So the lady playing Tommy's mom is actually Martin Scorsese's mother. And that whole conversation with her was all adlib. No one had lines they were told just to act like they normally would. And as you see the scene came out awesome, so natural.
The reason Billy Bats (guy at the bar who told Tommy to "get his shoe shine box") taunted and insulted Tommy with no fear of repurcussions was because Billy Bats was considered untouchable in the Mafia. He was a 'Made Man', which meant he was protected by both his own mob family, and the rules laid out in the Mafia Commission charter. Tommy wasn't a Made Man. He was a low level associate without any protection of his own. By Le Cosa Nostra law, Billy Bats could insult Tommy all he wants, and Tommy could do nothing about it besides stand there and take it. Tommy didn't abide by that rule. He killed a Made Man from a different family without permission from the Commission, which is an automatic death sentence in the mob. This is why Billy Bats wasn't concerned with taking it too far. Any attempt to challenge him (Billy) on it would be suicide. Surely Tommy wouldn't that stupid, right? *Fun Fact:* In real life, the mobster who killed Tommy was John Gotti; the future boss of the Gambino family. Tommy was killed by the man who would later become the most famous mob boss in America
@@6strings1pickup12 Pretty sure that wherever Tommy ended up (guest of Lucifer Morningstar) he's got more pressing concerns than what someone says in a youtube comment section. Also anyone in La Cosa Nostra probably couldn't give a rats ass what's said either. Edit: Fixed a typo.
I loved your reaction to Pulp Fiction and now Goodfellas. You guys are one of the best reaction channels out. I love the well thought out observations and comments about the scenes, and especially the overall thoughts on the entire movie at the end. It makes a great experience.
Awhile ago I watched a CZcams video explaining why Tommy and not Jimmy was punished for killing Billy Batts. The reason that Jimmy went along with Tommy to kill Batts because it was over a racket. Before Batts went to prison, he own a successful racket. After Batts went to prison, Jimmy took over the racket. After Batts got out of prison, he demanded that Jimmy hand the racket back over to him but Jimmy didn't want to because he was making good money off the racket but he knew that he would eventually hand the racket back over to Batt because he was a made man. So Jimmy decided that Batts got to go in order to keep the racket. The reason that Jimmy was spared it was because he was what the mafia called a good earner. No matter what Jimmy did, either robbery or racketeering or other crimes to make money, he would kick some of that money upstairs to Paulie and the higher ups and they figured that killing Jimmy would be like cutting off their main income. According to the real life Henry Hill, Batts was friends with this big time gangster named John Gotti and Gotti knew it was Jimmy and Tommy who killed Batts and he wanted them dead but the higher ups wouldn't let Gotti touch them because Jimmy was a good earner. They also wanted Jimmy to be a happy earner and they figure that keeping Tommy around, knowing that he's part of Jimmy's crew would make him happy. But over time Tommy started to become a liability by killing people outright and when he tried to r-word Henry's wife, that was the final straw. While Henry was in prison, his wife Karen had an affair with Paulie and when Tommy found out about the affair he considered her a slut and try to r-word her but she got away and told Paulie what Tommy tried to do. Fed up with Tommy, Paulie picked the phone up called the Gambino family and Gotti and gave them the green light to kill Tommy on the condition that they didn't touch Jimmy. According to the real life Henry Hill. Gotti personally killed Tommy himself by torturing him to death.
It is kind of odd that nobody tried to get Jimmy in prison though, since Gotti became boss of bosses and Paulie lost all power to protect him when Henry's testimony gutted his crew and sent him up.
Tommy was likey not killed for Billy Batts, or at the very least not just Batts. Tommy had killed another Gambino, who was a close friend of Gotti's in 78 (i think). The most likey story is that he was lured to the hit thinking he was going to be made, and Gotti fresh out of prison (and made by then) had one of his guys do it, but was probably present for it. no one's sure or spoken about what Jimmy or Paulie's involvement was, but Paul pretty much had to have given the go ahead, and Jimmy probably wasn't involved. Also Batts most likely wasn't a made guy, and I have heard that the other Gambino guy was made, but i've also heard that he wasn't. Either way everyone was probably already tired of his crap, as everyone depicted in this movie was way worse than whats shown here, especially Tommy. Henry Hill was known to exaggerate and even make false claims. Then again it's hard to know who is telling the truth when it's a bunch of ex-gangsters talking. Henry had said that he heard Gotti did it from another guy, and that guy says he never said that to Henry. There's 3 different stories about who hit Tommy, but the most plausable one points to Gotti's personal hit man, who's name i forgot.
@@chrisdobbs9155 Yeah, if it was Gotti (whether in person or by order), it wasn't _only_ for Batts, but also for Ronald Jerothe (who Tommy killed in 1974). I'm not aware of any reliable contradictions of Batts being a made man (since 1961), but I think it was Jerothe who was not made, just close with Gotti. Gotti definitely had motives to do it. Then again, so did plenty of other guys, for plenty of other reasons. When it comes down to it, I don't really know, and I'm pretty sure that nobody is still alive who could truly tell us one way or the other.
