Bill Burr - Goodfellas
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- Bill Burr breakdowns parts of this Masterpiece, that is the movie called "Goodfellas."
I'd put Goodfellas in my Top 5 Movies of All-Time.
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A young man grows up in the mob and works very hard to advance himself through the ranks. He enjoys his life of money and luxury, but is oblivious to the horror that he causes. A drug addiction and a few mistakes ultimately unravel his climb to the top. - บันเทิง
You know what, Bill, you're a really funny guy.
is he funny heehee, or funny ha ha?
is he funny like a clown/
how the FUCK is he funny? What is so funny about him?
Go get your fucking shine box!
Ivan you got it all wrong.
The narrative structure of Goodfellas has always blown my mind. It's technically an epic that spans twenty years and shows the rise and fall of a criminal and his organization but at the same time it's such an intimate, ground-level exploration of specific characters told from one man's perspective that it feels like a character study. And I think it's because each scene is broken down into its own little story that it's like a feature length comprised of little short films. As Bill mentioned, each scene is a closer. They each have an introduction, climax and resolution that works both in the self-contained context of the scene and in that of the film as a whole.
Am I making any sense? I think I am. There is so much greatness going on in that film you can pick it apart and talk about it forever.
I think what’s interesting is that it doesn’t really follow the typical “hero’s journey” but rather the regular beats of life. It’s based off of a real guys life story and with the way it’s narrated and the pacing of it it really feels like somebody’s life story and that’s what makes it such a different and unique movie.
Each scene is pretty much a vignette and each vignette completely has you enthralled. Great storytelling and filmmaking
Yeah maybe more movies should use that structure. It might not be linear as some people would like but it would give writers more of a chance to pack interesting scenes that can later follow an overarching narrative
@@Sernival Every good movie does aim to use that structure. Only novices take the "story structure pyramid" of buildup-climax-resolution very literally. Every scene should have its own "pyramid" while also being apart of the overall pyramid. Viewers might not notice it, but movies naturally flop if they have like 40 minutes of monotonous exposition.
@@kylehogankh That's horseshit. It plays heavily off of the hero's journey in a dark, twisted route.
Henry's very clearly following a twisted, warped hero's journey. He's called out of the ordinary by something from beyond the pale, initiates himself into a higher calling, goes through hell and contends with evil, then finally when the shit hits the fan, he returns to the ordinary "egg noodles and ketchup" life that he came from. It's a full circle anti-hero's journey. That's why Scorsese focuses so much on what attracted Henry to the mob life.
It's not as if Goodfellas doesn't have patterns. There's icarus-like shit in it too, for example.
In the famous "How am I funny?" scene, Tommy says jokingly that Henry will fold under questioning.
The color red represents every new chapter in Henry's life. When Henry first meets Jimmy, the background has a red tint to it. The cigarettes he first gets pinched selling were Marlboro Reds. When Tommy is talking to Henry about a favor to go on a double date where Henry will meet his future wife, the bar they're about to destroy is bathed in red. The restaurant they hang out is bathed red. When Henry ditches Karen, she's wearing a blue outfit that turns red when the camera closes in on her (the lamp on the table). Then when she confronts him she's wearing a red dress (now he likes her). The corvette the rapist owns when Henry pistols whips him is red. The red lighting when they kill Billy Bats and dig him up later. Later on after the Lufthansa heist, at the Xmas party Henry is wearing a red blazer/sports coat. More later on, when Henry gets caught, the whole day he was stressing over sauce. And finally, the last shot of the movie, as we see Henry's feet as he goes to get the paper (get the paper), we see red flowers in a red pot. Flowers symbolize new life.
Man, this movie does such a better job at using the color red for symbolism than a certain....other...movie that everyone wouldn't shut the fuck up about regarding the twist ending.
Awesome comment dude, I've never seen it that way. But, just one question: maybe I have been living under a rock or something, but what movie has that twist ending you are talking about?
+Filip Šeget The Sixth Sense.
Chirs Vandehey thanks dude
Bull-shit.. Her dress was clearly white and gold
I agree! I also think it's an homage to Francis' usage of the color ORANGE in the Godfather. The Sopranos, The Departed, etc. have used color symbolism as well. Definitely my favorite movie in life.
The guy singing is whisteling like a bird - "sing like a bird" - which is another type of slang for snitching or ratting people out.
Wanna cookie, genius?
Bill didn’t even know what it meant fuck face
Yep, kinda like blue falcon.
Lee, that makes sense. Watched Goodfellas 30 times, and never really thought about that scene. Scorsese is explicitly showing it though.
