What is so authentic about this ending is that Henry Hill was not really sorry for the choices he made and all the immoral things he did. He is merely sorry that time caught up with him, and everything had to end. He would very much relive it all over again if given the chance
@@D2attemp Damn right. Actually, if we only followed all his criminal activities after Paulie and Jimmy went to jail, we could write another book which could be a sequel for this movie
Yup, he was rotten to the core. His son wrote a book which I read...The guy was disgusting! Who makes his son wait in the car for hours while he is in a bar getting smashed?
I don't want to justify what Henry Hill did, at all, but isn't what you describe what politicians do? And without turning blush? They are greedy, corrupt, they cling to cheese, whatever political party they are... and we pay for it... and to top it all off we vote for them. So, in the name of God, are you shocked by this?
This quote reminds me of Toms River, New Jersey. It’s south jersey, away from major cities and diversity and variety in the north, and you start to see a noticeable decline in the quality of the cuisine down there. There are some spots that it feels like you’re eating noodles and ketchup.
I love how the cop nods as if to say "yes", when he answers "no". His physical reactions are at odds with his vocal reaction. This is a taught behavior, designed to break down the people you interrogate.
@@MrMikopi - He's trying to convince them to let Henry testify and enter witness protection. He's trying to convince them not to back out. See what he says at 5m51s, "we're your only salvation". Nodding yes ( but answering no verbally) is part of his strategy. You can shake your head sympathetically for the record. If you're ever in a convo with someone who nods vigorously "yes", but says "no" - it should set some alarm bells off upstairs.
FUN FACT: that guy wasnt the cop, he was the DA, and that is the actual DA who prosecuted the case - they got him to play himself in the movie. He is also in "the real goodfellas" documentary, a doc about the real life people in this case.
Watched it 10 years ago for the first time - forgot about it. Revisiting it now for the 20th time since like last year because if you know movies, this one is the absolute full package. Acting, Story, Directing, Music - everything is top notch.
The forth wall moment was great. Really clever, love it like he starts the movie with the tracking shot following from behind and then ends in front, leading him to us. Freakin' awesome
That's the second comment about the 4th wall, it is not, it is still in the film, if he came out of the screen and talked to a person as that it, it could be the 4th wall, same thing relating to DeadPool!!!!
@@adamhann7584You take that expression very literally. Henry Hill acknowledges he's in a piece of media and speaks directly to the audience. He doesnt need to literally be shown speaking to someone in a movie studio or something.
I remember when I first saw this I got confused and thought he just randomly started taking to the prosecutor or the people in the courtroom. Upon second viewing, I realized it was a 4th Wall breaking moment😂
The real Henry Hill continued being a criminal after Paulie and Jimmy went to jail. So much he got kicked out of the witness protection program. More than that, he was also in and out of jail. Perhaps those alone would merit another novel. In later years he made a living recounting the times he had with the mob
I was kidding about him only being a snitch. I wasn't talking about Henry Hill being a murderer. I was talking about the guys that he put behind bars. Jimmy and Paulie are murderers and were going to kill his wife and him. @@gezenews
He is portrayed of never committing a hit is likely flawed. Several associates dissipate this. But when you write your own autobiography you can leave out those details to make yourself look better
Notice he wasn't whacked? That's because Hill overspoke his importance. He was a low rung associate nothing more. He wasn't that important and his testimony, while damaging, wasn't that big a deal. Burke and Vario had way more evidence against them that all Hill's testimony was was the cherry on the sundae that the FBI got one of "them" to flip. Also, if Henry was so scared and wanted to nail these 2 guys then why didn't he sell Burke out for the Lufthansa heist?
"Why don't you guys go down to Wall St and get some real f'n crooks? Whoever sold you those suits had a wonderful sense of humor." I love those lines when Paulie is getting arrested.
The thing about the ending is that Henry Hill got out unscathed at an incredibly bad situation for him and for everyone yet he thinks it's a "bad ending". He got a second chance but he still craves for his old life.
IRL; When Henry and his family went in Witness Protection, Henry was an even bigger mess than when he was in the mob. He’d constantly blow his cover to neighbors and friends because he was completely intoxicated, he and his family had to be relocated from state to state, he got married to another woman, while still married to Karen and he at one point try to deal drugs in the program. Eventually they had no choice but kick him out of Witness Protection
@@tylertilwick6852Of course by then all the wiseguys who wanted him dead were dead themselves or rotting in the can powerless. So the guy learned absolutely nothing and still got away unscathed😂
@@matthewriley7826ex-Columbo mobster Michael Franzese told a story where he saw Henry who was “accidentally” put in a maximum security prison where there where other “wise guys” including Franzese. Franzese said the word out on Henry to the other families at that time was to kill Henry on the spot, no hesitation
The ghost of Tommy shooting at the camera was a homage to the Great Train Robbery but I like the idea that he’s firing his gun at the audience who have just become eyewitnesses to the crimes they committed.