@@chrisdobbs9155 well it true that Tommy was lured to his death thinking that he would be made. That's the reason why he killed Stacks when he screw up and became a liability. From what I heard, him and Stacks was friends but when he became a liability, Tommy was ordered to kill, promising him that he would be a made man. Paulie gave the go-ahead to kill Tommy because he was fed up with him and Jimmy was spared because he was a good earner but he wasn't involved in Tommy's murder nor does he want Tommy dead because not only he was his friend but he had high hopes for him to one day be made since he could never be made because he's Irish and according to the real life Henry Hill, Jimmy received a phone call telling him that Tommy is dead. He was so upset that he slammed the phone down hard and start crying. Henry Hill really is known for exaggerate. He claims he knew Sonny Black. The scene where Tommy kills the bartender after he told him to go and f**k himself, nobody couldn't find any records of that bartender not even a birth certificate led some people believe that Henry may have made that up.
So during the scene where he is introducing the guys sitting at the bar, he mentions Michael Franzese. He now has a youtube channel and when discussing goodfellas he said he didnt even know they were gonna use his name because he was with the Colombo Family and Henry worked for the Luchesse family. When he asked them why they added his name in they said because he was a known name. He had nothing to do with the Luchesse family.
Michael Franzese also said he got out because basically it is just a stupid life now that is getting more and more difficult with technology. In relation to Jyn and Ryls discussion in the olden days before dna technology it was a lot easier. Now Michael says himself the police are paid just to sit on phones and listen all day but also follow/tail the biggest players, one mistake and they're done. Cameras are everywhere and everyone now has a mobile phone in their pockets and we all know what they are capable of achieving. Michael also said the higher up you go the bigger the target you have on your back from the police and fellow gangsters. One thing he said that stayed with me was that he walked in and out of hundreds probably thousands of rooms in the "sit down" context, but he said there was one time he was lucky to walk out and he still doesn't know how he did. That stopped him from ever putting himself in that situation again, must have been intense.
Franzese had a great scam going with gasoline taxes that made the Mob millions of dollars I watch him as well on YT. He set up a bunch of shell companies and by the NY State realized no one was paying the gas taxes they would be long gone with the cash.
In real life, the guy Tommy is based on really was taken out. He was a total loose cannon and interfered with business. Plus, he killed a made man and that was unforgivable.
I've read the book Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi (written during a series of interviews with Henry Hill) which this film was based on, they left quite a lot out of the movie. Jimmy, Tommy and Paulie were all much more brutal in real life than they were depicted here!
About the shine box. The guy Billy Batts was a made guy. That means he was an official member of a mafia family. Tommy wasn’t made so if he put his hands on him it’s a death sentence. Which is what happened to him.
You should watch Casino next. A lot of the actors frok this movie are in Casino and Joe Peschi still plays a lunatic in Casino too. Loved watching this with you both.
I don’t know if someone in the comments mentioned it already but the reason Joe Pesci performance is as good as it it is is because HE WAS ABOUT THAT LIFE pesci was an actual gangster
Just found you guys about a month ago and love your stuff. I couldn’t place your accent because you both speak such good English. I finally looked at your bio and saw you are from Jamaica. I feel dumb now. 😂 Keep up the great reactions!!
Great reaction, guys. Really good fun watching along with you, and fascinating listening to your chat afterwards. Hope you react to more movies and shows.
So what henry said about guys going in is kinda true. When you are at a certain level and gave been playing the game for a long time. Other than somebody flipping most of the time when people got pinched alcohol or drugs were involved meaning they were either getting high or drunk way to much when they got pinched, because they got sloppy.
Great and fun reaction girls. Like your comments and analysis, most people stereotype Italians and think all Italians are in the life. You girls don’t think that way. Jyn you are gorgeous ❤
You are the only reactors that understand the Christmas 🎄 tree. He had to splurge and buy something to celebrate, but the most expensive tree is still a minor purchase that isn't suspicious
Yeah that part when Jimmy motions for Karen to go into that store was pretty weird. It seems like he's trying to help her, but at the same time it also seems like he's trying to get her wacked. Its hard to decide. It can almost go either way. I also like Robert Dinero's acting at the phone booth when he finds out Tommy just got wacked. You can just feel his pain. It almost makes you kind of sort of feel sorry for him, but then you realize all the bad stuff he's done. It's still a great scene though.
@@will_cashgrow2294 Yeah most guys probably would stop when they see a beautiful lady about to walk in like that. Its hard to say what that was about. Lol. It could go either way.
@@mistyxmarlboro Lol. He definitely was acting shady no doubt. Maybe he was trying to freak her out, make her think he was trying to have her wacked. I don't know. It seems to me if he had hired those guys to wack her, they'd be hiding waiting to attack her, not moving furniture, or whatever those guys were doing. Lol. It's the weirdest scene. If I'd ever meet Robert Deniro that's a scene I would ask him about.
