Paulie scares the hell out of me with that stare. He was the one who introduced Henry to Jimmy, so he probably felt like he'd put the knife in his own back
I love it. I remember I saw Wolf of Wall Street. DiCaprio was giving a speech then just breaks the fourth wall and starts talking to the camera, explaining stocks and IPOs. Reminded me of this scene.
Yeah, but it also teaches you that that is just life. Sometimes, life is full of disappointments and you just have to move on. That's how it is and that's how it always will be. We have to sit still and take it.
Any tipe of lifestyle can get boring after living and doing it for a long time, I've always hated repetition, get up and do the same shit every day, I love chaos and dynamic, even rich people get bored that's why there are drugs, even middle class working type of people can afford drugs, hell even poor folks can make enough cash in a few hours to buy some drugs and booze to get fucked up and forget how boring is to be sober.
Here's the moral of the story: There's no good ending to being in the mafia. You either die by the bullet, die by your cellmate or die alone. Either way, once you reach the end of the road, you realize you've done nothing with your life but dishonest, dishonorable work and caused nothing but pain onto others. You realize all of it was just for another rank, a little more fame, a little more money. In the end, you're left with *nothing*
@@baldilocks1914 that is because Carlo Gambimo and Joe Bonnano lived by the old-world ways but at the same time very pragmatic when it came to the American Dream. Meyer Lanksy, like Gambimo, always kept a low profile despite their immense power and influence in the underworld.
As opposed to being in an actual prison , or spending your life on the lookout for the mob to make a hit on you. Yeah, I'd take being a boring old schnook any day of the week.
But to Henry, sure he didn't want to go to real prison (hence becoming a rat) but this is his idea of his personal prison. Especially after he narrated at the end he still loved 'the life.' The door 'clang' like a cell was genius.
Stuff like that would've been in Hill's nightmares. I think in one of his 2 books he presented a scenario where his car was stuck in gridlock in Manhatten, 1981 or sometime. His family are with him in the car. Out of a nearby car, come a couple of wiseguys and massacre all of them. The Hills lived with a lot of looking over their shoulders after 1980.
xIegionx Sure...sure.. but the paranoia they lived with. The 3rd book was made of interviews with his kids, Greg and Gina. Greg will tell you the claustrophobia on the Witness Protection. He really hated his Dad's stupidity in advertising his whereabouts. It was actually insane behaviour.
Noodles37UK Henry not only made a book but a movie. That would've really put him on a map for gangsters to get at him. He was on documentaries, interviews, made his own sauce had a restaurant. he was everywhere. I think he was pretty fine
It's interesting that the movie never mentioned that apparently in court Henry was played a recording, of Jimmy ordering the hit on him. And that apparently Paulie supposedly had an affair with Henry's wife. Would have made this scene a lot different. Henry may have done the unthinkable but it wasn't out of cowardice it was out of logic. He knew his number was up and did what most sleight thinking men would have done in his situation.
A lot of the darker stuff that happened was left out. I mean in real life Paulie beat a woman with a baseball bat in front of Henry Hill when he was only a kid.
Yeah I agree I would have done the same. Call me a rat I don’t care. I’m alive and free while you rot in prison. You’re living more like a rat than I am. Can’t even call Paulie and jimmy former friends and associates if they were ready to kill Henry and his wife.
The actor, Paul Sorvino, was trying to come up with how to play Paulie in the movie when he was just at home at his dressing mirror in the bedroom getting ready for the day. He said he just happened to look up at the mirror with that stare and scared the shit out of himself (because in real life he's a nice person of course)..... he said that's when he knew he was Paulie Cicero. It was Paulie staring back at him.
+stack887 Actually he is talking to the viewer at that point. It's meant to let us know he's telling his story to everyone from the courts, to those watching the movie.
stack887 actually, this is how it’s written. The book is called Wise Guys and it’s an interview with Henry and Karen. The way their narrations overlap in the film is the same way it’s written. It’s worth the read if you love the movie.
Now, I'm starting to think each episode of the Wonder Years was essentially Marv talking to a therapist about what led to his eventual breakdown and turn to crime.
"He's gonna die in prison. I don't need that." BTW, even with all the lights and skyline of Fort Worth you can't miss the federal penitentiary/medical center there when driving along the interstate at night.
I love how abrupt the ending is; it embodies the quick, disorienting nature of Henry's life. He doesn't have to go to jail, but he's lost the insane high of his freedom to the routine if a suburban every-man. I love how some directors take a seemingly bland, uninteresting plot point ("Mean and reckless... He left the life...How boring".) and make it visually enthralling, forcing us to appreciate the gravity of the situation through aesthetics and style.
TBH, even this is blasphemy of some sorts and even these are two different approaches of the mob topic but I'd take Goodfellas over Godfather any day. Way more entertaining with better pacing, acting, characters, script and such.
