Goodfellas

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  • sponger
    sponger Posts: 3,159
    I think in order to appreciate the last segment of the movie where he's all coked up and looking for helicopters, one would have to experience first-hand what it's like to be scatter-brained and suffering from drug-induced paranoia.

    It's like when some people say they can't understand Pink Floyd's The Wall. You just sort of have to have experienced that mentality.

    Scorcese's use of fast-paced music in those scenes along with Henry's constant rehashing of his to-do list really capture that feeling of too many things happening at once as the grasp on reality starts to lose its hold.
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  • Jeremy1012
    Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    sponger wrote:
    I think in order to appreciate the last segment of the movie where he's all coked up and looking for helicopters, one would have to experience first-hand what it's like to be scatter-brained and suffering from drug-induced paranoia.

    It's like when some people say they can't understand Pink Floyd's The Wall. You just sort of have to have experienced that mentality.

    Scorcese's use of fast-paced music in those scenes along with Henry's constant rehashing of his to-do list really capture that feeling of too many things happening at once as the grasp on reality starts to lose its hold.
    Didn't say I couldn't appeciate or understand it, I just said that the film starts to lose momentum just when it needs it.

    Must say, I don't have Marty down as suffering from drug-induced paranoia :)
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  • Steve Dunne
    Steve Dunne Posts: 4,965
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  • failedpersephone
    failedpersephone Posts: 3,424
    I love Goodfellas...the best scene to me is when they are in the kitchen with Martin Scorsese's mom...and she shows them the painting of the dogs and the old guy in the boat...hahahahaa

    The movie Casino (someone mentioned it here) is absolutely awful! The whole movie is ruined with Ginger...it just keeps going and going...after a while I wanted to whack DeNiro's character myself - and make it painful by using a paperclip and some lemon...
    argh that movie pisses me off!

    the only way to calm myself after watching that trash is to watch godfather part 1, and only the deniro parts of part 2. :D
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