@@randyjam9925 It was obviously Tommy shooting a gun however Scorsese himself admitted that it was a homage to the Great Train Robbery which ends on a scene where one of the robbers is firing his gun at the audience.
It's funny I always thought that (regardless of the great train robbery) Tommy firing into the screen was, to me, the concept of the alternative reality in which he didn't rat and just gets wasted like the Lufthansa guys. Further, the door /celldoor slamming sound illustrates the other alternative reality he escaped by becoming a cooperating witness.
The thing is Henry could have turned his life around, but in the end he was an addict that blew all that money, lost Karen, and his two kids wanted nothing to do with him. In real life he had a son and a daughter. His kids were estranged that Henry pretty much drank himself to death. Ray really made Henry looked dignified because in real life, Henry was just a terrible person.
Because he's a criminal! Someone who embezzles money despite already being a CEO or CFO, who robs and assaults others because of greed and not because of basic necesities( some impoverished and sickly looking man that lives in a slum, who steals food is not the same situation as a mobster doing it). Unfortunately, in the real life case, Henry Hill never felt sorry for It.
I would have loved to hear Jimmy voiceover when Karen leaves saying"I can't believe she would just run away like that. Those clothes where imported from Italy. I even had hired a tailor from Italy just to make adjustments. Talk about ungrateful!"
I've seen quite a few documentaries/interviews with the real Henry Hill and he always said the scariest experiences were actually everything that came after the events of the film. Basically from when he went into the program until Jimmy died, he feared Jimmy coming after him every minute. Crazy.
1:45 the way he used rear the rear projection to make the exterior zoom in... it's so unnerving. If you're not looking for it it's barely noticeable, but it heightens the tension at the table.
Yes he was. His name is Ed McDonald, that was the actual conversation he had with Henry and his wife Karen. He recreated it for the movie (He was playing himself). Director Martin Scorsese put him in the movie for more realism.
Before he died, I think he eventually ended up residing in Florida or somewhere down south after he was kicked out of the program. So he eventually got his wish "no place cold"😂
henry hill crazy days were not over, he continued to deal drugs and had to move several times to other cities because he would get drunk in local bars and tell his life story, he died broke and alcoholic
After you watch this movie, read a book called On The Run. It’s like a continuation of this story/movie but it’s told from the point of view from their kids. Great book!
What is interesting that many don't know, is that Ray Liotta is actually Scottish, and Robert DeNiro is half Irish (just like the IRL character Robert is playing, however IRL Henry hill unlike Ray Liotta father was Irish, mother was Italian).
Fun fact (idk if this has been posted I didn't see it): The news paper Henry is picking up off his front stoop is The Vindicator, which is Youngstown Ohio’s city paper. Scorsese threw it in there as a nod to the cities long history with the Mob.
Looking at old interviews of Henry Hill shows just how great a job Liota done here. By all accounts, Pesci and Deniro were on point too but didn't have a living reference point to base their portrayals on.
Fun Fact: Scorsese wanted sinatras “My Way” to play at the end but couldn’t secure the rights for the track in time and used the Sid Vicious version. However even with this decision it created an aura of it really being all over for Henry, and instead of going out with class(Sinatra) he went out as a rat, a Schnook, a Punk(Sid Vicious). It’s little details like that that make it all the more compelling.
Scorsese gave a nod to Youngstown, Ohio also known as murder town or little Chicago. It's my hometown. Youngstown has some great Italian restaurants. Masterpiece film.
There was a time when the mafia wouldn't dare harm a wife and/or kids, but times change. Jimmy would've either killed Karen off the bat or held her hostage until Henry came and killed them together.
Just the comment i was looking for. I would really love to reach to the bottom of this mystery. I mean, don’t you guys think a wise guy could have captured her earlier, way more guaranteed than sending her off to the adjacent warehouse!! Secondly, what did she exactly see in that peak?
I am sure you’re right, he was trying to off her or at least hold her hostage. From 0:01 to 0:10 you can hear one of the guys in the store saying something like “shhh, just be quiet, a little quiet” !! A trivial detail that is so revealing.
For sure!!! It's a great mob movie, one of Scorsese top 3, only behind The King of Comedy and Silence in my opinion. May Paul Sorvino and Ray Liotta rest in peace.
