene with Tommy's mother was great. It gave depth to his character.
Exactly
He was way worse in real life
He was a murdering psycho
It also showed the juxtaposition of their murderous ways and family. It seems like it inspired the Sopranos in a way.
@@hudsonmilbank Whitey Bulger and his mom. He would kill without hesitation or remorse, but adored his mother.
The Bird Man of Alcatraz. Robert Stroud would kill without remorse but adored his mother.
@@BigBillKelly-x2z It's kind of more unique how the thing blows up over a comment about shoe shines. It might have been homophobic comments in real life, but everyone's heard that before and this was actually more interesting.
For many years Goodfellas was my all time favorite movie. I think it’s definitely the best mob movie of all time.
What’s your favourite movie now?
Mobsters is almost as good but not as popular.
Outlaw Josef Wales @@arranboon1
The scene with Tommy's mom is absolutely wonderful and provides a much-needed lighter moment.
I'm an absolute fan! It's a masterpiece all around. Great cast, great script, great music, and great cinematography. All the best!
It's just so very real life mob an these actors bring it life . Amazing you forget it's acting sometimes it's that good
I am Italian, of Sicilian and Calabrian origins and now I have been living in Brazil for a few years, every time I see this masterpiece I find myself at home. For me Italian-American artists are the best in the world, they have an edge, and are very natural because they don't have to invent anything, they interpret pieces of their lives ❤
How about the Italian-American thieves and murderers represented in the movie. You like them?
One of the best.
Nothing to change.
Every character played their parts 100%
I thought we would see a deleted scene?
Was an extra in the scene where Henry is busted sitting at table getting grilled by Bo Dietl. I'm a cop wearing a maroon t-shirt walking right to left. My best memory was during one of the takes someone drops the gear for cutting coke...Marty exclaimed we might use it "accidents are the friend of art"...I never heard him use that quote in subsequent interviews; but it works for me and certainly worked in the making of this picture.
Happy Accidents ❤
All the nonsense about Bo on the NJ Housewives show 😂
Arthur Penn called them ''wonderful accidents of filmmaking''. when Bonnie leaves Clyde & the gang behind, to hide in the big cornfield, it's a boom shot ( that means elevated scene, right?), and while Clyde chases Bonnie, a black cloud passes overhead unexpected, but it was purposely left in, as it foretold of a dark end on the way. brilliant accident.
When you were there did you feel that this movie would become what it became or did it kinda just seem like it would be a “regular movie”?
@@MarkMcCray-gg3wx Wasn't super educated on Scorsese pics and had no clue it would have the lasting effect it's had over the last 32 years.
Hearing "Layla" when all the bodies are discovered was unforgettable.
Loved that scene also..So great it makes me tear up
Watched the whole video, so where is the scene that got cut as the title alludes to?
Never tire of hearing anything about this movie.
The "how am I funny?" Scene has several versions of its source. Agent Joe Pistone claimed he overheard two soldiers having a friendly conversation that turned sideways. Explaining how it was funny but also summed up the danger he was constantly in. It's one of those iconic scenes that others claim to have really been involved in.
Supposedly Scorsese filmed this without everyone else, except Joe and Ray, knowing whether it would end up in smiles or another murder by Tommy. He wanted the other actors to be duly nervous. Brilliant direction if the story is true.
uh, yeah, as is mentioned in the vid. @@dougiesherwin9591
Yes, that's in the video.
Jump into the Fire was probably one of the most associated tunes from the movie and was released in '71
Perfect for that scene
I drive a transport truck around and play that track often. Love the guitar riffs.
Goodfellas clearly should have won best picture Oscar in 1991, hands down. It seems like a no-brainer now, but prior to the Oscars, it was getting very little attention. "Dances with Wolves" was the film getting the most buzz. With its grand scale, historical backdrop, and a powerful social message that seemed timely, it fit the archetype for films that Oscar voters tended to favor. I think for many people "The Godfather" and its sequel were still seen as somehow the be all end all of that genre. I think it took some time for people - and certainly Oscar voters - to wrap their heads around Martin Scorsese's less romantic view of life in the mafia. On Oscar night only Joe Pesci's unforgettable performance as Tommy DeVito brought home the gold that night for the film. It surely deserved more - Best Picture and Best Director at the very least. Time, though, has brought the acclaim and recognition that Scorsese's "Goodfellas" deserves as one of the true masterpieces of cinema and storytelling.
