You know, the first movie I ever saw him in, was a really stupid, but also really silly, so bad it's good fantasy movie from Uwe Boll, where he played an evil wizard. Ray Liotta, as an evil wizard. It's as silly and stupid as it sounds, and I loved it.
I remember listening to Henry Hill being interviewed on the Howard Stern show. And midway through the interview, Spider's real life sister calls into the show. She starts grilling Henry Hill to reveal what they did with Spider's body after they killed him. The woman talked about how her brother's sudden disappearance affected her family, especially her parents. She just wanted to find some closure, but Henry Hill just kept dodging her questions. At this point in time, I had no idea that Spider was even a real person. It was a very eerie moment where real life imitates art.
There's another Howard Stern clip where Hill pulls up smashed and confesses to three murders. Previously he claimed he'd never killed anyone which I think factored into his plea deal as well.
jbot91 I know, right? In Wise Guy, Henry Hill never said anything regarding his “escape attempts” from the mob in his earlier years by joining the military or by buying a restaurant in a different area. He talks about the murder of Billy Batts, said Tommy & Jimmy were crazy, but that’s the end of it. Mostly complained about cleaning out his trunk himself then having to buy a new car ‘cause of the corpse smell.
To be fair Henry was pretty tame compared to Tommy & he was actually pretty smart not to ask Jimmy for his cut from the Lufthansa Heist. I'm not trying to defend his choices by any means but I think compared to those guys he probably saw himself as more laidback & tolerant than them
One really depressing and frightening thing about this movie is that a lot of the characters are quite restrained compared to their real-life counterparts. Scorsese had their brutality and ruthlessness toned down because he found the real story to be unbelievable if portrayed in film.
The thing I love about Goodfellas is how well Ray, Joe, and Robert play off each other. It feels like a genuine group of friends, but that's all a facade. They may like each other but all that joking and playing around is just to pass the time. They'd eat each other alive if it was in their interest
You have to look at gangster movies in terms of mafia hierarchy. Goodfellas is about low level associates. The only true member of the mafia was Paulie. The characters were just street criminals in the employ of the mafia. A movie like Casino looks at the midlevel gangster. While Ace was jewish and not a made man, Nicky certainly was, and was in fact essentially a capo or captain. The Godfather obviously looks at the lives of the top end mobsters. I love all three of those films but it's very difficult to compare them because their plots center around completely different dynamics.
You have to look at gangster movies in terms of mafia hierarchy. Goodfellas is about low level associates. The only true member of the mafia was Paulie. The characters were just street criminals in the employ of the mafia. A movie like Casino looks at the midlevel gangster. While Ace was jewish and not a made man, Nicky certainly was, and was in fact essentially a capo or captain. The Godfather obviously looks at the lives of the top end mobsters. I love all three of those films but it's very difficult to compare them because their plots center around completely different dynamics.
Isaac Matthews I guess Scarface doesn’t count since Tony and his crew were Cuban and weren’t in the Mafia. Plus, it did appear that the whole focus was drugs (and associated violence), and did not include any other businesses such as the loansharking/racketeering/prostitution/etc normally associated with more organized crime. It could be a rag to riches rise of a street thug?
Henry Hill was hardly the saint he wanted to be seen as, or is even portrayed in this video essay... just listen to the part where he's describing how Paul beats that woman up with a baseball bat. He cracks up and starts laughing, catches himself, and promptly corrects himself. He enjoyed the life.
He wanted to distance himself from it so much but continued talking about it for decades after he snitched. Main players are rotting in prison while he is yapping his mouth about what they did & painting himself as a saint.
Martin Billybob He was a worthless scumbag who got far better than he deserved. I suspect that he directly participated in the murder of Billy Batts as opposed to what’s depicted in his memoir and the movie.
The reason they couldn’t use Burks name is because Jimmy’s daughter threatened to sue them. Burk was in jail for the long haul so he didn’t have parole.
Jimmy Burke was called Jimmy Conway in the movie because his mom, who put him in an orphanage was called Jane Conway, and the last name Burke he got from his foster parents. So that was the reason besides the obvious legal reason.
Jimmy Burke was called Jimmy Conway in the movie because his mom, who put him in an orphanage was called Jane Conway, and the last name Burke he got from his foster parents. So that was the reason besides the obvious legal reason.
Its like roman bellic calling up niko after the bank of liberty robbery “No fucking way! That was you!?! Who did you do it with?” “Some fucked up irish family”
Watching this, I just realized my dads old bathroom, that I always tell him to renovate, has the exact same tiling. Next time I'll tell him to keep it as it is.
My dad's fave movie was The Godfather. When I told him I thought Goodfellas was infinitely better it caused us to watch both back to back. It was a truly memorable afternoon.
Well I grew up in Brooklyn as a kid, and later on, I saw the film Goodfellas and was shocked at how accurate it was, I grew up around the Men of Goodfellas
Important to note that Henry was probably lying about "trying to get away from those guys", there is a good reason why Scorsese didn't include this repeated "desire" in the movie. I think he didn't believe it, and I am inclined to agree. Also, knowing that Tommy was a psycho 6 foot something tall guy who supposedly randomly shot a pedestrian to death in order to test his gun makes him way more menacing in real life than in the movie. Additionally, the detail of the truck driver giving a slight nod to the guys then shouting about a black person stealing his truck is awful lol, but probably true.
Ugh I love this movie so much. I’ll never forget watching it with my dad for this first time when I was like 13/14. He was so excited that I was finally “old enough” for him to show it to me. He kept telling me all about how he grew up during these times and how he knew about a lot of guys like that. This movie will always have a special place in my heart.
Rumour has it that paulie is moving so slow these days because he doesn't have to move AT ALL FOR ANYONE that he's literally become a statue at times he can be seen as a street performer people try to get him to move, BUT PAULIE DOESN'T HAVE TO MOVE FOR ANYONE hehe
The best scene is after they whack billy bats. Casually stopping at Tommy’s mothers place for an Italian meal while bats is clinging to life in the back of the car. When they joke about her painting, I laugh hysterically every time.
My favorite part of that scene, is when henrey is digesting the situation, that they just killed a made guy and tommy's big worry is that he got blood on henrey's floor.
The one area I thought the film failed was Paulie. They made him seem “lovable” and at the end of the movie he says “Paulie’s crazy” and he’s scared of him but the movie never once shows Paulie doing anything but eating.
+Vanalovan Eh, What Do You Think Your Doin' Huh? This Ain't Your Territory; Forget About It! Take A Walk Before We Take You For A Walk On The Sea Floor. Where The Leading Fashion Is Cement Shoes.. Capish? ;) LMAO
one of my favourite parts of the film is when Karen is screaming at Henry's girlfriend through the Intercom.... "Get your own god damn man!!" Lorraine Bracco did a great job in that scene.
The movie is great but it’s not accurate. They had to soften up the characters because Tommy DeSimone, Paul Vario, James Burke were extremely brutal and sadistic mobsters.
Alan Rosario 809 it was accurate in pretty much everything depicted though, just because they left out violent parts that weren’t necessary to the plot doesn’t make the movie inaccurate.
Eh, wouldn't say it's that accurate Henry Hill was a known liar and liked to make himself sound bigger than he was. Other still living monsters from the era have very different story's to describe Henry Hill.
29:00 I always got the impression that Henry Hill wanted to be known as a good guy who just got in over his head. The reaction he had when recounting this story tells me otherwise. He was just as bad as the rest of the people he associated with and got out only because he was in hot water.
Psychopaths only look out for No 1 I'm willing to bet Hill counted on his "associates" not pulling him with them in their crimes, for they would undermine their own defense
@@Nightdare Henry isn't a psycho, he just has ADHD; probably a decent guy and nice enough, its easy to not feel anything when you're always thinking of something else
@@whaletime69 Decent guys aren't members of organized crime ADHD isn't an excuse for being a piece of shit The guy was a narcissist, enjoying the power and attention,, ratting out his 'buddies' when he was about to face consequences of his choices Stop idolizing trash!
@@Nightdare who said anything about idolizing? He wasn't a narcissist and I'm pretty sure ratting the people who are about to wack you is a reasonable response. Guy just reminds me of me and my father. Personally if the poor dude was born in the 90s or 00s he would've lead a normal life
I don’t know I feel like some people do react with laughter in horrible situations. Lots of soldiers talk about how laughing is a good coping strategy. That’s not to see the guys innocent but I don’t know if that reaction could be used as flawless evidence.
SpudThePotato and we'll call you SPUD GAMBINI hehe Do i Amyuze you do i fucking amyuze you so... my comment here are here to fuck amuze you i'm funny in what way,... HOW AM I FUCKING FUNNY hehe imagine trying this shit with a flat earther lol Flat earther says the earth is flat and you're like... the earth is round and the flat earth is like ... you're funny and you're so clueless and you're like.... FUNNY...??? FUNNY HOW AM I LIKE HAHA FUNNY I'M HERE TO FUCKING AMUZE YOU HOW THE FUCK AM I FUNNY hehe
HB, you also forgot to mention the FOOD in Goodfellas. Scorsese used many close-ups of great Italian meals, thus making the movie more appetizing. LITERALLY!