@@paddleflambeau9434 lol he can be an idiot sometimes. No disrespect.
Best gangster movie ever made, Bill has great taste in movies..
GF I & II. But they're all on a par.
I prefer The Godfather myself, but great movie nonetheless
+ttv0 Godfather is 100x better, mainly because the acting is fucking atrocious.
"Goodfellas" (1991) = rat woršhip
***** I'd say Henry ratting was a pretty good thing for the public, unless you're in favor of organized crime.
Anyone think Bill sounds like Classic Loitta narrating the whole video?
Singing like a bird...
foreshadowing
very good! i didn't pick up on that but even when he's describing that scene he said why cut to that who's singing like a bird so i think you nailed it
Like a Canary
Genius
Sing like a canary.
What's great is stuff like the red lighting and the shot of Joe Pesci firing the gun is that it's interpretable, like you can find your own meaning in an otherwise already kickass movie
Henry Hill showed up at Howard Stern’s radio show years ago . Stern. asked him if he wasn’t concerned with getting wacked as he left , Hill said he wasn’t because anyone who would want him dead was ether in prison , to old or dead . At some point Spider ‘s sister called in & tryed to get him to reveal where her brothers body was buried . He said he didn’t know because if he told her that he would be implicating himself in a crime that has no statute of limitation , so that was that
ray manderville damn.. now I want to hear that episode
ray manderville .......... I GOTTA HEAR THAT NOW!!!!!!!
TheDragonOfPoe .......Henry Hill is a rat bitch. Nothing more, nothing less.
@TheDragonOfPoe if you can make peace with god and find redemption after the shit he was involved in, heaven sounds like a pretty dog shit place full of cocksuckers.
I was listening to that episode.
That’s back when I used to listen to Howard every morning during work.
I like seeing the analytical intellectual side of Bill.
I think the bit with The Jazz Singer is a link to the first talkie. From that point on Harry Hill knows that he's either going to die, or have to talk in order to stay alive.
foreshadowing that someone will sing like a bird
Derosas theory about the sausage is something I would have NEVER thought of and its effing brilliant.
The background is red to signify "hell"... The guy singing Tootsie is Al Jolson signifying to Karen that "it's over"...
4:36 - that clip is from the movie The Jazz Singer which came out in 1927 and was the first feature-length movie with not only a synchronized recorded music score but also lip-synchronous singing and speech in certain points in the film, throughout. It's generally regarded as the movie that ended the silent movie era, so perhaps Scorcese is using it to signify change.
I remember when I first saw Goodfellas, I got to the scene where they go to Tommy's mother's house and she's all welcoming and friendly. That was funny to me because I thought she would act more like Livia Soprano.
Bill Burr loving Goodfellas is the most unsurprisingly thing ever
The song playing on the TV while the feds search the house is Al Jolson Goodbye Tootsie. The first talkie, with a bird whistle solo. Henry is gonna talk to the feds and sing like a bird.
Tommy’s mum in the film is actually Martin Scorsese’s mum in real life
You know what else is a good scene? Every single scene where someone is cooking food.
Never noticed but your Tommy thing makes sense.
Ray Liota stayed at a hotel I worked at for a couple weeks. There was a movie being shot on site and they gave him the penthouse while he shot his scenes. There was an order for a bottle of liquor to be brought up every hour to his room, and he came down to the kitchen at one point because his bottle didn't get delivered. Dude's mean.
Bill is a genius. Not because of how funny he is. But how funny he is can indicate his intellect.
Dear bill, the reason that the scene is shot in red. Like you saw in the beginning of the movie, he had a good heart, he helped a stranger. Was a good boy. Had learning disabilities so his options limited. You were shown his dad-who was cruel, we were made to feel pity. Which manipulated us to identify with him, like him, pull for him. The director wanted us to see that we are no better than him. That if we grew up in that situation even with our good heart we could end up the same way he did. That’s why even though he was a rat which is suppose to make us hate him, we can still identify because he was never really one of them. he was shifty, street smart, desperate enough and witty enough to fool them the whole time that he was one of them, was as sick as them. The whole film you get the feeling he feels he knows deep down he’s a fraud. Really shows in the, “you think I’m funny” scene. Joe was joking but he didn’t know if joe was joking or serious. Even when he sees he is joking you can still see fear in his laugh. I ramble. Ok. The red. The red was his hell. The red was symbolism; he was at the point of no return and he knew it. It was a low point, a point of no return. Which you touched on. From now on we will see the down fall. Down, fall, low. All related to hell. Was the most fucked up, ruthless shit he as ever been a part of and the red is the evil in how he recalled it in his memory. From this point on everything falls apart. Ah. Fuck. I’m drunk as shit. What do I know. It’s all interpretation. That’s why I love movies. I hope you are well buddy. I can identify with you quite a bit. Take care.
