Goodfellas (1990)

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In the store as #558, Goodfellas (1990).

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Came from

What the speakers say it drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

After Hours: 2 lines the host's read ×2

  1. unmapped (stylistic seed): After Hours ⇒ Goodfellas (the host's read). Sean says the fast cutting, whip-pans and close-ups in After Hours are the seeds of Goodfellas' look, via cinematographer Michael Ballhaus.
    “just seeing all the seeds of Goodfellas and all these little edits and camera shots.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:04:02 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)

Led to

What the speakers say drew on it, marked the same way.

Killers of the Flower Moon: 3 lines the host's read ×3

  1. craft (opening style): Goodfellas ⇒ Killers of the Flower Moon (the host's read). The opening tracking shot echoes the Copacabana shot before the film rejects that mode.
    “It was a very long tracking shot through Leo's arrival, which is, you know, gesturing to Copacabana”
    The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 0:14:19 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

A Bronx Tale: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. unmapped (borrowing): Goodfellas ⇒ A Bronx Tale (the host's read). The bar-introduction scene of nicknamed mobsters is called a borderline Goodfellas ripoff.
    “Meeting everyone in the bar, which is just a borderline Goodfellas ripoff.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 0:55:08 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)

My Blue Heaven: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Goodfellas ⇒ My Blue Heaven (the host's read). My Blue Heaven is blown out by Goodfellas as it is the same movie, like a sequel.
    “It got kind of blown out of the water by Goodfellas because it's the same movie.”
    The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:31:51 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Connected to

A Bronx Tale: 7 lines theme ×2 unmapped ×2 contrast ×1 verdict ×1 lineage ×1

  1. lineage (homage question): A Bronx Tale → Goodfellas. Fennessey wonders whether the needle drops and the Pesci cameo are purposeful homage or accident.
    “I just want to know how much of what he was doing was a purposeful homage to Goodfellas”
    The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 1:32:47 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)

After Hours: 3 lines craft ×1 unmapped ×1 career ×1

  1. unmapped (stylistic seed): After Hours → Goodfellas. Sean says the fast cutting, whip-pans and close-ups in After Hours are the seeds of Goodfellas' look, via cinematographer Michael Ballhaus.
    “just seeing all the seeds of Goodfellas and all these little edits and camera shots.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:04:02 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)

Dances with Wolves: 3 lines verdict ×3

  1. verdict (verdict): Goodfellas → Dances with Wolves. Goodfellas should have won Best Picture over Dances with Wolves.
    “Goodfellas overdances with wolves.”
    The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:41:06 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70 sure it was them)

Killers of the Flower Moon: 3 lines craft ×1 contrast ×1 unmapped ×1

  1. craft (opening style): Killers of the Flower Moon → Goodfellas. The opening tracking shot echoes the Copacabana shot before the film rejects that mode.
    “It was a very long tracking shot through Leo's arrival, which is, you know, gesturing to Copacabana”
    The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 0:14:19 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

The Big Chill: 3 lines craft ×1 contrast ×1 what-if ×1

  1. craft (craft): The Big Chill → Goodfellas. Needle-drop movies where the music is part of the scene, grouped with Boogie Nights and Pulp Fiction.
    “It is this Boogie Knights, Goodfellas, Pulp Fiction.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:23:48 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

The Color of Money: 3 lines unmapped ×3

  1. unmapped (production trivia): The Color of Money → Goodfellas. Scorsese came up with Goodfellas while filming this movie after reading a review of Wiseguy.
    “Scorsese came up with Goodfellas when he was filming this.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Color of Money’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:01:26 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)

Joe Pesci: 2 lines people ×1 career ×1

  1. career (career): Joe Pesci → Goodfellas. Pesci plays against his Goodfellas gangster type, falling in mud and wearing a ringmaster suit.
    “all the Goodfellas and stuff is in there.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Wesley Morris · 0:29:53 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

Martin Scorsese: 2 lines industry ×1 people ×1

  1. people (people): Goodfellas → Martin Scorsese. Scorsese's New Yorkness was held against him by a provincial Oscars.
    “the New Yorkness of Scorsese in this movie in particular, I think was sort of held against him”
    The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:28:30 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