I saw this movie while in college in Santa Barbara, it was shown in a theater on campus. Afterwards, a French foreign exchange student asked me what a "shnook" was because she had never heard the term, and I had hard time defining it...
@@kendallevans4079bastardization of Yiddish for sure. Practically every New Yorker uses some Yiddish phrases, even moreso in the mob considering how many Jews were in it. Even Lucky Luciano, the founder of the five families, spoke very fluent Yiddish and would use it to speak in private with Meyer Lansky when they were around other mobsters.
First off, it’s cool that they got the actual Witness Protection official who hid Henry Hill. Second, as a college student, don’t sleep on egg noodles and ketchup, it’s good eating.
Yep. It’s called a dolly zoom, it’s a technique used famously by directors like Hitchcock and Spielberg to create suspense and unease. I think it was first seen in Hitchcock’s film ‘Vertigo’ and then probably most famously in Spielberg’s ‘Jaws’.
That restaurant scene with Jimmy is like something you can relate to. You are in the public place, so right now you are safe and you just secretly realized what Jimmy was trying to do. Henry orders some food after he had refused at first. He could eat now and even breath a sigh of relief, because Jimmy just showed him everything and now he knows he's going straight to the FBI. In that moment, even with Jimmy right in front of him, he breathed a major sigh of relief. He knew it was over from that point on.
For those wondering: The ending shot of Joe Pesci shooting at the camera is a direct rip from the final scene of one of (if not THE) first action films called "The Great Train Robbery", which is a short film (by today's standards) about a band of Wild West outlaws robbing a train. The final shot in the film is the exact same as what we see here, with the lead outlaw firing his pistol directly at the audience.
and he probably went from the FBI building and straight into witness protection because there is no way he would have walked out of an FBI building and would have made it back home alive. Anthony was probably tailing him at the diner.
I never noticed this before. He was a valet in his youth, and here, as he’s helping a distraught Karen out of the car, he instinctively removes the key from the ignition lock.
He basically was there probably wasn’t even a hit to in Florida it was probably just a set up to get him wacked by Anthony and his crew and Henry knew to that’s why he said if I go there I know I’m never coming back
Good movie sometimes I flip through the channels on t.v. and if this movie just happened to be showing I just leave it on that channel.Real gangsters in this movie.Goodfellas one of my favorite movies.
Being a criminal is as much if not more work and stress than having a normal job. I feel that way about homelessness too. Matter of perspective i guess.
There's something chilling about the fact that Henry's ONLY regret is the loss of the privileges afforded to him by his gangster status. Even after most of his friends and associates ended up either arrested or dead, and despite having given it all up to avoid the same fate, in the end he can only lament spending the rest of his pathetic, worthless life as another nobody, like the people Tommy used to bully and kill on a whim or for fun. He learned absolutely NOTHING and if given the chance he'd do it all over again -- which he did, considering he got kicked out of witness protection. Some people are made into monsters, while others are just born hopeless.
Every time another someone passes, I'm reminded of how I felt as a kid and the Rat Pack and others from that era passed. Someone, some character, is just... gone. No longer there. The film and songs, whatever, are there. But it's just not the same. Things will never be that way again.
The federal agent (Ed) is actually the real federal prosecutor that got Henry in the witness protection program. His name is Ed McDonald, and that's the actual conversation he had with Henry and his wife Karen. That is actually what they said. (He was playing himself) The director, Martin Scorsese decided to include him in the movie for more realism.
5:00 whats ironic about this is he only needed to hide out for 10 years or so. lived out in the open around the time this movie came out until his death.
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What is so authentic about this ending is that Henry Hill was not really sorry for the choices he made and all the immoral things he did. He is merely sorry that time caught up with him, and everything had to end. He would very much relive it all over again if given the chance
That’s why he got kicked out of witness protection
@@D2attemp Damn right. Actually, if we only followed all his criminal activities after Paulie and Jimmy went to jail, we could write another book which could be a sequel for this movie
Yup, he was rotten to the core. His son wrote a book which I read...The guy was disgusting! Who makes his son wait in the car for hours while he is in a bar getting smashed?
I don't want to justify what Henry Hill did, at all, but isn't what you describe what politicians do? And without turning blush? They are greedy, corrupt, they cling to cheese, whatever political party they are... and we pay for it... and to top it all off we vote for them. So, in the name of God, are you shocked by this?
@@brandonkmmayeah that’s why he was mobster instead of having an honest job
Ray was one of my most favorite actors. He will be missed greatly.
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The Boss upstairs asked for a Sit Down and made an offer Ray couldn’t refuse…
@@Callsign_Echodid you hear the one about the Chinese godfather?
They made him an offer he couldn’t understand.
