“Goodfellas" is one of the greatest mafia-crime movies I have ever seen. I loved the plot, the music used, but even more the way he went about every single shot. This movie was just perfection to me. Starting with the opening shot, Scorsese drags you into the movie and makes you feel a part of the story. It is almost as if the viewer was part of the “gang”. If we point out every characteristic that points the movie as a mafia-gangster film, we would just be narrating the movie. When we talk about mafia, we are referring to an Italian criminal society and in the movie Scorsese makes that point very clear. In addition, he highlights the relationship they have with each other, which is more than just a business partner relationship they are family. The mafia does everything together. Everyone respects them, but even more, they are respectful to their elders and traditions. In this film, Martin Scorsese introduces a lot of the mafia’s rules. We can take Tommy’s action, of killing Billy Batts, which is a made member off the Gambino Family and its untouchable, as defiance to the rules, and for this, he is killed.
When the movie starts Scorsese gives us an opportunity to see the ugly side of the mafia life style but he also let us experience their luxurious and so envied life of the mobsters. And is here when we focus more on the technicality of the mob films (subgenre of the crime films). This films are thrillers, they get you hyped-up and most of the time they get us roaring for the strong-badass character. On the other hand this movie shows he importance of a woman in this world. They know about it, what goes on in their husbands’ life and most importantly how to handle it. What is beautiful about this movie and what makes it so traditional, is the fact that Scorsese brings the reality of this world and show it to us as cleaned as possible. Yes, this movie also looks at the drugs world but it is all part of the crime films genre. To me the movie not only stays true to the genre but most of all it stays pretty accurate to the mafia world and that is why is a great movie.
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The movie was excellent and it really drag us into the movie like you said. One of my favorite things of this movie were the characters and how bad ass they acted. The music was colorful and very entertaining .Something that make this movie so good is like you said that Scorsese show us both side of what is to be a gangster; the luxury and the ugly killing and torturing.
I agree. I think Goodfellas fits within the genre of crime film, and more specifically within the subgenre of mafia/gangster film. Many facts support this statement. The first noticeable thing that makes this statement true is the setting of the movie. Many of the movie's scenes take place in bars. In most of these bar scenes, the gangsters fight, and in some of them someone dies.
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