I like to think that Tommy shooting at the camera (at Henry?) is a link back to that "How the fuck am I funny?" scene....basically where he jokes that Henry "may fold under questioning". Which is exactly what he did.
Tony Soprano 550, no worries same page...i was asking you to clarify lol. But henry hill's wife cheated on him w/pauly. This happened when pauly sent Henry down south to handle some business. - DJ Facts, Rotten Apple Radio
Tony Soprano 550, all the time, ✌&❤ bro. - DJ Facts, Rotten Apple Radio
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The ending is just perfect. What happened to Henry in the end was worse than death for him and the FBI knew it. An ordinary working class day for a guy like Henry Hill was literally torture lol
MP R it is for everyone. We just numb the pain by distracting ourselves with endless media or doing as many drugs as possible without getting addicted or making us late for work. That’s just the way the government and the billionaires like it though. That’s why the only legal drugs are drugs that make us better workers. LSD is illegal because it opens your mind and let’s you realize how broken and corrupt the system really is. The war on drugs was established to help the government squash counterculture movements which could inspire change and hurt the pockets of the rich and distract the US from the huge failure Vietnam war. Yes the mob did horrible things but the real reason the government wanted the mob gone so bad was because it allowed ordinary people to gain too much power. They don’t give a fuck that it caused violence just like how the government doesn’t give a fuck that the inner cities are full of violence and the US has the highest incarceration rate in the entire world
And even after this film he was still trying to deal drugs and ended up getting kicked from Witness Protection you can never really leave the life once you get out
"I ordered some spaghetti with Maranara Sauce and I got egg noodles and ketchup." I sometimes just randomly text people this line when I am feeling depressed or stressed out.
The Working Man: has to earn his life and works hard, but is comfortable and has everything in his elderly years The Wise Guy: steals, kills, and lives a glamorous life, but is left with nothing at the end. He's lucky if he even makes it into his elderly years. Conclusion: The Working Man is the REAL tough guy
Lol except in the book Wiseguys Jimmy had her calling Karen 24/7 wondering when Henry would get out so he could figure out when to whack him. She ain’t so innocent.
Never understood why Paulie and Jimmy were so upset about being sent to the can. I mean jail isn't the same for wiseguys...they get to eat lobster and drink scotch all day.
They probably did because Henry, the little kid they both protected and took into the Wiseguys world, was breaking the most important rule, he ratted on them and he opened his mouth, and things were kinda different inside then. They weren't the kings of the can and they wouldn't go out, and Henry turned over 50 guys to cops, so the whole family went down and they had no power anymore
Yeah but Helen think of it like this you get sent to prison for life lose your freedom, can't do anything freely anymore how would that make you feel. Your basically stuck in one building for many years of your life that would hurt any person. Paulie and Jimmy knew game over we're fucked and all because of one man they trusted. Having said that Henry had to think about his family so what choice did he have.
Probably not the case when they get life. The mob probably abandons you completely then because you're of no use to them now if you're never getting out.
Love how Jimmy and Pauly look at Henry with contempt yet they wanted to kill him long before he said a word just to make sure he couldnt. Thats the true rat.
That final shot of Henry looking at the audience (Pesci) and he sees the vision that may have come true had he not been murdered. He knew damn well he'd be capped by Jimmy
"It didn't matter, didn't mean anything. When I was broke, I go out and rob some more. We ran everything. We paid off cops, we paid off lawyers, we paid off judges. Everybody had their hands out, everything was for the taking....and now it's all over." This pretty much sums up the life of a wiseguy in a crew. A cesspool of greed, debauchery, corruption, betrayal and violence. It was only a matter of time that it all came to a head and tumbled down from its own weight. Paulie, Jimmy, Tommy and the others met their reward for all their works. Somebody had to stop them.
Fun fact: The person playing the Federal Prosecutor...Edward McDonald...was in fact playing himself, lol. He was the person who Henry went to when he was looking to turn State's Evidence.
This is a terrible video. Yes Henry Hill was a rat But, the movie doesn't say that in real life he didn't turn state's evidence only to get out of jail; but the FBI heard on wiretaps that Jimmy and Paulie decided to kill Henry. I don't know about you but if I hear that my friends on tape saying they are going to kill me, I would "rat" also.
Maximus Meridius If I can remember, when Henry was at the Witness Protection program talking to that guy, the guy told him that they got the conversations relation to Henry's death.
ben1349 Jimmy was becoming really paranoid, Paulie didn't want to work with him anymore, and there's also the fact that they thought he might snitch about the heist to get out of jail time.
Actually, Henry knew Paulie a lot more than any other. Paulie would never try to whack Henry, he would say "that son of a bitch should know better than that!" Jimmy on the other hand would definitely say "go get that motherf**ker!"
+Maximus Meridius Than you dont understand the life and the old ways. Death is apart of it. When they call you , you go in, like Lefty on Donny Brasco. Even though in real life that scene mirrored Sonny Black, not Lefty.