Hey, earlier this evening, before I saw this, I was telling my wife about Pauley slicing the garlic with a razor blade. Made me hungry, I gotta try that.
It's also worth that Henry wasn't just dealing Cocaine, he was dealing Queludes, Coke, Speed and The big Calzone: Heroin. He was dipping into his coke and heroin and it was beginning to show. Now despite he not being a Madeguy, he was very close with Paul Vario who was a Lucchese Caporegime/Captain and a powerful one from what I understand.
The guy cooking the steaks in the prison scene "an aristocrat", threw acid in my cousin's face (victor riesel) to silence him, he was a journalist exposing corruption.
Comrade20 as wrong as it may be corruption is corruption because they do corrupt things to keep moving and corruption has plagued us before the birth of Jesus Christ & people who try to go against corruption don’t usually complete said task if so then we would’ve already reached peace as a species
Grim Fact: The real life beating of Billy Batts was so violent, the gun fell apart in Tommy's hand. After a beating like that, it's a miracle Batts survived and had to be finished off.
Thanks for commenting I NEVER knew this was unscripted and I just rewatched the scene and now that you mentioned it you can totally see that Ray Liotta reacts for like a nanosecond and then resumes character.
@@ChickyParm1972 lol... yea it was a good scene and they needed it as authentic as possible and the real Paul Varrio was known to exert his power over his crew and was no joke.....
I love that you made the point crystal clear that gangsters pervert ideals like loyalty, honor and respect to rationalize their cruel, vicious and self serving behaviors.
The real Henry Hill laughs as he tells these stories and then remembers that he has to pretend like its serious and not funny. When he was talking about Paul Vario beating a woman with a baseball bat watch his face and listen to how he says it.
5:05 "and he loved, above all, feeling valued". And that right there is the cornerstone, the main structural element, of how gangs, mobs, cults, and even many of our institutions work and attract and keep members. It's extremely powerful and coercive to give someone who has been convinced for whatever reason that they're worthless a worth through purpose, even if that purpose is an ulterior motive to serve some self-serving goal of your own. Quite often in such situations what's not seen is that valuation comes at a price, that in most cases what you get out of the situation that makes you feel great is being paid to the 'leader' many times over. Especially in the mob. The more you make, the better you do, the more you kick upstairs to the Boss.
@@thetechlibrarian Yep. And most of those "anti-smoking" drugs are detrimental to smokers who have been diagnosed with depression. E.g. I've got bi-polar disorder, and my shrink said, those "remedies" are an absolute no go.
You have to give props to the casting director. The young kid who plays the young Henry Hill actually looks like a young Ray Liotta. I hope I spelled his last name right.
@Shrimp Lord [GurApostle 9th of the twelve] Which I think it's fair, considering Henry was a low level associate, half-irish, a screw up and a rat. Oh and a drug and alcohol addict. Unreliable as they can be.
@Shrimp Lord [GurApostle 9th of the twelve] I don't see how. The purpose of the movie is to show life at the bottom of the mafia totem pole. That's Henry Hill.
They called him Jimmy Conway because it was his original last name. Burke was given to him by a foster family. He wouldn't let him use his real name, so they used his old one.
And Joe Pesci's character's mother was played by his Scorcese's mother. And the guy who killed Joe Pesci's character was played by his father. It was right out of Greek tragedy.
ThatOneAsianBroChick I mean, we’re all commenting on a video that points that out early on, so I’m sure he knows. Pretty sure he’s just saying that the film never explicitly states that fact, & it’s not the inference one would make without knowing the facts beforehand.
As a person that is about to get diagnosed with ADHD, I can say that fidgeting is a good sign. But there are others. However I am also about to take a Master in a non-hippie subject and I can say that I do not think that diagnoses are an excuse for behaving dishonorable and criminal.
@Mikael As a person that all my life have had to combat problems with concentration, temper and restlessness, periods with extreme energy and low energy, I can say that you come to a point where you realise that it is not about a lack of self-discipline. I have a times struggled very hard in order to get as far as I have gotten today and it has led to burnouts and depression. There was a time when I thought that ADHD was just an excuse for bad disciplin. Sure ADHD is not an excuse for bad behavior, but still it is something that exists even in people that is neither of the male sex or adults.
Goodfellas was an absolute classic. The Godfather made the running, especially the Godfather II. But Goodfellas was all in. It really was made with the intention of 'telling it like it is'! This is what gave it such class. Goodfellas didn't hold back or romanticize the mob. It is always going to be an absolute classic!
Godfather is about a bosses son taking over his business and showing the power a boss can have, Goodfellas is about a mixed kid who wants to be a gangster. Some of the best scenes in Godfather involve dealing with death. I recommend you rewatch the two films and see how they and goodfellas are essentially the same overall.
@@MostHighEmperorPalpatine Nah, Godfather heavily romanticizes the Mafia. Makes them look like their crime "family" is like an actual large family with them all sticking together no matter what, and that they only do what they have to. Goodfellas pulls off that veneer of class, and shows that in reality the Mafia was full of complete psychopaths that would murder each other and everyone around them just for looking at them wrong.
I mean after a while I don’t think they could whack him. He’d gotten famous off telling his stories, any suspicious or sudden death would immediately raise flags.
@@KingKhanate1997 Witness protection program saved him not him being “famous” lmao that didn’t matter if he hadn’t moved and changed his identity they would’ve come for him sooner or later.
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+History Buffs No hate for your view on the Godfather. Having read the book several times and watched to movie countless times, i don't love it for its accurate depictions. It has elements based on real events, but it's kinda like Game of Thrones is War of the Roses. It's fantasy
@@ieatchildren5810he’s lied on some level about almost everything, the biggest being his level of involvement in other gangster’s crimes. For example he at first claimed that he never killed anybody, then later admitted to multiple murders while smashed
@@ieatchildren5810 he’s not wrong even Michael Franzese said he glorified his life a bit too much then it really was Like Copa Cabana Scene Henry never would been able to do that unless he was with Paulie or someone’s higher with him
My great grandfather owned a cement shop, and since he grew up in Chicago, he was friends with members of the Jewish Mob, so they used to use my great grandfathers shop to cement the tires of cars with men in it and would push them in lakes or rivers. Oh and my great grandfathers childhood best friend was Jack Ruby, Lee Harvey Oswald’s assassin. And lastly, I have dyscalculia, which is a learning deficiency with math and numbers, so I struggled too.
There's no way the jewish mafia would do that.. they would melt all the metal down and sell all the parts piece by piece ... uncle Verone didnt get to buy his creme regal by wasting things oh vey
The guy at the end before Guliani. Michael Franzese said that Henry aged horribly because of the drugs and he couldn’t recognize him when Henry was sent to prison with the other guys who knew him which was a mistake. Henry claims that Michael saved his life 3 times.
Im from New York. My dad worked for American Airlines at JFK and La Giardia and my parents friend worked for Air France. She said she remembered the real Frenchy.
You forgot to talk about Henry and Karen's relationship. I want to know how accurately that was portrayed. Here is what I want to know: • Was Karen's attraction to Henry portrayed right? • Was their first date accurately portrayed? • How did Karen's parents really feel about her marrying Henry? • Did Karen really lie to Henry that another guy was harassing her so that Henry could beat him up? • Did Karen really try to kill Henry?
I want to know was Paulie really having an affair with Henry wife and how did he find out did somebody tell him or as have been stated that Henry was known as a liar
The year it came out, 1990, I lived in a mob neighborhood in Boston. No trouble for me. I was just Joe Jerk taking the subway to work. There was a couple of bars and restaurants I knew to stay out of. Exercised MYOB. Don't rubberneck, don't ask questions. Walk straight ahead and don't "see" nothin'. If you did that, it was a safe neighborhood!
Max Shea probably a lot safer than it is without the mob. Not defending them but if you weren’t involved in “the life” they wouldn’t bother you, no drive by shootings that kill children, old ladies could safely walk the streets of their neighborhoods.
I remember going to Javeli's in Eastie back in the 90s with my grandma, and seeing a group of older chubby Italian dudes with gold necklaces sitting at a table on a platform separated from everyone else. People would walk in and out talking to them for only a few minutes at a time.
I don't want to comtradict anybody's lived experience, but plenty of people still got massively negatively affected by the mob even of they minded their own business, like somebody trying to open a store in a min neighborhood. The crime rate has gone down since the golden age of the mob, not up.
@GentlemanDemon You're right and it points out one of the flaws of childhood reference; Children usually get a lot of leeway in society, even among criminals to a degree. Between that, how flawed distant memories are and the typical perception of kids, and you get a lot of skewed accounts. This is why no matter what decade it is, somebody considers it the "good old days." My grandfather told me how much better things were in the 30s, and when I asked him what he thought depression meant, he smacked my mouth.
