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Actors: Robert DeNiro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Goodfellas |
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This is a true story of a young Irish-Italian boy who wanted to be a gangster. When he was young he got a job working with the Mafia and soon joined them. his movie shows his life as he grows into a well-respected 30 year old gangster, however problems occur involving drugs, his marriage, jail, and other gangsters.
--Jack Bauer, Resident Scholar
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The story is about Henry Hill an Irish-Italian who came from a poor family and worked his way up in a mafia organisation. He befriends a real physco, Tommy DeVito, and marries a Jewish American, Karren.
This film takes you from 1955 to 1980. Henry starts off a 12 year old boy and finishes co-operating with the FBI in the witness protection program, 'rattng out' the people he's known most his life.
--Alex Panetta, Resident Scholar
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Goodfellas is a true story of Henry Hill, an italin-irish wiseguy (mobster), and his life in the mob and his fall.
Great performances by Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci.
This movie shows the low-lifes, the dirty stuff in the mob, not the guys on top like the classic mafioso movie, The Godfather.
--Katzinskey, Resident Scholar
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The movie is about Henry Hill, an Irish-Italian who gets mixed up with the mob at the age of 12, and who is in the mob for 30 years. His early life in the mob was glamorous, and full of good times. But when his two life-long friends and mafia partners (DeNiro and Pesci) kill a made man in Henry's bar, his life comes crashing down as he becomes a drug addict, goes to jail, Pesci is killed, and his boss (Paul Sorvino) and father figure is going to try to kill him as before he testifies about his mob connections. In the end, he ends up a regular nobody under the Witness Protection Agency.
--Nick Bisceglia, Resident Scholar
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This is a movie that follows the events of a mafioso family spanning over 30 years.A few main charecters shown from childhood to the hight of their organized crime.
--dino, Resident Scholar
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 20%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 74%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1960's-1970's
Crime & Police Story?
Yes
Criminal enemy is...
- Mafia conflict
If this is a criminal POV story...
- criminals killing each other
- one man's rise in a criminal organization
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- criminal
Age:
- 20's-30's
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- short/standard straight (man)
- short/standard wavy (man)
Body type
- average (man)
Unclothed?
- Chest
Events of movie makes character more...
- tougher
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Irish/McCourt
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
- Female
Hair color
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- average build (man)
- ample bosom & buttocks (woman)
Unclothed?
- very tight clothes
How much in movie?
- 60%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Italian
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 90%-100%
Hair color
- brunette (Black)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- Northeast
City?
Yes
City:
- Dirty, grimy (like New York)
- dangerous
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- gory visuals of deaths
- very gory visuals of deaths and torture
Movie makes you feel...
- all mixed up
How many deaths in film?
- 8 or more
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
- actual description of sex
- sex under blankets
Kind of violence:
- hand to hand
- guns
- knives
Unusual forms of death
- frozen
- perforation--bullets
- perforation--swords/knives
Any profanity?
- A huge amnt of foul language
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Classic/oldies rock
Is this movie based on a
- book
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