Goodfellas
(also spelled GoodFellas
) is a 1990 crime drama film directed by Martin Scorsese. It is based on the non-fiction book Wiseguy
by Nicholas Pileggi, who also co-wrote the screenplay for the film with Scorsese. The film follows the rise and fall of three gangsters, spanning three decades.
Scorsese originally intended to direct Goodfellas
before The Last Temptation of Christ
but, when funds materialized to make Last Temptation
, he postponed what was then known as Wise Guy
. The title of Pileggi's book had already been used for a TV series and for Brian De Palma's 1986 comedy Wise Guys
, so Pileggi and Scorsese changed the name of their film to Goodfellas
. To prepare for their roles in the film, Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, and Ray Liotta talked often with Pileggi, who shared with the actors research material that had been left over from writing the book. According to Pesci, improvisation and ad-libbing came out of rehearsals where Scorsese gave the actors freedom to do whatever they wanted. The director made transcripts of these sessions, took the lines that the actors came up with that he liked best, and put them into a revised script the cast worked from during principal photography.
Goodfellas
performed well at the box office, grossing $46.8 million domestically, well above its $25 million budget; it received overwhelmingly positive reviews from critics. The film was nominated for six Academy Awards but only won one for Pesci in the Best Actor in a Supporting Role category. Scorsese's film won five awards from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts and was named best film of the year by the New York Film Critics Circle, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, and the National Society of Film Critics. Goodfellas
is often considered one of the greatest films ever, both in the genre of crime and in general and was deemed "culturally significant" and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the United States Library of Congress.
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Plot
In the opening scene, the Irish-Italian protagonist
Henry Hill (
Ray Liotta) admits, "As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster," referring to his idolizing the
Lucchese crime family gangsters in his
blue-collar, predominantly
Italian neighborhood in
East New York, Brooklyn in
1955. Feeling the connection of being a part of something, Henry quits school and goes to work for them. His
Irish father, knowing the true nature of the
Mafia, tries to stop Henry after learning of his truancy, but the gangsters ensure that his parents no longer hear from the school by threatening the local
postal carrier with dire consequences should he deliver any more letters from the school to Henry's house. Henry is able to make a smooth living for himself, also learning the "two most important lessons in life": Never rat on your friends, and always keep your mouth shut, which is said to him after young Henry remains silent after a court hearing. This establishes the tone for the rest of the film.
Henry is soon taken under the wing of the local mob
captain, Paul "Paulie" Cicero (
Paul Sorvino, based on the actual Lucchese mobster
Paul Vario) and Cicero's close
Irish associate Jimmy "The Gent" Conway (
Robert De Niro, based on
Jimmy Burke). They help to cultivate Henry's criminal career, and introduce Henry to the entire network of Paulie’s crime syndicate. Henry and his friends soon become successful, daring, and dangerous. Jimmy loves hijacking trucks, and Tommy DeVito (
Joe Pesci, based on
Tommy DeSimone) is an aggressive
psychopath with a hair-trigger temper. In late
1967, Henry commits the
Air France Robbery and it marks his debut into the big time of organized crime. Enjoying the perks of their criminal activities, the friends spend most of their nights at the
Copacabana night club with countless women. Around this time, Henry meets and later marries a no-nonsense
Jewish girl from the
Five Towns named Karen (
Lorraine Bracco). Karen at first is troubled by Henry's criminal activities, but when a neighbour assaults her for refusing his advances, Henry
pistol-whips him in front of her, displaying all of the viciousness and confidence of proven gangsters. She feels vindicated, intrigued, and aroused by the act, especially when Henry leaves her the gun he used on her neighbour.
In
1970, Tommy (with Jimmy's help) brutally beats
Billy Batts (
Frank Vincent), a prominent mobster of the
Gambino crime family, for insulting him about being a shoeshine boy in his younger days. However, Batts was a
made man, meaning that he could not be touched without the consent of his Gambino family bosses. Realizing that this was an offense that could get all of them killed, Jimmy, Henry, and Tommy place the bloodied Batts in the trunk of Henry's car with the intent of burying him upstate, then drive to Tommy's mother's house to retrieve the tools needed to do so. They manage to bury Batts in the intended area, but six months later Jimmy learns that the burial spot will be the site of a new property development. Thus, they are forced to
exhume Batts' half-decomposed corpse and move it to another location.