Sid Vicious's My Way was the perfect statement on Henry Hill's career with the tone mocking all of this surface glory. Sublimely subtle. What a refreshing contrast to panderers like Spielberg with his schmaltzy tear-jerking orchestral manipulation to back up some faux historical oration.
exactly. the "loyalty" is a one way street. You're beholden to them, but if they were in your situation, most of them would rat on you if it made things easier for them.
Henry Hill Jr. (June 11, 1943 - June 12, 2012) During a documentary about himself, Henry said not one guy from the crews he worked with were alive anymore. He was the last man standing. "And now it's all over" Oh yeah.
I believe Henry Hill also stated one of the reasons he left Witness Protection was because after a while, anyone who would have wanted to kill him were themselves dead. (Paulie died in 1988, Conway ended up dying in 1996 before being eligible for parole). Beyond that, there really wasn't anyone left who had any reason to want him dead. He started making public appearances shortly after this movie came out.
It sucks because these mobsters put Henry on since he was a kid. They took care of him ,they showed him how to get in, but never to get out of the mob. At the end of the day, a rat is SCARED. But what exactly was he afraid of , he wasnt afraid of death because hes done, he wasnt afraid of the mob because he snitched. He feared not being accepted anywhere i feel. No matter where he went , he was never accepted.
GOING TO PRISON IS SCARY! BUT TURNING STATES WITNESS AND TESTIFYING AGAINST THE MOB?? THAT'S GOTTA BE SO TERRIFYING TOO! EVEN WITH WITNESS PROTECTION, I'D STILL FOREVER BE PARANOID AND LOOKING OVER MY SHOULDER JUST WAITING FOR IT TO HAPPEN! IT WOULD DRIVE YOU INSANE!
yknow thime irony here was that Paulie would only give 3k for a lifetime and jimmy was gonna kill him...but they want to get across the idea that henry was the worst being a rat on his friends....funny thing considering his "friends" abandoned and were intent on killing him
That's Mickey Conway, she used to curse at the cops when they searched her house, and spit on the floor. She'd spit on her own floor - that never made any sense to me!
Being a mobster was probably a good life back in the 50's and 60' but not today. With camera's everywhere, you can be tracked via your cell phone, CSI forensics etc. Getting away with crime isnt the picnic it used to be!
Henry Hill relocated to North Platte Ne. After living there a couple years he opened a restuarant called the "Firefly" and was a very accomplished Chef. He did well with it. He came out of hiding finally. The mob never tried to seek revenge.
no clue...the article was published like 5 years ago in the Omaha World Herald but was also a national story when Hill decided to come out of hiding mostly due to all his enemies dying off.
Damned if you do, and damned if you don't. However, in the annals of history, the rat is less appreciated than the violent tyrant that fed him. Goodfellas is a sweeping crime epic of a rat, and why he became one.
The look on Paulie's face I surprised he didn't charge at Henry. But I can't help but think Jimmy's face showed more that he was disappointed in Henry not so much hatred. Anyway Liotta (RIP), DeNiro, Sorvino, Pesci, Bracco all brilliant performances
I always found the ending grunge rock cover of My Way symbolic of how the golden years of the 50s and Frank Sinatra has been tarnish my the grossness of (90s) modernity.
I hate how even though they talk about him not being Italian they still made it seem like Henry was this Captain-like force in the Lucchese family. He was barely an associate and all the made guys knew he had a bad drug/drinking problem. Fucking stool pigeon
Reading a sentence “he won’t be eligible for parole until 2004” makes me feel old as they wrote it in a “this is a long time away so don’t worry” It’s 14 years ago now lol
I don't know if anyone has mentioned this, but my favourite part of this is the ending song: an ironic punk cover of a Sinatra song. An interesting last sneer at the lifestyle, I think.
I'm at my moms cause I'm grounded from using my own phone I paid for hahaha !!!!!!!!..... And no! I have no clue why im on restrictions at my moms house in the covid pandemic lol! ....but its that or stare at a wall lol.
Paulie and Jimmy staring at Henry like this really sends chills down to my spine. This movie is a masterpiece in every aspect
chilling
they can't do nuttin about it
Paulie scares the hell out of me with that stare. He was the one who introduced Henry to Jimmy, so he probably felt like he'd put the knife in his own back
@@wheelchairwhacko5019 In real life he didn't care at all. He was happy about it
Yep!! If looks could kill they would have struck him dead then and there!!
I worry about you Henry. You may fold under questioning
gumptown7414 tommy was exactly right
I mean the narcs knew he wasn’t baking cakes
I’ve watched goodfellas 100 times and I just realized that piece of foreshadowing 🤦🏾♂️
@@gabrielc.1556 1:10 U know you ain't shit when a lawyer calls you a rat
*hysterical Ray Liotta laughter*
getting up out of the chair and talking directly to the camera. genius direction.
chavruta2000
chavruta2000 how is that genius?