Also, and this should go without saying, but we're going through an 80s nostalgia currently and the 80s SUCKED. We almost got nuked to the death so many fucking times, that people just started ignoring alarms. The ones that people talk about (the bear incident, the documentary incident, the FUCKING NOTHING INCIDENT) are only notable for being "wacky". That doesn't even include the AIDS crisis and general bigotry.
It's funny how hill talks about psycho's .....This comeIng from sewer crawling smack head and dealer . Old (yes they say you shouldn't speak ill of the dead ) hill can't throw stones here they gave him lots of cash when he was young more probably than his Ol man would never get and life style only the rich and shameless can afford .And he called them scum bags (they are REALLY !) But for him to say that is a laugh .
I knew people that went to the Copacabana around this time, they did not go through the kitchen, but bringing the table down front really happened ,so you thought you had a front row till someone else came in, not saying the kitchen scene couldn't happen. Also they would mark the bottle of scotch on the side with a pencil that's how these guys paid for what they drank. Jules Podell ran a tight ship and some were regulars.
He lived 69 years - at least 55 of those "at risk" and 40 of those - potentially toxic/depending on amount, with his use of alcohol + drugs. I would say - Henry was an "Odds-Breaker" ...
Winston Churchill drank and smoked all his life but lived to the age of 95 or more. Some people have ironcast genes that seem to defy the norms of medical and lifestyle risk. I would guess that Hill boasted about all the drugs and drink he consumed, nobody could live that long on a regular habit of class A drugs without there being some periods of moderate or near zero use or outright abstinence, but this does not make for good news colour.
I wish they had portrayed how Jimmy's gang really got the keys from the guard with the hooker, not only is it amazing that it's a true story but it would have fit the tone and narrative of the film very well, a small detail that would have been nice to have, oh well.
I just watched the scene where Johnny Roast Beef describes the Air France heist, and I noticed, he actually does bring up that the only thing he doesn't have sorted is the key to get in. When Henry asks what he needs to do to get the key, Roast Beef says he'll take care of it, so the event about getting the guard drunk and stealing the keys and making a mold presumably happened off screen
Although Billy Batts' murder was for the most part, shown to be a revenge slaying due to Batts; disrespect of Tommy, earlier in the movie, there is an understated scene that does somewhat let the audience in on the fact that there was also a conflict between Batts and Jimmy Conway. At one point, we see Conway and Batts speaking to one another. Because its a quiet conversation, they dont initially appear to be arguing, but if you listen, you can hear Batts getting annoyed with Jimmy as he tells him that he wants what is due to him. This was about the loan sharking racket that was formerly run by Billy Batts and had been taken over by Jimmy after Batts had gone to prison. Billy was letting Jimmy know that now that he was out, he expected the business to be returned to him, which was something that Jimmy of course, didn't want to do. So although it's subtle, the film actually does reference Jimmy's reason for being involved in the murder and why he seemed to have so few qualms about helping Tommy kill a made guy.
One thing you didn't mention was the soundtrack for this film, I thought it helped make the movie. Other than that great video and break down of my personal favorite movie, thanks!
Kudos to pointing out that the real Tommy DiSimeone was a hulk compared to Pesci, but yes, that spirit is there. Also, my understanding is that Jimmy's last name was depicted as "Conway" because, yes, Burke was incarcerated then and the studio did not want to risk a possible defamation suit. Conway was, from what I have heard, Burke's mother's maiden name. Nice work.
The scene with spider is definitely real. I remember a time that Henry Hill was on The Howard Stern show & a woman called up who said she was Spiders sister IRL (Henry confirmed it was really her) She was begging Henry to tell her family where Spiders body was buried so they could give him an actual burial. It was scary & sad. In that same interview he mentioned that the bar was also a bocce ball court & that there were quite a few bodies under it. Maybe he is there.
"Jimmy buried over a dozen bodies, including Dominick "Remo" Cersani and Michael "Spider" Gianco, under the bocce courts. If you go there today and look down the left side of the building, you'll see piles of dirt. After I went into the program, Jimmy had the feds and media over to witness the courts being dug up" Yea you're right
You calling me a deadbeat SMASH !! Can I believe this prick? Wanna hear something funny? Last week he asked me to Christen his kid. Yeah 7 thousand dollars I charge!!!! Best line. Btw Spider was wrapped in a web and dumped in an ant hole....
William Fetters I remember hearing that on the Stern show too. I seem to recall Hill would occasionally call in to the show, usually sounding pretty blasted.
To be fair Pesci’s music career wasn’t a total joke: He did introduce Bob Gaudio to Frankie Valli and Tommy DeVito, bringing him in to the Four Seasons.
My impression after watching the movie, documentaries and reading the book 'Goodfellas', is that Henry was swimming with a pack of piranhas. You show one sign of weakness, they'll eat you. Without hesitation. Then again, considering how his upbringing was, there's no wonder why Mob life seemed so attractive to him when he was a kid. At home and at school, everybody is treating you like a nobody, and everyday is a struggle. While the Wiseguys are treating you well, patting you on your back, you earn a lot of money and you're having a good time along the way. Who' wouldn't be tempted by that when they're a teenager?
Don't believe everything in the book. These guys murdered my uncle, and in the book they claim he was shot in the chest so he could have an open casket. In reality.... There was no open casket. There was no body. There is no grave. My family has spent 40 years wondering where his body is. His existence has been wiped out. His birth records don't even exist anymore.
@@st8562 I'm not trying to excuse or to justify what these guys did. What they did was wrong, no matter how you look at it. And what Henry did was wrong in every way, but then again he's a person with a weak character. Even during the witness protection program he kept on doing things that got him sendt to prison.
@@st8562 Wait you’re legitimately related to that guy? How did that wipe out his birth records not even the mafia could do something like that that’s national information.
As a late teen, I found this movie and it quickly became one of my favorite movies. I have seen it at least 100 times and watch it everytime it's on TV
The big surprise for me was realising that Michael Franzese is cameoed in this movie. I have been watching a lot of his interviews and didn't know he was until he said he was in it. Was a wow moment for me.
He was portrayed in the film and only mentioned once. Michael said he was surprised by his name being mentioned in the film and clarified that he never hung out with Hill, Burke, or Tommy. He knew them but was never in a social setting with them. Michael’s review of Goodfellas was really good and also mentioned the inaccuracies of the movie.
Forget the bribery by criminals, the real crookedness of the American penal system is how it’s reinvented the slave trade by exploiting prison labour for cheap.
Tell me about it mate. The man and women who abused and molested and attempted to kill me 7 years going from 6 to 13. And guess what, they walk free. Free as fucking blue birds. All because they helped run drugs with the literal Police in the county. Fuck the justice system.
Henry Hill story after the "Goodfellas" part was crazy. The audio book is on RUclips. It's pretty crazy with him dealing with the police, witness protection and moving so often.
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I think my uncle described it well. The Godfather is how the mafia wanted to be seen. Goodfellas is how they actually were.
But the main characters in Goodfellas aren't in the mafia.
@@yehheapsmadaybut Yes they are. Just because they aren't made men doesn't mean they aren't part of the mafia.
I think Goodfellas is more about the guys on the frontline and Godfather was more about the guys pulling the strings imo
Godfather, while great as far as film, is boring as fuck
@@ndr523 you probably have ADD..
It's incredible how much of the supporting cast of Goodfellas ended up being the main cast of The Sopranos.
You forgot to mention about Dominic chianese, who played Johnny ola in Godfather 2 got casted as Corrado Soprano aka our uncle Junior.
Ive said it for years " goodfellas walked so the sopranos could run"
It's easy for Italian actors to get typecast as mobsters.
@@rpc717 well duh. Would u cast a white man as martin luther king junior? Lol
Movie Friends and Romans about part time actors who play in mobster movies Makes you notice all mob movies same actors
Fun fact, after watching Goodfellas you cannot read Wiseguy without hearing Ray Liotta's voice. Great book, brilliant film and a terrific review.
It true
Clayton Goode if i could have anyone's voice it would be ray liotta
I've listened to maybe too many interviews with Henry Hill lol so I heard his voice when I read the book.
@@mojav26 Same here.
@@tee918 what about GTA Vice City
Rest in Peace Ray Liotta, he brought an amazing sense of realism to his roles, was a really cool and talented guy.
Yeah I heard about that, sad
Nah I watched this movie yesterday, he's got way too much makeup on covering his crater face, yuck.
@@rydz656 he’s dead you weirdo, pay some respect and move on
@@HH-qz1cg Plz don’t feed the trolls 😉
You know, the first movie I ever saw him in, was a really stupid, but also really silly, so bad it's good fantasy movie from Uwe Boll, where he played an evil wizard. Ray Liotta, as an evil wizard. It's as silly and stupid as it sounds, and I loved it.
