the story is dark

Georgianna 2022-04-19 09:01:02

The story is dark Goodfellas 3/6/2020

Just watched "The Irishman" last weekend, opened Netflix today and saw "Goodfellas" listed, so I just watched this old gangster movie again. The 1990 movie is about the sixties and seventies when gangsters were rampant.

The movie is pretty dark, and it doesn't have the bleakness of The Irishman's killer in his twilight years to balance out a bit of bloodshed. The male protagonist Henry Hill has longed for the gang since he was a child (probably also due to his father's contributing factors). The original intention is the kind of "brothers on the road" of loyalty. Even a child who knows the rules and works well can be treated and reused equally. There is also the "horror" of the gangster, who can easily get what you want by intimidating and intimidating (Tommy scare Henry "what do you mean I'm funny" where it's really exciting and nervous and makes people sweat, Joe Pesci's ruffian He Ruan played really well), it was the fear and respect of others, and there was a beautiful woman in her arms. The part of the male protagonist who pursues excitement and pursuit of vanity is even more amplified by the participation of drugs. He takes risks and almost falls into madness with his wife, until the desperate betrayal gang enters the witness protection program, which will bring this drama to an end.

And women are all vases and tools, they are the targets of male androgen sexual aggression, and they are helpers when they catch up. The one who doesn't bow his head to the soft (the young boy who delivered the wine) is killed by the law of the jungle. The male protagonist followed the two eldest brothers and hurriedly buried the corpse after killing a made man. Soon after he learned that construction was going to break ground there, he rushed to transfer the corpse. These absurd and dark humorous parts are still better in the movie, and they highlight the sense of fear when the civilized order is lost.

Even watching two gangster films this year is interesting. Think about it, after "The Irishman", all the stories have been told, the actors and directors are old, and the theme of gangster movies will probably become more and more silent like Western movies in the future.

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Extended Reading
  • Corene 2022-03-23 09:01:02

    After the drunken gold fan, the fearful, murderous intent hidden in the joke. The yin bird is hesitant and arrogant, so your performance here is often not "big brother". But these are the completions of the character arcs, and it cannot be said to be the credit of the gang's running accounts. Who said that the setting of suspense often allows the image characters to be slightly ahead of the audience or vice versa, the same ignorant "factory picks clothes", I also see the palms of sweaty hands!

  • Rey 2022-03-25 09:01:02

    Watching Scorsese's schedule on the big screen is simply cool, and the rhythm is terribly good!

Goodfellas quotes

  • Karen: [narrating] After awhile, it got to be all normal. None of it seemed like crime. It was more like Henry was enterprising, and that he and the guys were making a few bucks hustling, while all the other guys were sitting on their asses, waiting for handouts. Our husbands weren't brain surgeons, they were blue-collar guys. The only way they could make extra money, real extra money, was to go out and cut a few corners.

    [Cuts to Henry and Tommy hijacking a truck]

  • Henry Hill: [narrating] It was revenge for Billy Batts, and a lot of other things. And there was nothing that we could do about it. Batts was a made man, and Tommy wasn't. And we had to sit still and take it. It was among the Italians. It was real greaseball shit. They even shot Tommy in the face so his mother couldn't give him an open coffin at the funeral.