Mafia ranks are from lowest to highest Associate (Henry Hill), Soldier (Jimmy and Tommy) Made man (Billy Batts) Captain (Paulie) Under boss (Not show in movie but was Vic Amuso) and Boss (not shown in movie but was Anthony Corallo)
Paulie was also an unofficial underboss to Carmine Tramunti. When Paulie got out of prison in 1975, though, Corallo was in charge, and had his own underboss. So Paulie had to step aside (in fact, he stepped aside all the way to Miami). He retained some power, but it was definitely diminished. Kind of funny that Paul Sorvino actually looked a lot more like Tramunti, and not much like the real Paul Vario.
Would like to suggest you watch Robert de Niro's "A Bronx Tale" with Chazz Palminteri, it has that outlook of people who live from paycheck to paycheck being cowards, it is a brilliant movie. Do enjoy the way you follow the story and your ever growing "familiarity" with the Mob🙂. Great reaction!!
@@danielbalboni6804 Yes, that is why (beside his talent) Chazz makes the character so believable. He has a youtube channel where he talks about his views and chats with guests, it is worth following.
24:39.."Shoot him in the you-know-where?" OMG, you girls are so mean (LOL) And by the way, JImmy died in prison after 10 years, while Henry made the front pages in Seattle around 2002 when I was living there...Got arrested by local detectives for drug selling and blackmailing stockbrokers. FBI took over the case and charges were dropped for "Lack of Evidence" (Wink, Wink). 24 hours later reporters trying to interview Him at his home found he'd already been moved to another private location. Fun watching you two!
There's a former mob guy with a channel on youtube where he comments on the mob life and the accuracy of mob movies. "He" was featured in the scene where everyone was being introduced -- Mikey Franzese. He went to see this with his wife and had no idea he'd even be referred to that briefly.
Also, in real life Paulie was sleeping with Henry's wife when Henry was in prison Paulie was only in prison for a year, the affair was that. In addition to this, Paulie was much more vicious in real life.
@@grimmettcleaningservices7003 yes, tommy tried too but she refused and pushed her out of the car. Just like the neighbor guy. She told Paulie about it not Henry. So Paulie told the other families that Tommy was responsible. He didn't kill Mory either, he was already dead by that time.
@@86leewis yep, I remember seeing a documentary where they talked about everything you are mentioning. The situation with Karen was one of the "other things" Henry was talkin about in the narration after Tommy's death
Low and medium security Federal prison facilities are oftten not comprised of cell blocks but rather dormitory units, hence Henry's lenient life while serving time.
Paul Vario ("Paulie") died in 1988 at age 73. Jimmy Burke ("Jimmy Conway") died from cancer in 1966 at age 64. Both died in prison. Henry Hill died from heart disease in 2012 at age 69; he had left the Witness Protection Program and arrested afterwards for various crimes.
I enjoy the reactions of you charming ladies. One nit-pick: your openings are far too wooden. Perhaps if you didn't read it? I would personally rather see an opening with a small mistake than a robotic formal opening. You two have wonderful, natural shared charisma. Use it to grow your channel! Good luck and keep up the great work.
There was also a great comedy made based on Henry Hill ..with Steve Martin and Rick Moranis called, my blue heaven or Pennies from heaven! Next u have to watch that and casino! Director ma in this, she's in a bunch of his movies, and he never gives her a script! And then a semiautobiographical movie called, A Bronx Tale! The restaurant scene was mostly add-libbed, cuz Scorcese wanted real reactions from the other actors! Most of his actors here, also in The Sopranos! Joe and Robert also in Raging Bull, The Irishman with Al Pacino, and A Bronx Tale and casino! Sad what happened to the kid. He could act in anything. He did a perfect DeNiro imitation. He was also in crimson Tide. But he hung out with the wrong group, got in trouble, went to jail for 20 years. I think he did some sopranos shows. How this movie got made is a great story in itself! Chaz palmenteri is Sonny. He wrote this about himself, growing up. He was broke, homeless, all the bad stuff, be he started shopping it around. Eventually DeNiro gets a hold of it. Chaz originally just wanted money for the script. DeNiro tells him, I'll give u nothing. But u act the main part, I'll direct, and then u get points on profits on the back end. And that's how it got made!! Just now watching this...for shame! The trilogy...tho they have nothing to fo with each other....is this, then Casino, then finish up with, A Bronx tale. They just all kinda go together! Paulie, is Paul sorvino. RIP. His daughter is also a great actor, was in romey and Michelle's reunion, a movie she won an Oscar with Woody Allen, and a kickass Hitman movie called, Replacement Killers! Paul also had a small but great mob role in the Tom Cruise movie, the Firm!!
The whole so you think i,m funny was all adlib.The young man shot by Tommy injured himself on the set,they took him to the hospital in his bloody shirt,hospital staff thought that he had been shot for real!
