Goodfellas Analysis

Billy Madison is the son of a famous hotel tycoon and spends his days being an idiot in the hotel pool. Billy then finds out that his father, Brian Madison, is having a meeting about retirement. Brian is trying to find a person to run Madison Hotels, and Brian says that he will give the ownership to Eric Gordon because Billy is not responsible enough. Brian tells Billy that he payed Billy's teachers to give him good grades so he could graduate which makes Billy mad and he says he will complete grades 1 through 12 again in 24 weeks, 2 weeks to finish each grade. Brian accepts Billy's offer, but Eric gets mad and becomes offended by this.

The critically acclaimed film, Goodfellas, is a gangster crime drama that features an incredible amount of talent. Household names such as: Robert De Niro (Jimmy Conway), Joe Pesci (Tommy DeVito), Paul Sorvino (Paul Cicero), and promising stars like Ray Liotta (Henry Hill) and Lorraine Bracco (Karen Hill), attracted numerous Oscar and Golden Globe nominations. That type of cast power, linked with the signature talent of Martin Scorsese as a director, made for cinematic gold. Unquestionably, the actors and actresses did an excellent job augmenting the verisimilitude of this film and compelling audiences to empathize with their characters. But the cinematography in this film plays just as large a role in having audiences feel what the characters are feeling at a specific moment. Through the use of freeze frames, we learn of significant moments that shape Henry into the man that he is. By means of first-person narration we are able to know exactly what is going through a particular character’s mind. Finally, wonderful editing made great use of point of view and multiple jump cuts, which added to the sensation that we are undergoing the same experiences as the characters on screen. I will go into further detail and specify scenes that convey these elements as the essay progresses. Altogether, Martin Scorsese’s Goodfellas effectively depicts paramount scenes and allows the audience to empathize with the characters by virtue of stylistic editing and cinematography.

When Henry was 13 is when he stopped going to school and worked all the time for Paulie. Paulie was able to provide Henry with anything he wanted. Henry then met Tommy through Paulie. Tommy and Henry’s first crime scene act was when they were selling cigarettes off the street and Henry got arrested. Paulie was able to get Henry out with no problem and

Martin Charles Scorsese was born November 17, 1942. Suffering from asthma, he spent most of his time watching movies and by the time he was eight, he was already drawing his own storyboards that were directed/produced by himself. Although he considered going into priesthood, making movies was Scorsese’s true calling and he went on to make some of Hollywood’s most memorable films. Incorporating themes from his Italian American roots into his visceral, cinematic storytelling that has influenced generations of filmmakers. He is an American director, producer, screenwriter, actor, and film historian, whose career spans more than 53 years. Scorsese 's body of work addresses such themes as Sicilian-American identity, Roman Catholic concepts of guilt and redemption, machismo, modern crime, and gang conflict. Many of his films are also notable for their depiction of violence and liberal use of profanity. Part of the New Hollywood wave of filmmaking, he is widely regarded as one of the most significant and influential filmmakers in cinema history. For three decades Scorsese has been at the forefront of American cinema. Its most avid champion and often its most electrifying practioner. The most cinematic of directors, he has also been among the most formally restless and exploratory, evolving an obsessive-compulsive mise-en-scene based on dynamic, agile camerawork and radical editing rhythms.

Jeffrey Lebowski represented a pacifist 60’s anti-war student leader that grew up and is lost in the materialistic world. He is the zeitgeist of the 60’s, he is groovy yet also is also a lazy stoner that is usually in his pajamas or bowling shoes.” He means no harm to anyone and even attends his landlords dance recital after promises him he would go to it. Lebowski is introduced to the audience as “The Dude” and proves to be the most just and kind persona in the film; this is made easy by the shady and ploys that are only in their self-interests. He drinks often and sometimes smokes away his daily pains, and is continually confronted even when he trying to just chill. Infact there are nine separate time throughout the movie where he goes

The good lie is a movie about a refugee family from war ridden Sudan. They begin as children trying to fight for their lives on the way to safety, losing a brother along the way to a group of soldiers. When they finally reach the refugee camp they find: a safe place to stay, warm food, and new clothes. Shortly after their arrival they lose yet another brother. They patiently wait for a plane ticket out of Sudan, and after thirteen long years, they get their chance. They bored the plane excited to see what is in store only to find out their sister will not be staying with them. The three brothers depart from their sister with a lady named Carrie Davis. They face many new challenges together along with any