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Or see?
@@Callsign_Echo👍💯perfect idea but great pitty
Probably the most underrated actor ever
I love how Scorsese broke the 4th wall at the end in the courtroom, rather than have Ray doing voiceover.
He always finds inventive ways to end movies. Killers of the Flower Moon was no different
It made me wonder if all of Ray’s narration came from the court room.
I thought it was random and unnecessary.
Thought it was random and dumb. Great movie though!
@@Hawkeyes319Does it _insist_ upon itself?
Man the “one way” and “don’t walk” just add to the brilliance of the first scene.
I never noticed that before! Thank you sir, have a like
What does it represent?
That's what make Martin Scorsese films so great is the attention to detail.
@@spicygamer3631The don't walk is pretty much telling Karen to not go that direction.
And death is a one way road
Nice catch
We miss you, Ray Liota. Your performance in this movie will live on forever.
Facts! 🕊 🕊
Yessss😢😢😢
And also his performance in Vice City 🌴☀️
@@moragag9307everyone’s favorite childhood video game of all time.
and which performance will not live on forever?
“I ordered some spaghetti with marinara sauce and I got egg noodles and ketchup”
Is the quote I remember most from this film
More than "now go home and get your fucking shine box"
This quote reminds me of Toms River, New Jersey.
It’s south jersey, away from major cities and diversity and variety in the north, and you start to see a noticeable decline in the quality of the cuisine down there.
There are some spots that it feels like you’re eating noodles and ketchup.
I've borrowed that line a few times.🤣
I think it's a nod to the henry hill pasta sauce.
Its the little things that make a difference
I love how the cop nods as if to say "yes", when he answers "no". His physical reactions are at odds with his vocal reaction. This is a taught behavior, designed to break down the people you interrogate.
But he's not like interrogating people tho, right? I thought he was like "I understand it, but no".
@@MrMikopi - He's trying to convince them to let Henry testify and enter witness protection. He's trying to convince them not to back out. See what he says at 5m51s, "we're your only salvation". Nodding yes ( but answering no verbally) is part of his strategy. You can shake your head sympathetically for the record. If you're ever in a convo with someone who nods vigorously "yes", but says "no" - it should set some alarm bells off upstairs.
time stamp?
FUN FACT: that guy wasnt the cop, he was the DA, and that is the actual DA who prosecuted the case - they got him to play himself in the movie. He is also in "the real goodfellas" documentary, a doc about the real life people in this case.
that guy is a real cop
As time goes by, I find myself enjoying this film more and more. A masterpiece really.
Watched it 10 years ago for the first time - forgot about it. Revisiting it now for the 20th time since like last year because if you know movies, this one is the absolute full package. Acting, Story, Directing, Music - everything is top notch.
Casino is still the better film. It's very underrated. It's practically a spiritual sequel to Goodfellas but people never talk about it
@@duffman18 hmm, I’d have to check it out again.
Ray Liotta’s performance gets better every time I watch this
You are so right.
The forth wall moment was great. Really clever, love it like he starts the movie with the tracking shot following from behind and then ends in front, leading him to us. Freakin' awesome
That's the second comment about the 4th wall, it is not, it is still in the film, if he came out of the screen and talked to a person as that it, it could be the 4th wall, same thing relating to DeadPool!!!!
@@adamhann7584You take that expression very literally. Henry Hill acknowledges he's in a piece of media and speaks directly to the audience. He doesnt need to literally be shown speaking to someone in a movie studio or something.
I remember when I first saw this I got confused and thought he just randomly started taking to the prosecutor or the people in the courtroom. Upon second viewing, I realized it was a 4th Wall breaking moment😂
How did you cut the last few seconds shen the front door sounded like a prison cell slamming shut. Perfect ending
The real Henry Hill continued being a criminal after Paulie and Jimmy went to jail. So much he got kicked out of the witness protection program. More than that, he was also in and out of jail. Perhaps those alone would merit another novel. In later years he made a living recounting the times he had with the mob
Yeah the real Henry hill was a drunken snitch. But this is still an amazing movie
Well, he aspired to be a psychopathic murderer, but fell short.@@gezenews
I was kidding about him only being a snitch. I wasn't talking about Henry Hill being a murderer. I was talking about the guys that he put behind bars. Jimmy and Paulie are murderers and were going to kill his wife and him. @@gezenews
He is portrayed of never committing a hit is likely flawed. Several associates dissipate this. But when you write your own autobiography you can leave out those details to make yourself look better
Notice he wasn't whacked? That's because Hill overspoke his importance. He was a low rung associate nothing more. He wasn't that important and his testimony, while damaging, wasn't that big a deal. Burke and Vario had way more evidence against them that all Hill's testimony was was the cherry on the sundae that the FBI got one of "them" to flip. Also, if Henry was so scared and wanted to nail these 2 guys then why didn't he sell Burke out for the Lufthansa heist?