Paul Herman: 2 lines unmapped ×1 people ×1

  1. people (same actor): Paul Herman → Goodfellas. The Atlantic City bar guy is Paul Herman, who is the 'helicopters' guy in Goodfellas and Beansy on The Sopranos.
    “is Paul Herman, who in Goodfellas is like, you want to see helicopters? I'll make you see helicopters.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Color of Money’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:54:00 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)

The Departed: 2 lines unmapped ×1 craft ×1

  1. unmapped (greatest hits): The Departed → Goodfellas. Ryan says The Departed recycles Scorsese's camera moves from his career like a greatest-hits album, with no single shot to rival the Copacabana tracking shot or the Goodfellas freeze frames.
    “there's not one single shot in the departed that you would put up against like the Copacabana tracking shot or any of the slow-mo freeze frame stuff and Goodfellas or Raging Bull”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 0:11:53 · Chris Ryan (0.75 sure it was them)

The Wolf of Wall Street: 2 lines unmapped ×1 craft ×1

  1. craft (narrator structure): The Wolf of Wall Street → Goodfellas. Belfort, like Henry Hill, is the narrator and our way into the world while we watch him get lost in it.
    “Well, like like Henry Hill, he is also, the movie is about him, but he is our way into the movie.”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:31:37 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)

Blade Runner: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (craft): Blade Runner → Goodfellas. Listener contrasts bad narration crutched in original Blade Runner with narration that makes Goodfellas.
    “It was so bad in the original Blade Runner.”
    The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:36:58 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

Casino: 1 line contrast ×1

  1. contrast (contrast): Casino → Goodfellas. Casino was disappointing to some because it was not quite as good as Goodfellas.
    “And Casino had this weird thing where it wasn't quite as good as Goodfellas.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:23:33 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)

Chris Ryan: 1 line programming ×1

  1. programming (programming): Chris Ryan → Goodfellas. Pick 1 (round 1), category Oscar nominee: Easy first pick; one of his favorite movies ever made.
    “one of my favorite movies ever made, Martin Scorsese's uh, epic, darkly comic look at the rise and fall of the American mob”
    The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:26:39 · Chris Ryan (0.90 sure it was them)

Father of the Bride: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (narration that works): Father of the Bride → Goodfellas. Narration is usually a crutch, but it works in Goodfellas and here because the monologue is good and the narration lets George say what he cannot say.
    “Narration is usually a crutch and you really, like Goodfellas is a good example of like, narration totally worked.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ With Bill Simmons and Amanda Dobbins · 0:26:40 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)

King of New York: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (theme): King of New York → Goodfellas. 1990 was a great year for gangster movies.
    “This is a great year for gangster movies”
    The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:06:48 · Chris Ryan (0.80 sure it was them)

Linda Fiorentino: 1 line what-if ×1

  1. what-if (what-if casting): Linda Fiorentino → Goodfellas. Scorsese calls her 'the great' but couldn't find a place for her in Goodfellas or Kundun.
    “Couldn't find a place in Goodfellas for her.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 1:15:48 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

Michael Ballhaus: 1 line people ×1

  1. people (cinematographer lineage): Michael Ballhaus → Goodfellas. Ballhaus, with Schoonmaker's editing, built the new Scorsese look; seven films together.
    “with Thelma Scoonmaker's editing style, they built this kind of new version of the Scorsese movie.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:30:40 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

Michael Powell: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (early reader): Michael Powell → Goodfellas. Powell read the Goodfellas script and wrote Scorsese a letter praising it.
    “he sent the script to Michael Powell of Powell and Pressberger to get his thoughts”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 1:14:09 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

My Blue Heaven: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): My Blue Heaven → Goodfellas. My Blue Heaven is blown out by Goodfellas as it is the same movie, like a sequel.
    “It got kind of blown out of the water by Goodfellas because it's the same movie.”
    The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:31:51 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

My Cousin Vinny: 1 line programming ×1

  1. programming (programming): My Cousin Vinny → Goodfellas. Best double feature: Goodfellas then Vinny, though Vinny is too close in length.
    “I was going to say Goodfellas to this is pretty great.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Wesley Morris · 1:18:20 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