Which scene was cut?
"Goodfellas," was a legend in it's era...Robert DiNero, Joe Pesci and Ray Liotta at their finest!
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You wouldn’t say that same thing if the movie was stereotyping spooks.. but it’s totally OK to denigrate white people as criminals.
Who would have thought Ray would go first? 🙏🏻
@@samanthab1923 Yes, so sad. 😢😥
@@samanthab1923 Paul Sorvino also passed away.
My father had a gas station in Brooklyn, All the mobsters brought their cars to him to be repaired, I was a kid then and used to fill their cars with gasoline and wash and wax them. In my mind those days are STILL clear as a bell !!!
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Aside from the fact that the scene with Scorsese's mother brought some comic relief, it also showed how these vicious sociopaths were capable of conducting themselves as perfectly "normal" people when they wanted to.
Be My Baby was the opening for Mean Streets Rags to Riches was the opening for Goodfellas
"Now go home and get your effin' shinebox!" For some reason, that scene sticks out the most with me... among the many memorable scenes in the movie.
And Billy, sorry, Frank, would get his revenge on Tommy, or Nicky, by beating him senseless with a Baseball bat in Casino
Goodfellas. Full Metal Jacket. Falling Down. All have the same power of putting the viewer into moments of so many of the characters in various places in the viewer's own life events.
While not exact, the metaphor and real life event are visceral, and palpable.
Such genius lives on far longer than a fleeting award.
Scorsese, Kubrick, Stone, are all genius in bringing the art to us.
Just a few, there are more.
But these feel like a trip to me, and how they relate to moments in my life.
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I particularly liked the donovan song "atlantis" during the batts beatdown scene..strange how that folk song fits with such a scene.
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I know was so classic.
@@FactsVerse How about one whose content matches the title's description/promise?
A scene was cut? Karen?!?! Why did you do that?!?!
A CLASSIC MOVIE 🍿!! I remember the first time I saw it I was on a date and we watched it in his car! This was in the early to mid 2000’s when people could install TV 📺’s in cars! Since that day I’ve been a SUPER FAN OF GOODFELLAS AND CASINO!!!
Am I really going to watch all this and NOT get the scene that was cut??
Glad you said it. Nobody else seemed to notice.
I think the first two Godfather movies together are tied with Goodfellas. These are my three favorite gangster movies made in my life time.
Couldn't agree more, Godfather 1, Godfather 2 and Goodfellas
Look a wing!
This movie is legendary, and will be a cult favorite forever.
Goodfellas, The Godfather, and The Godfather Part II. All three tied for my favorite movie. Brilliant acting and direction. I’ve seen them countless times.
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Couldn’t agree more on all three. Goodfellas was pure gold. However The Godfather and The Godfather II were next level. Those can’t be beat. Do The Departed and No Country for Old Men. Another couple of all timers.
Joe Pesce was a guitar player for Joey D's band and he played at the Peppermint Lounge in NYC.
Loved goodfellas!, great movie!
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Cutting out Mama Scorsese? That's absurd.
Goodfellas is a gangster saga that will always stand the test of time, brilliantly directed by Martin Scorsese. It’s truly a shame that he has only has one ☝️ Oscar.
Wonderful. Where is the scene that was cut? Reason I watched this clip to begin with.
I remember watching Goodfellas for the first time in 1990. I was excited to see Joe Pesci in the role. I remember seeing him a year before as Leo in Lethal Weapon two and how funny his character was and expecting something similar. After watching him as the actor, Tommy, I thought he was one of the most frightening people I ever saw in cinema. What a change in characters.
Little did we know how versatile an actor Joe Pesci was at the time of Lethal Weapon 2. The guy was able to go back and forth between violence and comedy easily. Lethal Weapon, Goodfellas, Home Alone, Casino, My Cousin Vinny. And that's just over a couple of years!
@@markb20 , Mark, thank you for naming the other movies. Holy cow, you are so right, what a versatile actor.
@@SThompsonRAMM_1203 Thanks, I even left out Home Alone 2! Except for Casino (1995), he did all those movies from 1989 to 1992. What an incredible streak of movies in such a short time...
@@markb20 My Cousin Vinny is n my top 5. I can watch every time it shows up on tv if it's unedited.
@@teleguy5699 Pesci and Oscar winner Marisa Tomei were so good in it, and had a great supporting cast. Man, Pesci was on a roll during those years...