You know... it's just the way Scorsese tells a story...
Deadpool
I love it. I remember I saw Wolf of Wall Street. DiCaprio was giving a speech then just breaks the fourth wall and starts talking to the camera, explaining stocks and IPOs. Reminded me of this scene.
A lot of Scorcese movies end the same way, reflecting on how crappy regular life is
Yeah, but it also teaches you that that is just life. Sometimes, life is full of disappointments and you just have to move on. That's how it is and that's how it always will be. We have to sit still and take it.
But still better than crime
Any tipe of lifestyle can get boring after living and doing it for a long time, I've always hated repetition, get up and do the same shit every day, I love chaos and dynamic, even rich people get bored that's why there are drugs, even middle class working type of people can afford drugs, hell even poor folks can make enough cash in a few hours to buy some drugs and booze to get fucked up and forget how boring is to be sober.
That's what makes them masterpieces.
David Curry at the end not before
Here's the moral of the story: There's no good ending to being in the mafia. You either die by the bullet, die by your cellmate or die alone. Either way, once you reach the end of the road, you realize you've done nothing with your life but dishonest, dishonorable work and caused nothing but pain onto others. You realize all of it was just for another rank, a little more fame, a little more money. In the end, you're left with *nothing*
Even David Chase's The Soprano painted the mafia in the modern age.
What a pile of crap.
Tell that to Carlo Gambino, myer lansky, Joseph Bonanno and countless others.
@@baldilocks1914 that is because Carlo Gambimo and Joe Bonnano lived by the old-world ways but at the same time very pragmatic when it came to the American Dream. Meyer Lanksy, like Gambimo, always kept a low profile despite their immense power and influence in the underworld.
Damn son, let me enjoy this one dream lol
Pauly's look was sheer death stare
Paul Cicero. Perfect name for a gangster. Al Capone would appreciate it.
The look that says MUTHAFUCKA............
Jimmy turning his back on paulie lol
It's a look that says if I ever get hold of you I'm going to skin you alive
Albert Haulk, yup but he fucked henry's wife...so henry gave two shits! - DJ Facts, Rotten Apple Radio
Love how Henry's front door clangs like a jail cell door. This is his real prison.
Exactly alway in hiding and always looking over your shoulder. No thank you!
He deserves it though
As opposed to being in an actual prison , or spending your life on the lookout for the mob to make a hit on you.
Yeah, I'd take being a boring old schnook any day of the week.
tofattofly1 no he doesn't the others killed people he didn't they deserved it
But to Henry, sure he didn't want to go to real prison (hence becoming a rat) but this is his idea of his personal prison. Especially after he narrated at the end he still loved 'the life.' The door 'clang' like a cell was genius.
Joe pesci shooting at the camera could also be a symbolism that if Tommy was still alive, he would have killed Henry for ratting them out.
They planned to kill him anyway. He just got to them first. But I think if Tommy was alive he would've been sent to prison too.
Stuff like that would've been in Hill's nightmares. I think in one of his 2 books he presented a scenario where his car was stuck in gridlock in Manhatten, 1981 or sometime. His family are with him in the car. Out of a nearby car, come a couple of wiseguys and massacre all of them. The Hills lived with a lot of looking over their shoulders after 1980.
Noodles37UK
But they still did live
xIegionx Sure...sure.. but the paranoia they lived with. The 3rd book was made of interviews with his kids, Greg and Gina. Greg will tell you the claustrophobia on the Witness Protection. He really hated his Dad's stupidity in advertising his whereabouts. It was actually insane behaviour.
Noodles37UK
Henry not only made a book but a movie. That would've really put him on a map for gangsters to get at him. He was on documentaries, interviews, made his own sauce had a restaurant. he was everywhere. I think he was pretty fine
It's interesting that the movie never mentioned that apparently in court Henry was played a recording, of Jimmy ordering the hit on him. And that apparently Paulie supposedly had an affair with Henry's wife. Would have made this scene a lot different. Henry may have done the unthinkable but it wasn't out of cowardice it was out of logic. He knew his number was up and did what most sleight thinking men would have done in his situation.
A lot of the darker stuff that happened was left out. I mean in real life Paulie beat a woman with a baseball bat in front of Henry Hill when he was only a kid.
It's all about pacing. I mean they left out the part where Henry joined the military as well.
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Yeah I agree I would have done the same. Call me a rat I don’t care. I’m alive and free while you rot in prison. You’re living more like a rat than I am.
Can’t even call Paulie and jimmy former friends and associates if they were ready to kill Henry and his wife.
@@GreenGoblinsOckVenom Yeah, in the film Paulie is a mostly honorable nice guy. As far as a mafia capo goes.
Paulie's death stare. Ho lee fuk.
Sum ting wong?