Spot on billy. I watched it again last night for the 50th time. Everything is perfect
As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to review Goodfellas
There are some movies, no matter how many times you've seen them, that you are just COMPELLED to watch them again. I was LITERALLY scanning through the guide about an hour ago and Goodfellas was on the list. I pressed it and watched it again....for the millionth time! The funny thing is, no matter how many times I've seen it....so much that I can recite the fucking lines like it's part of my muscle memory, I am still FASCINATED by this film. It's THAT FUCKING good. One of the best movies of the 20th century!💓👍👍👍
They actually never shot Billy. Tommy stabbed him like 40+ times while Billy was pleading to Henry to help him. And Henry was trying to get out for a while even before that but they kept following him in what he did when he tried to go legit and get out. So he was trapped basically
Goodfellas was my favourite movie for quite a while, and I still love it, it is just not in my top few anymore. Scorsese I like, but I don't rate him with the devotional admiration that so many others seem to feel. Still hats off to you for making a great little video to go with Bill's podcast comments, you did it with great style, so thanks from the army of old farts of the internet.
Everyone talks shit about Henry being a rat but I absolutely love that character.
You have to remember something, it’s not like Henry put some really good, nice, innocent people in prison. These guys were absolutely evil, cold blooded, psychopath murderers. Fuck them. Henry, never actually kills anyone, he just sells drugs and makes money for himself, and instead of being killed or going to prison, he rats everyone out and goes into the witness protection program. It’s brilliant, it’s survival of the fittest. Fuck dignity, Henry just did what he had to do. I love it.
Scorsese is a cinemaphile. I think the scene with Tommy firing into the camera was not only what Bill was talking about but also a homage to The Great Train Robbery. One of the first western motion pictures.
Rip Ray a real wise guy well miss ya man
the red?
i thought it was supposed to symbolise hell.
they were sending him to hell, but ultimately they're all going to hell.
I think we're alike in many ways. But this take on my favorite movie ever, I have to agree with your theories. Every time I watch it I notice something new
That thumbnail is great. Imagine him and Pesci bickering in the movie.
Should do more remix intro songs. Going to be honest hated the like a boss when I first heard it, but it's grown on me
you can't kill a made man without permission.
Yeah ok genius
Best mafia movie in my book.
The bird song is symbolic as he “sang like a bird” which is an old term for snitching
5:30 in my country some village people went into the cinema in the nearby city and in the film there was a shot where a train was coming towards the camera. All of them ran out of the theater :)
Bill, you’re overthinking stuff - the background is lit red in that scene just to give it a diabolical, scenic look.
Or maybe you’re underthinking stuff? Bill is right, it’s Scorsese, it does mean something. There’s a reason why Scorsese is regarded as a living legend in filmmaking, he doesn’t make scenes like that just to give it a look lol
Guy fucks up and says the great train robbery was made in 1906 when it literally says in two different places that it's from 1903 at the opening credits.
now i want to watch Goodfellas with Bill
Argh, now I'm gonna have to watch it this weekend again
Woah, this theories that Bill gave are actually deep and they make sense.
Great point about Henry Hill & how he’s portrayed in the film. Like he’s the hero, the man. He really was a piece of shit. A rat who went against everything he said he stood for throughout the movie.
In the mafia, when you want to wack someone, it has to be approved by the higher ups. It has to be given the “green light”. Billy Batts murder was never given the green light, as he was a high ranking member, and usually if you wacked someone without approval, you ended up getting killed yourself.
I think the red light represents the fact that the murder was not approved by the family and that it would ultimately lead to Tommy’s own demise.
Like a balls
like a boss....not like a balls
+bospqr Sigh
You already know why the guy on the TV says "Goodbye" after Hill turns snitch. The red backdrop is an interesting theory. I would take it a step further and submit that it's symbolic of the hell he's created for himself?
The skyline is red because they're using the brake lights to work in the dark night instead of the headlights which will draw attention.
god damn ur right bill, cant count how many times iv watched it
3:14 Bill Burr, tough guy. You’d roll over too, ginger.
For sure. He did the same thing in The Departed with the X's on the carpets.
Dude u broke that down so great!!!!!!!
I didn’t think I could like this movie more but I do from watching this.
Tommy becomes a made man, goes inside and says oh no.
4:19 To sing like a bird is slang for rating someone out.
The singer is Al Jolson....1920s he was Huge back then.
