Almost every Scorsese movie has a hothead who pushes and and pushes and pushes until they get what's coming to them. You watch and think "how is this guy not shutting his mouth"?
@@stevennieto9898 He know who's Charlie's uncle, when he found out that Michael tried to kill his nephew he probably ordered to kill him, and Michael knew it, so probably that explain why in his last take he have a scary expression, he know Charlie's uncle will kill him.
@@stevennieto9898 Yep. Michael truly was a jerk off. He could have resolved this whole situation much earlier if he actually had the balls. Instead he pulls a stupid stunt like this, nearly kills Charlie and Theresa, and probably draws a whole lot of heat and attention from the cops, all over a measly debt that he could have collected if he was actually good at his job. He definitely got killed for this lol.
So what do you think happens to the characters at the end? I always thought that the intro scene from the beginning takes place at the end. Because Charlie gets married, everyone seems happy. De Niro is seen for like one second and looks a little older.
Good call.. The Uncle sees the crash in the movie he was watching, and Michael looks worried at the end. So I believe that Michael eventually gets hit.
Maybe If I recall correctly, we see that in a montage that resembles footage seen on tv right? Perhaps it's because of this, that it could metaphorically be a fiction, the whole living happily. Sort of like the man, near the end, who's watching a film (or an episode of something, forgive the ignorance) depicting basically the same thing that's happening to the characters. But why? Is it to mirror the conflicting duality of reality and religion that is present in the film and in Charlie's character? Because Charlie does shift between these two. Also, marriage is originally a religious process isn't it? At the same time, Charlie sleeps with a prostitute, who is actually, and nicely so, shown to be very human. But why all of this? Maybe just to represent. I just noticed also how people carry the woman (can't remember her name, sorry), as though she her need for money may be bigger, being possibly driven by need into prostitution (can't remember if it is specified); Charlie just sits down, pondering, and De Niro's character walks away on his own. These different cases do sort of represent each of the character's natures. In the end, I don't know.
doesn't make sense tho because charlie is hanging out with michael in the very first scene and if the intro was the epilogue why tf would charlie still be friends with michael
The point when Johnny Boy insulted Charlie and even didn't help Teresa when she had seizure.. it's a red flag for Charlie actually. He should left Johnny to deal with his own problem like an adult. Charlie's protection is what made Johnny Boy keep being immature.
Fun Fact: Michael is played by Richard Romanus, the brother of Robert Romanus, who played Damone in Fast Times At Ridgemont High. Listen close -- they have the exact same voice!
@noahgeorgianna I wondered that too about the ending. Scorsese said in an interview I watched on UA-cam that they're all damned at the end. Meaning that they didn't die, but they might as well of because they're never going to be able to back to the way things were ever again. It will scare them for life that this is the way it all came down to and they'll all be enemies to each other one way or the other, because of the life they are all involved in now with the mob and being street thugs. They'll never be the same ever. I think that was the symbolism of the ending.
Yeah the whole situation they got themselves into is connected to too many people and pre existing conflicts. In the end the ones to blame are the three main characters Charlie, Johnny and Michael on account of their bad judgement and basically prolonging the inevitable.
Music used is a Napoletane song called 'O Marenariello Sounds to me like the singers are fumbling through the words it has the same melody as song I have but one heart which is how it is usually sung by Sergio Bruni or Carlo Buti or Scorsese's fave singer Giuseppe de Stefano
Fun Fact: Michael is played by Richard Romanus, the brother of Robert Romanus, who played Damone in Fast Times At Ridgemont High. Listen close -- they have the exact same voice!
That's correct. Even though some of Mean Streets was filmed on location in New York, much of it , especially the interior scenes was shot in L.A., perhaps at the Warner Bros lot in Burbank.@@TheKitchenerLeslie
Yeah. Charlie deserves better life. With Teresa. Let Johnny Boy face his own problem. He is a grown up man, no longer a kid.. Charlie's protective measures is what made Johnny Boy stays immature until the end of the film actually
Never read so many stupid comments before! Ugh! The DUMBED DOWN POPULACE SHOWING THEMSELVES FOR WHAT THEY ARE. Read a few you'll see what I mean. Scorsese's first masterpiece and the idiots say the most idiotic crap.
@@lucasdossantosabrami678 Fun Fact: Michael is played by Richard Romanus, the brother of Robert Romanus, who played Damone in Fast Times At Ridgemont High. Listen close -- they have the exact same voice!
O Marenariello In this scene they sing it slurred, almost if they were too drunk to sing it, they don't pronounce some words very well. Also, Scorsese filmed it during a live party, some of the miscellaneous scenes in this movie was unscripted.
