"Goodfellas" and "Godfather" series are two sides of the coin, They are all time-series narrative structures, telling the historical trajectory and mental journey of the Italian beauty, the prosperity, development and decline of gangster entrepreneurs in the United States. The difference is that the "Godfather" series adopts the perspective of the top of the gangster pyramid, depicting the It's the gangster boss and the gangster family, and "Goodfellas" focuses the camera on a gangster.
From the narrative point of view, "Goodfellas" is actually quite good, no surprises, the development of the chronicle, in The narrative rhythm is accelerated in the depiction of the second half. Due to Martin Scorsese's superb control of the rhythm, the audience is easily bored and boring stories, which are passed over in high-speed operation, but the problem is that the film's The story is too detailed and fragmented, there are too many narrative narratives in the running account, and the deep digging of each crime is limited ~
The language of the camera is the highlight of this film. Martin Scorsese, who is difficult to develop in the narrative, is in the language of the camera. With a lot of effort, there are many long shots in the film, which are used to narrate and explain the background, and its scheduling skills can match Quentin, not to mention that "Goodfellas" is a few years earlier than "Pulp Fiction", so Martin Smith Although the subject matter of the films that Corsese makes are often outdated, his consciousness is always ahead of time~ The
film is the collaboration between Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro again, but for the two old uncles, The film is still full of texture, but it still lacks the elegance and sharpness of the "Taxi Driver" era. The film is based on Nicholas Pileki's novel. For a gangster work, the criticism of the society is overdone. It is more than absurd, but it is profound~
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