I remember listening to Henry Hill being interviewed on the Howard Stern show. And midway through the interview, Spider's real life sister calls into the show. She starts grilling Henry Hill to reveal what they did with Spider's body after they killed him.
The woman talked about how her brother's sudden disappearance affected her family, especially her parents. She just wanted to find some closure, but Henry Hill just kept dodging her questions. At this point in time, I had no idea that Spider was even a real person. It was a very eerie moment where real life imitates art.
What was his response
Link please?
@@El_notorious_Americano he said "what do you want from me I was playing cards"
There's another Howard Stern clip where Hill pulls up smashed and confesses to three murders. Previously he claimed he'd never killed anyone which I think factored into his plea deal as well.
@@jimmypadilla3441 We all found that hard to believe. He did kill people.
I love how Henry hill tries to pretend like he is normal now and all the guys he hung out with were psychos.
He was doing a fair amount of meth and coke up until his death in 2012
jbot91 I know, right? In Wise Guy, Henry Hill never said anything regarding his “escape attempts” from the mob in his earlier years by joining the military or by buying a restaurant in a different area. He talks about the murder of Billy Batts, said Tommy & Jimmy were crazy, but that’s the end of it. Mostly complained about cleaning out his trunk himself then having to buy a new car ‘cause of the corpse smell.
I mean the way he laughs at 29:00 is pretty telling of who his real character was.
To be fair Henry was pretty tame compared to Tommy & he was actually pretty smart not to ask Jimmy for his cut from the Lufthansa Heist. I'm not trying to defend his choices by any means but I think compared to those guys he probably saw himself as more laidback & tolerant than them
You are who you associate with
One really depressing and frightening thing about this movie is that a lot of the characters are quite restrained compared to their real-life counterparts. Scorsese had their brutality and ruthlessness toned down because he found the real story to be unbelievable if portrayed in film.
For real? Who are they? So like jimmy and tommy where more psycho than what's told in the movie? PLS TELL ME
@@jamesharbour7622 yes they were 10 times more ruthless
Tommy in real life out of nowhere decided he wanted to prove how psycho he was and chased down and murdered a random guy on the street. True story
@@jamesharbour7622 Tommy once shot an old man on the street because he wanted to test if the sights on his new gun were lined up properly
@@commentcontrol7187 HOLY SHIT!! thank you but guck me!
The thing I love about Goodfellas is how well Ray, Joe, and Robert play off each other. It feels like a genuine group of friends, but that's all a facade. They may like each other but all that joking and playing around is just to pass the time. They'd eat each other alive if it was in their interest
The scene with Martins mom perfectly shows that
The casting of young Henry is just astounding. So much like Ray Liotta
You have to look at gangster movies in terms of mafia hierarchy. Goodfellas is about low level associates. The only true member of the mafia was Paulie. The characters were just street criminals in the employ of the mafia. A movie like Casino looks at the midlevel gangster. While Ace was jewish and not a made man, Nicky certainly was, and was in fact essentially a capo or captain. The Godfather obviously looks at the lives of the top end mobsters. I love all three of those films but it's very difficult to compare them because their plots center around completely different dynamics.
Exactly , even young Tommy looks and speks like Joe pesci
@@jyuyd8274 yes yes, The sopranos in that regard is perfect, they show top level bosses, capos and soldiers in a very detailed manner
The older Henry Hill sounded a lot like Al Pacino
It’s the eyes
Joe Pesci is at his heart a comedian. 100% that rap song is a comedy bit, just goes to show how good of an actor he is as well
Do you mean he's funny?
@@daddysauce8850 he's here to amuse me
Not true. He took his hip hop career seriously. He still makes beats to this day.
Cole Chillen he took it seriously yes, but under the guise of being a made guy. His singing actually is something he took very seriously
he's deinitely funny in lethal weapon 2 and 3 and home alone. he amuses me.
When De Niro gets upset after Tommy is killed is some of the best acting i have ever seen.
what are you some kinda crazy maniac or something? Love De Niro in this movie
It reminded me of the jail scene in raging bull
He could have cried but the sniveling was perfect.
@@darrenb2020 and Henry wanted to hug him, he wanted a hug, but awkwardness of the thought made them cringe a lil bit lol
Jimmy was crying like Droopy Dog when he heard about Tommy
Forget Henry snitching and whatever happened to Paulie . I wanna know if jimmy two times ever got the papers …. Got the papers
😂💀
Ha ha
🤣🤣🤣🤣
I once heard that guy says everything two times
Underrated comment 😆
Henry definitely had a tendency to paint himself as some type of low-key victim to excuse himself for his bad behavior.
Hey, in many ways he was a victim, did you pay attention to the mans upbringing at all???????
Word I Ain like when he called them low life's like rlly bro ironically he the low life cause he snitched on his friends 🤷🏾♂️💯
Southsideman he was basically groomed into the mafia
@@BrianSmith-os2jk colleagues, not friends. You don't have to worry about friends murdering you
@@Gadget-Walkmen worry about defending your place of privilege: you will be held far more accountable for where much is given much is required!
You have to look at gangster movies in terms of mafia hierarchy. Goodfellas is about low level associates. The only true member of the mafia was Paulie. The characters were just street criminals in the employ of the mafia. A movie like Casino looks at the midlevel gangster. While Ace was jewish and not a made man, Nicky certainly was, and was in fact essentially a capo or captain. The Godfather obviously looks at the lives of the top end mobsters. I love all three of those films but it's very difficult to compare them because their plots center around completely different dynamics.
Touche
Isaac Matthews I guess Scarface doesn’t count since Tony and his crew were Cuban and weren’t in the Mafia. Plus, it did appear that the whole focus was drugs (and associated violence), and did not include any other businesses such as the loansharking/racketeering/prostitution/etc normally associated with more organized crime.
It could be a rag to riches rise of a street thug?
Steve S I think he’s asking about the original Scarface from the 1930’s
Robert Montgomery ah ok, thanks. I keep forgetting the original - I still haven’t seen that one yet.
Steve S you really have to like old films to appreciate it. Or you won’t enjoy it. It was a good one though.
Henry Hill was hardly the saint he wanted to be seen as, or is even portrayed in this video essay... just listen to the part where he's describing how Paul beats that woman up with a baseball bat. He cracks up and starts laughing, catches himself, and promptly corrects himself. He enjoyed the life.
He wanted to distance himself from it so much but continued talking about it for decades after he snitched. Main players are rotting in prison while he is yapping his mouth about what they did & painting himself as a saint.
Martin Billybob of course he did, who wouldn't
Martin Billybob He was a worthless scumbag who got far better than he deserved. I suspect that he directly participated in the murder of Billy Batts as opposed to what’s depicted in his memoir and the movie.
Everyone ones a little sadistic
I don't think he ever tried to act like a saint....I think he knew he was a scumbag
Fun fact: Martin Scorsese casted his parents in the movie. His mother played Tommy's mother and his dad played Vinnie, that's pretty cool!
vinnie?
@dimitristrikalopoulos5560 he was in the prison scene when they were cooking dinner. "Not too much onions Vinnie!"
He made the sauce!
Catherine Scorsese didn't have any lines either, she ad-libbed the whole scene
@@migiplayz91 did she really?
@@mrsentimental1995 while everyone else had lines, she filled in the gaps with her own dialogue.
The reason they couldn’t use Burks name is because Jimmy’s daughter threatened to sue them. Burk was in jail for the long haul so he didn’t have parole.
He was adopted
Conway was one of his adoptive surnames, not sure if that’s why they landed on that. But he did bounce around adoptive families.
Jimmy Burke was called Jimmy Conway in the movie because his mom, who put him in an orphanage was called Jane Conway, and the last name Burke he got from his foster parents. So that was the reason besides the obvious legal reason.
Jimmy Burke was called Jimmy Conway in the movie because his mom, who put him in an orphanage was called Jane Conway, and the last name Burke he got from his foster parents. So that was the reason besides the obvious legal reason.
Other real names in the movie weren't used, Paul Vario was Cicero and Tommy Desimone was Devito
That shower scene with Henry was the purest form of joy I've ever seen
Its like roman bellic calling up niko after the bank of liberty robbery
“No fucking way! That was you!?! Who did you do it with?”
“Some fucked up irish family”
I can never hear the name Jimmy and not immediately think about that scene 😂👍🏽
So much excitement and happiness over the worst thing that ever happened to them. Kinda beautiful
Watching this, I just realized my dads old bathroom, that I always tell him to renovate, has the exact same tiling. Next time I'll tell him to keep it as it is.
My dad's fave movie was The Godfather. When I told him I thought Goodfellas was infinitely better it caused us to watch both back to back. It was a truly memorable afternoon.
Well I grew up in Brooklyn as a kid, and later on, I saw the film Goodfellas and was shocked at how accurate it was, I grew up around the Men of Goodfellas
When did he pass?
Both excellent, but your father was right.