I’d have to agree with burr. It has to be the greatest movie ever made
It means he's gonna "sing like a bird"
Best intro ever
Only noticed on like the twentieth viewing the guys who whacked Tommy: Tuddy (the guy from the cab stand) and Vinnie (the old guy doing time with Henry who put too many onions in the sauce)
That guy whistling is Al Jolson in his last movie, "The Singing Kid". It foreshadowed 'The Kid' Henry singing like a bird to stay out of prison.
That‘s just my opinion anyway.
John Doe Well, you're wrong, its Al Jolsen in The Jazz Singer.
John Doe exactly what I was thinking man
John Doe I always heard sing like a canary, but yeah, that's what I thought also. and Bill Burr if you do read this, You freaking rock in my book!
Fucking perfect .
The red sky is archetypal of Dante’s Inferno. That was the scene where they crossed the line, it was the end of the era of good times, and the rest of the movie was the down fall. No redemption.
I saw that scene as more of the scene's actual framing, rather than the substance within the shot; with red simply signifying blood, aka bad blood btw them...but then the more influential portion of it being the fact that henry was literally standing/positioned 'over the hill' in the digging scene, by himself...then pesci and deniro were on the lower right side of the same dirt mount/hill, in the darker area of the light...so just thinking in general about the idea being that henry's over the hill, past his prime, realizes that there's nothing good coming for him in the near future whatsoever, so he chooses the easy way out by leaving the other two in the dark when he moves onto his next life - considering in a new + witness protection life, he wouldn't have technically ever known those two, so as they faded he kept getting further over the hill...that was just kind of how I always considered it. and then as you said it was the scene where they crossed the line - and in the scene, pesci and deniro literally crossed a line (the hill) and for the remaining portion of the scene they were positioned in their own spots with varying amounts of light; whether it be none or red...which also then begs the question of: who, given everything learned in the *film* up until that point, would you consider to be the "bad" one in this particular situation? Henry...the other two were doing what they'd always done their whole crime-lives...Henry changed and chose that since he saw the writing on the wall, he took the way out that nobody does....
(2nd part was lots of speculation there, lol...but the first part with the hill as the separating point in the framing of the still scene was just always how I saw it, since it was a pretty blatant split into entirely different styles of portraying each one as either 'good' or 'bad' and which one would you say crossed the - literal - line..)
Mike very nice!!
Archetype huh? Too big word for us!
Respect the Chaos I think that’s what bill was saying
@@mkm1856 Sounds like a massive amount of over-thinking.
When they're digging up Billy Batts' grave it actually looks like they're in Hell.
Says to me that retribution is coming.
Yeah, the hell-invoking lighting there, I suspect, is meant to show a gruesome moment like that as the lowest, ugliest level of gangster life, underneath all the layers of pomp, prestige, respectability that they like to parade. Scorsese also used red lighting to a similar effect in his early film Mean Streets for the scenes taking place in a Mafia-owned bar where crimes were plotted, if I recall correctly.
Exactly what I figured, and maybe the red light represents Tommy dragging all of his friends to Hell, but yet there they are right beside him, that’s what it means to be apart of something like that, and perhaps even it’s reflective in the fact that they’re all taking part digging there own graves, going to Hell...especially Tommy. If your getting the red light it’s a sign to stop 🛑 but they keep going and keep digging, Henry’s not really cut out for this, he’s the furthest away from the other two, the least furthest from inside the grave, and he ends up being the furthest from trouble when it all wraps up, he complains in the scene too, even know everyone is going through the same stench, and trying to make light of the situation there in, Henry just can’t stomach the most disgusting parts of the lifestyle, even the Trunk wash out scene, he’s grabbing his nose and complaining. I feel like that’s a character tell, that he is in it for the glamorous lifestyle, but when confronted with those foul moments he wants those to be over as quickly and painlessly as possible, I have a feeling if it was one of the other guys he’d not said shit... I truthfully believe that Henry was chosen as the character to lead us through this story, because he was the most like us, the guy sitting down watching, and anyone of the other guys would have been just as good to watch, except Henry was the last of them to not have lost all his humanity, he made decisions we’d made, he wasn’t looking to start shit, he was in it for the glamour, that’s why we love the mob, because it’s sexy, but the problems start to occur, when you realize these other guys are in it for a whole another reason, it’s all they got, and it’s all they know, and they are going to strive to climb to the top, but Henry, Henry would’ve been us, not looking to dominate, not looking to kill, not