1 [Good guy] is the prologue of Martin Scorsese’s crime trilogy. The reason why Martin Scorsese took over this project and worked as a screenwriter for gangster movies for many years after [Poor Streets] is because of this film The street atmosphere of "Poor Streets and Back Alleys" is very similar. The story of "Poor Streets and Back Alleys" happened in the 1970s, in the youth of Martin Scorsese, and the story of "Good Guy" happened in the 1960s, which happened to be Martin Scorsese's growth period can be said to be his nostalgic work.
2 The story of the film has a prototype. It is adapted from a memoir of a gang member in his later years. This non-fictional documentary style is quite attractive to Martin. The documentary is more conducive to his finding a clear story line and the growth trajectory of the characters in the drama. This is also the style of his movies, especially gangster movies.
3 After [The King of Comedy], Robert De Niro collaborated with Martin Scorsese again after a lapse of 7 years. It was only because of his age that he could not play the male number one Henry. Henry and De Niro are very similar, both There is an Italian father and an Irish mother. Coincidentally, De Niro’s age is the same age as Henry’s prototype. Martin also loves this Henry’s character very much, thinking that he is a fashionable figure in the 1960s, De Niro. Recommended the less famous Ray Liotta to play, to ensure that his role is not under Henry, but Ray Liotta’s childish face and arrogant personality are indeed suitable for Henry.
4 De Niro didn’t receive a good script for a long time. When he saw the script of [Good Guy], he couldn’t wait to take it, and it only took a short time to agree to play Jimmy Conway. The black-bellied old fox character. He led Henry into the gang in the film, which made his life and career go to the top. Similarly, because of his cruelty, Henry was afraid of revenge, so he chose to inform and betrayed to the police. Gangster.
5 The role of Jimmy Conway is not much in the film. Although De Niro presents the image of an elderly politician of a complicated gangster, the more brilliant in the film is undoubtedly Tommy played by Joe Pesci, a cruel and irritable little man. , He would easily kill people because of a little ridicule of others, and even kill a gang member representing the Italian family as revenge. This is also the reason why Tommy finally died in the film because it disrupted the so-called gangster order. It’s a crazy behavior that can’t be tolerated. Joe Pessi has re-starred in Martin’s film after years of [Angry Bull]. It's like a scene of deliberately intimidating Henry, letting people get a glimpse of his personality that is easy to become irritated. Joe Pessi also won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for this role.
6 [Good guy] This movie shows the gang life from the 1960s to the 1980s. From the glorious glamour of the 1960s to the disillusionment of the 1970s, to the degeneration of the 1980s, the gangs have been there for a long time. They are heretics who are considered to disrupt the mainstream culture and social order, but Martin used this movie to tell many people that the gangsters are not [Godfather] images that are higher than life, benevolent and kind, and their lives are actually the average American. People, so gangsters are also a portrayal of mainstream American life. In the 1970s when the Vietnam War ended, American consumer culture was degenerating, which happened to be also the gang’s degeneration. By the 1980s, the arrogant Henry finally broke away from his gang life and chose to betray himself. 'S friend has become an ordinary and ordinary person.
7 [Good guy] After the film appeared, it got quite a lot of praise, even though many film critics said that the film was to beautify violence and whitewash the gang. But this film did win the Venice Best Director Award for Martin Scorsese, and at the same time put his director career back on track. Success turned the controversy brought about by the [last temptation of Christ] before.
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