@@noon3d What a normal question that is
@@AskingTheRealQuestions I know
Important to note that Henry was probably lying about "trying to get away from those guys", there is a good reason why Scorsese didn't include this repeated "desire" in the movie. I think he didn't believe it, and I am inclined to agree. Also, knowing that Tommy was a psycho 6 foot something tall guy who supposedly randomly shot a pedestrian to death in order to test his gun makes him way more menacing in real life than in the movie. Additionally, the detail of the truck driver giving a slight nod to the guys then shouting about a black person stealing his truck is awful lol, but probably true.
Ugh I love this movie so much. I’ll never forget watching it with my dad for this first time when I was like 13/14. He was so excited that I was finally “old enough” for him to show it to me. He kept telling me all about how he grew up during these times and how he knew about a lot of guys like that. This movie will always have a special place in my heart.
That's great I had same thing with my dad but with Godfather when I was around that age. Glad I'm not only one. Did same with my son
@@DamzelNDistress same XD
@@DamzelNDistress Did anybody ask? I don't think so.
I saw it too around that age with my Italian dad in the theater in NJ. One block away from his Italian deli.
@DOE John are you saying that his dad didn't knew about a lot of guys that robbed and killed people? Okay....
Paulie may have moved slow, but that's cause Paulie didn't have to move for anybody
Rumour has it that paulie is moving so slow these days because he doesn't have to move AT ALL FOR ANYONE that he's literally become a statue
at times he can be seen as a street performer
people try to get him to move, BUT PAULIE DOESN'T HAVE TO MOVE FOR ANYONE
hehe
That's how mafia works
... for nobody. (There. Fixed it for yas.)
Cuz he was FAT
They say his shadow once killed a dog. Shit wrong movie
The best scene is after they whack billy bats. Casually stopping at Tommy’s mothers place for an Italian meal while bats is clinging to life in the back of the car. When they joke about her painting, I laugh hysterically every time.
My favorite part of that scene, is when henrey is digesting the situation, that they just killed a made guy and tommy's big worry is that he got blood on henrey's floor.
@David Bowman come on mom cant just leave it there its a sin lol
I`ll always wondered what they were eating . because jimmy was using ketchup .
@David Bowman you been away for a long time maybe nobody went up there to tell you but I don`t shine shoes no more lol
Yeah, I smiled when I first watched it but hard to now since I know its true
Nothing Henry Hill has ever said can be taken at face value. He doesn't utter a single word unless he thinks he can benefit from it.
What else can you expect from the world's most famous rat
The one area I thought the film
failed was Paulie. They made him seem “lovable” and at the end of the movie he says “Paulie’s crazy” and he’s scared of him but the movie never once shows Paulie doing anything but eating.
"doing anything but eating"
That's what he WANTS you to think! (silent muahaha!)
The loudest guy in the room is usually the weakest!!!!
Yes, but Paulie ordered hits and killed people himself. Paul was a made man. He wanted to come off as a silent guy.
He killed people himself?
They didn’t really know each other. Look up Franzese interview
This is a nice channel you got here, be a shame if something were to happen to it
+Vanalovan Eh, What Do You Think Your Doin' Huh? This Ain't Your Territory; Forget About It! Take A Walk Before We Take You For A Walk On The Sea Floor. Where The Leading Fashion Is Cement Shoes.. Capish? ;) LMAO
+Vanalovan Haha you're a funny guy
+Victor X Funny how?Like he's a clown?Here to fuckin' amuse you?
+Vanalovan Well played, sir.
Lol
Henry Hill is the epitome of the unreliable narrator
Him and Hunter Thompson should go on a drug trip to vegas sometime.
@Floyd1504 so is hunter thompson smart ass
@Floyd1504 i bet you think you're smart
This is why it is called"His story".
@Floyd1504 come on it was a good joke. don't ruin it!!!
R.I.P Ray Liotta, made this movie and all his roles memorable. Great talent lost but his works will live on forever.
Thank you for getting sidetracked by Joe Pesci's hip hop career. That was the best laugh i've had in weeks.
to be fair, everyone was doing it
one of my favourite parts of the film is when Karen is screaming at Henry's girlfriend through the Intercom.... "Get your own god damn man!!" Lorraine Bracco did a great job in that scene.
"You ah nothing but a ho-ah!"
@@bigworm2129 Oh yeah... she was pissed.
Me 2
Love her
Yes, Dr. Melfi was awesome in this film.
This makes me respect Goodfellas even more, since 95% of it was completely accurate, save for a few minor details. Impressive.
The movie is great but it’s not accurate. They had to soften up the characters because Tommy DeSimone, Paul Vario, James Burke were extremely brutal and sadistic mobsters.
Alan Rosario 809 it was accurate in pretty much everything depicted though, just because they left out violent parts that weren’t necessary to the plot doesn’t make the movie inaccurate.
@Mussels Marinara Nope, I read the book and almost everything in that scene was accurate.
Eh, wouldn't say it's that accurate Henry Hill was a known liar and liked to make himself sound bigger than he was. Other still living monsters from the era have very different story's to describe Henry Hill.
Murders are IDOL'S now
29:00 I always got the impression that Henry Hill wanted to be known as a good guy who just got in over his head. The reaction he had when recounting this story tells me otherwise. He was just as bad as the rest of the people he associated with and got out only because he was in hot water.
Psychopaths only look out for No 1
I'm willing to bet Hill counted on his "associates" not pulling him with them in their crimes, for they would undermine their own defense
@@Nightdare Henry isn't a psycho, he just has ADHD; probably a decent guy and nice enough, its easy to not feel anything when you're always thinking of something else
@@whaletime69
Decent guys aren't members of organized crime
ADHD isn't an excuse for being a piece of shit
The guy was a narcissist, enjoying the power and attention,, ratting out his 'buddies' when he was about to face consequences of his choices
Stop idolizing trash!
@@Nightdare who said anything about idolizing? He wasn't a narcissist and I'm pretty sure ratting the people who are about to wack you is a reasonable response. Guy just reminds me of me and my father. Personally if the poor dude was born in the 90s or 00s he would've lead a normal life
I don’t know I feel like some people do react with laughter in horrible situations. Lots of soldiers talk about how laughing is a good coping strategy. That’s not to see the guys innocent but I don’t know if that reaction could be used as flawless evidence.
I’m gonna go get the papers, get the papers
We'll call you Basel two times
Jimmy two times over here
SpudThePotato
and we'll call you SPUD GAMBINI hehe
Do i Amyuze you
do i fucking amyuze you
so... my comment here are here to fuck amuze you
i'm funny in what way,... HOW AM I FUCKING FUNNY
hehe
imagine trying this shit with a flat earther lol
Flat earther says
the earth is flat
and you're like... the earth is round
and the flat earth is like ... you're funny and you're so clueless
and you're like....
FUNNY...??? FUNNY HOW
AM I LIKE HAHA FUNNY
I'M HERE TO FUCKING AMUZE YOU
HOW THE FUCK AM I FUNNY
hehe
😂😂😂😂
Hey Hendry, Hayadoin?... I took careathat thing for ya
HB, you also forgot to mention the FOOD in Goodfellas. Scorsese used many close-ups of great Italian meals, thus making the movie more appetizing. LITERALLY!
Halpin2006 exactly! Nobody hardly mentions this.
Hey, earlier this evening, before I saw this, I was telling my wife about Pauley slicing the garlic with a razor blade. Made me hungry, I gotta try that.
Every time i watch this movie i get a strong craving for pasta
Ya eatin too much, tomorrow we go on a diet....sangwiches.....
his mother and father made the meals in this film. fun fact.
"I'm gonna go get the papers, get the papers"
Darren Wang paypuhz
goddamit man.
Alright this comment is getting old
@@tylershockley4277 you're getting old...
@@titaniumalpha8564 we all are buddy
It's also worth that Henry wasn't just dealing Cocaine, he was dealing Queludes, Coke, Speed and The big Calzone: Heroin. He was dipping into his coke and heroin and it was beginning to show. Now despite he not being a Madeguy, he was very close with Paul Vario who was a Lucchese Caporegime/Captain and a powerful one from what I understand.
19:00
Ever since I could remember, I wanted to be an internet troll.
K4rt80y Well, I’m very happy you’re not an internet troll. They’re awful.
@@KellieDoll28 Fuck you bitch.
K4rt80y
If that ain’t the normiest shit I’ve ever heard
@@SavageBunnyGetMoney K
@@SavageBunnyGetMoney Where did you study " gorilla warfare ?" At the zoo?
The guy cooking the steaks in the prison scene "an aristocrat", threw acid in my cousin's face (victor riesel) to silence him, he was a journalist exposing corruption.
Dracula,
You mean snitch
Yeah, that was Johnny Dio. it's amazing how they glorify these animals and so many people just suck it all up.