looking to challenge, he just wanted to stay on the ride the longest, because he knew how rare and special what he was part taking in was, he was a simple kinda man, he wasn’t there to lead and the guys knew that, he was there to soak it all in. How come you think DeNiro hadn’t wacked Henry after the heist, you know he killed other friends to get outta paying, and ratting, why not Henry? I imagine everyone had to cross his mind? Because Henry was a simple kinda man, he wasn’t competition, he was an earner, and the guys knew that, he was in so deep and he was trustworthy the whole way up, he was grateful and honored for anything given to him “Don’t get too big for your britches”. Henry loved his friends, he loved the privileges and glamour, but ultimately he loved his family even if we didn’t see a lot of it, and knew when to say “when”. Most of those guys would never have given up the life and drug the whole family through it just to get wacked out, Henry knew the music stopped, the time was up, and if he bought the lie he’d been wacked down in Florida, hence why the Italians are superstitious, because if you can read the writing on the walls, see the cards falling, you can predict the future. The end when Henry complains, just goes to show you how truly special that life can be, that even after having himself and his family saved he’d done anything to have stayed a little while longer, in a way you could look at it again in a biblical scenario as Henry avoided Hell(Death) by Snitching to the Cops (Good/God) but he remains in purgatory living out a quiet, slow, unimportant, boring life, til he dies, maybe some people would call that Hellish. It’s kinda funny in that last scene of him standing in front of the door complaining it’s shot in a way that looks so, early, lit, bright even, early morning, the complete opposite of the dark, night life, he’s lived, he’s not wearing a nice dark suit but instead a white clean robe, standing there all relaxed in his slippers, about to read the morning paper, having to care what’s going on in the world instead just with his gang, and do the daily grind of so many, he just looks so disgruntled, and disgusted, and even the house looks new, there’s clearly a bulldozer making the new development, clearing new ground, and he will just be another guy no longer unique, no longer respected, no longer known...what’s your thoughts on the Boat Painting Scene? I felt it had a lot of different meanings.
@@chaddsteinberg3758 Egad, man, paragraphs are your friend! I'll try to reply some other time about the boat painting scene.
Chadd Steinberg LoL man go get paid for what you doing because ain’t nobody on TH-cam bout to read all that shit 😂😂😂😂
That’s what I love about these classics - the iconic movies - a lot is left to interpretation, is subjective, lots of connotations nowadays, with the exception of films on MUBI, we have Marvel & Sharknado 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6. The Sharknado films inspired me to write a film … out of spite because they’re 💩
I’m gonna go get the papers get the papers
Jimmy Two Times
Jimmy two times
Love that part
Oh really now?
T Paul
Because he always says everything two time.................two times.
I’ll forever associate that scene of the fat guy running with the umbrella and cigar with Bill Burr’s impressed assessment of it 😂
THE RUN THAT HE DOES
Same.
But may Scorsese’s biggest errors in the movie. A pay phone directly in front of a Boss’s house, where all day, every day, his captain is making and taking calls and delivering messages to the Boss, would be tapped within the first month, if not week. No way it’d be used.
@@HoyaSaxaSDyou might overestimate the mob. When cellphones came out, the mafia thought they were untraceable because there’s no wire to tap… that was common thought at the time and it led to a LOT of indictments.
This video of Bill Burr narrating GoodFellas is a piece of art itself.
Jesus Christ is everybody lick Bill Burr's red nutsack I don't get it... Like the balls lick the balls I think I'm going to lick the balls lick the balls
@@jesseklassen6737 Ooooh are you all upset now?
@@stevem2323 Huy? I have no idea what you mean by your question. Upset about what? And don't even know who you are but anyways what are you talking about?
@@jesseklassen6737 So i see you have some bipolar disorder, why didn't you say something. Wasting my time with numbnuts.
Whoa whoa whoa buddy boy........ I don't know what you're talking about bro. Don't call me names. I don't know what you're referring to... help me out buddy, what are you talkin about why are you calling me bipolar and why are you saying whatever it is you said
Dude your fucking editing skills are AMAZING, the way you mix Bill's commentary seamlessly into each video is just awesome keep it up!
Wait a minute bill burr didn't do this?
+Inner Shade Whoever did this video should be proud and credited, the editing is phenomenal & the whole concept is very entertaining, so please keep making these awesome contents & don't stop!
Like a bauss
Agreed, awesome work!
yet he also did that cringy intro
Man, I realize now that Bill Burr kinda sounds like Ray Liotta. It sounded like narration over the movie, lol.
I'm hard of hearing..some vocal ranges I can catch...ha ,Pesci and Burr do have a similar laugh(albeit sometimes spooky)..😃😎
Just stop.....
@@cheebateam Stop what and why?