The actor, Paul Sorvino, was trying to come up with how to play Paulie in the movie when he was just at home at his dressing mirror in the bedroom getting ready for the day. He said he just happened to look up at the mirror with that stare and scared the shit out of himself (because in real life he's a nice person of course)..... he said that's when he knew he was Paulie Cicero. It was Paulie staring back at him.
he was banging Henry's wife
Henry must have been shaking all over Paulie's death stare was on point. not a life to live watching over your back all the time."
Probably 50% death stare, 40% hurt and 10% disappointment.
did anyone stop to think Henry is narrating the whole film to the court house ? lol
+stack887 Actually he is talking to the viewer at that point. It's meant to let us know he's telling his story to everyone from the courts, to those watching the movie.
Actually no, this movie is Henry's confession, it would explain alot of choice of words throughout the film to
stack887, good observation. - DJ Facts, Rotten Apple Radio
stack887 actually, this is how it’s written. The book is called Wise Guys and it’s an interview with Henry and Karen. The way their narrations overlap in the film is the same way it’s written. It’s worth the read if you love the movie.
Now, I'm starting to think each episode of the Wonder Years was essentially Marv talking to a therapist about what led to his eventual breakdown and turn to crime.
What Paulie feared so much (dying in jail) became a reality.
He deserved to die in jail. He was garbage.
Paulie was already in bad health so he knew his days were numbered.
"He's gonna die in prison. I don't need that."
BTW, even with all the lights and skyline of Fort Worth you can't miss the federal penitentiary/medical center there when driving along the interstate at night.
Stepping out of the witness chair and talking directly to the camera… signifies he’s not a part of that world anymore. Genius from Scorsese.
Tommy died in 1979, Paulie died in 1988, Jimmy died in 1996, and Henry died in 2012.
Probably the last good crew we will ever witness.
And a couple years back, they finally caught the last few people involved in the Lufthansa heist (the theft that Henry says "made him" figuratively).
george nah the real mobsters run corporations and fuck over countries this is low level shit these mobsters just didnt pay thier cut
They would all been dead if Tommy never got shot in 1979
I wonder if this is how the Trump Org will end...
Also, it's a symbolic "whack" for Henry Hill. His way of getting killed off is living a normal life.
I love how abrupt the ending is; it embodies the quick, disorienting nature of Henry's life. He doesn't have to go to jail, but he's lost the insane high of his freedom to the routine if a suburban every-man. I love how some directors take a seemingly bland, uninteresting plot point ("Mean and reckless... He left the life...How boring".) and make it visually enthralling, forcing us to appreciate the gravity of the situation through aesthetics and style.
Pesci at the end and the homage to "The Great Train Robbery" is soooo Scorcese. His style is gold alongside F.F. Coppola's Godfather.
TBH, even this is blasphemy of some sorts and even these are two different approaches of the mob topic but I'd take Goodfellas over Godfather any day. Way more entertaining with better pacing, acting, characters, script and such.
Jesus their stares...
+Facade What do you mean?
John Rotten The mobsters Henry's testifying against. You could see absolute hatred in their eyes
If looks could kill...
I love that ending with the "my way" in sid vicious version
Me too..i love that.
"We paid off cops, we paid off judges, we paid off lawyers. Everybody had their hands out."
sounds like a politician
@@brmillgr sounds like the Cuomos
@@ellismarquez8410 his days done now with the new news
Now it’s over for cumo
Paulies face when Henry pointed him out is priceless.
Paulie was thinking I've should have killed Henry a long time ago.
This is an amazing achievement, a Goodfellas clip recorded using an actual shinebox.
I like to think that Tommy shooting at the camera (at Henry?) is a link back to that "How the fuck am I funny?" scene....basically where he jokes that Henry "may fold under questioning". Which is exactly what he did.
Tommy shooting at the camera was taken from a very old western movie. Its a very famous image. Scorsese used it with a gangster bent.
Tony Soprano 550, what the fuck are you asking? - DJ Facts, Rotten Apple Radio
Tony Soprano 550, no worries same page...i was asking you to clarify lol. But henry hill's wife cheated on him w/pauly. This happened when pauly sent Henry down south to handle some business. - DJ Facts, Rotten Apple Radio
Tony Soprano 550, all the time, ✌&❤ bro. - DJ Facts, Rotten Apple Radio
The ending is just perfect. What happened to Henry in the end was worse than death for him and the FBI knew it. An ordinary working class day for a guy like Henry Hill was literally torture lol
If that were true he wouldn't have taken the deal....yeah it wasn't easy but he chose that over death.