@@thedovahkiin1999 shut up, crime should be stopped
Comrade20 as wrong as it may be corruption is corruption because they do corrupt things to keep moving and corruption has plagued us before the birth of Jesus Christ & people who try to go against corruption don’t usually complete said task if so then we would’ve already reached peace as a species
Watching The Godfather made me want to be a gangster. After watching Goodfellas, I said no thank you!
Hell yeah these people were insane, murder comes naturally like with wild animals
I'm not all that convinced you didn't become a gangster. Your first sentence made you sound a bit to eager.
Tbh it made me want to be a gangster even more
You should watch how Michael ends up after a violent rise to power.
@@phenny100 filthy rich before dying of old age? ;)
Grim Fact: The real life beating of Billy Batts was so violent, the gun fell apart in Tommy's hand. After a beating like that, it's a miracle Batts survived and had to be finished off.
Revolvers are actually pretty fragile.
Fun fact: I farted in my own potato salad once and ate it for fiber
@@Bigblockchevy88the hell
Jimmy was kicking the sh* out that mf
@@Bigblockchevy88You are right sir
Goodfellas: Joe Pesci kills Frankie Vincent. Casino: Frankie Vincent repays the favor.
lkgrave I love that!
He also does it with a Bat in Casino, a reference to his character Billy Bats
God works in mysterious ways
lkgrave I know
They also get in a brawl in Raging Bull
When Pauly slapped Henry in the movie it wasn't scripted that why the reaction was legit.... lol
Thanks for commenting I NEVER knew this was unscripted and I just rewatched the scene and now that you mentioned it you can totally see that Ray Liotta reacts for like a nanosecond and then resumes character.
@@ChickyParm1972 lol... yea it was a good scene and they needed it as authentic as possible and the real Paul Varrio was known to exert his power over his crew and was no joke.....
@@thcryda7362 which scene??
@@osheenoutside6097 15:22
29:20: The toupee coming off was an accident, and Liotta's laughter in that moment was genuine.
I'm gonna go get the papers get the papers
Roman Bellic xDDD
Roman Bellic Ayyyy. Jimmy two times!
Tommy Two Times
Travis King You mean "Tommy Two Shines"
Fadzi2342 Now go get your fucking shine box!
I love that you made the point crystal clear that gangsters pervert ideals like loyalty, honor and respect to rationalize their cruel, vicious and self serving behaviors.
Don’t put too much onions in the sauce.
I only used 3 small onions.
3 onions? How many cans of tomatoes you put in there?
,,Paulie got this wonderful system of cutting the garlic"
@@danielwilliams7685 2 cans
@@joshp2542 you don't need 3 onions
The real Henry Hill laughs as he tells these stories and then remembers that he has to pretend like its serious and not funny. When he was talking about Paul Vario beating a woman with a baseball bat watch his face and listen to how he says it.
Nothing wrong with that IMO. True he was a piece of shit but I don't see any wrong in cracking up there
HighburyAFCSoul you don’t see anything wrong with laughing as you tell an anecdote about beating a woman to death with a baseball bat?
@@biblemaniswatchingyoumastu1920 He's done a lot worse
HighburyAFCSoul what kind of excuse is that?
@@alessiodelcastillo1613 the fuck is wrong with you?
5:05 "and he loved, above all, feeling valued".
And that right there is the cornerstone, the main structural element, of how gangs, mobs, cults, and even many of our institutions work and attract and keep members. It's extremely powerful and coercive to give someone who has been convinced for whatever reason that they're worthless a worth through purpose, even if that purpose is an ulterior motive to serve some self-serving goal of your own.
Quite often in such situations what's not seen is that valuation comes at a price, that in most cases what you get out of the situation that makes you feel great is being paid to the 'leader' many times over. Especially in the mob. The more you make, the better you do, the more you kick upstairs to the Boss.
Ray Liotta passed away today. RIP Ray. Guy was a talented legend in his own right.
I'm just glad that actor Ray Liotta was able to stop smoking using Chantix!
A rebranded antidepressant.
@@thetechlibrarian Yep. And most of those "anti-smoking" drugs are detrimental to smokers who have been diagnosed with depression. E.g. I've got bi-polar disorder, and my shrink said, those "remedies" are an absolute no go.
Best comment !!
Phil P speaking from experience it causes suicidal thoughts and dreams, so glad I got off that shit and quit on my own.
LOL
You have to give props to the casting director. The young kid who plays the young Henry Hill actually looks like a young Ray Liotta. I hope I spelled his last name right.
You're good.
* Liotar you silly basted
No it's spelled like this Tommy Vercetti
And the kid who played a young Tommy looked and sounded like a young Joe Pesci
eh its a pretty easy last name. Hill is spelled just like it's pronounced.
I hear the term "unreliable narrator" and Henry Hill comes to mind. The guy was an absolute weasel.
@Shrimp Lord what's the RUclips channel called?
@Shrimp Lord thanks bro
@Shrimp Lord he’s even in the movie yeah lmao
@Shrimp Lord [GurApostle 9th of the twelve] Which I think it's fair, considering Henry was a low level associate, half-irish, a screw up and a rat. Oh and a drug and alcohol addict. Unreliable as they can be.
@Shrimp Lord [GurApostle 9th of the twelve] I don't see how. The purpose of the movie is to show life at the bottom of the mafia totem pole. That's Henry Hill.
Man. RIP Ray, what an actor and incredible man.
We lost Paulie too. He didn’t move for anybody.
They even shined Tommy's face so his Mother couldn't give him an open shinebox
He was killed and body never found! Look up djvlad interviewing Michael he speaks about Tommie
@@phoenix6209 The joke went flying over your head somewhere over there.
@@phoenix6209 It’s a movie. Get over it.
they compromised
No more shines didnt you hear? He doesnt shine shoes no more...
They called him Jimmy Conway because it was his original last name. Burke was given to him by a foster family. He wouldn't let him use his real name, so they used his old one.
Was hoping to see this comment. Burke was the name of the last foster family that Jimmy lived with. It was also his favorite family as well.
Absolutely correct. Conway was the last name of his mother.
Exactly
So pesci wacked billy batz , then billy wacked pesci in casino - with bats. Rip frank vincent.
Then he got his head driven over with an SUV by Tony Soprano. What a life
Bruh wtf that’s way to ruin a mafia movie for me
And Joe Pesci's character's mother was played by his Scorcese's mother. And the guy who killed Joe Pesci's character was played by his father. It was right out of Greek tragedy.
@@drmodestoesq Damn, that's like a reverse Oedipus complex.
Pesci also beat the crap out of him in raging bull
This is pretty amazing. When you hear "based on a true story" you normally take it with a grain of salt. I had no idea it was actually that crazy.
They showed that Henry had ADHD when he was on a date with Karen and she said he was obnoxious because he was always fidgeting
Doesn't mean he had ADHD. He was just bored
@@peteaxe2067 Also he had to go to that thing.
ThatOneAsianBroChick I mean, we’re all commenting on a video that points that out early on, so I’m sure he knows. Pretty sure he’s just saying that the film never explicitly states that fact, & it’s not the inference one would make without knowing the facts beforehand.
As a person that is about to get diagnosed with ADHD, I can say that fidgeting is a good sign. But there are others. However I am also about to take a Master in a non-hippie subject and I can say that I do not think that diagnoses are an excuse for behaving dishonorable and criminal.
@Mikael
As a person that all my life have had to combat problems with concentration, temper and restlessness, periods with extreme energy and low energy, I can say that you come to a point where you realise that it is not about a lack of self-discipline.
I have a times struggled very hard in order to get as far as I have gotten today and it has led to burnouts and depression.
There was a time when I thought that ADHD was just an excuse for bad disciplin. Sure ADHD is not an excuse for bad behavior, but still it is something that exists even in people that is neither of the male sex or adults.
Goodfellas was an absolute classic. The Godfather made the running, especially the Godfather II. But Goodfellas was all in. It really was made with the intention of 'telling it like it is'! This is what gave it such class. Goodfellas didn't hold back or romanticize the mob. It is always going to be an absolute classic!
Godfather is about a bosses son taking over his business and showing the power a boss can have, Goodfellas is about a mixed kid who wants to be a gangster. Some of the best scenes in Godfather involve dealing with death. I recommend you rewatch the two films and see how they and goodfellas are essentially the same overall.
@@MostHighEmperorPalpatine Nah, Godfather heavily romanticizes the Mafia. Makes them look like their crime "family" is like an actual large family with them all sticking together no matter what, and that they only do what they have to.
Goodfellas pulls off that veneer of class, and shows that in reality the Mafia was full of complete psychopaths that would murder each other and everyone around them just for looking at them wrong.
Or grow up in Bayridge or Bathbeach, Redhook, Bensonhurst, Brooklyn in those days and live through Goodfellas
1. Goodfellas. 2. Casino. 3. Scarface 4. God Father trilogy
I would put A Bronx Tale right on level with Goodfellas
Henry: buys club to get away from mob and go legit
After buying the club: "the place thrived and became a fucking headquarters" I'm dead lmao
JUST when I thought I was out...
