Goodfellas - Long take Restaurant scene - Then He Kissed Me 

Locate a car of similar vintage. I know Henry’s car at this time is a ‘66(?) Imperial convertible by Chrysler. I would recommend something a tad less expensive. Then go from there in terms of wardrobe and other details.

I work in the Restaurant Business, I've done it before. You have to be cool with the Staff but it's possible for Cooks and Bartenders.

All my life I wanted to be a gangster

I have, it got me a lot of haters and an IRS Audit

Facts that would be so fun

lol I saw that episode and finally got the reference after I watched Goodfellas

"This notepad and pencil are from Mr Tony ovu there"

Gavin Murphy same🤣🤣

I don’t think this guy’s ‘training’ Needed any ‘schooling’...😄

I saw that episode and immediately went to amazon prime and watched goodfellas

Well Said! Well Said!

They walked in a circle in the kitchen

@@PPM209it’s a 3 minute long take. Every actor must be perfect on their delivery. Every extra must do their job and not be out of place by a single second. Takes like these can require a whole day of shooting if you want a shot as well done as this one.

@@almightysosa3007 i laugh at one day..try 4 weeks

@@fanfarepassionprojects this scene was a half day of shooting if I remember correctly.

Sure, it shows his view on his life. Everybody else is a schmuck, waiting in line to be given their turn to be given a taste of the good life, the American dream.

Played a couple of my favorite movie characters. Henry Hill here and Shoeless Joe Jackson in “Field of Dreams”. He should have had more quality roles. He had a quality and look about him that was only him. RIP Ray and thanks for doing what you did.

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I’m a massive fan of the mafia genre in films it’s my favorite and man this one hit me hard and my boys Pesci and denrio are 79-80 years old makes me sad

@Jarred Knox-Neyhart-May no cuts..

Well, in addition to it being one take (which, I mean, yeah, it’s cool, but oners aren’t exactly uncommon), it does more than just show Henry and Karen entering a restaurant - it shows the power and respect Henry Hill, by all accounts an outsider, has accrued by this point in his life. There’s a line around the block? Not for Henry. There’s no tables available? For Henry there is. It also shows Henry wielding his charm - he knows the name of every single person he passes and interacts with, from the owner of the club to the doormen to the kitchen staff. Furthermore, the actual construction and composition of the shot is flawless. The use of steadycam wasn’t as ubiquitous as it is now, and you’ll be hard pressed to find similar shots as this in films that came before, and for several years after.

If not the greatest but definitely in the list with Stanley Kubrick, Alfred Hitchcock and Akira Kurosawa.

Why, because some Afrostraighteners are singing in the background? 🙄 Dream on.

See "Paris, Texas", then you'll see the actual best scene in cinema history.

Oh yes. From Michael Ballhaus. The best Scene in this awesome movie. With a great song.

Long takes might excite film buffs, but they seem like scams to me. This scene doesn't even make sense. When Liotta & Bracco turn into the hallway, past the guy writing on the wall, at about 3:03, you can see a firehose on the wall at the end of the hall. There are two doorways on the left side of hall. Liotta & Bracco go into the first one, walk through the whole kitchen and come out the second doorway into the same hall! You can see the same firehose to their left! There was no need to make that whole trip through the kitchen, just to get into the club. The characters could have simply walked a few feet further, instead of detouring into the kitchen. A more recent famous long take is the hallway fight in Daredevil, but a LOT of the action in that "take" happens off camera. The reason why a long take is impressive, especially for something as elaborate as a fight scene is all the moving parts you have to get right, but they didn't show the moving parts. Charlie Cox and the stuntmen were not fighting the whole time, they just took turns lurching out of a door, throwing a few punches and running into another one. Set it to Yakety Sax, and you have a Benny Hill routine. Still like the movie and show I mentioned, I just wish they concentrated entirely on entertaining the audience, rather than pandering to technical critics.

My bad, I meant at 0:51.

Gunleaver you’re not correct about the detour. If you were, then they would’ve went left out the door and taken another left when they exited the kitchen. Instead they turned right and went straight.

@@antcif no he is right, they took the long way around....this scene establishes the realtionship

I second that! Brilliant Scorsese

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Cool, I can see it. Why would they do it tho? :D

Jan Burda good question

Yeah...think he just wanted her to see the kitchen.