Nightmare Alley: 1 line contrast ×1

  1. contrast (pacing contrast): Nightmare Alley → Goodfellas. Goodfellas is propulsive because its hero builds an empire; Nightmare Alley needs the slow seductive absorption that kills Carlisle.
    “unlike a movie like Goodfellas, which is the definition of propulsive”
    The Big Picture · ‘Nightmare Alley’ and Our Favorite Films Noir, With Patton Oswalt! · 0:33:54 · Patton Oswalt (0.85 sure it was them)

Oppenheimer: 1 line career ×1

  1. career (career): Goodfellas → Oppenheimer. Goodfellas came at the point in Scorsese's career where Oppenheimer came for Nolan, but Scorsese lost the Oscars.
    “Nolan just won Oppenheimer at a very similar play time in his career to where Scorsese was when he made Goodfellas”
    The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:27:51 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

Raging Bull: 1 line verdict ×1

  1. verdict (Scorsese repeats himself better): Raging Bull → Goodfellas. Frank Vincent keeps getting beaten in Scorsese movies, and Goodfellas does the same thing a second time better.
    “Scorsese going, I can do this twice and no one's, and it'll be better the 2nd time.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raging Bull with David Krumholtz · 1:49:34 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.35 sure it was them)

Reservoir Dogs: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (craft): Reservoir Dogs → Goodfellas. The close, over-the-shoulder, handheld opening camera feels Scorsese-ish; Goodfellas' tracking shot comes up as a flex.
    “It is very Scorsese.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:34:25 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Saturday Night Fever: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (theme): Saturday Night Fever → Goodfellas. Italian family dinners recur in mafia movies; Goodfellas has the visit to mother after the body scene.
    “every mafia movie's got one.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ With Bill Simmons and Jimmy Kimmel · 1:12:40 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)

Skyfall: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (craft): Skyfall → Goodfellas. Scenes can be great for camera work and music, like the Copacabana scene, as Silva's intro is.
    “great because of a piece of camera work, like the Copacabana scene in Goodfellas.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:27:19 · Chris Ryan (0.55 sure it was them)

The Killing: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (documentary realism): Goodfellas → The Killing. Scorsese had the wig-shop owner shoot the real ad, the same real-over-polish instinct as Kubrick.
    “directors who really respect the documentary feel and the realism almost to a fault”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 1:14:48 · Patton Oswalt (0.50 sure it was them)

The King of Comedy: 1 line career ×1

  1. career (career): Goodfellas → The King of Comedy. Goodfellas was Scorsese's comeback after the King of Comedy flop and a pilloried stretch.
    “he has this like comeback narrative with Goodfellows, which is financially successful, critically adored”
    The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:28:16 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

The Last Temptation of Christ: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (follow-up): The Last Temptation of Christ → Goodfellas. Goodfellas was Scorsese's next film and likely overshadows Last Temptation.
    “His follow-up is good, which is like, which probably just overshadows us as well”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Last Temptation of Christ with Jamelle Bouie · 2:03:16 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

The Royal Tenenbaums: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (needle-drops): The Royal Tenenbaums → Goodfellas. Tenenbaums ranks with Goodfellas and Boogie Nights as a great needle-drop movie.
    “Goodfellas is up there, obviously, like Boogie Nights is up there, but the Tenenbaums might be one of the great needle drop movies.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ With Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald · 0:23:59 · Andy Greenwald (0.50 sure it was them)

The Shawshank Redemption: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (theme): The Shawshank Redemption → Goodfellas. Listener's list of narrated Rewatchables: Shawshank, Goodfellas, Apocalypse Now, Ferris Bueller, Fight Club, Stand by Me, Big Lebowski and more.
    “He, best movie of all time, Shawshank.”
    The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:36:27 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

Twister: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (theme): Twister → Goodfellas. Aunt Meg feeding a crew of twelve in minutes is compared to Pesci's mom making meatballs at 3 a.m. in Goodfellas.
    “Like a Goodfellas when they show up at 3 in the morning”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:58:13 · Van Lathan (0.40 sure it was them)

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What was said about it, by kind

career (4)