I know a guy who looks exactly like Michael, and I borrowed money from him and never paid him back 🤣😂 It's funny because he ended up stabbing a kid over a woman, crazy huh?
I cannot figure the last few minutes in this film. I understand narratively what's going on, it's DeNiro's... Acting? Why he's making practically no effort to stop the bleeding, he looks like his putting his hand everywhere BUT where the hole is. More so, why the hell is he screeching like a banshee while climbing out the windows. The whole thing seems like they're purposely not going for realism.
@@I_Play_Vic20 no, but I was gutted 19 years ago, and have had plenty of experience with serious injuries. Regardless, you don't need to have the same exact injury to know that when someone is bleeding profusely that natural reaction is to hold it tight to staunch it. Just you don't need to be completely immolated to know when you burn yourself or touch something hot you immediately pull your hand back.
tim white You do realise people have different pain tolerances right? Like how a toddler will cry profusely when they scrape their knee, yet someone could get shot and hardly feel a thing.
"The whole thing seems like they're purposely not going for realism." It's expressionist, the same way that the film dives into slow motion when JUMPING JACK FLASH is on the soundtrack and everything is lit deep red - and De Niro's screaming would have been dubbed in afterwards, so it's clearly intentional. Scorsese might or might not explain it more deeply on a commentary track somewhere, but I always figured it's just another eccentric touch, the same as how the soundtrack flips to zero as soon as the hydrant is hit. But they weren't going for realism in this final scene, and it's not a documentary. Good question BTW.
Lampshaded by the scene when the bar owner said "A mook". Means that the whole film is to represent day to day life of a low rank gangster until the dangerous part of it. To shows that they are insignificant, there are no important events up until when Michael demand the payment
Michael brought that on himself. He was an embarrassment, a two-bit punk pretending to be some big gangster. He should have stuck to hustling kids for firecrackers instead of trying to be a loan shark.
@@silversnail1413Then again Johnny Boy is also an unstable mess of a person. Johnny blows up mailbox for no reason? Charlie does so many things to protect him, yet Johnny is being ungrateful af.
I saw this film once, and I have no desire ever to see it again. I just don't think it's very good either dramatically, or technically. I was never able to figure out what this ending means, that is the cross cutting to the different locations. Is he really saying that if you were born in Little Italy this ends up happening to you? That is baloney. What happened here is all due to the DeNiro character. Who is, in fact, a cliche character, although DeNiro really did bring him to life through his acting. So to me the film is actually reductive of its materials, not expansive. As far as the making of the film, I thought it was reminiscient of a student film, perhaps from NYU or USC, but still at that level.
"No matter how good you are .no matter how hard you try there is always martin Scorsese" - Brian De Palma
please.
Ok
@@plasticweapon Please what, you mook?
@@fritzidler9871 be polite to strangers you mook
Almost every Scorsese movie has a hothead who pushes and and pushes and pushes until they get what's coming to them. You watch and think "how is this guy not shutting his mouth"?
100 Percent right Johnny boy had it coming
@@jamesmorant1406facts I just watched the movie and holy shit the fact he made it this far alone is a damn miracle
I liked how Mr. Martin Scorsese blasted his gun! I bet no one knew that was him!
I never did before!
Ff: He had to sit in a booster seat because he’s so short
I knew it was him when I first watched it last week
He grew up in a mob neighbourhood so it makes sense.
I clocked him. Interesting he's in the back seat in TAXI DRIVER, too.
The soundtrack fit perfectly with the scene, absolutely awesome
No lie, I was glad Michael got his payback at the end, DeNiro's character was such a douchebag in this movie.
100 percent right he should have paid but nope so he paid the price
Michael wasn't fit out to be a loan shark, he definitely got killed after these events I'm sure.
@@stevennieto9898 He know who's Charlie's uncle, when he found out that Michael tried to kill his nephew he probably ordered to kill him, and Michael knew it, so probably that explain why in his last take he have a scary expression, he know Charlie's uncle will kill him.
@@stevennieto9898 Yep. Michael truly was a jerk off. He could have resolved this whole situation much earlier if he actually had the balls. Instead he pulls a stupid stunt like this, nearly kills Charlie and Theresa, and probably draws a whole lot of heat and attention from the cops, all over a measly debt that he could have collected if he was actually good at his job. He definitely got killed for this lol.
@@silversnail1413 Or maybe he shouldn't have lent Johnny Boy any money in the first place?
I love how the Italian music appears then the bad guys leave.