I can't believe this channel doesn't have 20 million subscribers by now. Keep up the unrivaled work. Great channel.
Most mob that rat out the mafia: **Gets whacked**
Henry: “I’m about to do what they called the pro-gamer’s move.”
I mean they could have pulled a Mr Angelo but the smoking n drinking got to him first
@@El_notorious_Americano Mr.Salieri send his regards
I mean after a while I don’t think they could whack him. He’d gotten famous off telling his stories, any suspicious or sudden death would immediately raise flags.
You mean the snitch move
@@KingKhanate1997 Witness protection program saved him not him being “famous” lmao that didn’t matter if he hadn’t moved and changed his identity they would’ve come for him sooner or later.
Hey guys! Just wanted to say thank you so much for your feedback. It's really awesome seeing that most of you have enjoyed this review. And some of you even said its your favorite which is wonderful but at the same time now I have to figure out how to top this one lol. Once I recharge my batteries I'll put my thinking cap on and give it a try lol. So again thank you all so very much for your love and support. It really does motivate me to keep trying to make better content. :)
+History Buffs How about Cleopatra? haha (There's 5 hours worth of material++)
+History Buffs You should consider doing gods and generals or Gettysburg but regardless keep up the good work
Have you consider doing tv series like HBO's Rome?
+History Buffs No hate for your view on the Godfather. Having read the book several times and watched to movie countless times, i don't love it for its accurate depictions. It has elements based on real events, but it's kinda like Game of Thrones is War of the Roses. It's fantasy
+History Buffs do a world war one movie please
You’ll have to be careful with some of those interviews with Henry, he was known for lying quite a lot
What exactly has he lied about?
@@ieatchildren5810he’s lied on some level about almost everything, the biggest being his level of involvement in other gangster’s crimes. For example he at first claimed that he never killed anybody, then later admitted to multiple murders while smashed
@@ieatchildren5810 he’s not wrong even Michael Franzese said he glorified his life a bit too much then it really was Like Copa Cabana Scene Henry never would been able to do that unless he was with Paulie or someone’s higher with him
@@balabanasireti What did Franzese lie about?
@@uckbritley1305 Haha that jesus freak lies all the time. Is there any dead legendary mobster he hasnt met?
My great grandfather owned a cement shop, and since he grew up in Chicago, he was friends with members of the Jewish Mob, so they used to use my great grandfathers shop to cement the tires of cars with men in it and would push them in lakes or rivers. Oh and my great grandfathers childhood best friend was Jack Ruby, Lee Harvey Oswald’s assassin. And lastly, I have dyscalculia, which is a learning deficiency with math and numbers, so I struggled too.
There's no way the jewish mafia would do that.. they would melt all the metal down and sell all the parts piece by piece ... uncle Verone didnt get to buy his creme regal by wasting things oh vey
The guy at the end before Guliani. Michael Franzese said that Henry aged horribly because of the drugs and he couldn’t recognize him when Henry was sent to prison with the other guys who knew him which was a mistake. Henry claims that Michael saved his life 3 times.
Im from New York. My dad worked for American Airlines at JFK and La Giardia and my parents friend worked for Air France. She said she remembered the real Frenchy.
Bo Zi That a friend of his parents knew Frenchy. Was that not evident?
We don’t care
Did frenchy get whacked in real life too ?
@@youarerightiamwrong Really? Speak for yourself...
Erik Molnar he didn’t deserve to be whacked. He set the whole thing up.
Poor guy”s been looking at helicopters and spaghetti sauce all day.
I always think that when preparing spaghetti.
Henry says don't let the sauce stick. I'm stirring it.
You forgot to talk about Henry and Karen's relationship. I want to know how accurately that was portrayed.
Here is what I want to know:
• Was Karen's attraction to Henry portrayed right?
• Was their first date accurately portrayed?
• How did Karen's parents really feel about her marrying Henry?
• Did Karen really lie to Henry that another guy was harassing her so that Henry could beat him up?
• Did Karen really try to kill Henry?
I swear she is the original "Karen."
I want to know was Paulie really having an affair with Henry wife and how did he find out did somebody tell him or as have been stated that Henry was known as a liar
The year it came out, 1990, I lived in a mob neighborhood in Boston. No trouble for me. I was just Joe Jerk taking the subway to work. There was a couple of bars and restaurants I knew to stay out of. Exercised MYOB. Don't rubberneck, don't ask questions. Walk straight ahead and don't "see" nothin'. If you did that, it was a safe neighborhood!
Max Shea probably a lot safer than it is without the mob. Not defending them but if you weren’t involved in “the life” they wouldn’t bother you, no drive by shootings that kill children, old ladies could safely walk the streets of their neighborhoods.
I remember going to Javeli's in Eastie back in the 90s with my grandma, and seeing a group of older chubby Italian dudes with gold necklaces sitting at a table on a platform separated from everyone else. People would walk in and out talking to them for only a few minutes at a time.
I don't want to comtradict anybody's lived experience, but plenty of people still got massively negatively affected by the mob even of they minded their own business, like somebody trying to open a store in a min neighborhood. The crime rate has gone down since the golden age of the mob, not up.
@GentlemanDemon You're right and it points out one of the flaws of childhood reference; Children usually get a lot of leeway in society, even among criminals to a degree. Between that, how flawed distant memories are and the typical perception of kids, and you get a lot of skewed accounts.
This is why no matter what decade it is, somebody considers it the "good old days." My grandfather told me how much better things were in the 30s, and when I asked him what he thought depression meant, he smacked my mouth.
Also, and this should go without saying, but we're going through an 80s nostalgia currently and the 80s SUCKED. We almost got nuked to the death so many fucking times, that people just started ignoring alarms. The ones that people talk about (the bear incident, the documentary incident, the FUCKING NOTHING INCIDENT) are only notable for being "wacky".
That doesn't even include the AIDS crisis and general bigotry.
Love Deniro stomping Billy Bats out, the whole motion he’s making is wonderful lol
"fuckin' mutt dented my shoes"
What Deniro did to Batts in the movie, I can picture him doing this to someone in real life.
"it is better to eat bacon and beans in safety then cakes and wine n fear" Aesop
It's funny how hill talks about psycho's .....This comeIng from sewer crawling smack head and dealer . Old (yes they say you shouldn't speak ill of the dead ) hill can't throw stones here they gave him lots of cash when he was young more probably than his Ol man would never get and life style only the rich and shameless can afford .And he called them scum bags (they are REALLY !) But for him to say that is a laugh .
@DrPeePeePooPoo he is clearly more intelligent than someone who uses a child's name for human feces
@@tiernanwearen9499 Just googled it and I can't find that saying anywhere or that Aristotle said it.
DrPeePeePooPoo LMFAOOO
I do like beans
I knew people that went to the Copacabana around this time, they did not go through the kitchen, but bringing the table down front really happened ,so you thought you had a front row till someone else came in, not saying the kitchen scene couldn't happen. Also they would mark the bottle of scotch on the side with a pencil that's how these guys paid for what they drank. Jules Podell ran a tight ship and some were regulars.
According to Michael Francese, Henry never got that kind of treatment
Came for Goodfellas, stayed for the content, and comedy. Good shit
Comedy?
He lived 69 years - at least 55 of those "at risk" and 40 of those - potentially toxic/depending on amount, with his use of alcohol + drugs.
I would say - Henry was an "Odds-Breaker" ...
I'd say that's a good life to live
Interesting, your comment comes at it from a different angle.
Winston Churchill drank and smoked all his life but lived to the age of 95 or more. Some people have ironcast genes that seem to defy the norms of medical and lifestyle risk. I would guess that Hill boasted about all the drugs and drink he consumed, nobody could live that long on a regular habit of class A drugs without there being some periods of moderate or near zero use or outright abstinence, but this does not make for good news colour.
* scene of dad absolutely savagely whipping son with belt *
"When I saw this scene, I simply thought he was a bad kid."
😂 ikr?
Pegasi 💀💀💀
Lmao
Missing months of school - I would have gotten worse in 1970
And mom would have minded her own damn business.
"in MONTHS!!"
honestly, Pesci’s rap vid isn’t that bad. It’s pretty good for someone who had absolutely no foothold in the rap scene.
Eloquently put
@jabron.destoroyahexcept people like 50 cent always been the gansters you watch to much movies
But Joe Pesci did put out a record before his movie career got started “ Little Joe Sure Can Sing “
The best mafia movie? You clearly haven’t seen him in home alone.
Home Alone 24 always alone on Christmas
i dont think the wet bandits were Marfia men. That being said id love to see a film of harry and marv trying to get in with the Marfia.
Jade Thornton its a joke
Casino is better.
LMFAO
I wish they had portrayed how Jimmy's gang really got the keys from the guard with the hooker, not only is it amazing that it's a true story but it would have fit the tone and narrative of the film very well, a small detail that would have been nice to have, oh well.