@@HOTD108_What you're doing...there are other things you still need to do
Joe Pesci shooting looking into the camera is the viewer of the movie getting killed. Because as a viewer we witnessed everything. And everyone involved had a messed up ending. Idk
That's actually a really interesting and cool theory
I think you may be on to something with this theory Crazy Joe
That scene is also an homage to The Great Train Robbery, one of the first films ever made.
Nope. Bit on the nose for Scorsese.
Lol no
This video was 5 minutes but felt like 45 seconds
Clarkstowns Finest real shit
Holyfuck
Clarkstowns Finest I agree, I kept checking the time stamp because I was worried it’d be over too soon
Described perfectly
it seemed more like 5 minutes and 49 seconds to me...
Look at this you got one dog looking one way and another dog looking another way and this guy's saying what do you want from me.
Hey he looks like someone we know!
most under-rated scene...
The great part about that scene is that they were talking about Phil Leotardo in a way. An incredible character.
i like how tommy's mom is sitting at the table with picture just on deck waiting to show it off
best scene is the "you are a funny guy" scene at the restaurant where everybody gets quiet real quick,
The movie they show is The Jazz Singer and it was the first film to have people talking. The symbolism was always a bit straight forward if you know that film and that little bit of trivia. It basically means he broke the protocol of how things were by talking and therefore changed everything forever. Basically, there’s no going back at that point... what’s said has been said.
Singing like a bird
@@michaelhauser6440
A boid.
A stool pigeon.
Backlit in red to represent hell. In the great scene where Henry and Karen walk through backstage to get front row seats at the supper club, there's noticeable red in every shot too. it's like the path they took to hell. Either that or Scorsese just likes the red, i dunno....
and they're driving on the road to get there. the road to hell good intentions etc
It's basic film colour theory. Instead of hell it could be easily connected to the colour of blood and the bloody way they whacked him.
Scorsese is catholic....look at the departed, and see the duality of good and evil, and rats and shit
no, its red because henry hill was in the airborne for 4 years and they are using military tactics to evade detection! read my comment above.
In the military (and camping) they supply red light filters for your flash light. your eyes have several type of cells in them, and basically what happens is if you stop the red light, and go into a dark room, your night vision is pretty good. if you do the same with white light, your will need a period of time to readjust (probobly 20 min). the military wants the ability to instantly operate in the dark.. also in fog red light travels less far, so they cant see them from the street easily
I was just thinking maybe the Whistling singer was because he Got up on the stand and Sung Like a Canary
BAM
nice. Exactly what i was thinking.
could be ...yes.
It's from the Jazz Singer, the first song in the movie.
+GoutPatrol ??? first song is Rags ti Riches sung by Tony Bennett with Percy Faith orchestra. ..19...50 somthin .
I always saw the ending like this.
It shows Tommy firing his gun at the camera ala The Great Train Robbery. Then it shows Henry in his crappy condition walking back to his house.
It’s like the movie’s comparing the pop culture image of the gangster vs. this actual gangster whose life was very unglamorous.
Man somebody needs to put bill burr in a mob movie
joe schmoe he was great in Breaking Bad, close enough!
@Roy Sunshine you think Breaking Bad, possibly the best series in television history, about the transformation of a meek high school chemistry teacher into a drug lord, is "gay"? Man you have a strange definition of gay
@Roy Sunshine I think I will just bow out of this one
Roy Sunshine no one thinks breaking bad is realistic. Everyone loves it because it outside the realm of reality, but you can still sympathize with all the characters
Bill would of been great as whitey bulger in black mass, instead they got that pirate who played donnie brasco aha
Ray Liotta was amazing in this movie. For me, easily the best acting, with Joe Pesci coming just after him. Too bad he was snubbed from a nomination for the Oscars.
I've also always thought Liotta should have won an Oscar for this performance. And while we're at it Sharon Stone should have won for Ginger in Casino. I consider that the best female lead performance I've ever seen.
But oscars are for the ..
They glorified Henrys character, in real life he was a deadbeat degenerate
chookvalve Jesus man, shut the fuck up.
@@lesterdiamond6190 she did I believe; my bad she didn't, Mandela effect?
Bill Burr’s description of Goodfellas is better than any film critics in my opinion. “Goodfellas is a bunch of closing jokes put together” that’s a perfect way of putting it. It’s literally great scene after great scene.
8 fuckin aprons😂
blacmadesjb 2750 thats why it's always a good idea to have at least 6 14" zip-ties. You never know
blacmadesjb 2750 you're a real jerk
I think the scene with Tommy's mother late at night serving them dinner is a better overall than the famous "Funny HOW? scene.
Bob Walton Content to be a jerk.