Henry begins to see a mistress known as Janice Rossi (
Gina Mastrogiacomo). When Karen finds out, she threatens to kill him with a revolver pointed at his face, demanding to know if he really truly loves her. However, she cannot bring herself to kill him and an enraged Henry states he has other things to worry about such as getting killed on the street. Soon, it gets harder for Henry to evade the law. Paulie sends him and Jimmy to collect from an indebted
Florida gambler in
Tampa, and they hang him in the lion's den at a public
zoo to intimidate him further after a beating fails to sway the man. Henry, Jimmy, the gambler, and most of the crew (except for Tommy) are then arrested thanks to the gambler's sister, who is a typist for the
FBI. In prison, Henry
sells drugs to support his family on the outside. Soon after he is released in
1978, the crew commits the infamous
Lufthansa heist at
John F. Kennedy International Airport. In the meantime, Henry further establishes himself in the drug trade after seeing its high potential for profit, and convinces Tommy and Jimmy to join him. Things start to turn sour when the crew members ignore the advice of Jimmy not to buy expensive things from their share of the stolen money, and in return Jimmy has them killed one by one as various bodies are discovered across the city, (in a montage set famously to
Layla
). Things are further more complicated as Tommy is killed by two
Gambino capos for his part in Billy Batts' murder (among other things), after being fooled in thinking that he is going to be made. The family he was joining had to hedge in to avoid a war.
The year is now
1980. Henry is on the cusp of making a big deal with his associates in
Pittsburgh. A nervous wreck from his
cocaine usage and
lack of sleep, he runs around trying his best to get things organized. However, this does not stop him from being caught by narcotics agents and sent to jail. When he returns home, Karen tells him that she has flushed what amounted to
$60,000 worth of cocaine down the toilet to prevent the FBI agents from finding it during their raid. As a result, Henry and his family are left virtually penniless. Paulie feels his loyalty to Henry has been betrayed and decides to give him $3200 in exchange for having nothing to do with him ever again. Henry turns down a hit with Anthony in Florida from Jimmy when he realizes he would be killed. He then decides to enroll in the
Witness Protection Program as a mole for the FBI to protect himself and his family. Finally letting go of his gangster connections, he now has to face the prospect of living in the real world, the one thing he has always tried to run away from, stating, "I'm an average nobody. I get to live the rest of my life like a schnook." He longs for the life when he was a gangster and was in action.
The film ends with title cards explaining that Henry has been clean since 1987; Paul Cicero died in Fort Worth Prison of respiratory illness in 1988 at 73; and Jimmy is serving a 20-year-to-life sentence in a New York State prison, not being eligible for parole until 2004 (although he died of lung cancer in 1996).
