goodfellas

No, no, you insulted him a little bit

fuckin charmers

MOTHERFUCKER! MOTHERFUCKER!

Fuck you pay me

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released 25 years ago today!

hiya, Hendry

This is the movie that taught me to chop garlic into very thin strips

This is the movie that made me feel inadequate because I couldn't chop the garlic into thin enough strips. I just wanted them to dissolve when they touched the sauce!

first time i tried this the oil was too hot & the garlic shrivelled & burned ;_;

One thing I do reflexively because of Goodfellas: whenever a friend orders a steak medium-rare, I'll say "Ah, an aristocrat." (Not that I'm dining in steakhouses every night--a couple of times a year, most recently two weeks ago.)

:)

My cinephile roommate dragged me to see this about a week after it was released (he'd already seen it on opening day). Watching the "You think I'm funny?" scene in a theater full of people who had no idea what was coming next was absolutely chilling/hilarious.

After the movie, my roommate and I took the train home. Upon walking into our building, we saw that the front glass doors were shattered and covered in blood. The building manager was in the lobby, mopping up blood. He said, "Don't worry about it boys, just some random vandalism. Go on upstairs." In my mind, this is inextricably linked to Goodfellas.

I didn't want to get blood on your floor

irl lol

http://www.theonion.com/article/robert-de-niro-stunned-learn-man-who-can-quote-goo-51823

breaking real-life relevance via the NYT

A federal jury in Brooklyn cleared Vincent Asaro on all counts in a trial for charges related to the 1978 Lufthansa robbery, along with other acts of racketeering and extortion.

Someone tell Scorsese I fixed his movie:

http://i.imgur.com/XvzP3t2.jpg

It'll still kill your suspension of disbelief if you look at it too closely, but it's better than what it was.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEjMyHccX8U

Saw this on 35mm in Astoria, more fully appreciated Chuck Low's performance as Morrie the toupee guy.

and yeah, all the Sopranos

man i'd love to see it again in the theater

it's possible i never knew that Scorsese's dad whacks Joe Pesci

(and tends the big sauce pot in prison)

Medium rare...eh, an arisocrat

aristocrat!!

"the hoof"

(ad lib by De Niro)

gotta hack it off. ma, it's a sin. you gonna leave it there? you know.

I knew he was tending the sauce, but I never connected that character to both scenes!

So many family members, tending the sauce.

(ad lib by De Niro)

iirc, the whole scene was ad-libbed.

Yes, largely improv'd it seems, but "hoof" was partic inspired along with Tommy's critique of Ma's painting.

Tho i first saw this in '90 (with my Italian boyfriend from Brooklyn!) it was the first time since i'd started heavily on Sopranos, so it was odd to hear "Melfi's voice" coming from Karen... She and Liotta both played the strung-out 1980 scenes well i thought.

(clearly improvisation is the way to draw indelible cameos from Mama Scorsese)

Love her scenes in the grocery store in Casino. I don't think her reaction to "I said 'freakin' head'!" could've been scripted.

Been thinking anyway about ~What If~ movies set in certain eras had to have soundtracks from the year they were released. Like, the opening napalm scene of Apocalypse Now forced to have Supertramp's "Gone Hollywood" under it.

Or...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZksF1FmKCrQ

i wonder, cuz i have no idea what "Wanna" is

I have a rare night to myself, should I go see Goodfellas at the Castro? I've never seen it on the big screen.

wonder if this is the same 35mm print Morbz saw

why wouldnt ya

idk some combination of laziness and poverty

plus I have seen it many times, albeit on a small screen

but the 35mm...

Go and see it.

GO SEE IT JFC WHY IS THIS A QUESTION

At work yesterday we discussed this scene. It's terrific how Paulie and Henry play this fool like a violin.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxGjPCOpbv0

Always loved this imdb trivia:

For the scene where Sonny Bunz complains to Paulie, Martin Scorsese secretly told Tony Darrow to improvise more lines for his character without telling Paul Sorvino. Sorvino's confused reaction was real.

ok fine I'll go

:D

my favorite bit of V.O. in the film is the transition here:

When they found Sepe in the meat truck, he was frozen so stiff it took them two days to thaw him out for the autopsy.

Still, I never saw Jimmy so happy! He was like a kid.

sorry, Carbone...not Sepe

Continuity error in that clip: at 2:11 Paulie's got a cigar in his mouth, but it's suddenly gone at 2:12.

Paulie moved slow, but he smoked really fast.