  1. career (career hinge): After Hours → Goodfellas. Bill says Goodfellas does not happen if After Hours does not happen first; the cancelled Last Temptation is the sliding door.
    “I don't know if Goodfellas happens.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:17:21 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. career (career): Joe Pesci → Goodfellas. Pesci plays against his Goodfellas gangster type, falling in mud and wearing a ringmaster suit.
    “all the Goodfellas and stuff is in there.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Wesley Morris · 0:29:53 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. career (career): Goodfellas → Oppenheimer. Goodfellas came at the point in Scorsese's career where Oppenheimer came for Nolan, but Scorsese lost the Oscars.
    “Nolan just won Oppenheimer at a very similar play time in his career to where Scorsese was when he made Goodfellas”
    The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:27:51 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  4. career (career): Goodfellas → The King of Comedy. Goodfellas was Scorsese's comeback after the King of Comedy flop and a pilloried stretch.
    “he has this like comeback narrative with Goodfellows, which is financially successful, critically adored”
    The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:28:16 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

contrast (5)

  1. contrast (contrast): The Big Chill → Goodfellas. Nick wouldn't be as chill about a bat as Henry Hill, having seen the second half of Goodfellas.
    “We've seen the 2nd half of Goodfellas.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:38:31 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. contrast (contrast): A Bronx Tale → Goodfellas. The Pauly-to-Jimmy shift in Goodfellas parallels the old-neighborhood-boss versus cocaine-and-silencers mafia, which this movie sits on the nostalgic side of.
    “Pauly is like, we all sit around and and eat sausage and and like, we fix the neighborhood and keep it safe”
    The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 0:22:29 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. contrast (contrast): Casino → Goodfellas. Casino was disappointing to some because it was not quite as good as Goodfellas.
    “And Casino had this weird thing where it wasn't quite as good as Goodfellas.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:23:33 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
  4. contrast (inverts): Killers of the Flower Moon → Goodfellas. Same crimes by white men but with no romance or good life, a deliberate answer to Goodfellas' seductiveness.
    “there's a romance to Goodfellas that does not exist here.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 0:28:46 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  5. contrast (pacing contrast): Nightmare Alley → Goodfellas. Goodfellas is propulsive because its hero builds an empire; Nightmare Alley needs the slow seductive absorption that kills Carlisle.
    “unlike a movie like Goodfellas, which is the definition of propulsive”
    The Big Picture · ‘Nightmare Alley’ and Our Favorite Films Noir, With Patton Oswalt! · 0:33:54 · Patton Oswalt (0.85 sure it was them)

craft (8)

  1. craft (camera style): Goodfellas → After Hours. After Hours already has the Goodfellas-style moving camera.
    “Also, there's so much Goodfella's DNA and the way the camera moves and it's really fun to watch.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · After Hours with Alison Sivitz · 1:12:15 · Alison Sivitz (0.35 sure it was them)
  2. craft (craft): Blade Runner → Goodfellas. Listener contrasts bad narration crutched in original Blade Runner with narration that makes Goodfellas.
    “It was so bad in the original Blade Runner.”
    The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:36:58 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. craft (craft): The Big Chill → Goodfellas. Needle-drop movies where the music is part of the scene, grouped with Boogie Nights and Pulp Fiction.
    “It is this Boogie Knights, Goodfellas, Pulp Fiction.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:23:48 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  4. craft (craft): Skyfall → Goodfellas. Scenes can be great for camera work and music, like the Copacabana scene, as Silva's intro is.
    “great because of a piece of camera work, like the Copacabana scene in Goodfellas.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:27:19 · Chris Ryan (0.55 sure it was them)
  5. craft (craft): Reservoir Dogs → Goodfellas. The close, over-the-shoulder, handheld opening camera feels Scorsese-ish; Goodfellas' tracking shot comes up as a flex.
    “It is very Scorsese.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:34:25 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  6. craft (soundtrack): The Departed → Goodfellas. Asked which soundtrack he prefers, Simmons picks Goodfellas.
    “Which soundtrack do you prefer this or Goodfellas?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 0:21:18 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
  7. craft (narrator structure): The Wolf of Wall Street → Goodfellas. Belfort, like Henry Hill, is the narrator and our way into the world while we watch him get lost in it.
    “Well, like like Henry Hill, he is also, the movie is about him, but he is our way into the movie.”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:31:37 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  8. craft (opening style): Killers of the Flower Moon → Goodfellas. The opening tracking shot echoes the Copacabana shot before the film rejects that mode.
    “It was a very long tracking shot through Leo's arrival, which is, you know, gesturing to Copacabana”
    The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 0:14:19 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

industry (1)