The "so you think I'm funny" bit was paraphrased from something Joe Pesci saw when he was a waiter and saw a mobster say that. Now Joe embellished it a bit and went a bit over the top but that is where it came from.
In reality, Paulie and Karen had an affair and Tommy attempted to rape Karen. Tommy wasn’t a little guy. He was 6’3” built like a linebacker and was just as violent in real life as the film. It’s unclear what happened to him, nevertheless, he disappeared and never came back.
Jyn: "Maybe she should be with one of his guys" True story: When Henry goes to jail, Paulie is also there but only for a year. When Paulie gets out, he starts doing Karen, Henry's wife, every chance he gets. One of the many things that got Tommy whacked was trying to do what Paulie was doing. She resisted. Then he tried to force her, and that did not go over well with Paulie.
Yes, the real Paul Vario was nothing like this version from Paul Sorvino. He wasn’t classy or had a comforting father figure tone like in the movie. The real man was a crazy disgusting slob.
You said that Karen should be with someone else, well while Henry was in prison she was having an affair with Paulie which is a big no-no. In the mafia it’s sad to be against the rules to go with someone else’s girl, but it still happens & if the guy is a “made guy” then no one could touch you.
Part of the reason there were no outsiders is the fact that you can normalize abuse if the abused one has no frame of reference. If you have a partner that hurts you, and nobody to tell you it isn't normal, you develop Stockholm Syndrome.
Fun fact: The guy talking to Henry and Karen about the witness protection program is the actual prosecutor that dealt with the real Henry
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Ed McDonald
Another fun fact: the cop putting a gun to Henry's head in the driveway is real life ex cop Bo Dietl.
I never knew that. Thank you
I always loved that fact!
So the lady playing Tommy's mom is actually Martin Scorsese's mother. And that whole conversation with her was all adlib. No one had lines they were told just to act like they normally would. And as you see the scene came out awesome, so natural.
She was also in Casino
His dad is Vinnie in the prison scene putting too many onions in the sauce 😉
Manee it’s good to see the young folks watch the true classics 💯💯
The reason Billy Bats (guy at the bar who told Tommy to "get his shoe shine box") taunted and insulted Tommy with no fear of repurcussions was because Billy Bats was considered untouchable in the Mafia. He was a 'Made Man', which meant he was protected by both his own mob family, and the rules laid out in the Mafia Commission charter. Tommy wasn't a Made Man. He was a low level associate without any protection of his own.
By Le Cosa Nostra law, Billy Bats could insult Tommy all he wants, and Tommy could do nothing about it besides stand there and take it. Tommy didn't abide by that rule. He killed a Made Man from a different family without permission from the Commission, which is an automatic death sentence in the mob. This is why Billy Bats wasn't concerned with taking it too far. Any attempt to challenge him (Billy) on it would be suicide. Surely Tommy wouldn't that stupid, right?
*Fun Fact:* In real life, the mobster who killed Tommy was John Gotti; the future boss of the Gambino family. Tommy was killed by the man who would later become the most famous mob boss in America
Even if Tommy was a member, he would still need to get permission.
You better watch talking about Tommy like that.
@@6strings1pickup12 Pretty sure that wherever Tommy ended up (guest of Lucifer Morningstar) he's got more pressing concerns than what someone says in a youtube comment section. Also anyone in La Cosa Nostra probably couldn't give a rats ass what's said either.
Edit: Fixed a typo.
@@stanleydavidlepretre4241 You have been warned my friend.
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I loved your reaction to Pulp Fiction and now Goodfellas. You guys are one of the best reaction channels out. I love the well thought out observations and comments about the scenes, and especially the overall thoughts on the entire movie at the end. It makes a great experience.
The actor Paul Sorvino, s grandfather is the first person to sell sliced pizza in America, before that pizza was sold whole.
Awhile ago I watched a CZcams video explaining why Tommy and not Jimmy was punished for killing Billy Batts.
The reason that Jimmy went along with Tommy to kill Batts because it was over a racket. Before Batts went to prison, he own a successful racket. After Batts went to prison, Jimmy took over the racket. After Batts got out of prison, he demanded that Jimmy hand the racket back over to him but Jimmy didn't want to because he was making good money off the racket but he knew that he would eventually hand the racket back over to Batt because he was a made man. So Jimmy decided that Batts got to go in order to keep the racket.