Cast
Actor
| Role
| Based on
|
Ray Liotta
| Henry Hill
| Henry Hill
|
Robert De Niro
| Jimmy Conway
| Jimmy Burke
|
Joe Pesci
| Tommy DeVito
| Tommy DeSimone
|
Lorraine Bracco
| Karen Hill
| Karen Hill (née Friedman)
|
Paul Sorvino
| Paul Cicero
| Paul Vario
|
Chuck Low
| Morrie Kessler
| Martin Krugman
|
Frank DiLeo
| Tuddy Cicero
| Vito "Tuddy" Vario
|
Frank Sivero
| Frankie Carbone
| Angelo Sepe
|
Johnny Williams
| Johnny Roastbeef
| Louis Cafora
|
Mike Starr
| Frenchy
| Robert McMahon
|
Frank Vincent
| Billy Batts
| William "Billy Batts" DeVino
|
Jim Colella
| Jim Colella
| Jim Colella
|
Samuel L. Jackson
| Parnell "Stacks" Edwards
| Parnell Steven "Stacks" Edwards
|
Frank Adonis
| Anthony Stabile
| Anthony Stabile
|
Catherine Scorsese
| Tommy DeVito's Mother
| Thomas DeSimone's Grandmother
|
Gina Mastrogiacomo
| Janice Rossi
| Linda Coppociano
|
Debi Mazar
| Sandy
| Megan Cooperman
|
Margo Winkler
| Belle Kessler
| Fran Krugman
|
Welker White
| Lois Byrd
| Judy Wicks
|
Julie Garfield
| Mickey Conway
| Mickey Burke
|
Detective Ed Deacy
| Himself
| Himself
|
Christopher Serrone
| Henry Hill (Youth)
| Henry Hill (Youth)
|
Charles Scorsese
| Vinnie
| Thomas Agro
|
Michael Vivalo
| Nicky Eyes
| Himself
|
Michael Imperioli
| "Spider"
| Michael "Spider" Gianco
|
Tony Darrow
| Sonny Bunz
| Angelo McConnach
|
Tony Ellis
| Bridal Shop Owner
| Jerome Asaro
|
Elizabeth Whitcraft
| Tommy's Girlfriend
| Theresa Ferrara
|
Anthony Powers
| Jimmy Two-Times
| Bobby "The Dentist"
|
U.S. Attorney Ed McDonald
| Himself
| Himself
|
Ray DeBenedictis
| "Peter"
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Development
Goodfellas
is based on New York crime reporter
Nicholas Pileggi's book
Wiseguy
. Martin Scorsese never intended to make another mob film until he read a review of the book and this inspired him to read it
[1] while working on the set of
Color of Money
in 1986.
[2] He had always been fascinated by the Mob lifestyle and was drawn to Pileggi's book because it was the most honest portrayal of gangsters he had ever read.
[3] After he read Pileggi's book, the filmmaker knew what approach he wanted to take: "To begin
Goodfellas
like a gunshot and have it get faster from there, almost like a two-and-a-half-hour trailer. I think it's the only way you can really sense the exhilaration of the lifestyle, and to get a sense of why a lot of people are attracted to it."
[4] According to Pileggi, Scorsese cold-called the writer and told him, "I've been waiting for this book my entire life." To which Pileggi replied "I've been waiting for this phone call my entire life".
[5]
Scorsese originally intended to direct the film before
The Last Temptation of Christ
, but when funds materialized to make
Last Temptation
, he decided to postpone
Wise Guy
. He was drawn to the documentary aspects of Pileggi's book. "The book
Wise Guys
gives you a sense of the day-to-day life, the tedium - how they work, how they take over certain nightclubs, and for what reasons. It shows how it's done".
He saw
Goodfellas
as the third film in an unplanned trilogy of films that examined the lives of Italian-Americans "from slightly different angles".
[6] He has often described the film as "a mob home movie" that is about money because "that's what they're really in business for".
Screenplay
Scorsese and Pileggi collaborated on the screenplay and over the course of the 12 drafts it took to reach the ideal script, the reporter realized that "the visual styling had to be completely redone… So we decided to share credit".
They decided which sections of the book they liked and put them together like building blocks.
[7] Scorsese persuaded Pileggi that they did not need to follow a traditional narrative structure. The director wanted to take the gangster film and deal with it episode by episode but start in the middle and move backwards and forwards. Scorsese would compact scenes and realized that if they were kept short, "the impact after about an hour and a half would be terrific".
He wanted to do the voiceover like the opening of
Jules and Jim
and use "all the basic tricks of the
New Wave from around 1961".
Several of the names of the characters were also changed such as Tommy "Two Gunn" DeSimone becoming Tommy DeVito; Paul Vario becoming Paulie Cicero and Jimmy "The Gent" Burke becoming Jimmy Conway.
[8] Since the title of Pileggi's book had already been used for a
TV series and for
Brian De Palma's 1986 comedy
Wise Guys
, Pileggi and Scorsese decided to change the name of their film to
Goodfellas
.