With regards to Goodfellas, the film starts off by stating that the main character Henry Hill from as far back as he could remember always wanted to be a gangster, which is another term for mobster. Particularly, he started off working at the cab stand across the street at just about ten or eleven years old, and the cab stand was a place where mobsters worked. His parents who were working class citizens, and made lousy money were happy that he had found a job because his father had always believed that American kids were spoiled rotten. Furthermore, as he progressed into the field of a mobster living he was

Siegel became a hit man for Luciano and instead of ordering others in Murder Inc. to go and kill the targets; he would go and commit the assassinations himself because it gave him a thrill (Carter 182). As Siegel, Lansky, and Luciano became close to one another, and business began to grow, Lansky and Luciano needed somewhere to put the money. Lansky and Luciano asked Siegel to go and look at a bank that they had chosen. Siegel went to the bank, and hated it he claimed it was too easy to rob and a few weeks later Siegel robbed the very same bank for eight thousand dollars (Carter 180). This relationship practically created Las Vegas, and eventually led to the death of Bugsy Siegel. After a few years of working together the three mobsters began to spread their business westward towards Los Angeles, and who better to run the operations than the suave Siegel? Luciano asked Siegel to go to L.A. and keep watch over their businesses there (Bugsy Siegel Encyclopaedia par. 3). It was here that Siegel began to have many mistresses, including Virginia Hill, even after his wife Estelle Krakower, married since 1929, bore him two girls (Carter 187, 180; PBS par. 5). When in L.A. Siegel met up with one of his childhood friends George Raft (PBS par. 6). It was also through Raft that Siegel met Jean Harlow, Siegel’s soon to be daughter’s godmother (PBS par. 6). While in L.A. Siegel began to dream of a gambling oasis in the desert. Siegel found the little town

In the film, Good Will Hunting, the main character, Will Hunting, is a gifted mathematician who struggles to find a productive and fruitful life. Throughout the film, Will displays outstanding and one-of-a-kind abilities in the field of mathematics. However, his emotional and social intelligence falls far behind his intellectual intelligence. With a rap sheet stocked full with assault and aggression, Will must navigate himself through life by learning to trust, love, and learn.

In the film Green Mile, different sociological theories and concepts can be useful in considering how societies rule our behaviors in life within different cultural places and times. A theory developed by sociologist Emile Durkheim known as the functionalist perspective profoundly applies through out the film. Concepts that are also seen in the film includes: human agency, norms, folkways, mores, and master status with a few theories and concepts of deviance.

In the film Silver Linings Playbook, by David O. Russel, delineates two primary characters, Patrick Solitano Jr. also, Tiffany Maxwell, that both battle with mental clutters. Patrick Solitano, who was a previous secondary teacher, gets his significant other in the shower with another man (the history educator) while his wedding tune was playing, in this way in a split second getting to be plainly vicious. Because of going wild on the history instructor, he needs to burn through eight months in a psych ward, and is determined to have bipolar turmoil. Then again, we have Tiffany Maxwell, who is tossed into an ocean of gloom because of a sudden auto crash that murders her better half.

After hearing about The Big Lebowski years back from a fellow sailor while stationed in Pearl Harbor and how he enjoyed going to The Lebowski fest, I've wanted to watch this movie and now that I have I regret not watching it sooner. I have to say that this movie quickly became one of my favorites while John Goodman's character Walter reminded me of many of my military friends. The Big Lebowski is full of some great laughs and many, many quotable moments.

In the film Pulp fiction, Quentin Tarantino decided to make the film non-linear in order to keep the attention of the audience as well help develop the story. Tarantino has been know to tell most of his narratives in this very disjointed manner. The non-linear order in all of his films helps to develop the characters much more before you get to see how they are related to the main narrative. It also helps to keep the audience’s attention and makes them really focus on the individual scenes presented in the film. You can tell that Tarantino wants the audience to pay close attention to the main narrative as well as the message behind the film because he has always presented his films this way. Although there are benefits of this type of disjointed narrative, there are also a few things that could go wrong with them.

On the sketchy and narrow road, a speeding car passes Frank and Joe Hardy, who are on their motorcycles. Out for a Saturday morning ride and an errand for their father, the boys are angry with the reckless driver who appeared to have red hair. They continue to drive to Willowville. The boys decide to stop at Chet Morton’s house on the way back. Chet is a close friend of the Hardy boys. On the way back they find a crashed vehicle but don't see anyone nearby or injured.

After the death of Tommy everything fell apart. Jimmy turned his back on Henry leading to Henry later “ratting” on the organization. Overall, the plot could be shown as; Henry works his way up through the system in the Mafia, it also shows his hardships throughout the movie. The movie also introduces the life of a gangster during that time period, it showed how one day everything could be fine and the next not so well.