"He's bronchial," he says as he and his wife chain smoke.
😆
Well, it was the 80's.
"Why don't you guys go down to Wall St and get some real f'n crooks? Whoever sold you those suits had a wonderful sense of humor." I love those lines when Paulie is getting arrested.
And Scorsese directed the wolf of Wall Street.
That was Paul's brother Tuti.
Fun fact, the guy playing the FBI agent is Ed McDonald, the real Henry Hill's federal prosecutor
You can tell the acting is a llittle stiff.
@@nikosvaultYou mean, probably like most FBI agents and prosecutors 🙃
@@nikosvault he seems authentic too me, I liked it!
@@nikosvault He recreated the conversation he had with Henry and Karen for that scene, except for the "babe in the woods" line, which was improvised
Old McDonold. Big Woo
RIP Ray! You were one of the greats in cinema history!
He took the jab and paid the tab
The thing about the ending is that Henry Hill got out unscathed at an incredibly bad situation for him and for everyone yet he thinks it's a "bad ending". He got a second chance but he still craves for his old life.
IRL; When Henry and his family went in Witness Protection, Henry was an even bigger mess than when he was in the mob. He’d constantly blow his cover to neighbors and friends because he was completely intoxicated, he and his family had to be relocated from state to state, he got married to another woman, while still married to Karen and he at one point try to deal drugs in the program. Eventually they had no choice but kick him out of Witness Protection
@@tylertilwick6852Of course by then all the wiseguys who wanted him dead were dead themselves or rotting in the can powerless. So the guy learned absolutely nothing and still got away unscathed😂
@@matthewriley7826ex-Columbo mobster Michael Franzese told a story where he saw Henry who was “accidentally” put in a maximum security prison where there where other “wise guys” including Franzese. Franzese said the word out on Henry to the other families at that time was to kill Henry on the spot, no hesitation
The ghost of Tommy shooting at the camera was a homage to the Great Train Robbery but I like the idea that he’s firing his gun at the audience who have just become eyewitnesses to the crimes they committed.
Or it was just Tommy shooting a gun.
@@randyjam9925 It was obviously Tommy shooting a gun however Scorsese himself admitted that it was a homage to the Great Train Robbery which ends on a scene where one of the robbers is firing his gun at the audience.
Exactly
MS wouldn’t have put that in at the very end unless it meant something significant
It's funny I always thought that (regardless of the great train robbery) Tommy firing into the screen was, to me, the concept of the alternative reality in which he didn't rat and just gets wasted like the Lufthansa guys.
Further, the door /celldoor slamming sound illustrates the other alternative reality he escaped by becoming a cooperating witness.
The thing is Henry could have turned his life around, but in the end he was an addict that blew all that money, lost Karen, and his two kids wanted nothing to do with him. In real life he had a son and a daughter. His kids were estranged that Henry pretty much drank himself to death. Ray really made Henry looked dignified because in real life, Henry was just a terrible person.
A terrible person cos he had addictions? Yikes
@@DonFelixGallardo A terrible person because he let his addictions win and destroyed his family
Because he's a criminal! Someone who embezzles money despite already being a CEO or CFO, who robs and assaults others because of greed and not because of basic necesities( some impoverished and sickly looking man that lives in a slum, who steals food is not the same situation as a mobster doing it). Unfortunately, in the real life case, Henry Hill never felt sorry for It.
@@DonFelixGallardo He was a terrible person because he was a criminal who loved being a criminal.
I like to think the film is purposely biased as its mostly from Henrys POV.
I would have loved to hear Jimmy voiceover when Karen leaves saying"I can't believe she would just run away like that. Those clothes where imported from Italy. I even had hired a tailor from Italy just to make adjustments. Talk about ungrateful!"
😂😂😂
Nah
Lmao
Poor Jimmie
Lmao
Whoever sold you those suits had a wonderful sense of humor.
Not that I would disagree with going after the guys on Wall Street.
I live my life like a shnook
Yumor
Why didn't they take tudy ..
Well I'm out here see u have the people u want to talk to
I've seen quite a few documentaries/interviews with the real Henry Hill and he always said the scariest experiences were actually everything that came after the events of the film. Basically from when he went into the program until Jimmy died, he feared Jimmy coming after him every minute. Crazy.
Yet henry did everything to get himself kicked out of witness protection
Fun fact. The Witsec guy is the real guy. As in that is the real guy that put Henry Hill in witness protection.
