Scorsese was genius at incorporating current great music into the movie..!! I think the guy who did it first was the director of 'Coming Home'...but anyway it's a great touch👍
I had a bad first date that went even worse. Some how We ended back up together the next week and watched this movie in my parents living room. Celebrated our 15th wedding anniversary this year 8/5/2020.
@@nealbaker2132 the shots are super cool , the luminosity etc, but yeah it's a gangster movie and every time a good gangster movie come out people call it a masterpiece
This is one of those rare movies where the stars aligned. The right actors, director, script, costume design, musical score, lighting, etc...all at the peak that combined to make magic.
The people waiting in line outside the restaurant at the bieginning of the scene are the same extras that are seated at the tables inside the place. They had to rush in and take their places and looked relaxed while our heroes were walking through the hallways and kitchen.
I'm going to go out on a limb here. Maybe one of the single greatest scenes in cinematic history! I'm not sure, but...I think this was done in a single take, with a handheld camera. If so, even more amazing. The Crystal's "And Then He Kissed Me" was the proverbial cherry on the whipped cream. This scene captures, for Lorraine Bracco's character, the intoxicating lifestyle of Ray Liotta's character. No bad for a construction 'union delegate'! Martin Scorsese is a genius filmmaker.
steadicam. fortunately Garrett Brown invented it in 1975 so we got to see it in Rocky and films after that. In fact many of the famous Rocky scenes are due to Steadicam like running up the steps in philly and then getting a 180 turning view. Movie industry people were amazed as it would have cost $$ to dolly track it and even get permission to do it. Scorsese used Brown to film with steadicam in a number of movies. Think of how many shots, like opening to McHale's Navy could have benefited from Steadicam.
In a movie chock full of them, this is, for me, THE seminal moment of "Goodfellas." Pure genius on part of Martin Scorsese casting Ray Liotta and Lorraine Bracco, and for choosing The Crystals "And He Kissed Me" as the musical score.
Like "The Wizard of Oz" (1939), "Gone With The Wind" (1939), "The Godfather" (1972), Goodfellas from 1990 is a Movie that People will still be Watching and Talking About Decades & Decades Later.
This is Scorcese at his best. You know how she felt, I know. When my son dominated at the city swim championships. Everyone suddenly knew him, they all wanted to shake his hand, we walked through the crowd, it opened up for us. Unbelievable pride, love and respect. The song is perfect. One of the best movies ever made. Tell me no!
mael nathan yea the movie came out in 1990 but the film was base around the 60’s and 70’s and that scene was based in the 60’s. Cause they got married in 1965
I Remember the First Time I Saw Goodfellas Back in the Summer of 1991 on Cinemax a Was Completely Impress With This Movie, Automatically Became One of My All Time Favorites Because of the Story, Narration, Time Periods, Music, etc. LOVE IT!
I remember seeing this scene in video production class in college. My professor showed the class how this consistent shot was done with one camera and how it came out so magical.
Martin Scorsese picked nothing but black and Italian singers for this movie and it was quite simply a masterpiece , this song by the black girl group “the crystals” is by far the best selected song I’ve ever seen … it just goes so well with the scene
Phil Spector's instantly recognizable "Wall of Sound" recording technique was developed so the songs could sound epic even on mono AM radio stations of the time.
I remember when Ray Liotta played Joey Perrini from 1978-1981 on Another World soap opera. He stood out in his performance and knew he was headed for bigger things in acting roles.
TRIVIA From the alley of the restaurant up to when they get the bottle of wine, is the longest single take ever in a major motion picture. Watch it again can you imagine the rehearing to get it right?
Enjoyed the interview with Phil Spector, when he got a call in the middle of the night from John Lennon telling him that the song Be My Baby was used in a flick called Mean Streets. Spector traced it and got ahold of Martin Scorsese threatening to sue and pull the film for copyright infringement. Spector realized that Scorsese was new in the business and let him get away with it. No one really knows what happened between the two of them behind the scenes, but Scorsese used several Spector tracks in his movies since then, making Spector money from royalties. If Spector would have continued to sue Martin Scorsese who knows, maybe this classic of a film would have not existed today.
