Goodfellas

DocMcCoyDocMcCoy "Go and laugh in your own country!" 5,917 Posts
edited September 2010 in Strut Central
There's a terrific piece about the making of Goodfellas on GQ.com that's loaded with fascinating trivia, most of which I certainly didn't know - things like how Tom Cruise and Madonna were briefly under consideration for the roles of Henry & Karen Hill, and how John Malkovich nearly played Jimmy The Gent. Good to read the stories of some of the crew and peripheral cast members, too.

There's been a few of these pieces recently, what with it being 20 years since the movie came out, but this is one of the more readable examples. Definitely worth a few minutes of your time.
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  • maybe the only thing to come out of GQ worth reading in 10 years.


    that being said ...... casino > goodfellas.

  • DJBombjackDJBombjack Miami 1,665 Posts
    vintageinfants said:
    that being said ...... casino > goodfellas.

    Tripping...

  • SoulOnIceSoulOnIce 13,027 Posts
    vintageinfants said:
    casino > goodfellas.


    hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha ... no.

  • DJBombjack said:
    vintageinfants said:
    that being said ...... casino > goodfellas.

    Tripping...

    Yeah. I like Casino, but it's not even close.

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    vintageinfants said:
    maybe the only thing to come out of GQ worth reading in 10 years.


    that being said ...... casino > goodfellas.

    Every time Goodfellas is on I can't resist watching at least a few minutes of it.

    I wouldn't miss Casino if I never saw it again.

  • DelayDelay 4,530 Posts
    i gotta give it to casino too. the saul bass title sequence...sharron stone...amazing new lighting techniques...the wardrobe

  • batmonbatmon 27,574 Posts
    Arent u Caucasoids over the Scorsace/Gangster/Godfather/recycled/Mob Style nonsense?

  • SIRUSSIRUS 2,554 Posts
    uh, non-cacuasoid here: goodfellas is a great movie. whats wrong with the crime/mob genre?

  • DocMcCoyDocMcCoy "Go and laugh in your own country!" 5,917 Posts
    batmon said:
    Arent u Caucasoids over the Scorsace/Gangster/Godfather/recycled/Mob Style nonsense?

    Heh. There's a kind of timelessness in a well-told mob drama that's true of all manner of great stories going back to the time of the ancient Greeks - hubris, tragic heroes, that kind of shit. I dunno that there's anything idiomatically Caucasoid about those things. Also, as far as that article is concerned, it feeds into my fascination with the scores of little details and micro-stories that go into making up the bigger picture. I've seen Goodfellas dozens of times now, to that profoundly irritating point where I can recite huge passages of dialogue from it, so anything which enriches that experience - such as why Scorsese chose a song by uber-hippy Donovan to soundtrack the scene where Billy Batts gets seven shades of shite kicked out of him - is all good as far as I'm concerned.

  • batmonbatmon 27,574 Posts
    SIRUS said:
    uh, non-cacuasoid here: goodfellas is a great movie. whats wrong with the crime/mob genre?

    30 years of the same muthafuckin thang hasnt made u bored?

    Goodfellas is excellent.

    But u cats come on here and circlejerk to the same Italian Gangsta motif like its a new girlfriend.

    Its totally tired. Weve gotten it in Hip Hop, HBO, and Hollywood. and yall still crave for more?

    Sopranos and them. I dont understand the overdose.

    Its a tired trope and yall( yes here on SS) wax poetic on that new HBO show like its some new shit.

    Graduate PLEEZ.

    I'd rather see some Chinese/Jewish Gangster shit than some overwashed DeNiro/Spike Lee Brooklyn/Wife beater nonsense.

  • batmonbatmon 27,574 Posts
    DocMcCoy said:
    batmon said:
    Arent u Caucasoids over the Scorsace/Gangster/Godfather/recycled/Mob Style nonsense?