Yes, his name is Ed McDonald; he's now in private practice.
Tucker Carlson also totally ripped off his style.
Fun fact. That was the actual room Henry hill met him in lol
1:45 the way he used rear the rear projection to make the exterior zoom in... it's so unnerving. If you're not looking for it it's barely noticeable, but it heightens the tension at the table.
It’s a dolly zoom
@@historitormajoriszhao the scene outside the window isn't actually there. It zooms to an unrealistic point
@@bridgecross it’s a dolly zoom
@@historitormajoriszhao yes, I meant it's a dolly zoom but filmed separately.
@@bridgecross pretty sure there’s bts it’s just a dolly zoom
That agent wasn't an actor, that was the actual agent that busted Henry Hill
He was just reenacting the meeting.
No, that was the federal prosecutor who cut Henry his deal to get into witness protection.
Yes he was. His name is Ed McDonald, that was the actual conversation he had with Henry and his wife Karen. He recreated it for the movie (He was playing himself). Director Martin Scorsese put him in the movie for more realism.
@@davidarango4679this is why this movie is amazing
Which agent? Timestamp
One of my favorite actors: Liotta brought a special intensity to all his roles.
Agreed. NARC was absolutely brilliant
Never rat on your friends and always keep your mouth shut. Classic DeNiro.
And have them wacked so you can steal their share 😂.
There is no friends in the crime world.
Breaking the 4th wall, the actor breaking out of character within the story to tell us about the matter, Scorcese, amazing.
5:24 I don't know why but that scene always gives me chills.
why
Why
Why
whomst
Why, what and how?
Fun fact: the housing development at the end is located in Marlboro, New Jersey.
Warm in the summer
So much for Witness Protection.
Old bridge nj
@@TheJoeur Nope, "Greenbriar" community in Marlboro, NJ
Funny, that's not far from where Ray Liotta was actually from.
3:40 Funny thing is that Henry was actually sent to nothing but cold-weather cities.
Before he died, I think he eventually ended up residing in Florida or somewhere down south after he was kicked out of the program. So he eventually got his wish "no place cold"😂
Ray Liotta should have won an Oscar (Paul Sorvino too) and this film should have swept. Best film of the 90s.
90s had some classics. Great time for cinema.
Not in my top two movies of the 90's but certainly in my top ten.
We were spoilt in the 90's compared to what we get now.
Joe Pesci won the Oscar for best supporting actor for his role.
Meh
R.I.P. Ray. 🌹🙏
henry hill crazy days were not over, he continued to deal drugs and had to move several times to other cities because he would get drunk in local bars and tell his life story, he died broke and alcoholic
I remember him selling paintings on eBay before he died.
Every drug dealer/gangster have a downfall. It’s just how it is I guess.
He felt an incredible sense of guilt for dropping his mates in it.
Shout out to the make-up guys who did Liotta, he really sells being a wreck with that look.
After you watch this movie, read a book called On The Run. It’s like a continuation of this story/movie but it’s told from the point of view from their kids. Great book!
I miss you dear Ray Liotta.
Goodfellas is a Masterpiece.
I like how the lawyer was shoehorning in the rat insult during questioning lol
I love the symoblism of the Glasses that made Jimmy's eyes bigger, showing how hard Jimmy was looking into Henry's existence
That's not symbolism
Or they were just glasses he needed to see.
Are you high? Reading glasses showing he's getting old.
It doesn't make you insightful reaching for symbolism where there isn't any.
“I love the symbolism of the suit jimmy wears, shows that jimmy loves suits”
What is interesting that many don't know, is that Ray Liotta is actually Scottish, and Robert DeNiro is half Irish (just like the IRL character Robert is playing, however IRL Henry hill unlike Ray Liotta father was Irish, mother was Italian).
Is that some joke?
@@jamesmaybrick2001
Reading comprehension problem?.
Nah he was Turkish.
6:24 - I LOVE that Killers of the Flower Moon as an identical word for word moment like this with a witness identifying De Niro AGAIN!!!! 🤣🤣
Fun fact (idk if this has been posted I didn't see it):
The news paper Henry is picking up off his front stoop is The Vindicator, which is Youngstown Ohio’s city paper. Scorsese threw it in there as a nod to the cities long history with the Mob.
But, then shouldn't Youngstown have been able to do better than egg noodles and ketchup?
In reality he was sent to Omaha, Nebraska. His Brooklyn accent made him and Karen stand out.
Ray liotta wasn't that old when he died he had at least another 20 years to live bang he died in his sleep at 67 years of age
How did he die
Just a kid.