MP R it is for everyone. We just numb the pain by distracting ourselves with endless media or doing as many drugs as possible without getting addicted or making us late for work. That’s just the way the government and the billionaires like it though. That’s why the only legal drugs are drugs that make us better workers. LSD is illegal because it opens your mind and let’s you realize how broken and corrupt the system really is. The war on drugs was established to help the government squash counterculture movements which could inspire change and hurt the pockets of the rich and distract the US from the huge failure Vietnam war. Yes the mob did horrible things but the real reason the government wanted the mob gone so bad was because it allowed ordinary people to gain too much power. They don’t give a fuck that it caused violence just like how the government doesn’t give a fuck that the inner cities are full of violence and the US has the highest incarceration rate in the entire world
And even after this film he was still trying to deal drugs and ended up getting kicked from Witness Protection you can never really leave the life once you get out
Tommy shooting at the end there is one of the most badass endings to a film ever.
Shame he got killed
Good God this movie is flawless! Notice the sound effect used when he closes his door? The straight life was his version of prison. Scorsese rules!
"I ordered some spaghetti with Maranara Sauce and I got egg noodles and ketchup." I sometimes just randomly text people this line when I am feeling depressed or stressed out.
The Working Man: has to earn his life and works hard, but is comfortable and has everything in his elderly years
The Wise Guy: steals, kills, and lives a glamorous life, but is left with nothing at the end. He's lucky if he even makes it into his elderly years.
Conclusion: The Working Man is the REAL tough guy
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_class
The workin 💪 man 👨 is a sucka!
My old grandad worked his ass of whole life and in the and he died with nothing but a alzheimer in his brain.
Mr. MarkeZG+ I rather die with a alzhemier than a bullet in my brain and worry about the cops busting through that door
Raoul+ the gangsta is sucker and the loser while the working man is the winner
Seeing Jimmy’s poor wife at 1:03...it really breaks my heart considering they were all once like one big family
I think that's Henry's mother
@@ReshiramR52 nah thats definitely Jimmys wife
Lol except in the book Wiseguys Jimmy had her calling Karen 24/7 wondering when Henry would get out so he could figure out when to whack him. She ain’t so innocent.
Jimmy killed her ex when they got married and I’m pretty sure she knew about it. Didn’t exactly seem like she was oblivious to this shit lol
He killed anyone who was even a chance of being a rat
Never understood why Paulie and Jimmy were so upset about being sent to the can. I mean jail isn't the same for wiseguys...they get to eat lobster and drink scotch all day.
They probably did because Henry, the little kid they both protected and took into the Wiseguys world, was breaking the most important rule, he ratted on them and he opened his mouth, and things were kinda different inside then. They weren't the kings of the can and they wouldn't go out, and Henry turned over 50 guys to cops, so the whole family went down and they had no power anymore
+Helen Len That is most likely not the case this time.
things changed. the hacks who were dirty got fired or thrown in prison too.
Yeah but Helen think of it like this you get sent to prison for life lose your freedom, can't do anything freely anymore how would that make you feel. Your basically stuck in one building for many years of your life that would hurt any person. Paulie and Jimmy knew game over we're fucked and all because of one man they trusted. Having said that Henry had to think about his family so what choice did he have.
Probably not the case when they get life. The mob probably abandons you completely then because you're of no use to them now if you're never getting out.
Great movie, great cast, great film director. A must-see movie
No doubt about it. Fantastic film.
Joe pesci shooting at the camera could also be a symbolism that
"the dangerous but tempting mob life" or "life like a schnook"
Love how Jimmy and Pauly look at Henry with contempt yet they wanted to kill him long before he said a word just to make sure he couldnt. Thats the true rat.
Jimmy definitely did, Paulie just turned his back on him though he knew what was coming.
0:41 murder with eyes
That final shot of Henry looking at the audience (Pesci) and he sees the vision that may have come true had he not been murdered. He knew damn well he'd be capped by Jimmy
"It didn't matter, didn't mean anything. When I was broke, I go out and rob some more. We ran everything. We paid off cops, we paid off lawyers, we paid off judges. Everybody had their hands out, everything was for the taking....and now it's all over."
This pretty much sums up the life of a wiseguy in a crew. A cesspool of greed, debauchery, corruption, betrayal and violence. It was only a matter of time that it all came to a head and tumbled down from its own weight. Paulie, Jimmy, Tommy and the others met their reward for all their works. Somebody had to stop them.
The look Paulie gives Henry when he’s identified is scary and intimidating as hell.
Paulie really wanted to hurt him so bad.
Fun fact: The person playing the Federal Prosecutor...Edward McDonald...was in fact playing himself, lol. He was the person who Henry went to when he was looking to turn State's Evidence.
I always loved the little smirk Henry makes before going back in his house.
I think it should have ended with that and then he turned round and went into his ‘cell’
Paulie looks so genuinely disappointed when Henry points him and Jimmy out.
I want Ray Liotta to narrate my life.
Lol!....sometimes I pretend he is lol
1:37 we wouldnt see interaction with the audience like this until The Wolf of Wall Street. Scorsese is on another level of genius
Fun fact: Tommy shooting the screen at the end is a hommage to The great train robbery from 1903.