That is Scorsese's mother.!!@
The way Tommy describes his mom's painting. It's just too good!
Haha looks like someone we know
HOOF!
Scorsese is a genius. I'm a big fan of the hidden gems and cryptic messages in his movies. Just about every scene has some significance - guy is the definition of perfectionist.
TARENTINOS GOOD 4 THAT 2....
I agree. A master of his trade. Every single frame is selected for a reason. Editing is the magic of the film.
One wants to say, "Nah", but Bill Bur is correct. This movie is "THE" crime movie of all times.
fuckin pleb
I think it's the definitive mob movie, I rate it higher than the Godfather but that always gets me shit because the Godfather has some kind of weird mystique around it. I swear for some people saying that Gooodfellas is superior to the Godfather is like pissing on the Bible or something.
I don't think Goodfellas is "THE" crime movie of all time as Heat is also excellent but the two movies cannot be compared as they are dealing with different sorts of crime. One is a mob movie, the other is a small gang of professional thieves.
I hope that made some sense, I'm a bit tired atm.
*****
You need to work on your trolling, D- at best right now.
I still think Godfather 1 is not only the better crime movie but also the best movie of all time
That said, Goodfellas is definitely up there.
+Robin MX I gotta agree with you, godfather and goodfellas and then the departed.
My theory on the tv character dancing, whistling like a bird. Foreshadowing. Henry Hill sang like a bird or "snitched" on his whole crew.
oooh i love that
I tried to get my gf at the time to watch this movie with me and she didn't like it. She fell asleep a quarter of the way through. We broke up not long after.
@@bradbradleys6091 you guys are simps
Good riddance
@The Walking Dude I assume he's been called one several times so he goes around calling others that to try and un simp himself.
Brad Bradleys Simp means fool. Not everyone uses Simp in the stupid internet slang way.
@@braxtonslife7779 I feel like you didn't need to define it. Seems pretty self explanatory
Man you edit these videos.. Like a boss!!
thanks!
who edits bill burrs videos?
SUN PEOPLE PRODUCTIONS still tryna finger out who produces them⁉️😳
Bill isnt a bad film Analyst
No he's Very Good For sure
I seen this movie like maybe 4 times or 5 (twice as a kid but never focused too much on it since I wasn't interested of it at the time) and I never questioned why the scene they bury that guy is all red. I thought it was just suppose to show how fucked up the situation is. Weird thing is I don't think even the movie teacher I had in one of my college courses noticed it either. Was one of the films we watched and analysed in class.
popo129 Unless you were pretty young, it’s hard not to be interested in goodfellas. The acting, writing, sets, it moves at a good pace, etc, all make it one of the best movies ever. I would think it would be hard to watch and be bored/not interested. Better then The Godfather (IMO).
@@anneb889 Yeah was like maybe 8 or 9. Like I didn't hate it or dislike it but I didn't pay attention to it when the family watched it when they were over that day (somehow I remember that). I watched it maybe a year or two later on my own and enjoyed it. Fast forward to my adult life and in college in my movie class, we end up watching it and I really enjoyed the hell out of it. Like I felt it was because I didn't understand too much about the things in the movie as a kid, but as an adult, it was amazing. When you learn about how everything that makes a movie good, Goodfellas, is like on top of everything that is right about a movie.
popo129 Yea, 8-9 is too young to appreciate Goodfellas. I’m jealous....in my college class I was watching all older movies....Gone With The Wind, Rebecca, Psycho. All artistically sound, but no Goodfellas.
To this day I can’t hear Layla on the radio and not think of Goodfellas. I also refer to “yeah/yeah/yeahing” me regularly. Lol.
That old school clip at the end is in reference to Tommy being the Oklahoma Kid - what he called himself right before he shot spider
Jake Ryan What?? I’m a good shot..
''Or a hommage if you're in a bar'' lmao so true.
Honestly I just thought it was pronounced like that because of the company we have up here in Ohio www.homage.com
I love how it makes us invest emotionally in horrible people. Not like or admire them, but care about who they are and where they're heading. I don't think there is a decent person in the whole damn thing except for Tommy's mom and goddammit if I didn't mourn the death of the most despicable, piece of shit, monstrous psychopath in existence because of his connection to his seemingly sweet and doting (if catastrophically oblivious) mother. Having the scene with her straightening his tie and him kissing her goodbye before he meets his fate was masterful manipulation. The whole movie is like that; filled with little moments that create enormous power.