    Heh. There's a kind of timelessness in a well-told mob drama that's true of all manner of great stories going back to the time of the ancient Greeks - hubris, tragic heroes, that kind of shit. I dunno that there's anything idiomatically Caucasoid about those things. Also, as far as that article is concerned, it feeds into my fascination with the scores of little details and micro-stories that go into making up the bigger picture. I've seen Goodfellas dozens of times now, to that profoundly irritating point where I can recite huge passages of dialogue from it, so anything which enriches that experience - such as why Scorsese chose a song by uber-hippy Donovan to soundtrack the scene where Billy Batts gets seven shades of shite kicked out of him - is all good as far as I'm concerned.

    Doc u my nigga, and ill give u a pass cause yo in the UK, but u too old too be still suckin the Godfather.

  • batmonbatmon 27,574 Posts
    DocMcCoy said:
    batmon said:
    Arent u Caucasoids over the Scorsace/Gangster/Godfather/recycled/Mob Style nonsense?

    Heh. There's a kind of timelessness in a well-told mob drama that's true of all manner of great stories going back to the time of the ancient Greeks - hubris, tragic heroes, that kind of shit. I dunno that there's anything idiomatically Caucasoid about those things. Also, as far as that article is concerned, it feeds into my fascination with the scores of little details and micro-stories that go into making up the bigger picture. I've seen Goodfellas dozens of times now, to that profoundly irritating point where I can recite huge passages of dialogue from it, so anything which enriches that experience - such as why Scorsese chose a song by uber-hippy Donovan to soundtrack the scene where Billy Batts gets seven shades of shite kicked out of him - is all good as far as I'm concerned.

    Doc u my nigga, and ill give u a pass cause yo in the UK, but u too old too be still suckin the Godfather.

  • SIRUSSIRUS 2,554 Posts
    batmon said:

    I'd rather see some Chinese/Jewish Gangster shit than some overwashed DeNiro/Spike Lee Brooklyn/Wife beater nonsense.

    american chinese, yes. hk gangsters beeeen run into the ground. jewish gangster...uh, billy bathgate? can't really think of any recent jewish gangster flicks other than that one.

  • SoulhawkSoulhawk 3,197 Posts
    ^^^^^this dude reads comics books & still has a toy collection^^^^^^^^

  • batmonbatmon 27,574 Posts
    I dont know but on the real i think White boys no matter what the age have been hypnotized by the Mafia.

    I feel like i makes cats think there is some secret society that they aint a part of and regular fat wife dudes just fetish that shit to death.

    Its so tired....IMO.

    The Sopranos was that "new" spin on it. "Oh they're regular like me and you" and cats ATE IT UP.

    Im a Comic book fag. Its the new "mythology". Dudes have been mesmorized by this shit.

    "Yeah, Steve Buschemi is a deep dude and now he lending his talents to a Scor-Lazy project.....Im in.

  • SoulhawkSoulhawk 3,197 Posts
    Soulhawk said:
    this dude reads comics books & still has a toy collection

    ( re: Batmon)

  • Soulhawk said:
    ^^^^^this dude reads comics books & still has a toy collection^^^^^^^^

    lest we forget the shoes. oh the shoes.

  • batmonbatmon 27,574 Posts
    Soulhawk said:
    ^^^^^this dude reads comics books & still has a toy collection^^^^^^^^

    Yup and U still rep Italian Gangsta Shit?

    Thief by Micheal Mann is my shit w/out the Godfather overtones.

  • SIRUSSIRUS 2,554 Posts
    yeah, scorsese has become a studio hack (which he always aspired to be from the get go) but are you gonna say he wasn't great back in the 70/80/early 90's?

  • batmon said:
    I dont know but on the real i think White boys no matter what the age have been hypnotized by the Mafia.

    I feel like i makes cats think there is some secret society that they aint a part of and regular fat wife dudes just fetish that shit to death.

    Its so tired....IMO.

    The Sopranos was that "new" spin on it. "Oh they're regular like me and you" and cats ATE IT UP.

    Im a Comic book fag. Its the new "mythology". Dudes have been mesmorized by this shit.

    "Yeah, Steve Buschemi is a deep dude and now he lending his talents to a Scor-Lazy project.....Im in.

    all joking aside..... are you drunk right now?