HOW DARE YOU! Next you are going to say the Emperor isn't actually wearing new clothes! Marty is the GREATEST DIRECTOR EVAH!!!! You are a philistine and a poophead for daring to question him!

He wanted to show her off. The way the movie sets it up he’s the youngest and has never brought a woman around the fellas before

Hilarious!

Eddie Congdon when your a gangsters wife tends to happen

Very true. She walked in an innocent. By the time Penny Youngman had started, she knew what she was in to.

Power is the biggest aphrodisiac of all. Not looks or personality. Power.

Messylin I guess that’s why when Henry beat up her friend for trying to fondle her, she said I knew some girls who be out the instant their boyfriend gave them a gun, but I gotta admit it turned me on.

What do you do? I'm beatmaker

@@bliz1679 Dwight???

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Wrong character

The line "I'm a Union delegate" connects those two lines perfectly together.

An asshole

they didn't get a table

I remember this guy told me this movie was boring I almost lost it

@@alejandroserrano4693 He must have been mad. Goodfellas is one of the best films ever.

@@helencampbell9203 everyone has an opinion I think west side story sucks

In the kitchen they walked in a circle…. Surprise lol

See "Paris, Texas", then you'll see the actual best scene in movie history.

It was My favorite in the movie. Mr. S. just ‘got it right’ from the beginning. The actors are ‘top drawer’. Excellent. My aunt had s ‘little black dress’ very similar to the one Karen is wearing. ‘Ladies and Gentlemen’ Really Looked the part when ‘going out’, didn’t they?

I laugh at that reply Every time, every time I see this scene...😃

Everyone has overhead this or something similar at work at some point lol.

sooo awesome 😂😂

Apparently the line was added by Ray. He and the steadycam operator where blocking out the scene and realized Tay need to pause for a second for the camera to catch up.

When you gotta start vocational school but it’s been overran by the Italians

I want a bread sandwich from pete's

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*Raises Drink*

Didnt realise you know this film in Ivory Coast!

I’m two episodes through the documentary and I’m here for the same reason, never knew he produced this! Poor girl though, the man made great music, too bad he was so fucked up in his life outside of music.

Edgar Wright has GoodFellas in his “1000 favorite movies” list on Letterboxd

The feel good moments were very short and completely overwhelmed by the feel bad moments that lasted for years and years alone and miserable in a federal prison.

He's not even made--he's only an associate!

Just on the screen, kid...just on the screen...

@@MrNaturalSez he can't be made. He doesn't have 100 percent italian or sicilian blood. He was just a good earner. And good earners have lot of respect in la cosa nostra aka the mafia.

It doesn't feel good to be constantly looking over your shoulder for rival family hitmen, having law enforcement watching your every move, listening to your every word looking for the one thing for them to throw you in prison for life, "friends" and bosses that will rat you out to the Feds or have you executed in the blink of an eye to save themselves from jail time...

You never know - Scorsese loved making his audiences think a little...

@aKen Murphy I think it’s a reference to his father, who was a union delegate.

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+Sumanth Sanjeev Too bad the sound on this is really bad.

You know what happens with their relationship , right ? hahahahahahaha

@@kixr1 I do. Kind of like what happens in most real relationships. But it was nice while it lasted...

@@tonismith8209 so true!

Makes it look more relatable.

Without a word about it! Right? Right?

Bingo! (And suave...yes. Suave) Forget Bond. James Bond.

@J no

You were a gangster???

Mrs. Wrona, why did you name one of your cats "Taco?" What does Taco mean?

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If u did u wouldnt speak on it

@@Khaos969 I don't think she's implying that she lived a gangster life. I'm pretty sure she's implying that she's had a few sugar daddies, was wealthy, knew a lot of people, or that she was a high-priced escort. Regardless, this level of privilege is not reserved for only gangsters, all it takes is money, or keeping the right company, or knowing the right people. Like how your phone bill gets paid and how you eat for free and avoid rent because you know your mom. See how it works?

@Beef 99 LMAO I love Family Guy 😂😂😂

That’s what’s so good about Goodfellas. The first half sets you up to want to be a monster. Then it all goes to hell and you realize you don’t.

She is actaully Dr Melfi from the Sopranos - i thought she was similar and looked it up

That’s what Marty was going for , he said this scene is Karen getting seduced by the mob life

In the kitchen they walked in a circle… surprise lol

That's the best way to die I heard . You Die Peacefully