The reason that Jimmy was spared it was because he was what the mafia called a good earner. No matter what Jimmy did, either robbery or racketeering or other crimes to make money, he would kick some of that money upstairs to Paulie and the higher ups and they figured that killing Jimmy would be like cutting off their main income. According to the real life Henry Hill, Batts was friends with this big time gangster named John Gotti and Gotti knew it was Jimmy and Tommy who killed Batts and he wanted them dead but the higher ups wouldn't let Gotti touch them because Jimmy was a good earner. They also wanted Jimmy to be a happy earner and they figure that keeping Tommy around, knowing that he's part of Jimmy's crew would make him happy. But over time Tommy started to become a liability by killing people outright and when he tried to r-word Henry's wife, that was the final straw. While Henry was in prison, his wife Karen had an affair with Paulie and when Tommy found out about the affair he considered her a slut and try to r-word her but she got away and told Paulie what Tommy tried to do. Fed up with Tommy, Paulie picked the phone up called the Gambino family and Gotti and gave them the green light to kill Tommy on the condition that they didn't touch Jimmy. According to the real life Henry Hill. Gotti personally killed Tommy himself by torturing him to death.
It is kind of odd that nobody tried to get Jimmy in prison though, since Gotti became boss of bosses and Paulie lost all power to protect him when Henry's testimony gutted his crew and sent him up.
To clarify the timeline, Batts was killed in 1970, Gotti wasn’t a made man until 1977, and Tommy disappeared in 1979.
Tommy was likey not killed for Billy Batts, or at the very least not just Batts. Tommy had killed another Gambino, who was a close friend of Gotti's in 78 (i think). The most likey story is that he was lured to the hit thinking he was going to be made, and Gotti fresh out of prison (and made by then) had one of his guys do it, but was probably present for it. no one's sure or spoken about what Jimmy or Paulie's involvement was, but Paul pretty much had to have given the go ahead, and Jimmy probably wasn't involved. Also Batts most likely wasn't a made guy, and I have heard that the other Gambino guy was made, but i've also heard that he wasn't. Either way everyone was probably already tired of his crap, as everyone depicted in this movie was way worse than whats shown here, especially Tommy.
Henry Hill was known to exaggerate and even make false claims. Then again it's hard to know who is telling the truth when it's a bunch of ex-gangsters talking. Henry had said that he heard Gotti did it from another guy, and that guy says he never said that to Henry. There's 3 different stories about who hit Tommy, but the most plausable one points to Gotti's personal hit man, who's name i forgot.
@@chrisdobbs9155 Yeah, if it was Gotti (whether in person or by order), it wasn't _only_ for Batts, but also for Ronald Jerothe (who Tommy killed in 1974). I'm not aware of any reliable contradictions of Batts being a made man (since 1961), but I think it was Jerothe who was not made, just close with Gotti. Gotti definitely had motives to do it. Then again, so did plenty of other guys, for plenty of other reasons. When it comes down to it, I don't really know, and I'm pretty sure that nobody is still alive who could truly tell us one way or the other.
@@chrisdobbs9155 well it true that Tommy was lured to his death thinking that he would be made. That's the reason why he killed Stacks when he screw up and became a liability. From what I heard, him and Stacks was friends but when he became a liability, Tommy was ordered to kill, promising him that he would be a made man.
Paulie gave the go-ahead to kill Tommy because he was fed up with him and Jimmy was spared because he was a good earner but he wasn't involved in Tommy's murder nor does he want Tommy dead because not only he was his friend but he had high hopes for him to one day be made since he could never be made because he's Irish and according to the real life Henry Hill, Jimmy received a phone call telling him that Tommy is dead. He was so upset that he slammed the phone down hard and start crying.
Henry Hill really is known for exaggerate. He claims he knew Sonny Black. The scene where Tommy kills the bartender after he told him to go and f**k himself, nobody couldn't find any records of that bartender not even a birth certificate led some people believe that Henry may have made that up.
According to people that knew Tommy, Joe Pesci did a perfect job of playing him.
Tommy wasn't an official member yet. Batts was. He can talk to whoever he wants how he wants if they are beneath his rank. Tommy fucked up.
That was an excellent analysis of the gangster lifestyle.
You are both very insightful.
So during the scene where he is introducing the guys sitting at the bar, he mentions Michael Franzese. He now has a youtube channel and when discussing goodfellas he said he didnt even know they were gonna use his name because he was with the Colombo Family and Henry worked for the Luchesse family. When he asked them why they added his name in they said because he was a known name. He had nothing to do with the Luchesse family.
Michael Franzese also said he got out because basically it is just a stupid life now that is getting more and more difficult with technology. In relation to Jyn and Ryls discussion in the olden days before dna technology it was a lot easier. Now Michael says himself the police are paid just to sit on phones and listen all day but also follow/tail the biggest players, one mistake and they're done. Cameras are everywhere and everyone now has a mobile phone in their pockets and we all know what they are capable of achieving. Michael also said the higher up you go the bigger the target you have on your back from the police and fellow gangsters.
One thing he said that stayed with me was that he walked in and out of hundreds probably thousands of rooms in the "sit down" context, but he said there was one time he was lucky to walk out and he still doesn't know how he did. That stopped him from ever putting himself in that situation again, must have been intense.
Franzese had a great scam going with gasoline taxes that made the Mob millions of dollars I watch him as well on YT. He set up a bunch of shell companies and by the NY State realized no one was paying the gas taxes they would be long gone with the cash.