  1. industry (festival context): Martin Scorsese → Goodfellas. Goodfellas was in competition at Venice that year, and Scorsese won the directing trophy.
    “Goodfellas was in competition at the Venice Film Festival this year, at Mo Better Blues”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · An Angel at My Table with Dana Stevens · 0:13:34 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

lineage (2)

  1. lineage (homage question): A Bronx Tale → Goodfellas. Fennessey wonders whether the needle drops and the Pesci cameo are purposeful homage or accident.
    “I just want to know how much of what he was doing was a purposeful homage to Goodfellas”
    The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 1:32:47 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (lineage): My Blue Heaven → Goodfellas. My Blue Heaven is blown out by Goodfellas as it is the same movie, like a sequel.
    “It got kind of blown out of the water by Goodfellas because it's the same movie.”
    The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:31:51 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

people (4)

  1. people (cinematographer lineage): Michael Ballhaus → Goodfellas. Ballhaus, with Schoonmaker's editing, built the new Scorsese look; seven films together.
    “with Thelma Scoonmaker's editing style, they built this kind of new version of the Scorsese movie.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:30:40 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. people (casting wink): Joe Pesci → Goodfellas. Pesci's cameo is the one thing that reminds viewers of Goodfellas; maybe purposeful conversation.
    “That's the one thing you really didn't have to do that would remind people of Goodfellas.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 1:33:28 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. people (same actor): Paul Herman → Goodfellas. The Atlantic City bar guy is Paul Herman, who is the 'helicopters' guy in Goodfellas and Beansy on The Sopranos.
    “is Paul Herman, who in Goodfellas is like, you want to see helicopters? I'll make you see helicopters.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Color of Money’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:54:00 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
  4. people (people): Goodfellas → Martin Scorsese. Scorsese's New Yorkness was held against him by a provincial Oscars.
    “the New Yorkness of Scorsese in this movie in particular, I think was sort of held against him”
    The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:28:30 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

programming (2)

  1. programming (programming): My Cousin Vinny → Goodfellas. Best double feature: Goodfellas then Vinny, though Vinny is too close in length.
    “I was going to say Goodfellas to this is pretty great.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Wesley Morris · 1:18:20 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. programming (programming): Chris Ryan → Goodfellas. Pick 1 (round 1), category Oscar nominee: Easy first pick; one of his favorite movies ever made.
    “one of my favorite movies ever made, Martin Scorsese's uh, epic, darkly comic look at the rise and fall of the American mob”
    The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:26:39 · Chris Ryan (0.90 sure it was them)

theme (6)

  1. theme (theme): The Shawshank Redemption → Goodfellas. Listener's list of narrated Rewatchables: Shawshank, Goodfellas, Apocalypse Now, Ferris Bueller, Fight Club, Stand by Me, Big Lebowski and more.
    “He, best movie of all time, Shawshank.”
    The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:36:27 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. theme (theme): Twister → Goodfellas. Aunt Meg feeding a crew of twelve in minutes is compared to Pesci's mom making meatballs at 3 a.m. in Goodfellas.
    “Like a Goodfellas when they show up at 3 in the morning”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:58:13 · Van Lathan (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. theme (era): A Bronx Tale → Goodfellas. It came during the glory years of Italian pop culture: Godfather 3, Goodfellas, then Casino.
    “this was kind of the glory years of, of this, Italian pop culture.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 0:19:12 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  4. theme (motif): A Bronx Tale → Goodfellas. Ray Liotta's belated thunderbolt for Lorraine Bracco is cited alongside C's reaction to Jane.
    “Ray Liotta, when, when, uh, what's her face? Lorraine Brocko starts yelling at him and he kind of gets the belated Thunderbolt.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 0:42:06 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
  5. theme (theme): Saturday Night Fever → Goodfellas. Italian family dinners recur in mafia movies; Goodfellas has the visit to mother after the body scene.
    “every mafia movie's got one.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ With Bill Simmons and Jimmy Kimmel · 1:12:40 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
  6. theme (theme): King of New York → Goodfellas. 1990 was a great year for gangster movies.
    “This is a great year for gangster movies”
    The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:06:48 · Chris Ryan (0.80 sure it was them)

unmapped (15)

