Goodfellas (1990)

The second film I've decided to Analysis is a classic Mafia Film Goodfella's directed by Martin Scorsese

Genre

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Biography, Drama and Crime

Plot &Summary
This film views the mob lives of three men in the 1960's and 70's New York. Henry Hill is a local boy turned gangster in a neighborhood full of the roughest and toughest. Tommy Devito is a pure bred gangster, who turns out to be Henry's best friend. Jimmy Conway puts the two of them together, and runs some of the biggest hijacks and burglaries the town has ever seen. After an extended jail sentence, Henry must sneak around the back of the local mob boss, Paulie Cicero, to live the life of luxury he has always dreamed of. In the end, the friends end up in a hell of a jam, and must do anything they can to save each other, and stay alive.

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Development of Jimmy Conway (Robert De Niro)

The film slowly goes through levels of the Mafia, with characters introduced casually and some of them not really developed until later in the story. we're introduced to Jim (Jimmy the Gent) Conway,a man who steals for the sheer love of stealing, and Tommy DeVito (Joe Pesci), a likable guy except that his fearsome temper can explode in a second, with fatal consequences. We follow them through 30 years; at first, through years of unchallenged power, then through years of decline and then into betrayal and decay.

At some point, the whole wonderful romance of the Mafia goes sour for Henry Hill, and that moment is when he and Jimmy and Tommy have to bury a man whom Tommy kicked almost to death in a fit of pointless rage. First, they have to finish killing him (they stop at Tommy's mother's house to borrow a knife, and she feeds them dinner), then they bury him, then later they have to dig him up again. The worst part is, their victim was a "made" guy, a Mafioso who is supposed to be immune. So they are in deep, deep trouble, and this is not how Henry Hill thought it was going to be when he started out on his life's journey.

Robert De Niro’s Jimmy Conway character is based on real-life mobster Jimmy Burke, aka Jimmy ‘The Gent’ or ‘The Big Irishman’, an ex-bricklayer believed to have orchestrated the $6million Lufthansa heist in 1978 and then killed 10 of those who took part. To portray him, De Niro plundered writer Nicholas Pileggi’s unused notes and obsessively asked the real Henry Hill for details about the real Jimmy — how he held his cigarette, used a ketchup bottle, reacted to various situations, etc.

Hair, Makeup and Styling

Ilona Herman was responsible for Robert De Niro's make up and hair styling.

• http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/goodfellas-1990
• http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099685/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast
• http://www.shortlist.com/entertainment/50-useless-but-genius-facts-about-goodfellas