Casting
Once Robert De Niro agreed to play Conway, Scorsese was able to secure the money needed to make the film.
The director cast Ray Liotta after De Niro saw him in
Jonathan Demme's
Something Wild
and Scorsese was surprised by "his explosive energy" in that film.
The actor had read Pileggi's book when it came out and was fascinated by it. A couple of years afterwards, his agent told him that Scorsese was going to direct a film version. In 1988, Liotta met the director over a period of a couple of months and auditioned for the film.
The actor campaigned aggressively for a role in the film but the studio wanted a well-known actor. "I think they would've rather had
Eddie Murphy than me", the actor remembers.
[9]
To prepare for the role, De Niro consulted with Pileggi who had research material that had been discarded while writing the book.
[10] De Niro often called Hill several times a day to ask how Burke walked, held his cigarette, and so on.
[11] [12] Driving to and from the set, Liotta listened to FBI audio cassette tapes of Hill, so he could practice speaking like his real-life counterpart.
To research her role, Lorraine Bracco tried to get close to a mob wife but was unable to because they exist in a very tight-knit community. She decided not to meet the real Karen because she "thought it would be better if the creation came from me. I used her life with her parents as an emotional guideline for the role".
[13] Paul Sorvino had no problem finding the voice and walk of his character but found it challenging finding "that kernel of coldness and absolute hardness that is antithetical to my nature except when my family is threatened".
[14]
Principal photography
Two weeks in advance of the filming, the real
Henry Hill was paid $480,000.
The film was shot on location between
Queens,
New York;
New Jersey; and also parts of
Long Island during the spring and summer of 1989 with a budget of $25 million.
Scorsese broke the film down into sequences and
storyboarded everything because of the complicated style throughout. According to the filmmaker, he "wanted lots of movement and I wanted it to be throughout the whole picture, and I wanted the style to kind of break down by the end, so that by his [Henry's] last day as a wiseguy, it's as if the whole picture would be out of control, give the impression he's just going to spin off the edge and fly out."
He claims that the film's style comes from the first two or three minutes of
Jules and Jim
: extensive narration, quick edits,
freeze frames, and multiple locale switches.
It was this reckless attitude towards convention that mirrored the attitude of many of the gangsters in the film. Scorsese remarked, "So if you do the movie, you say, 'I don't care if there's too much narration. Too many quick cuts? — That's too bad.' It's that kind of really punk attitude we're trying to show".
He adopted a frenetic style in order to almost overwhelm the audience with images and information.
He also put a lot of detail in every frame because the gangster life is so rich. The use of freeze frames was done because Scorsese wanted images that would stop "because a point was being reached" in Henry's life.
Joe Pesci did not judge his character but found the scene where he kills Spider for talking back to his character hard to do because he had trouble justifying the action until he forced himself to feel the way Tommy did.
Lorraine Bracco found the shoot to be an emotionally difficult one because it was such a male-dominated cast and realized that if she did not make her "work important, it would probably end up on the cutting room floor".
When it came to the relationship between Henry and Karen, Bracco saw no difference between an abused wife and her character.
According to Pesci, improvisation and ad-libbing came out of rehearsals where Scorsese let the actors do whatever they wanted. He made transcripts of these sessions, took the lines that the actors came up with that he liked best, and put them into a revised script that the cast worked from during principal photography.
For example, the scene where Tommy tells a story and Henry is responding to him — the "what's so funny about me" scene — is based on actual event that happened to Pesci. It was worked on in rehearsals where he and Liotta improvised and Scorsese recorded 4-5 takes, rewrote their dialogue and inserted it into the script.
[15] The cast did not meet Henry Hill during the film's shoot but a few weeks before it premiered, Liotta met him in an undisclosed city. Hill had seen the film and told the actor that he loved it.
The long tracking shot through the Copacabana nightclub came about because of a practical problem: the filmmakers could not get permission to go in the short way and this forced them to go round the back.
Scorsese decided to do it in one shot in order to symbolize Henry's whole life is ahead of him and according to the director. "It's his seduction of her [Karen] and it's also the lifestyle seducing him".