Did you even watch the movie? Tommy’s mom did throw them a dinner party at 2 am in the morning, she did what all mothers do ( or use to do) when her son shows up after a long absence with his friends, she feeds them. The music spanned 4 decades of songs not 2 ! Karen and Henry weren’t married yet in the astounding said iconic steady cam scene . Watch the movie ya mommaluke
I was a criminal investigator in a Seattle area law enforcement agency back in the mid '80s when we learned that Henry Hill, under another name of course, was one of our new residents. We only found out after Henry got caught early one morning crawling out of a small local mini-mart through a broken window with a couple of bottles of wine in hand. Apparently he didn't know about the alarm. The next day we got to meet some nice federal folks who only then informed us who he was. Even though he was in the witness protection program Henry loved to regale everybody at a local lounge as to his exploits and eventually after our local narcotics task force nailed him and a few others on a cocaine deal the feds found him a new place to live. Ray was a lot better looking than Henry BTW... 😅
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The real-life Tommy shot a stranger to test his gun...
"What do you expect me to do, shoot him?" "It wouldn't be a bad idea..."
As mentioned elsewhere - the tracking shot scene was invented by Scorsese who saw this happening with real mobsters when he was a kid - in real life Henry Hill was too small to get these kind of perks.
Goodfellas glamorized the Mob too much which is why I like Donny Brasco more it seemed like the mob guys were really struggling and hurting just like everyone else
Tracking shot was first used in 1914, so I doubt Scorsese invented it.
Dude this movie was around 98% true. The characters in this movie were actual mobsters. Henry Hill was a real person. And this was a story about his life as a mobster.
Henry Hill was a real person who was full of crap and never looked as good as he did in this film. About half of this story is accurate, the rest of it is Henrys BS coupled with Hollywood exaggeration. Check out the interviews with the real Henry where he often had trouble putting a coherent sentence together. Still one of the greatest movies of all time.
Real prosecutor too. Edward McDonald helped get Karen & Henry Hill into WPP
As far as actual events go about 90% but Hollywood has a way of twisting the truth so probably closer to 50%
Ray Liotta in this, Unlawful Entry, Narcs. Just wow. I know he did a lot of films, but still, I always felt he didnt get the parts he should have somehow. He absolutely made these movies. a real raw talent.
At least 9 of the Goodfellas cast went on to appear in The Sopranos, maybe more.
It is 27
GOODFELLAS is in my top 3 movies of all time. I could tell you how many times I've watched it.
How many? ☺
I know it's been well over 100 times and I'm not exaggerating.
Me too every time it comes on I believe it was one of the movies that helped Samuel L Jackson's career.
Pal, GET A GODDAMNED LIFE OR GO BACK EAST AND FIND AN ASSOCIATED CREW TO JOIN!
I fail to understand how four stabs could make the difference between staying in the theatre and walking out.
I absolutely love this movie. And Joe Pesci was absolutely unbelievable in this movie.
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No.1.I now the dialogue by heart without trying.
This is in my top 5 best movies for me being number one. And Casino right behind it being number two. Scarface would come in at number three
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It's definitely a hard choice. First id have to say Joe pesci he was fantastic in the original Home Alone.
Movie is in my all-time top 5 with the deer hunter, wall street, magnificent 7 and road house. honorable mention to a bronx tale.
Love this movie!! Ray stole some of it and Joe stole what was left!
De Niro, Bracco, and Sorvino had some moments of 'thievery', as well.
De Niro took the rest.
Ray wasn't even nominated--HE should've won an Oscar for this! He was a great guy & NOTHING like his sometimes psychotic, villainous roles. He wasn't even Italian. RIP Ray.
This is a great mini-documentary. You did a great job. However, there is one major mix up at 4:20 - The Ronettes' "Be My Baby" was used as the introductory song for Scorsese's "Mean Streets" NOT "Goodfellas."
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Godfather # 1 & # 2 ,and Goodfellas best Mob Movies of all time then Casino ...
Agreed and followed by Donny Brasco and Bronx Tale
The Best Mob Movie, Glad I Got the DVD.
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Your title says "The infamous scene that was cut from Goodfellas"...
I'm still waiting...?????
It's as good as they come! Scorcese probably nails at The highest % amongst all directors. He's the John Ford of his generation.