In real life, the guy Tommy is based on really was taken out. He was a total loose cannon and interfered with business. Plus, he killed a made man and that was unforgivable.
And they never found his body unlike what is said in the movie. Batts was John Gotti's friend so they figure Gotti whacked him.
Yep Tommy DeSimone was the real guy. Not sure if I spelled it right.
They say he was even more insane than Joe Pesci portrayed him too.
You two have become my favorite reactors✌
you two are smart and funny.. and good conversation at end.., thanks!
You ladies do great reviews !!!
You ladies are funny...yes you amuse me!😂
Funny like a clown?!? 😅
Tommy is crazy as hell........ no doubt
One of the best mafia films ever made! Classic!❤
The best mafia film ever made and one of the best films of all time.
@@samsabruskongen IMO it's a tie with Godfather Part 2
I've read the book Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi (written during a series of interviews with Henry Hill) which this film was based on, they left quite a lot out of the movie. Jimmy, Tommy and Paulie were all much more brutal in real life than they were depicted here!
About the shine box. The guy Billy Batts was a made guy. That means he was an official member of a mafia family. Tommy wasn’t made so if he put his hands on him it’s a death sentence. Which is what happened to him.
You should watch Casino next. A lot of the actors frok this movie are in Casino and Joe Peschi still plays a lunatic in Casino too. Loved watching this with you both.
"He ended up a rat and a schnook, ha-ha-ha-ha...... That was so innocent and cute😀 Good job, girls.
I don’t know if someone in the comments mentioned it already but the reason Joe Pesci performance is as good as it it is is because HE WAS ABOUT THAT LIFE pesci was an actual gangster
Just found you guys about a month ago and love your stuff. I couldn’t place your accent because you both speak such good English. I finally looked at your bio and saw you are from Jamaica. I feel dumb now. 😂 Keep up the great reactions!!
Great reaction, guys. Really good fun watching along with you, and fascinating listening to your chat afterwards.
Hope you react to more movies and shows.
You two are doing a phenomenal job, I really enjoy watching your reactions to these movies. 🍻
Jyn is gorgeous the girl wearing the red bandanna. Classic film and characters.
Great reaction you two, and you made me laugh. Schnook! Really funny, you're really funny...
Ladies if it's your first Martin Scorsese movie, I am happy for you because there is so much more for you to discover.
So what henry said about guys going in is kinda true. When you are at a certain level and gave been playing the game for a long time. Other than somebody flipping most of the time when people got pinched alcohol or drugs were involved meaning they were either getting high or drunk way to much when they got pinched, because they got sloppy.
Great and fun reaction girls. Like your comments and analysis, most people stereotype Italians and think all Italians are in the life. You girls don’t think that way. Jyn you are gorgeous ❤
*Fun fact* The prosecutor who puts Henry in witness protection is played by ED McDonald, the real Henry Hill's actual federal prosecutor.
“Maybe in the foot” made me laugh too hard.
The pause and discussion of Sting Beans and Olive Oil gives me hope for you.
Love y'all reaction, not much talkin', just reacting. P.E.ace from overseas The Netherlands.
You are the only reactors that understand the Christmas 🎄 tree. He had to splurge and buy something to celebrate, but the most expensive tree is still a minor purchase that isn't suspicious
You recognized the ice pick rather quickly
Great reaction and analysis to a classic film. Glad you both liked it.
Signed, a fellow shnook. Lol
Yeah that part when Jimmy motions for Karen to go into that store was pretty weird. It seems like he's trying to help her, but at the same time it also seems like he's trying to get her wacked. Its hard to decide. It can almost go either way. I also like Robert Dinero's acting at the phone booth when he finds out Tommy just got wacked. You can just feel his pain. It almost makes you kind of sort of feel sorry for him, but then you realize all the bad stuff he's done. It's still a great scene though.
It was guys in the store either waiting for Karen or working but they stopped when she was about to come in
@@will_cashgrow2294 Yeah most guys probably would stop when they see a beautiful lady about to walk in like that. Its hard to say what that was about. Lol. It could go either way.
I def believe he was gonna have her killed. No way the way he was acting was soooo shady.
@@mistyxmarlboro Lol. He definitely was acting shady no doubt. Maybe he was trying to freak her out, make her think he was trying to have her wacked. I don't know. It seems to me if he had hired those guys to wack her, they'd be hiding waiting to attack her, not moving furniture, or whatever those guys were doing. Lol. It's the weirdest scene. If I'd ever meet Robert Deniro that's a scene I would ask him about.
Mafia ranks are from lowest to highest Associate (Henry Hill), Soldier (Jimmy and Tommy) Made man (Billy Batts) Captain (Paulie) Under boss (Not show in movie but was Vic Amuso) and Boss (not shown in movie but was Anthony Corallo)
Paulie was also an unofficial underboss to Carmine Tramunti. When Paulie got out of prison in 1975, though, Corallo was in charge, and had his own underboss. So Paulie had to step aside (in fact, he stepped aside all the way to Miami). He retained some power, but it was definitely diminished.