This sequence was shot eight times.
Henry's last day as a wiseguy was the hardest part of the film for Scorsese to shoot because he wanted to create the character's state of anxiety and the way the mind races when on drugs for people who had never been under the influence of
cocaine and
amphetamines.
The director ended the film with Henry regretting that he is no longer a wiseguy and Scorsese said, "I think the audience should get angry at him and I would hope they do — and maybe with the system which allows this".
Post-production
Scorsese wanted to depict the film's violence realistically, "cold, unfeeling and horrible. Almost incidental."
However, he had to remove ten frames of blood in order to ensure an
R rating from the
MPAA.
With a budget of $25 million,
Goodfellas
was Scorsese's most expensive film to date but still only a medium budget by Hollywood standards.
It was also the first time he was obliged by Warner Bros. to preview the film. It was shown twice in California and a lot of audiences were "agitated" by Henry's last day as a wise guy sequence and Scorsese argued that that was the point of the scene.
Scorsese and the film's editor,
Thelma Schoonmaker, made this sequence faster with more jump cuts to convey Henry's drug-addled point of view. In the first test screening there were 40 walkouts in the first ten minutes.
One of the favorite scenes for test audiences was the one where Tommy tells the story and Henry is responding to him - the "what's so funny about me" scene.
Soundtrack
Scorsese chose the songs for the soundtrack using only those that commented on the scene or the characters "in an oblique way".
The only rule he adhered to with the soundtrack was to only use music that could have been heard at that time.
For example, if a scene took place in 1973, he could use any song that was current or older. According to Scorsese, a lot of non-dialogue scenes were shot to playback. For example, he had "Layla" playing on the set while shooting the scene where the dead bodies are discovered in the car and the meat-truck.
Sometimes, the lyrics of songs were put between lines of dialogue to comment on the action.
Some of the music Scorsese had written into the script while other songs he discovered during the editing phase.
Network TV version
The dubbing of the dialogue of the network TV version was personally directed by Scorsese himself. It added a personal introduction to the film from Scorsese himself. It contains frequent usage of variants of the word "freak", such as "I've got this freakin' gun pointed at your freakin' head." However, much other profanity in the film was retained, as was the violence.
[16]
Release and reception
Distribution
Goodfellas
had its world premiere at the 1990
Venice Film Festival where Scorsese received the
Silver Lion award for Best Director.
[17] It was given a wide release in North America on September 21, 1990 in 1,070 theaters with an opening weekend gross of
US$6.3 million. It went on to make $46.8 million domestically, well above its $25 million budget.
[18]
Reviews
The film received very positive reviews from critics and currently has a 96% rating at
Rotten Tomatoes and a 89 metascore at
Metacritic. In his review for
The New York Times
,
Vincent Canby wrote, "More than any earlier Scorsese film,
Goodfellas
is memorable for the ensemble nature of the performances… The movie has been beautifully cast from the leading roles to the bits. There is flash also in some of Mr. Scorsese's directorial choices, including freeze frames, fast-cutting and the occasional long tracking shot. None of it is superfluous".
[19] USA Today
gave the film four out of four stars and called it, "great cinema — and also a whopping good time".
David Ansen, in his review for
Newsweek
magazine, wrote "Every crisp minute of this long, teeming movie vibrates with outlaw energy".
[20] In his review for
Time
, Richard Corliss wrote, "So it is Scorsese's triumph that
GoodFellas
offers the fastest, sharpest 2 1/2-hr. ride in recent film history".
[21] However,
Anthony Lane in the
The Independent
wrote, "There is a short, needling comedy of violence and cowardice somewhere inside this stylish film, and it is worth watching more than once to prise it free. Scorsese himself chickened out, I think; perhaps the Mob got to him after all".
[22] William Fugazy, of the National Ethnic Coalition of Organizations, a watchdog group on ethnic injustice, which claims a membership of 10 million and consists of 76 of the largest heritage groups in the United States, called for a boycott of the film and wanted
Warner Bros. to ban it. "It's the worst stereotyping, the worst portrayal of the Italian community I've ever seen. Far worse than
The Godfather
. One killing after another", he said.