One of the greatest movies ever.
Imagine being the guy over DeNiro’s right shoulder in the background and being told to ignore the camera? 😂
I’m glad Karen didn’t listen to Jimmy, otherwise Tony wouldn’t have had a psychiatrist. Now pass me the red peppers
6:47 If looks could kill
Looking at old interviews of Henry Hill shows just how great a job Liota done here. By all accounts, Pesci and Deniro were on point too but didn't have a living reference point to base their portrayals on.
Love that he used Sid Vicious’s version and not Sinatra’s. Instead of confident and prideful it is chaotic and destructive.
Fun Fact: Scorsese wanted sinatras “My Way” to play at the end but couldn’t secure the rights for the track in time and used the Sid Vicious version. However even with this decision it created an aura of it really being all over for Henry, and instead of going out with class(Sinatra) he went out as a rat, a Schnook, a Punk(Sid Vicious). It’s little details like that that make it all the more compelling.
Scorsese gave a nod to Youngstown, Ohio also known as murder town or little Chicago. It's my hometown. Youngstown has some great Italian restaurants. Masterpiece film.
one of the absolute best movies i have ever seen in my life.
People debate on whether or not Jimmy had planned on killing Karen. If it was anything like what we saw in the movie, I think that's a big hell yeah.
There was a time when the mafia wouldn't dare harm a wife and/or kids, but times change. Jimmy would've either killed Karen off the bat or held her hostage until Henry came and killed them together.
@@Karateka1973Jimmy was only an associate, he wasn't bound by the "rules" that made men are. Like the difference between an employee and a free agent
Just the comment i was looking for. I would really love to reach to the bottom of this mystery. I mean, don’t you guys think a wise guy could have captured her earlier, way more guaranteed than sending her off to the adjacent warehouse!!
Secondly, what did she exactly see in that peak?
I am sure you’re right, he was trying to off her or at least hold her hostage.
From 0:01 to 0:10 you can hear one of the guys in the store saying something like “shhh, just be quiet, a little quiet” !! A trivial detail that is so revealing.
0:12 It’s pretty obvious to me with all the nah, nah, nah said by Jimmy.
This is my favorite movie of all time especially with ray liotta in it he is so handsome and very talented
For sure!!! It's a great mob movie, one of Scorsese top 3, only behind The King of Comedy and Silence in my opinion. May Paul Sorvino and Ray Liotta rest in peace.
Watched this movie over and over totally awesome 😢 miss you Ray 😂 wish you here Rest in paradise Rest in peace 😅😢😂 love you forevermore
I saw this movie while in college in Santa Barbara, it was shown in a theater on campus. Afterwards, a French foreign exchange student asked me what a "shnook" was because she had never heard the term, and I had hard time defining it...
What a time you had!
OK, I admit I googled it....." A person easily duped,a fool"
To me, it sounds Yiddish....like putz or schlep, but apparently it's not?
@@kendallevans4079
"Schmuck" is yiddish.
And curiously similar.
Shnook feels like a possible Italian informal translation... ?
@@hhiippiittyy Agree
@@kendallevans4079bastardization of Yiddish for sure. Practically every New Yorker uses some Yiddish phrases, even moreso in the mob considering how many Jews were in it.
Even Lucky Luciano, the founder of the five families, spoke very fluent Yiddish and would use it to speak in private with Meyer Lansky when they were around other mobsters.
Fun fact: guy Henry talks about becoming an informant just re-enacted scene he had done before.
1 everyone knows this. 2 at least copy and paste accurately
First off, it’s cool that they got the actual Witness Protection official who hid Henry Hill. Second, as a college student, don’t sleep on egg noodles and ketchup, it’s good eating.
That look Paul gives just screams my hand around your throat.
The shot in the restaurant, is the camera moving back and zooming in at the same time?
Yep. It’s called a dolly zoom, it’s a technique used famously by directors like Hitchcock and Spielberg to create suspense and unease. I think it was first seen in Hitchcock’s film ‘Vertigo’ and then probably most famously in Spielberg’s ‘Jaws’.
That restaurant scene with Jimmy is like something you can relate to. You are in the public place, so right now you are safe and you just secretly realized what Jimmy was trying to do. Henry orders some food after he had refused at first. He could eat now and even breath a sigh of relief, because Jimmy just showed him everything and now he knows he's going straight to the FBI. In that moment, even with Jimmy right in front of him, he breathed a major sigh of relief. He knew it was over from that point on.
Joe Pesci at the end always gets me lmao.
Homage to an old silent film’s ending.
R.I.P Ray Liotta Paul Sorvino
The irony is that this movie ensured that Henry would never be an "average nobody" again.
