goodfellas

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Liotta: For the scene at Tommy's mother's house, I don't think Marty gave his mom a script. I remember Joe saying, "Mom, I need this knife. We hit a deer, we got to cut off its—" and he can't remember it, and Bob jumps in as he's eating "—hoof." There was a lot of improv. And then they're talking about the guy [with the dogs] in the painting. Joe says, "One dog goes one way, and the other dog goes the other way. And this guy's saying, What do you want from me?" I don't know where the fuck that came from. To this day, it's really funny.

ray liotta otm

not otm:

De Fina: The previews were scary. By the time Spider gets killed, the audience would get angry. The audience wanted to go back to having fun. The movie was taking them someplace they weren't sure they wanted to go. A lot of people didn't like the part when he was on drugs; it would agitate them. At one point, we wound up hiding in a bowling alley because the audience was so angry. One guy wrote FUCK YOU all over the comment card.

One guy wrote FUCK YOU PAY ME all over the comment card.

sounds like the audience was a lot like Pauline Kael

what i love about that scene w/tommy's mom is how they're all "hey looks like someone we know, lol!" like a couple of kids would do in front of a mom, like being clever and talking in a roundabout way in front of her about something they don't really want to tell her about.

Pesci and Scorsese's mom telling the joke about the quiet man and then explaining how it sounds better in Italian is one of the most authentic moments.

And if you had tried to get me to guess which 90s movie almost had Tom Cruise and John Malkovich starring in the lead roles, I would have never guessed this one.

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Tom decided it was a little too Rain Man

titanic

funk love this movie

Frank Vincent (Billy Batts): Wherever I go, anytime I go anywhere, they tell me to go home and get my shine box.

fukken obv

xp to myself

i'm stirrin', i'm stirrin'

We think of that line in this film as a silent protest.

which character in goodfellas does banaka most identify with

The tone of Michael Corrigan's delivery in that scene conveys a deep dissatisfaction with the Way Things Are. Gangsters are merely capitalists in the truest sense: atavistic, cancerous, deadly. Only serving their sociopathic interest in self-gratification. No sense of a greater cause, save compulsory fealty towards superiors.

Man it's sooo cool you took a college class one time

We reject capitalistic higher education. We choose to embrace discipline instead.

Apologies, we erred: it was Kevin Corrigan, not Michael Corrigan who played Ray Liotta's brother. Not that names are important. Names will be obsolete when New Society is achieved.

lols

John Malkovich (actor): It sort of came at a bad time in my life, when I wasn't feeling well and didn't want to think about working. It's hard to explain why you end up in Eragon and not GoodFellas. But De Niro is fantastic

Eragon features impressive computer generated imagery, while Goodfellas does not. Malkovich should be proud to be associated with a technical achievement that represents a mastery over nature, and not just a formal or "artistic" achievement.

malkovich would have been terrible in this

unthinkable

i'm stirrin', i'm stirrin'

― banaka, Wednesday, 22 September 2010 22:33 (33 minutes ago) Permalink

We think of that line in this film as a silent protest.

― banaka, Wednesday, 22 September 2010 22:35 (31 minutes ago)

the time it takes someone to realize they accidentally posted under a sock acct?

haha

2 minutes of sheer panic

ha

Malkovich should be proud to be associated with a technical achievement that represents a mastery over nature

has yet to master technical achievement of multiple log-ins/browsers

lol lol

A TV series!

Please, no...I guess they'd back up to a point in time before nine-tenths of the principals got whacked? Maybe it'd be worth it for a whole episode centred around Chuck Low's character. I love how he says things like "unconscionable" and "most unreasonable." He could be like the Niles Crane of mob dramas.

teh fuck?

Maybe they can call the TV show "WISE GUY".

http://www.salon.com/entertainment/movies/film_salon/2010/09/27/_goodfellas_on_trial/index.html

MZS schools this other dude pretty handily.

Seitz's rhetoric is stronger but I'm slightly in Grey's camp (and so is Pauline Kael). I still like the film a lot while acknowledging it's fucked up. Fuggedit, Jake -- it's the movies.

It's a great fucking gangster movie -- better than the Godfathers -- bcz, as reflected in a Jimmy Breslin quote I recently encountered, it doesn't deny that the Mob is about grade-school dropouts killing each other, instead of that phony romanticized shit.

wondering where this fits in to yr 'ride' based critique of scorseses later work

this is the first time I have ever seen morbz lavish praise upon a critically acclaimed movie on ILX

icey, it has brains and good acting, so there's no comparison.

and yet u must admit its very 'ridey'

dayo, that's bullshit. My favorite film of the '00s was Mulholland Dr.

(critically acclaimed)

no. a "ride" doesn't have a script. xp

to clarify morbz, this is the first time I have seen you actually explain what you like about a movie in a positive way

what negative ways have i used before?

do the godfathers really deny that the mob is about grade school dropouts killing each other? It's not like everyone's Michael in those films.