Man I love how Tommy’s stories (which you can barely get a handle on because we jump into them halfway through and everyone is cracking up) are basically stories about him getting the shit kicked out of him, or him torturing someone. And I love that they’re done in an old school hack comedian delivery style. Pesci is actually at this point maybe extremely underrated in this role, he’s incredible.
Also love the moment when Jimmy tells Henry, “forget about tonight” re: Morrie, which feels like an easy narrative trick to deceive the audience, but the actual murder that follows is telegraphed so much that it comes off more like Jimmy thinking Henry doesn’t have the stomach for it, and maybe doesn’t 100% trust him because of that. Not ready to whack him yet, but hedging his bets on what he allows him to witness.
DeNiro saying “hoof” is still A+
― omar little, Tuesday, 19 June 2018 23:38 (five years ago) link
I've thought about the "forget about tonight" moment several times, and I thought Jimmy was genuinely gonna offer Morrie an amnesty -- until Morrie started busting his balls in the alley hours later.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 20 June 2018 00:07 (five years ago) link
Love the bit where Tommy's trying to remember some Western starring Humphrey Bogart and Jimmy offers "Shane?"
― pplains, Tuesday, 7 August 2018 14:18 (five years ago) link
always love it when I remember how Pesci comes out of nowhere and starts beating Billy Batts (Frank Vincent) to death, and then how in Casino, Frank Vincent walks up behind Pesci and he and his men start beating him to death with bats.
― omar little, Thursday, 13 September 2018 22:04 (five years ago) link
Great movie and fuiud agree
― F# A# (∞), Thursday, 13 September 2018 23:02 (five years ago) link
Back it up one film: Vincent also gets a beating from Pesci in Raging Bull.
― clemenza, Thursday, 13 September 2018 23:05 (five years ago) link
this recut of Liotta's Chantix commercial is A+
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgM0OMTiVOw&feature=youtu.be
― Darin, Saturday, 8 December 2018 15:39 (five years ago) link
https://nofilmschool.com/2018/12/someone-re-cut-ray-liottas-chantix-commercial-scenes-goodfellas-and-its-pretty-awesome?fbclid=IwAR28EcQ3UMFNZ53_uawuNONXQo8iCeT4jWZOeX2gn8HXtoC4B7URDB24c10
Many people bring this scene up to me. It's where I beat the preppy who didn’t treat my girl w/ respect. #GoodFellas pic.twitter.com/VypJz7PVbV— Ray Liotta (@rayliotta) December 15, 2016
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 16:03 (five years ago) link
Coming to the very late defense of Alex regarding After Hours. That film is brilliant, people.
― Jazzbo, Wednesday, 19 December 2018 16:42 (five years ago) link
yeah, it's great
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 19 December 2018 16:56 (five years ago) link
Okay this is amazing
http://mrgodfrey.tumblr.com/post/157186647808/morries-wigs-behind-the-curtain
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 19 December 2018 23:37 (five years ago) link
i love that. the Morrie commercial is too perfect.
― omar little, Wednesday, 19 December 2018 23:44 (five years ago) link
RIP to Frank Adonis aka Anthony Stabile
― omar little, Friday, 28 December 2018 19:25 (five years ago) link
RIP
https://i.imgur.com/6XGsF1K.png
― ✈️✈️ (pplains), Friday, 28 December 2018 22:38 (five years ago) link
Stabile was the club manager who complained to DeNiro about Tommy not paying his tab, right?
― calstars, Saturday, 29 December 2018 01:40 (five years ago) link
one of my favorite small moments is when Paulie's goons grab Henry's mailman off the street and he's just this regular innocent dude and they're yelling at him like "come here you piece of shit!" and "scumbag!"
― omar little, Sunday, 24 February 2019 19:11 (five years ago) link
didn't wanna get blood on your floor
― Let's have sensible centrist armageddon (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 24 February 2019 19:18 (five years ago) link
"No more mail from ANYBODY"
― Lactose Shaolin Wanker (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 24 February 2019 21:04 (five years ago) link
Every time I pass the smith 9th st station on the F Or G I consider getting off and checking out the nice coats I heard Conway has stored there
― calstars, Sunday, 24 February 2019 22:34 (five years ago) link
You have been visited by the Liotta of Blades and are granted his boon of a prosperous springtime. pic.twitter.com/DcaO835f65— Drift (@Inanity101) February 25, 2019
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 25 February 2019 19:41 (five years ago) link
Can someone please point me to the Dances with Wolves thread?
― clemenza, Tuesday, 26 February 2019 00:26 (five years ago) link
https://www.ign.com/articles/2019/09/02/the-irishman-martin-scorsese-tested-de-aging-tech-by-recreating-goodfellas-scene
"We made a little set that looked a little like the original film, and then Bob got going," Scorsese revealed. "He did his monologues and soliloquies and different expressions. 'Get rid of the fur coat! Get rid of the Cadillac!' Then he went through a series of computer processes."
Pleeeease let me see this. Pleeease.
― pplains, Tuesday, 3 September 2019 15:44 (four years ago) link
those computer processes in fullhttps://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--rqtwJreF--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/19052fq0upbxqgif.gif
― don’t bore us, get to the aeon of horus (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 3 September 2019 17:09 (four years ago) link
Your daily reminder that the Goodfellas painting was based on an actual photograph from the November 1978 issue of National Geographic. pic.twitter.com/Uajqsa4wUI— JustinBrannan (@JustinBrannan) April 2, 2020
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 4 April 2020 20:43 (four years ago) link
Whaddaya want from me?