Like everyone else, I liked it when it came out, but in light of recent history I think it played a role in the coarsening of the current society we live in.
My favorite! I’ll watch it again and again!
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okay. where was the scene that was cut from the movie???????
Goodfellas and Fargo are my two all-time favorites. I go back and forth between which one is better.
Damn! Both are in my top ten of all movies from all eras. Along with Dr Strangelove, The Seventh Seal & La Dolce Vita to name three more.
On of my all time favorites, watch it a least once a month.
Gangster junky.
Goodfellas is a masterpiece.
Yes. Best gangster movie ever made.
Scorsese's movies always have prominent musical soundtracks, usually heavy on The Rolling Stones. Its Scorsese's trademark
Pay close attention to that tracking shot in the kitchen of the Copa Cabana. As soon as they walk into the kitchen, Henry and Karen take a left and walk amongst refrigerators, prep tables and the like, taking three more rights before taking a left. This was done to provide the illusion that the kitchen was a labyrinth that Henry and Karen had to navigate to get to their front-row seats. Actually, if they had taken a right when they initially entered the kitchen, instead of that first left, they would have gone straight into the club's main room. But, of course, we wouldn't have gotten that iconic tracking shot.
Another thing about the tracking shot is that all those standing in line are also the seated audience in the restaurant. All the actors had to go from being outside in line to being seated inside after the camera had passed them by.
@@Wailwulf So going through the kitchen WASN'T a faster way in. 🤣
Henry Hill is in two places at once, he's helping spider while at the same time sitting at the table 🤣
I love goodfellas so much that I have an old VHS machine and two tapes with it recorded on twice! If the cable goes out that’s what I watch!
Fun stuff, thanks for sharing your life story! Planned for Doomsday 😂😂
I love that ❤
@@FactsVerse every now an then I’ll update it and change shows!
Side note: The Spider scene reincarnated in the Sopranos with Michael Imperioli shooting the bakery kid in the foot was amazing.
Best movie ever, hand down. To think it lost to Dances with Wolves at the Oscar’s is a joke.
Agree. Scorsese loses with Goodfellas while Costner gets a gift horse and wins for Plays with Camera!
Preach brother
Sunshine of Your Love playing when Jimmy decides he's gonna whack Maury always gets me, it's like you can see the gears turning in his head, just cold blooded calculation personified.
The film is so well done and the music is incredible. A fantastic look into the not so distant past.
This wasn't a movie. It was a FILM. There's a difference. Most are just movies. The great ones are FILMS.
Definitely in the top 10 movies of all time.
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De Niro is like 4 actors in 1. He can play the part of an Italian guy from Brooklyn, Queens, The Bronx or Staten Island. Manhattan was too much of a stretch for him.
Huh?
Michael Franzese who is shown in the movie played by an actor said that Henry never looked as good as he did in Goodfellas. We all know now that he was a sad addict who ratted on his friends to save his own skin and not , as he likes to say, because they were psychopaths.
Although his boss Paulie screwing Karen probably didn’t exactly help matters any.
@cha5 'Why did you do that, Karen!?"
Kaaaa-ren!!! 😆
Franzese and Hill knew who each other were, but they never hung together. They were parts of different families. Scorsese just put in the name of a known Mafioso.
I think I saw Goodfellas when I was abt 10 with my Dad. I loved it! I tht it was exciting! I wanted to be a Gangster! But I wasn't a terrible kid so i wanted to be a fair Gangster. Lol! Later I wld run with some rough crews and prone to violence. My Grandpa was a gangster type and my Dad was pretty bad news so I guess that made me prone to my ways. I was always impressed with tough guys, and I guess lived by a certain code that wasn't the norm. But I cldnt be a Mafioso, I wasnt a bully, cldnt kill my friends or hurt anybody unless they deserved it. I was pretty crazy, but not sadistic, psychopathic, nor cld I ever put any organization before my Family like LA Cosa Nostra asks of their members. But a hell of a movie! I'm glad I saw it came out the time it did. Kids these days can't understand the power and philosophy of the movie. Favorite scene was when Jimmy (Robert DeNiro) is standing against the bar smoking with a cold stare contemplating the murder of Morry with the song Inagotadavita playing.
wonderful film! Ray Liotta, and wife really pull this film together, thank you, Karen!
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Back then, a lot of cursing seemed fake. Later, people realized it's actually realistic. Kids today won't quite understand that. It really makes me think.