  • batmonbatmon 27,574 Posts
    SIRUS said:
    yeah, scorsese has become a studio hack (which he always aspired to be from the get go) but are you gonna say he wasn't great back in the 70/80/early 90's?

    Yes- dude is great, but can yall stop at this point?

    Yes im drunk. But to see anothet 5 pager on SS at this point on a 30 year trope is str8 silliness.

    Graduate.

    "Hey guys did u see that new GANGSTER TV show.....................?"

    Feel free to chastize.........Ill be dat dude.

  • DocMcCoyDocMcCoy "Go and laugh in your own country!" 5,917 Posts
    batmon said:
    SIRUS said:
    uh, non-cacuasoid here: goodfellas is a great movie. whats wrong with the crime/mob genre?

    30 years of the same muthafuckin thang hasnt made u bored?

    Goodfellas is excellent.

    But u cats come on here and circlejerk to the same Italian Gangsta motif like its a new girlfriend.

    Its totally tired. Weve gotten it in Hip Hop, HBO, and Hollywood. and yall still crave for more?

    Sopranos and them. I dont understand the overdose.

    Its a tired trope and yall( yes here on SS) wax poetic on that new HBO show like its some new shit.

    Graduate PLEEZ.

    I'd rather see some Chinese/Jewish Gangster shit than some overwashed DeNiro/Spike Lee Brooklyn/Wife beater nonsense.

    Don't get me wrong, I recognise that it's been done and done and done. But for all of that, the story of the mob is one of the stories of America. And, for better or worse, America's fascination with itself and its comparatively brief history has traditionally been played out on screen, big and small. I don't see any possibility of that changing any time soon, at least not until audiences get bored with the self-mythologising aspect of it.

  • moving past the tangential rhetoric, it was a highly enjoyable article to read and one of the better submissions to a GQ camp that lost it's touch years ago.

  • batmonbatmon 27,574 Posts
    DocMcCoy said:
    batmon said:
    SIRUS said:
    uh, non-cacuasoid here: goodfellas is a great movie. whats wrong with the crime/mob genre?

    30 years of the same muthafuckin thang hasnt made u bored?

    Goodfellas is excellent.

    But u cats come on here and circlejerk to the same Italian Gangsta motif like its a new girlfriend.

    Its totally tired. Weve gotten it in Hip Hop, HBO, and Hollywood. and yall still crave for more?

    Sopranos and them. I dont understand the overdose.

    Its a tired trope and yall( yes here on SS) wax poetic on that new HBO show like its some new shit.

    Graduate PLEEZ.

    I'd rather see some Chinese/Jewish Gangster shit than some overwashed DeNiro/Spike Lee Brooklyn/Wife beater nonsense.

    Don't get me wrong, I recognise that it's been done and done and done. But for all of that, the story of the mob is one of the stories of America. And, for better or worse, America's fascination with itself and its comparatively brief history has traditionally been played out on screen, big and small. I don't see any possibility of that changing any time soon, at least not until audiences get bored with the self-mythologising aspect of it.

    Who is gonna shift our GANGSTA taste past the ITALIAN American steez.

    Their mythology is intertwined w/ other "mafias".

    I grew up up w/ that shit. I NEED another perspective.

    Mexican shit/Black shit(Denzel bitches?),Asian, Jewish...........(dont tellme that that hasnt been exhausted).

    Cmon fellas

  • batmon said:
    DocMcCoy said:
    batmon said:
    SIRUS said:
    uh, non-cacuasoid here: goodfellas is a great movie. whats wrong with the crime/mob genre?

    30 years of the same muthafuckin thang hasnt made u bored?

    Goodfellas is excellent.

    But u cats come on here and circlejerk to the same Italian Gangsta motif like its a new girlfriend.

    Its totally tired. Weve gotten it in Hip Hop, HBO, and Hollywood. and yall still crave for more?

    Sopranos and them. I dont understand the overdose.

    Its a tired trope and yall( yes here on SS) wax poetic on that new HBO show like its some new shit.

    Graduate PLEEZ.

    I'd rather see some Chinese/Jewish Gangster shit than some overwashed DeNiro/Spike Lee Brooklyn/Wife beater nonsense.