  1. unmapped (follow-up): The Last Temptation of Christ → Goodfellas. Goodfellas was Scorsese's next film and likely overshadows Last Temptation.
    “His follow-up is good, which is like, which probably just overshadows us as well”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Last Temptation of Christ with Jamelle Bouie · 2:03:16 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. unmapped (cocaine arc): Goodfellas → The Color of Money. Scorsese's cocaine-obsessed run culminates in Goodfellas and its helicopters; Color of Money is part of that goodbye.
    “Yeah, it really culminates with the helicopters above Henry. Right. And then it's like goodbye to cocaine.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Color of Money with Chris Ryan · 0:51:44 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  3. unmapped (multiple transcendent scenes): Goodfellas → The Color of Money. Goodfellas has several transcendent scenes (like the Copacabana and the shine box) so it stays satisfying, unlike Color of Money's single peak.
    “Goodfellas is an interesting comparison point because it has like 4 of these.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Color of Money with Chris Ryan · 2:12:22 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  4. unmapped (recurring face): Paul Herman → Goodfellas. Beansie from The Sopranos is also Color of Money's Atlantic City bettor, Goodfellas's Pittsburgh gun dealer, and De Niro's Eagles buddy in Silver Linings.
    “But I always think of he has the gun dealer from Pittsburgh and Goodfellas.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Color of Money with Chris Ryan · 2:35:06 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  5. unmapped (stylistic seed): After Hours → Goodfellas. Sean says the fast cutting, whip-pans and close-ups in After Hours are the seeds of Goodfellas' look, via cinematographer Michael Ballhaus.
    “just seeing all the seeds of Goodfellas and all these little edits and camera shots.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:04:02 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  6. unmapped (borrowing): A Bronx Tale → Goodfellas. The bar-introduction scene of nicknamed mobsters is called a borderline Goodfellas ripoff.
    “Meeting everyone in the bar, which is just a borderline Goodfellas ripoff.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 0:55:08 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
  7. unmapped (borrowing rebuttal): A Bronx Tale → Goodfellas. The respect-and-food-gift moments were in the one-man play, which predates Goodfellas, so no one ripped anyone off.
    “But here's the thing. It was all in the one man play, which was out before Goodfellas.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 1:03:00 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  8. unmapped (narration that works): Father of the Bride → Goodfellas. Narration is usually a crutch, but it works in Goodfellas and here because the monologue is good and the narration lets George say what he cannot say.
    “Narration is usually a crutch and you really, like Goodfellas is a good example of like, narration totally worked.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ With Bill Simmons and Amanda Dobbins · 0:26:40 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
  9. unmapped (production trivia): The Color of Money → Goodfellas. Scorsese came up with Goodfellas while filming this movie after reading a review of Wiseguy.
    “Scorsese came up with Goodfellas when he was filming this.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Color of Money’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:01:26 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
  10. unmapped (needle-drops): The Royal Tenenbaums → Goodfellas. Tenenbaums ranks with Goodfellas and Boogie Nights as a great needle-drop movie.
    “Goodfellas is up there, obviously, like Boogie Nights is up there, but the Tenenbaums might be one of the great needle drop movies.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ With Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald · 0:23:59 · Andy Greenwald (0.50 sure it was them)
  11. unmapped (greatest hits): The Departed → Goodfellas. Ryan says The Departed recycles Scorsese's camera moves from his career like a greatest-hits album, with no single shot to rival the Copacabana tracking shot or the Goodfellas freeze frames.
    “there's not one single shot in the departed that you would put up against like the Copacabana tracking shot or any of the slow-mo freeze frame stuff and Goodfellas or Raging Bull”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 0:11:53 · Chris Ryan (0.75 sure it was them)
  12. unmapped (charismatic criminal): The Wolf of Wall Street → Goodfellas. Both lead characters are exciting and funny to watch without being excused.
    “Henry Hill is very attractive and exciting to watch in Goodfellas.”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:22:22 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  13. unmapped (narration trick): Killers of the Flower Moon → Goodfellas. Molly's voiceover recalls Karen taking over narration in Goodfellas.
    “Goodfellas does this. There's a moment when Karen takes over the narration.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 1:08:58 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  14. unmapped (early reader): Michael Powell → Goodfellas. Powell read the Goodfellas script and wrote Scorsese a letter praising it.
    “he sent the script to Michael Powell of Powell and Pressberger to get his thoughts”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 1:14:09 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  15. unmapped (documentary realism): Goodfellas → The Killing. Scorsese had the wig-shop owner shoot the real ad, the same real-over-polish instinct as Kubrick.
    “directors who really respect the documentary feel and the realism almost to a fault”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 1:14:48 · Patton Oswalt (0.50 sure it was them)