They don't make movies like this anymore
Irishman: hold my beer
@@coryt93 that was a classic 😤😤
Hollywood always making superhero movies and Marty is right marvel movies is theme park and not cinema
This is a terrible video. Yes Henry Hill was a rat But, the movie doesn't say that in real life he didn't turn state's evidence only to get out of jail; but the FBI heard on wiretaps that Jimmy and Paulie decided to kill Henry. I don't know about you but if I hear that my friends on tape saying they are going to kill me, I would "rat" also.
Maximus Meridius If I can remember, when Henry was at the Witness Protection program talking to that guy, the guy told him that they got the conversations relation to Henry's death.
+Maximus Meridius why did they want to kill Henry? Because he knew too much? Because he was involved in the use and sales of drugs?
ben1349 Jimmy was becoming really paranoid, Paulie didn't want to work with him anymore, and there's also the fact that they thought he might snitch about the heist to get out of jail time.
Actually, Henry knew Paulie a lot more than any other. Paulie would never try to whack Henry, he would say "that son of a bitch should know better than that!" Jimmy on the other hand would definitely say "go get that motherf**ker!"
+Maximus Meridius Than you dont understand the life and the old ways. Death is apart of it. When they call you , you go in, like Lefty on Donny Brasco. Even though in real life that scene mirrored Sonny Black, not Lefty.
Joe Pesci shooting at the end was copy of the movie the train robbery ending 1903
It's not a copy, it was a homage.
The ending was actually a homage both to "The Great Train Robbery" and "The Great Rock 'N' Roll Swindle"
Sid Vicious's My Way was the perfect statement on Henry Hill's career with the tone mocking all of this surface glory. Sublimely subtle. What a refreshing contrast to panderers like Spielberg with his schmaltzy tear-jerking orchestral manipulation to back up some faux historical oration.
So Ray Liotta didn’t really die. Jimmy and Paulie just finally got a hold of him.
exactly. the "loyalty" is a one way street. You're beholden to them, but if they were in your situation, most of them would rat on you if it made things easier for them.
When he breaks the 4th wall, and walks past Jimmy at his lawyer's desk - so magical. Because you feel worried for him😂
If looks could kill, Henry would have been done.
Was that Sid at the end?
+Greg Yes. Sid Vicious.
I like how you got so many likes for just asking that question. hahaha
Thats awesome filming right there. From narrating to suddenly breaking the 4th wall the way he did.
Henry Hill Jr. (June 11, 1943 - June 12, 2012) During a documentary about himself, Henry said not one guy from the crews he worked with were alive anymore. He was the last man standing. "And now it's all over" Oh yeah.
I believe Henry Hill also stated one of the reasons he left Witness Protection was because after a while, anyone who would have wanted to kill him were themselves dead. (Paulie died in 1988, Conway ended up dying in 1996 before being eligible for parole). Beyond that, there really wasn't anyone left who had any reason to want him dead. He started making public appearances shortly after this movie came out.
That little smirk that Ray leotta gives when he picks up the paper in his driveway is 100% Henry,
That look paulie gave him was unforgettable.
I dropped a tear ohh man love this ending.
It sucks because these mobsters put Henry on since he was a kid. They took care of him ,they showed him how to get in, but never to get out of the mob. At the end of the day, a rat is SCARED. But what exactly was he afraid of , he wasnt afraid of death because hes done, he wasnt afraid of the mob because he snitched. He feared not being accepted anywhere i feel. No matter where he went , he was never accepted.
0:42-0:45 - Sorvino's death stare could freeze the Sahara desert. :)
GOING TO PRISON IS SCARY! BUT TURNING STATES WITNESS AND TESTIFYING AGAINST THE MOB?? THAT'S GOTTA BE SO TERRIFYING TOO! EVEN WITH WITNESS PROTECTION, I'D STILL FOREVER BE PARANOID AND LOOKING OVER MY SHOULDER JUST WAITING FOR IT TO HAPPEN! IT WOULD DRIVE YOU INSANE!
Little does he know that all of us would be annoyed if we got egg noodles and ketchup.
yknow thime irony here was that Paulie would only give 3k for a lifetime and jimmy was gonna kill him...but they want to get across the idea that henry was the worst being a rat on his friends....funny thing considering his "friends" abandoned and were intent on killing him
The crying lady in black gets me every time
That's Mickey Conway, she used to curse at the cops when they searched her house, and spit on the floor. She'd spit on her own floor - that never made any sense to me!
She has a striking resemblance to Sally Field
@@BackwoodsFilms She also called Karen 24/7 wondering when Henry would get out of jail so Jimmy could whack him…
@@golfwiz48 I was convinced for years the actress was Sally Field. I was surprised to find out she wasn't.
R.I.P. Henry Hill
Great movie.