I've often thought about that scene with Tommy and his mother. It's obvious that she knows he's being 'made', which clarifies any doubt that she didn't know what he was involved in. I think it's an important scene and really puts viewers 'on the fence' about just what you mention. "How innocent are the families of the mobsters?" Is something that most people wonder about. Another part where they mention that "the children are old enough to read the papers" lends to that dynamic as well. You make a great point here, this is a very subtle yet significant angle in the story. If you think about it, as expensive as these movies are to make, all scenes that make it into the film (and many that don't), are so important to the end product.
+Tom Mullin When the movie came out Ray Liotta met Henry Hill. Liotta described the encounter: 'Henry Hill said to me thanks for not making me look like a scumbag. I was thinking, 'Did you see the movie?'. And so Hill becomes the hero because he's not quite as evil as everyone else. There is a line he won't cross. He won't (or cant) take a life as we learn in that brilliant scene where Henry and Jimmy are sitting in the diner and the camera does that zoom/track shot showing Henry's outside world get smaller and confined while his immediate relationship retains the appearance of normalcy. He accepts the contract with a casual agreement knowing he's lying to the face of a lifelong companion. He's not moral. He's not refusing because he values life. He refuses because he doesn't want to be killed himself. He's fearing for his own safety and at this point in the story he just wants out and to remain free and alive. We know that he is infected with a perverse moral relativism that makes him capable of lying, cheating, stealing and passively associating with death but it's enough to put him in stark contrast to Jimmy and his murder spree that he becomes the hero. We, the viewer are also morally relative as we are pulling for him to succeed. We can almost see ourselves in his position and rationalizing all our own misdeeds.
Scorsese has spoken a number of times about wanting to show the different sides to ppl that we would usually view just as "criminals " or " bad guys". To see if there is humanity there. to see if we CAN identify with parts of there dreams and desires . This also is essential in telling the rise and fall morality tale that is Goodfellas and Wolf of Wall Street. Scorsese takes us in the ride with these two characters. And usually it's all fun and games and exhilaration until the brutal consequences start to mount. And the price has to be paid for living that life. Goodfellas does this so well. So many of us as children would have seen the glamour and the reward in the life the way Henry did and only later realize we were neck deep in a morass of fear violence and death.
Scorsese creates an almost dystopian world in which everybody's out to take advantage of everybody else, ignoring the law all the way. And then right at the end the good guys (law enforcement) come out of nowhere, like they almost didn't exist before, and suddenly their world all comes crashing down.
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"..almost dystopian"? Look up dystopian definition.
Gotta remember, they were all kinda turning on eachother at the end. Robert Dinero's character tried to lure Henry Hill's wife into a warehouse to whack her. So can't blame Hill for ratting Dinero's character out.
That's what Hill said and I don't believe him at all
@@vinsentstarynight yea it’s kind of out of nowhere like what would they gain killing her
@@twpj2368 Loose ends. Same reason why he asked Henry if Morrie told his wife anything, pure paranoia.
Nah I always interpreted that as karen being paranoid and how fucked everything was that a simple activity would send her over the edge
Jimmy would have absolutely killed Karen. He killed the wife of the guy who bought the new car. Anybody who knows something was a threat to him.
What is your favorite scene from Goodfellas?
Go home and get your fucking shinebox
The scene when tommy gets killed
Just because as soon as tommy looks around he says "oh no".
The one where they're at Tommy's mother's house after getting rid of Billy Batts, explaining why they took her carving knife, and looking at her painting.
The whole 1980's part of the film
"Here's a leg, here's a wing !"
You still go for the hearts and lungs?
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The red sky is directly linked to the action they are doing. It's like the characters opened a portal to hell. It's rage, violence and carnage. It's one of the most iconic scenes in cinema history.
I have to agree with Bill's assessment of Goodfellas, what a story and brilliantly told in a visual package by Martin Scorsese.
It's definitely one for the film library. As to Bills question on why the burial scene was back-lit in red light.
It's got more ghoulishness, red is blood and the underworld, red is danger.
And yet again, Grade A work Allen!!! :D
Agreed!
Homie is on his way to 10k subs! Keep up the hard work Allen.
Allen didn't do anything... he stole this from Bill Burr.
oh my mistake, you're right. he only matched up Bill's podcast perfectly to a movie to go along with Bill's every word. No no you're totally right, he did nothing... just perfect editing that if you knew anything about video editing and audio matching you would know better. **eye roll**
+Ryan Keith oh shit big mouth goes quiet?
bill burr is the best comedian of this era hands down
No way! Sam Kinison is. go get you're shine box.
+Mike Desj bill hicks
No
i meant this era. bill hicks and sam kinison died in the 90s which is the previous era. And everything is only matter of opinion anyways.
+Kody Walker no way.
That intro was fantastic. Made me grin my ass off