verdict (6)

  1. verdict (Scorsese repeats himself better): Raging Bull → Goodfellas. Frank Vincent keeps getting beaten in Scorsese movies, and Goodfellas does the same thing a second time better.
    “Scorsese going, I can do this twice and no one's, and it'll be better the 2nd time.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raging Bull with David Krumholtz · 1:49:34 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.35 sure it was them)
  2. verdict (verdict): Goodfellas → Goodfellas. Bill concedes his anti-narration stance: bad narration is the problem, not narration.
    “I think my stance needs to be, there's nothing worse than bad nourish.”
    The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:37:19 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
  3. verdict (Apex Mountain: crap scenes / Italian): A Bronx Tale → Goodfellas. Apex for crap scenes and for father-son: Goodfellas and Casino are the competition.
    “I gotta go with the fellas, man.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 1:26:30 · Sean Fennessey (0.30 sure it was them)
  4. verdict (verdict): Goodfellas → Dances with Wolves. Dances with Wolves beating Goodfellas for the Oscars was a nightmare.
    “And then dances with wolves over good food. That's kind of a nightmare.”
    The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:28:46 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  5. verdict (verdict): Dances with Wolves → Goodfellas. Dances with Wolves is not a bad movie, but it is not Goodfellas.
    “It's just not Goodfellas.”
    The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:29:20 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  6. verdict (verdict): Goodfellas → Dances with Wolves. Goodfellas should have won Best Picture over Dances with Wolves.
    “Goodfellas overdances with wolves.”
    The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:41:06 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70 sure it was them)

what-if (2)

  1. what-if (what-if casting): Linda Fiorentino → Goodfellas. Scorsese calls her 'the great' but couldn't find a place for her in Goodfellas or Kundun.
    “Couldn't find a place in Goodfellas for her.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 1:15:48 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. what-if (what-if): The Big Chill → Goodfellas. A bit where the Big Chill is cast with Goodfellas-style actors.
    “Is this movie better with Wayne Jenkins, Danny Treo?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:41:47 · Bill Simmons (0.30 sure it was them)

Fun items about it

  1. fun, about Goodfellas: Listener calls Forrest Gump the best premature ejaculation movie in a narrated list.
    “Best premature ejaculation movie, Forrest Gump.”
    The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:36:49 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Goodfellas: Chris's first overall pick; Amanda says she would have taken it too, and Chris admits he never saw it in the theater, just on video soon after.
    “I saw it on video shortly after, though.”
    The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:27:16 · Chris Ryan (0.85 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Goodfellas: The producer's favorite 1990 movie; he rewatched it alone at 11 p.m. on his birthday.
    “I just watched that for my birthday a couple weeks ago.”
    The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:37:19 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about Goodfellas: Scorsese's mom should have been in every 90s movie with a painting of two dogs.
    “I think that Scorsese's mom should have been in every single movie in the 90s with a different painting of 2 dogs.”
    The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:37:45 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
  5. fun, about Goodfellas: Powell's letter to Scorsese: a stunning script, a wonderful film and a priceless social document.
    “dear Marty, it is a stunning script and we'll make a wonderful film and a priceless social document.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 1:14:41 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  6. fun, about Goodfellas: The wig-shop commercial in Goodfellas was shot and cut by the real wig shop owner.
    “That is shot, that footage was shot and cut by the guy who owned that wig shot.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 1:15:25 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

Who the speakers said made it

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