Being a mobster was probably a good life back in the 50's and 60' but not today. With camera's everywhere, you can be tracked via your cell phone, CSI forensics etc. Getting away with crime isnt the picnic it used to be!
Henry Hill relocated to North Platte Ne. After living there a couple years he opened a restuarant called the "Firefly" and was a very accomplished Chef. He did well with it. He came out of hiding finally. The mob never tried to seek revenge.
time. It was around 1980 that Hill testified. It wasn't until almost 2008 or after that he came out of hiding. people forget alot in almost 30 years.
+cmtmj2006 Because Henry Hill is fake made up hollywood bullshit bro!
not really. He was a real person. BTW you're hot.
whats the resturant called
no clue...the article was published like 5 years ago in the Omaha World Herald but was also a national story when Hill decided to come out of hiding mostly due to all his enemies dying off.
Interesting how Henry’s door sounded like a jail cell door when it closed great addition to the film I wonder what symbolism that has
He's confined to a normal life. No more robbery, gambling or drugs.
@@evolutiontail5697 but he did do drugs and he was arrested for it when on probation for it
ummm... why did my goodfellas dvd end with spider getting shot?
what do you mean? return the dvd? flip it?
+pikkisful Do you have the first edition Goodfellas DVD in the cardboard box? Its double sided and has to be turned over.
no i do not :D
Yoooo I said the same thing... I thought I was tripping
Damned if you do, and damned if you don't. However, in the annals of history, the rat is less appreciated than the violent tyrant that fed him. Goodfellas is a sweeping crime epic of a rat, and why he became one.
1:32 i love how he suddenly starts narrating to us infront of the whole court house.
The look on Paulie's face I surprised he didn't charge at Henry. But I can't help but think Jimmy's face showed more that he was disappointed in Henry not so much hatred. Anyway Liotta (RIP), DeNiro, Sorvino, Pesci, Bracco all brilliant performances
No he was thinking I'm ordering a hit on this guy
I always found the ending grunge rock cover of My Way symbolic of how the golden years of the 50s and Frank Sinatra has been tarnish my the grossness of (90s) modernity.
0:52 - i love the camera movement, perfect!
I hate how even though they talk about him not being Italian they still made it seem like Henry was this Captain-like force in the Lucchese family. He was barely an associate and all the made guys knew he had a bad drug/drinking problem. Fucking stool pigeon
Just watched this movie (for 20th or 30th time). One of the best movies EVER!!
The real life Jimmy Conway died in 1996 in prison and the real life Henry Hill died in 2012.
"because you kind of sound like ray liotta at the end of goodfellas", Central Intelligence.
"As far back as i can remember i always wanted to be a Gangster". ~Henry Hill~ RIP
Why? He was a total piece of shit.
His story brought us this
I don't wanna see Joe Pesci with a gun in his hand before i die
Reading a sentence “he won’t be eligible for parole until 2004” makes me feel old as they wrote it in a “this is a long time away so don’t worry”
It’s 14 years ago now lol
Yeah wow.... Just wow.
and now it's 17.
The look on Paul's face Mann priceless
and this is ussually my cue to pop Casino in the ol blu-ray player
I don't know if anyone has mentioned this, but my favourite part of this is the ending song: an ironic punk cover of a Sinatra song. An interesting last sneer at the lifestyle, I think.
living life as a schnuck looks cozy!
compared to what he had before, it was shit.
They put ketchup on their spaghetti at Tommy's mothers house when they were burying Billy batts
The scene where they stick the mailman's head in the pizza oven-I'd like to do that to the next Jehovah Witness that wakes me up banging on the door.
LOL
Three people love egg noodles and ketchup instead of pasta with marinara sauce.
6ix9ine is such a snitch.
Henry Hill: hold my beer
In 1989, Henry and Karen Hill separated after 25 years of marriage.
I'm surprised they last that long today you don't even get 25 months just worthless whores
Its fun in the beginning, but pain in the end
So Jimmy and Paul’s lawyers defense was to just accuse Henry of being a rat? Not a great cross examination.
Excellent movie!!
I laughed, I cried, I grabbed my shinebox!!
Basically the Rise and Fall of Henry Hill and his relation to mobsters
Never rant on your friends and always keep your mouth shut
Like go on a rant about your friends? I guess but it's not a huge deal
Not even if they were going to kill you?
I fucking love how "My Way" by Sid Vicious is how they sent this one off. They all really did live their own way
I'm at my moms cause I'm grounded from using my own phone I paid for hahaha !!!!!!!!.....
And no! I have no clue why im on restrictions at my moms house in the covid pandemic lol! ....but its that or stare at a wall lol.
Holy shit I didn’t know Gary Oldman was in this. *Cough* Sid and Nancy.
And Sid Vicious to make it all the end perfect!
RIP Henry Hill 1943-2012 :-(
If you dont want to be ratted. Dont try to kill your own. The lack of shame or remorse and of surprise on deniro and pauls faces is laughable