    Don't get me wrong, I recognise that it's been done and done and done. But for all of that, the story of the mob is one of the stories of America. And, for better or worse, America's fascination with itself and its comparatively brief history has traditionally been played out on screen, big and small. I don't see any possibility of that changing any time soon, at least not until audiences get bored with the self-mythologising aspect of it.

    Who is gonna shift our GANGSTA taste past the ITALIAN American steez.

    Their mythology is intertwined w/ other "mafias".

    I grew up up w/ that shit. I NEED another perspective.

    Mexican shit/Black shit(Denzel bitches?),Asian, Jewish...........(dont tellme that that hasnt been exhausted).

    Cmon fellas


    so make it yourself. i know...... GANXTA ROBOTS 2048! enlisting the voice talents of DL hughley as the identity crisis programmed factory drone experiencing the struggle between his own aspirations and the family business. and katt williams as the childhood friend that keeps exacerbating otherwise calmed situations. and morgan freeman as the wise old typewriter.

  • batmonbatmon 27,574 Posts
    vintageinfants said:
    batmon said:
    DocMcCoy said:
    batmon said:
    SIRUS said:
    uh, non-cacuasoid here: goodfellas is a great movie. whats wrong with the crime/mob genre?

    30 years of the same muthafuckin thang hasnt made u bored?

    Goodfellas is excellent.

    But u cats come on here and circlejerk to the same Italian Gangsta motif like its a new girlfriend.

    Its totally tired. Weve gotten it in Hip Hop, HBO, and Hollywood. and yall still crave for more?

    Sopranos and them. I dont understand the overdose.

    Its a tired trope and yall( yes here on SS) wax poetic on that new HBO show like its some new shit.

    Graduate PLEEZ.

    I'd rather see some Chinese/Jewish Gangster shit than some overwashed DeNiro/Spike Lee Brooklyn/Wife beater nonsense.

    Don't get me wrong, I recognise that it's been done and done and done. But for all of that, the story of the mob is one of the stories of America. And, for better or worse, America's fascination with itself and its comparatively brief history has traditionally been played out on screen, big and small. I don't see any possibility of that changing any time soon, at least not until audiences get bored with the self-mythologising aspect of it.

    Who is gonna shift our GANGSTA taste past the ITALIAN American steez.

    Their mythology is intertwined w/ other "mafias".

    I grew up up w/ that shit. I NEED another perspective.

    Mexican shit/Black shit(Denzel bitches?),Asian, Jewish...........(dont tellme that that hasnt been exhausted).

    Cmon fellas


    so make it yourself. i know...... GANXTA ROBOTS 2048! enlisting the voice talents of DL hughley as the identity crisis programmed factory drone experiencing the struggle between his own aspirations and the family business. and katt williams as the childhood friend that keeps exacerbating otherwise calmed situations. and morgan freeman as the wise old typewriter.

    Id rather see Jeffrey Canada's Fundraising Gangstarr steez w/ the local gov'ment and private funding(dramatized).

    Is Mad Men Gangster shit? Or some Moulin Rouge/"Era" specific costume party?

  • One of the prosecutors of Henry Hill was/is Judge Gold the chief magistrate in NY Eastern District.


    And then there is this.

  • batmon seems to have lost his mind here. 2 guys talking about an article on things they'd never heard about goodfellas = 5 PAGER OF CAUCAZOIDS WAXING POETICS ON ITALIAN GANGSTER-DOM ...........wtf?

    i can't believe a bunch of dudes write thousands of words on old R&B music on a msg board on the internet, its so 1999, GET OVER IT CAUCAZOIDS hey, stop reading superhero stories, that shit is so 1970s. get over it caucazoids and blackazoids!!! this retarded style can be adapted to insult anyone discussing any topic at length.

    ps. a good show is a good show, and Boardwalk Empire is a good show.

  • Frank Vincent (Billy Batts): Wherever I go, anytime I go anywhere, they tell me to go home and get my shine box.

    Thats funny.

  • SIRUSSIRUS 2,554 Posts
    worlds collide:

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