[23] Scorsese responded to this criticism by saying, "As Nick Pileggi always points out, there are 18 to 20 million Italian-Americans. Out of that, there are only 4,000 alleged organised crime members. But, as Nick says, they cast a very long shadow".
[24]
Awards
Goodfellas
was nominated for six
Academy Awards including Joe Pesci for
Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Lorraine Bracco for
Best Actress in a Supporting Role,
Best Picture, Scorsese for
Best Director,
Thelma Schoonmaker for
Best Film Editing, and Scorsese and Nicholas Pileggi for
Best Adapted Screenplay.
[25] When
Joe Pesci won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor (the only Academy Award the film won),
[26] his entire speech was "This is an honor and a privilege, thank you".
[27] It is the third shortest Oscar-acceptance speech, after
William Holden's, who simply said, "Thank you", upon winning for
Stalag 17
, and
Alfred Hitchcock's, who merely said, "Thank you, indeed." when he received an Honorary Oscar. Later, Pesci admitted that he did not say more, because "I really didn't think I was going to win".
Goodfellas
was nominated for five
Golden Globes including
Best Director,
Best Motion Pictures,
Best Supporting Actor,
Best Supporting Actress, and
Best Screenplay.
[28] It failed to win any of these awards. Scorsese's film won five awards from the
British Academy of Film and Television Arts including
Best Film,
Best Director, and
Best Adapted Screenplay.
[29]
The
New York Film Critics Circle voted
Goodfellas
the
Best Film of 1990, Robert De Niro was named
Best Actor for his performance in the film and in
Awakenings
, and Scorsese was voted Best Director.
[30] The
Los Angeles Film Critics Association also voted Scorsese as
Best Director,
GoodFellas
as
Best Film,
awards for Pesci and Bracco as
Best Supporting Actor and
Actress, respectively, and Best Cinematography to
Michael Ballhaus for his work on the film.
[31] The
National Board of Review voted Pesci as
Best Supporting Actor.
[32] The
National Society of Film Critics voted
Goodfellas
Best Film of 1990 and Scorsese as
Best Director.
[33] American Film
magazine declared
Goodfellas
the best film of 1990 according to a poll of 80 movie critics.
[34]
Legacy
GoodFellas
is #94 on the
American Film Institute's list of
100 Years, 100 Movies and #92 on its
updated version from 2007. In June 2008, the AFI revealed its "Ten top Ten"—the best ten films in ten "classic" American film genres—after polling over 1,500 people from the creative community.
Goodfellas
was acknowledged as the second best in the gangster film genre (after
The Godfather
).
[35] In 2000, the United States
Library of Congress deemed the film "culturally significant" and selected it for preservation in the
National Film Registry.
Roger Ebert, a friend and supporter of Scorsese, named
Goodfellas
the "best mob movie ever" and placed it among the best films of the nineties.
[36] Premiere
magazine listed Joe Pesci's Tommy DeVito as #96 on its list of The 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time, calling him "perhaps the single most irredeemable character ever put on film".
[37] Channel 4 placed
Goodfellas
at #10 in their 2002 poll
The 100 Greatest Films.
In 2005,
Total Film
, named
Goodfellas
as the
greatest film of all time. In December 2002, a UK film critics poll in
Sight and Sound
ranked the film #4 on their list of the 10 Best Films of the Last 25 Years.
[38] Empire
magazine ranked Tommy DeVito #59 in their "The 100 Greatest Movie Characters" poll.
[39] Time
included
Goodfellas
in their list of 100 all-time best films.
[40]
American Film Institute recognition
- AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies #94
- AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition) #92
- AFI's 10 Top 10 #2 Gangster
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- A Hollywood Crime Wave
- Married to the Mob
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- Worst awards performances
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- ''GoodFellas'', ''Cinema Paradiso'' dominate the British Oscars
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