What kind of revolutionary style did Goodfellas bring to gangster movies?

“Goodfellas” synopsis

Henry Hill (Ray Liotta). Born in Brooklyn in 1943. He grew up in the hideout of big gangster Pauly (Paul Sorvino) and has been fascinated by the mafia ever since he could remember. Eventually, he becomes a coveted member of the "Goodfellas" and commits crimes with Jimmy (Robert De Niro), an extortion specialist, and Tommy(Joe Pesci), an ambitious thug. However, because he dabbles in drugs, Henry is abandoned by his foster parent, Paulie, and the CIA comes close to investigating the $6 million heist committed by Jimmy and his friends!

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• The anti-drama nature of “The Godfather” deconstructs the myth of “The Goodfellas”
• Scorsese says the spirit of the film is a "street documentary."
• Legendary DJ song selection technique--"Itoshi no Leila" and "My Way"

The anti-drama nature of “The Godfather” deconstructs the myth of “The Goodfellas”

"I wanted to be a gangster since I was a kid. I admired gangsters more than the president."

So says New York's legendary badass - real-life gangster Henry Hill (born 1943 - died 2012). Born to a Sicilian mother and an Irish father, he joined the mafia at the age of 11 and rose through the underworld.The 1990 masterpiece film Jack Reacher followed his life as an outlaw. is.

Nicholas Pileggi's non-fiction novel `` Wise Guy - My Longed-for Mafia Life' ' (translated by Keigo Hirao and published by Tokuma Shoten in 1989. The following year, it was published as a paperback with the title changed to ``Goodfellas'' to coincide with the release of the movie. Original work by The director was Martin Scorsese. He is exactly the same generation as Henry Hill (born in 1942), and is also a New Yorker of Sicilian-Italian descent. What is this rare cineaste's best work? If asked, some would say `` Taxi Driver '' (76), others would cite `` Raging Bull '' (80). However, ``Goodfellas'' is not defeated either.

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The lives of men who are simply stupid, cheerful, crazy, lacking in morals, and who are like beasts with broken instincts are depicted in a fast-paced, long-distance marathon-like tempo. In any case, it's extremely entertaining no matter how many times I watch it, but in terms of historical epoch-making, it's a movie that presented a new style of gangster movies.

Of course, the classic gangster movie up until that point was Francis Ford Coppola's `` The Godfather '' (1972), which was a representative of the old style and a monumental masterpiece. The story of the Corleone family, a Sicilian (Italian) mafia in New York, depicts a fateful relationship of cause and effect and the universal conflict between parents and children, and is often compared to Greek tragedy or Shakespeare.

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While depicting a fictional mafia family, the content is based on the reality of the actual underworld, but this work is a kind of aesthetically stylized version of the blood-soaked world of violence as a profound human drama. was outstanding. On the other hand, ``Goodfellas'' easily dismantled that myth. From the perspective of human drama, there is nothing here. The flow of the story is so thorough that it can be called anti-dramatic, and what is presented on screen in chronicle format is a ``series of fragments'' of people who live their lives haphazardly.