Kind of funny that Paul Sorvino actually looked a lot more like Tramunti, and not much like the real Paul Vario.
I love how you girls pay attention and understand everything. Very interesting analysis after. "A rat and a shnook". lol nice.
That was a great reaction, great reaction.
What am I a clown? Do I amuse you?
You got Jyn looking this way, Kyl looking that way...and I'm in the middle saying whaddya want from me
Would like to suggest you watch Robert de Niro's "A Bronx Tale" with Chazz Palminteri, it has that outlook of people who live from paycheck to paycheck being cowards, it is a brilliant movie. Do enjoy the way you follow the story and your ever growing "familiarity" with the Mob🙂. Great reaction!!
Chaz Palminteri wrote a Bronx Tale, based on his childhood and growing up in his neighborhood
@@danielbalboni6804 Yes, that is why (beside his talent) Chazz makes the character so believable. He has a youtube channel where he talks about his views and chats with guests, it is worth following.
24:39.."Shoot him in the you-know-where?" OMG, you girls are so mean (LOL) And by the way, JImmy died in prison after 10 years, while Henry made the front pages in Seattle around 2002 when I was living there...Got arrested by local detectives for drug selling and blackmailing stockbrokers. FBI took over the case and charges were dropped for "Lack of Evidence" (Wink, Wink). 24 hours later reporters trying to interview Him at his home found he'd already been moved to another private location. Fun watching you two!
Great Reaction. Now you should react to Casino (also with DeNiro and Peschi). Another great "based on a true story" movie is Blow with Jonny Depp.
Love your channel, nice movie selection too...
This film is a classic! Good reaction girls. Your reaction was with respect!
For some reason, I think the two of you would enjoy "Raising Arizona". Give it a shot!
GOOD REACTION as usual ,concise interesting comments, thanks .
Please react to "Casino" you will love it even more then Goodfellas.
There's a former mob guy with a channel on youtube where he comments on the mob life and the accuracy of mob movies. "He" was featured in the scene where everyone was being introduced -- Mikey Franzese. He went to see this with his wife and had no idea he'd even be referred to that briefly.
I can completely understand ratting on Jimmy, the dude tried to whack Henry's wife and then him. But Henry ratting on Paulie was so dirty.
It wasn't, Henry wasn't as close to Paulie like he is in this film. Paulie told everyone, you see him using drugs, kill him.
Also, in real life Paulie was sleeping with Henry's wife when Henry was in prison Paulie was only in prison for a year, the affair was that. In addition to this, Paulie was much more vicious in real life.
@@grimmettcleaningservices7003 yes, tommy tried too but she refused and pushed her out of the car. Just like the neighbor guy. She told Paulie about it not Henry. So Paulie told the other families that Tommy was responsible. He didn't kill Mory either, he was already dead by that time.
@@86leewis yep, I remember seeing a documentary where they talked about everything you are mentioning. The situation with Karen was one of the "other things" Henry was talkin about in the narration after Tommy's death
@@grimmettcleaningservices7003 you ever see HBO Gotti? It's definitely my favorite mob film. It has this very authentic energy about it
Low and medium security Federal prison facilities are oftten not comprised of cell blocks but rather dormitory units, hence Henry's lenient life while serving time.
Great reaction ladies!!
Godfther II is worth seing. The movie moves so fast that it doesn't seem over 3 hours. Great movies are worth seeing.
Recommend reacting to ‘A Bronx Tale’…another classic mob film.
Look for Henry is at the airport in 1963,he,s sitting on a 65 Chevrolet.
Paul Vario ("Paulie") died in 1988 at age 73. Jimmy Burke ("Jimmy Conway") died from cancer in 1966 at age 64. Both died in prison.
Henry Hill died from heart disease in 2012 at age 69; he had left the Witness Protection Program and arrested afterwards for various crimes.
I enjoy the reactions of you charming ladies. One nit-pick: your openings are far too wooden. Perhaps if you didn't read it? I would personally rather see an opening with a small mistake than a robotic formal opening. You two have wonderful, natural shared charisma. Use it to grow your channel! Good luck and keep up the great work.
There was also a great comedy made based on Henry Hill ..with Steve Martin and Rick Moranis called, my blue heaven or Pennies from heaven! Next u have to watch that and casino! Director ma in this, she's in a bunch of his movies, and he never gives her a script! And then a semiautobiographical movie called, A Bronx Tale! The restaurant scene was mostly add-libbed, cuz Scorcese wanted real reactions from the other actors! Most of his actors here, also in The Sopranos! Joe and Robert also in Raging Bull, The Irishman with Al Pacino, and A Bronx Tale and casino! Sad what happened to the kid. He could act in anything. He did a perfect DeNiro imitation. He was also in crimson Tide. But he hung out with the wrong group, got in trouble, went to jail for 20 years. I think he did some sopranos shows. How this movie got made is a great story in itself! Chaz palmenteri is Sonny. He wrote this about himself, growing up. He was broke, homeless, all the bad stuff, be he started shopping it around. Eventually DeNiro gets a hold of it. Chaz originally just wanted money for the script. DeNiro tells him, I'll give u nothing. But u act the main part, I'll direct, and then u get points on profits on the back end. And that's how it got made!!