How?
Maybe the hooker didn’t give up her rights 😂😂
The deception of the JFK security guard by using a hooker was for the Air France heist worth $480,000 back then; not the Lufthansa Heist.
@@thema.sosoudid2229 the movie is already 2 hours long
@@thema.sosoudid2229 its deception, adds tension into the success of the job, and its sleazy. Sums up goodfellas pretty well. Maybe in another life.
I just watched the scene where Johnny Roast Beef describes the Air France heist, and I noticed, he actually does bring up that the only thing he doesn't have sorted is the key to get in. When Henry asks what he needs to do to get the key, Roast Beef says he'll take care of it, so the event about getting the guard drunk and stealing the keys and making a mold presumably happened off screen
Agreed...only you're confusing Johnny Roast Beef with Frenchy.
Although Billy Batts' murder was for the most part, shown to be a revenge slaying due to Batts; disrespect of Tommy, earlier in the movie, there is an understated scene that does somewhat let the audience in on the fact that there was also a conflict between Batts and Jimmy Conway. At one point, we see Conway and Batts speaking to one another. Because its a quiet conversation, they dont initially appear to be arguing, but if you listen, you can hear Batts getting annoyed with Jimmy as he tells him that he wants what is due to him. This was about the loan sharking racket that was formerly run by Billy Batts and had been taken over by Jimmy after Batts had gone to prison. Billy was letting Jimmy know that now that he was out, he expected the business to be returned to him, which was something that Jimmy of course, didn't want to do. So although it's subtle, the film actually does reference Jimmy's reason for being involved in the murder and why he seemed to have so few qualms about helping Tommy kill a made guy.
The real jimmy conway is terrifying
So is Tommy Disimone
Gangsters usually were.
AT LEAST HE TREATED HIS FOSTER PARENTS RIGHT; TOMMY KILLED INNOCENT PEOPLE JUST TO TRY HIS GUN OUT!!!!
@@davedecker1725 was
Was
"You wanna hear something funny, last week this prick asked me to Christen his kid." Gets me every time 🤣
I honestly dont get that joke
@@josedirks3973 me neither 🤷🏻♂️🤣
That's because you aren't a psychopath.
"I charged him 7 Gs!"
Did you charge him seven grand?
Jimmy "Conway" was given this name in the film because in real life, Jimmy Burke's mother's maiden name was Conway.
Marc Russell fact, but they coulnt use Burke because his wife wanted too much money.
He also used Jimmy Conway as an alias from time to time
His foster family were the Burke’s. His real estranged mom was a Conway.
Also I read a book that says the family of Burke tryed to shake down De Niro for 100k & sue the filmmakers if they used Burke name
@@chrisegan8638 very good.
It is so true when they say: THERE IS NO HONOR AMONG CRIMINALS.
Man..this movie is SO FUCKING GREAT i can't even express how good it is.
I read this with Rick voice.
wubalabadabdab
One of the best ever
T Brady : YOUR SO RIGHT AND SOOO WRONG, HARD TO DO, CONGRATULATIONS . BUT THERE'S NO CALL TO INSULT PEOPLE. IMHO BFN
T Brady
you comment feels so out of place and yet authentic. I just love it.
$6M in 1978 is about $23M in 2019.
But it's 2020 now
In a week or two it will be worth about $300,000
03-24-20
feez357 300k? You sure?
Oh! I meant to answer both of you! I HOPE I'm wrong, and I'm glad to see it up. I don't think we'll know for sure for a while.
Its retarded the way Americans set the date out. It should be day month year
One thing you didn't mention was the soundtrack for this film, I thought it helped make the movie. Other than that great video and break down of my personal favorite movie, thanks!
Loved the Eric Clapton piano bit.
Fab soundtrack!
Kudos to pointing out that the real Tommy DiSimeone was a hulk compared to Pesci, but yes, that spirit is there.
Also, my understanding is that Jimmy's last name was depicted as "Conway" because, yes, Burke was incarcerated then and the studio did not want to risk a possible defamation suit. Conway was, from what I have heard, Burke's mother's maiden name.
Nice work.
The scene with spider is definitely real.
I remember a time that Henry Hill was on The Howard Stern show & a woman called up who said she was Spiders sister IRL (Henry confirmed it was really her)
She was begging Henry to tell her family where Spiders body was buried so they could give him an actual burial. It was scary & sad.
In that same interview he mentioned that the bar was also a bocce ball court & that there were quite a few bodies under it.
Maybe he is there.
"Jimmy buried over a dozen bodies, including Dominick "Remo" Cersani and Michael "Spider" Gianco, under the bocce courts. If you go there today and look down the left side of the building, you'll see piles of dirt. After I went into the program, Jimmy had the feds and media over to witness the courts being dug up" Yea you're right
Thats very sad
@Jimmy Crackcorn No. At least not that day on the Howard Stern show. It was really messed up.
You calling me a deadbeat SMASH !! Can I believe this prick? Wanna hear something funny? Last week he asked me to Christen his kid. Yeah 7 thousand dollars I charge!!!! Best line. Btw Spider was wrapped in a web and dumped in an ant hole....
William Fetters I remember hearing that on the Stern show too. I seem to recall Hill would occasionally call in to the show, usually sounding pretty blasted.
To be fair Pesci’s music career wasn’t a total joke: He did introduce Bob Gaudio to Frankie Valli and Tommy DeVito, bringing him in to the Four Seasons.
Wasn't that from the movie
MASTER-OF- EVIL It’s true though
My impression after watching the movie, documentaries and reading the book 'Goodfellas', is that Henry was swimming with a pack of piranhas. You show one sign of weakness, they'll eat you. Without hesitation.
Then again, considering how his upbringing was, there's no wonder why Mob life seemed so attractive to him when he was a kid.
At home and at school, everybody is treating you like a nobody, and everyday is a struggle.
While the Wiseguys are treating you well, patting you on your back, you earn a lot of money and you're having a good time along the way. Who' wouldn't be tempted by that when they're a teenager?
Yah, you are right. He came from a really poor family and saw a way of getting out.
Don't believe everything in the book. These guys murdered my uncle, and in the book they claim he was shot in the chest so he could have an open casket. In reality.... There was no open casket. There was no body. There is no grave. My family has spent 40 years wondering where his body is. His existence has been wiped out. His birth records don't even exist anymore.
@@st8562 I'm not trying to excuse or to justify what these guys did. What they did was wrong, no matter how you look at it.
And what Henry did was wrong in every way, but then again he's a person with a weak character.
Even during the witness protection program he kept on doing things that got him sendt to prison.
@@st8562 Wait you’re legitimately related to that guy? How did that wipe out his birth records not even the mafia could do something like that that’s national information.
@c0ya1 you have an asmr playlist you’re pretty pathetic
Another wonderful fleshing out of a classic movie. I love History Buffs, well done Nick.
You know, you're a funny guy.
Funny how?
So you think he's here to amuse you?
That's It!!!!
You wanna laugh this prick last week asked me to baptize his kid!
*your
I'm glad they put it back on Netflix. Watched it 3-4 times this past week.
As a late teen, I found this movie and it quickly became one of my favorite movies. I have seen it at least 100 times and watch it everytime it's on TV
Stfu stick to Keeping up with the Kardashians
The big surprise for me was realising that Michael Franzese is cameoed in this movie. I have been watching a lot of his interviews and didn't know he was until he said he was in it. Was a wow moment for me.
He was portrayed in the film and only mentioned once. Michael said he was surprised by his name being mentioned in the film and clarified that he never hung out with Hill, Burke, or Tommy. He knew them but was never in a social setting with them. Michael’s review of Goodfellas was really good and also mentioned the inaccuracies of the movie.
Was that an actual RUclips video? Holy Shit.
I'm trying to find it
+DaehanMD It is hilarious.
+Axzack /watch?v=QrrkPHPwVfo
+Axzack It's satire.
+Axzack looks like a commercial from Idiocracy.
“This sums up how crooked the penal system was back then”
Ha, back then..
L P Amen
Thank you
It's way worse now
Forget the bribery by criminals, the real crookedness of the American penal system is how it’s reinvented the slave trade by exploiting prison labour for cheap.
Tell me about it mate. The man and women who abused and molested and attempted to kill me 7 years going from 6 to 13. And guess what, they walk free. Free as fucking blue birds. All because they helped run drugs with the literal Police in the county. Fuck the justice system.
Henry Hill story after the "Goodfellas" part was crazy. The audio book is on RUclips. It's pretty crazy with him dealing with the police, witness protection and moving so often.
My favorite movie of all time since I was a youngin. “Never rat on your friends, and always keep your mouth shut”
Margaret Gust lol imagine being this lame 😩
And yet, what does he end up doing...?
@@EmeraldLavigne at the end they weren’t really considered friends, so half of the quote still stands
Henry goes on to talk to the FBI and rats on his friends.