R.I.P. Ray Liotta 🙏🏽
The best movie about gangsters.
Yes, it was. Terrifying and interesting.
For those wondering: The ending shot of Joe Pesci shooting at the camera is a direct rip from the final scene of one of (if not THE) first action films called "The Great Train Robbery", which is a short film (by today's standards) about a band of Wild West outlaws robbing a train. The final shot in the film is the exact same as what we see here, with the lead outlaw firing his pistol directly at the audience.
He’s from New York & he doesn’t want to be somewhere cold
the FBI agent in this scene was a retired real life agent!
Why everyone copying and paste in the same thing?
Great Film, Glad I've Got the DVD.
“He’s bronchial” as he is smoking 😂
Henry is in the same suit in the diner as he is wearing at the fbi office. He must have left the diner and phoned the fbi pretty much straightaway
Yes , because he knew they set him up to get killed in florida
and he probably went from the FBI building and straight into witness protection because there is no way he would have walked out of an FBI building and would have made it back home alive. Anthony was probably tailing him at the diner.
he's wearing a different shirt. did Henry think it pertinent he go home and risk getting whacked to get a white shirt to talk to the feds?
It’s a good job that no Baldwin was involved in the shooting of this scene.
I always think he’s going to get capped at the end
If you are from greater New York City you know it was a meeting in a Diner. Not in a restaurant.
One of the best films of all time. IMO it’s right up there with The Godfather I&II.
Ray Liotta was truly phenomenal in this film, the fact he wasn’t even nominated for an Oscar for his performance is a crime in and of itself.
I’ll never forget that look on Paulie’s face
I keep watching these you tube clips over and over LIKE A SHNOOK !
I never noticed this before. He was a valet in his youth, and here, as he’s helping a distraught Karen out of the car, he instinctively removes the key from the ignition lock.
When Jimmy smiles and hugged him, you knew he was plotting Henry's death.
He basically was there probably wasn’t even a hit to in Florida it was probably just a set up to get him wacked by Anthony and his crew and Henry knew to that’s why he said if I go there I know I’m never coming back
Trading one prison for another is hardly salvation, and leaves only death to set one one free.
My favorite part of this movie is the feel - it always feels like it's over before you want it to be.
Good movie sometimes I flip through the channels on t.v. and if this movie just happened to be showing I just leave it on that channel.Real gangsters in this movie.Goodfellas one of my favorite movies.
Scorcese's best film, no argument
Taxi Driver is better. This is second best of Scorsese.
Forgot to include him closing the door and it sounding like a cellblock
Being a criminal is as much if not more work and stress than having a normal job. I feel that way about homelessness too. Matter of perspective i guess.
Fun fact. The man that plays the detective setting up Henry's Wit pro. Is played by the real life detective that did the REAL case.
Not fun because you’ve just copied the thousand other comments that say the exact same thing
There's something chilling about the fact that Henry's ONLY regret is the loss of the privileges afforded to him by his gangster status. Even after most of his friends and associates ended up either arrested or dead, and despite having given it all up to avoid the same fate, in the end he can only lament spending the rest of his pathetic, worthless life as another nobody, like the people Tommy used to bully and kill on a whim or for fun. He learned absolutely NOTHING and if given the chance he'd do it all over again -- which he did, considering he got kicked out of witness protection.
Some people are made into monsters, while others are just born hopeless.
Every time another someone passes, I'm reminded of how I felt as a kid and the Rat Pack and others from that era passed. Someone, some character, is just... gone. No longer there. The film and songs, whatever, are there. But it's just not the same. Things will never be that way again.
The federal agent (Ed) is actually the real federal prosecutor that got Henry in the witness protection program. His name is Ed McDonald, and that's the actual conversation he had with Henry and his wife Karen. That is actually what they said. (He was playing himself) The director, Martin Scorsese decided to include him in the movie for more realism.
I would have loved to have seen the entire uncut courtroom scene without any narration overlay. Like a movie within a movie!
Same with the whole diner scene
Paulies Death Stare 💀 in the courtroom gets me every time. He defended Henry and even gave him 3200 bucks when he turned his back on him.
R.I.p ray
5:00 whats ironic about this is he only needed to hide out for 10 years or so. lived out in the open around the time this movie came out until his death.
Volvos can spin off the mark in reverse. Wow
@1:18 for the people that don’t know what “backdoor” “got back door” means. It’s been going on for decades, centuries
6:47 is me when someone goes for the last slice of pizza
Came to the comments for sopranos references and I wasn’t disappointed
Wow! Cars back then could get rubber in reverse!
RIP Ray.