Just now watching this...for shame! The trilogy...tho they have nothing to fo with each other....is this, then Casino, then finish up with, A Bronx tale. They just all kinda go together! Paulie, is Paul sorvino. RIP. His daughter is also a great actor, was in romey and Michelle's reunion, a movie she won an Oscar with Woody Allen, and a kickass Hitman movie called, Replacement Killers! Paul also had a small but great mob role in the Tom Cruise movie, the Firm!!
The whole so you think i,m funny was all adlib.The young man shot by Tommy injured himself on the set,they took him to the hospital in his bloody shirt,hospital staff thought that he had been shot for real!
The "so you think I'm funny" bit was paraphrased from something Joe Pesci saw when he was a waiter and saw a mobster say that. Now Joe embellished it a bit and went a bit over the top but that is where it came from.
This is a very good reaction, very good reaction. 😊
Great reaction ❤😊
Classic film, Heat is another good watch
im gonna go get the papers, get the papers.
Joe Pesce is incredible in this.
In reality, Paulie and Karen had an affair and Tommy attempted to rape Karen. Tommy wasn’t a little guy. He was 6’3” built like a linebacker and was just as violent in real life as the film. It’s unclear what happened to him, nevertheless, he disappeared and never came back.
Michael Franzese is 1 of the guys who was named at the table. He has a CZcams channel with over 1m subscribers he has great stories.
I love his YT channel and the old stories he talks about and the scams he use to run to make money pretty smart guy he was earner.
@@robertbreedon9137 Ya he always said it was much better to be an earner than muscle. As muscle you end up dead too easy.
19:57 you’re the only ones to include the art critique
If you like this movie, then you'll love A. Bronx tale.
Jyn: "Maybe she should be with one of his guys"
True story: When Henry goes to jail, Paulie is also there but only for a year. When Paulie gets out, he starts doing Karen, Henry's wife, every chance he gets. One of the many things that got Tommy whacked was trying to do what Paulie was doing. She resisted. Then he tried to force her, and that did not go over well with Paulie.
Yes, the real Paul Vario was nothing like this version from Paul Sorvino. He wasn’t classy or had a comforting father figure tone like in the movie. The real man was a crazy disgusting slob.
It’s beautiful..Jyn it’s beautiful!
y'all should watch the sopranos
The real Henry Hill doesn’t look like actor who plays him. He was a little troll of a man.
Ya the real Henry Hill looked a lot more like a crackhead than he did like Ray Liotta.
The real life Jimmy Conway didn't make it to parole. He died of cancer in 1996.
41:17 the signal
You said that Karen should be with someone else, well while Henry was in prison she was having an affair with Paulie which is a big no-no. In the mafia it’s sad to be against the rules to go with someone else’s girl, but it still happens & if the guy is a “made guy” then no one could touch you.
true fact: henry was not that guy , that show in movie
Word
At 02:28, y'all reaction priceless. 😅😂😂👍
Paul actually had an affair with Karen behind Henry's back while he was in prison, this was one of the reasons Henry gave up Paul to the feds.
I seen this movie like 30 times and I have the book
34:16 "When is he gonna get his money? That's so unfair." If there is one thing the Mafia is known for, it's fairness. 😂
the fbi agent in the scene is the real one that offered henry the deal in real life they offered him a the role to play himself in the movie
Great reaction.
You need to watch The Departed (2006) about the Irish mob. Also Kill the Irishman (2011) is another great gangster movie.
Watch Casino ~ I consider it Good Fellas refined - great great movie
You women are sharp. Damn sharp. Impressive.
Cheers.
Excellent Jamaican education
Bonjour de France 🇨🇵 "Goodfellas" "Les Affranchis" in French , excellent film 🎬 Jyn x Ryl toujours au Top 👍
Part of the reason there were no outsiders is the fact that you can normalize abuse if the abused one has no frame of reference. If you have a partner that hurts you, and nobody to tell you it isn't normal, you develop Stockholm Syndrome.
Gangster films are very entertaining, as long as you remember that *there’s no honour amongst thieves!*
You see all the ghosts!
Henry Hill was kicked out of the Witness Protection Program
'He's serious. If I even look at another guy, he'll kill me!'
'....Great....'!
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both of these girls. dont know that Lucchese crime family was one of the most powerful crime family in New York
I heard they never found billy batts body that wrong part about this movie
24:05 "She should shoot him."
savage ladies 😆
Another classic.
Ryl is absolutely gorgeous.