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 4 April 2020 20:48 (four years ago) link
I've posted a couple of these movie-music Zooms I've been doing with a friend (we're getting close to 50, but I've tried to post sparingly). The first half of this one, and then the last 10 minutes, is on Goodfellas and Scorsese; there's 10 or 15 minutes on Jonathan Kaplan's Heart Like a Wheel in the middle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPW1RioUNko&list=PLa8ssW9Hiyic0Atijb9MO-itwoVAYq2tG&index=42
― clemenza, Thursday, 3 September 2020 02:32 (three years ago) link
Hmmnnn...need to figure this out.
If this doesn't work, I give up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPW1RioUNkos
― clemenza, Thursday, 3 September 2020 02:34 (three years ago) link
I give up.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPW1RioUNko
https://64.media.tumblr.com/bb6de095d85963b7f909aa76cc84ba71/7282df40199fe7b7-f7/s540x810/5e1d59b863fa2c6c654852329a39a39d277ef788.gifv
― pplains, Thursday, 3 September 2020 02:40 (three years ago) link
https://64.media.tumblr.com/911c0ad16c2b2abe3ef8d6070b271bc7/749082bcbbe3e1d1-40/s500x750/132cc560f58ac3205e68df5367ee07f8aff8beae.gifv
― pplains, Thursday, 3 September 2020 02:41 (three years ago) link
Links are preferable to embeds anyway IMO.
It's probably endlessly repeated but on the Talking Sopranos podcast Michael Imperioli was telling the story of how he was taken to the emergency room for a cut on his hand when filming the scene where Spider gets killed and the staff called "code blue" and were cutting his suit open to treat gunshot sounds.
― grebo shot first (Noel Emits), Thursday, 3 September 2020 06:40 (three years ago) link
*wounds!
Probably a post about this somewhere in here; the Glenn Kenny book came out today.
http://www.slantmagazine.com/books/review-glenn-kenny-made-men-the-story-of-goodfellas-is-a-stellar-anatomy-of-a-film/
― clemenza, Wednesday, 16 September 2020 02:51 (three years ago) link
Tfw I hit myself with a blast of drakkar noir pic.twitter.com/8GKaPxttPO— Justin🌋Boldaji بلداجي (@justinboldaji) August 28, 2020
― pplains, Wednesday, 16 September 2020 03:07 (three years ago) link
More anniversary stuff (by the woman in the Paranoid Style, whose music I don't know).
http://www.theringer.com/movies/2020/9/17/21440328/goodfellas-30th-anniversary-layala-scene-scorsese-clapton
― clemenza, Thursday, 17 September 2020 19:07 (three years ago) link
Racing through the Glenn Kenny book...Confirming something I took notice of and always wondered about: at some point (Kenny doesn't know when), GoodFellas became Goodfellas. And at one point, somebody involved in the earliest stages wanted Tom Cruise and Madonna as the Hills.
― clemenza, Thursday, 24 September 2020 01:02 (three years ago) link
I think I read that on buzzfeed like five years ago.
― pplains, Thursday, 24 September 2020 01:59 (three years ago) link
News to me--and that Chuck Low once owned the building that Harvey Keitel, Lorraine Bracco, and De Niro all lived in. I didn't even know that Keitel and Bracco were married.
― clemenza, Thursday, 24 September 2020 02:08 (three years ago) link
I think having Morrie the wig salesman as your landlord would be quite an experience.
― clemenza, Thursday, 24 September 2020 02:13 (three years ago) link
https://www.bonappetit.com/story/history-gangsters-goodfellas-raos-restaurant
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 26 November 2021 00:59 (two years ago) link
Damn I need to get up there Raos sauce is a favorite in my house
― calstars, Friday, 26 November 2021 01:42 (two years ago) link
https://deadline.com/2022/05/ray-liotta-dies-67-goodfellas-1235033521/
― Toshirō Nofune (The Seventh ILXorai), Thursday, 26 May 2022 16:19 (two years ago) link
I met Ray Lotta about 10 years ago, at the Aruba International Film Festival.What follows is the story of the first time Ray Liotta watched Goodfellas since its premiere, which he didn’t remember. Halfway through principal photography, his mother died.A short thread.— Moisés Chiullán 肖振藩 (@moiseschiu) May 26, 2022
― piscesx, Saturday, 28 May 2022 11:19 (one year ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/jun/06/martin-scorsese-ray-liotta-goodfellas-gangster-dangerous-disarming-innocent
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 6 June 2022 11:10 (one year ago) link
karen I’ve decided I should be on the pardon list, if that’s still in the works pic.twitter.com/G14RUKCGBr— kilgore trout, death to putiner (@KT_So_It_Goes) June 17, 2022
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 17 June 2022 18:44 (one year ago) link
A rep theatre close by is screening this three times in the next few days. "In memory of Ray Liotta"--I suspect it's more a case of "In memory of when people saw movies in theatres." I don't blame them at all.
https://www.hylandcinema.com/movie/goodfellas
― clemenza, Friday, 17 June 2022 18:51 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/h5kku1d.jpg
― calstars, Sunday, 11 June 2023 19:03 (eleven months ago) link