Great Movie, thanks for the upload 5/5
Looks like Charlie got his wish. He ended up paying for his sins, his way.
Scorsese is a good actor. He played a psychopath fare (taxi customer} in Taxi driver.
Chef Love Scorsese is the director your thinking for Robert de niro
@Elitedevil yea he was the guy who wanted to kill his wife and her black lover
@@Lightmylove Actually Scorsese is the dude shooting the gun in this scene. He likes to cameo in his own movies.
Yeah. He was so high on coke in that scene.
One of Scorsese's unsurpassed masterpieces
And this is the icing on top
@@williamshakespeare9815 YOURE ALIVE???!!
Damn Scorsese came straight out the gate with this one. Wow
This always gives me goosebumps for real...
Does this 🍆
So what do you think happens to the characters at the end? I always thought that the intro scene from the beginning takes place at the end. Because Charlie gets married, everyone seems happy. De Niro is seen for like one second and looks a little older.
Good call.. The Uncle sees the crash in the movie he was watching, and Michael looks worried at the end. So I believe that Michael eventually gets hit.
Maybe
If I recall correctly, we see that in a montage that resembles footage seen on tv right?
Perhaps it's because of this, that it could metaphorically be a fiction, the whole living happily.
Sort of like the man, near the end, who's watching a film (or an episode of something, forgive the ignorance) depicting basically the same thing that's happening to the characters.
But why? Is it to mirror the conflicting duality of reality and religion that is present in the film and in Charlie's character? Because Charlie does shift between these two. Also, marriage is originally a religious process isn't it? At the same time, Charlie sleeps with a prostitute, who is actually, and nicely so, shown to be very human.
But why all of this? Maybe just to represent.
I just noticed also how people carry the woman (can't remember her name, sorry), as though she her need for money may be bigger, being possibly driven by need into prostitution (can't remember if it is specified); Charlie just sits down, pondering, and De Niro's character walks away on his own. These different cases do sort of represent each of the character's natures.
In the end, I don't know.
doesn't make sense tho because charlie is hanging out with michael in the very first scene and if the intro was the epilogue why tf would charlie still be friends with michael
@@Sam-qc6sz yeah I don’t think there’s a huge metaphorical meaning behind it, I think it’s just a life lesson time flick
@@nickperez915dont say „just“ i think its a great one
When reality hits, it hurts, literally.
She should remained at home and de Niro should paid that money.
Yep Harvey Keitel should've let him face the music . He already bent over backwards for him 100 times
The point when Johnny Boy insulted Charlie and even didn't help Teresa when she had seizure.. it's a red flag for Charlie actually. He should left Johnny to deal with his own problem like an adult. Charlie's protection is what made Johnny Boy keep being immature.
Saw that coming from a mile away... you don't pull a gun to a guy like this...
Fun Fact: Michael is played by Richard Romanus, the brother of Robert Romanus, who played Damone in Fast Times At Ridgemont High. Listen close -- they have the exact same voice!
@noahgeorgianna I wondered that too about the ending. Scorsese said in an interview I watched on UA-cam that they're all damned at the end. Meaning that they didn't die, but they might as well of because they're never going to be able to back to the way things were ever again. It will scare them for life that this is the way it all came down to and they'll all be enemies to each other one way or the other, because of the life they are all involved in now with the mob and being street thugs. They'll never be the same ever. I think that was the symbolism of the ending.
Gavin Masterson their car was crashed also, furthering their plight
Amazing.
Exactly!
Yeah the whole situation they got themselves into is connected to too many people and pre existing conflicts. In the end the ones to blame are the three main characters Charlie, Johnny and Michael on account of their bad judgement and basically prolonging the inevitable.
why always deniro gets shot on the neck and survives
Almost like Chuck Norris lol
Cause he's De Niro.
He wouldn’t survive being shot in the aorta
@@zachrizzo6525 mira el opening de la pelicula esta vivo
Pretty sure he died later on.
Great fcking movie.
Best black comedy of all-time.
The way the shooting wraps up into a crash, then the stage show simultaneously.
Love it.
Scorsese wasn't kidding. Those streets are mean
0:20 is that Marty Scorsese?
The Observant ServantTM Yes it is.
Music used is a Napoletane song called 'O Marenariello
Sounds to me like the singers are fumbling through the words it has the same melody as song I have but one heart which is how it is usually sung by Sergio Bruni or Carlo Buti or Scorsese's fave singer Giuseppe de Stefano
oops Giuseppe di Stefano
What is the one Charlie was singing before they crossed the bridge it was in Italian as well ... I’m looking for it
0:21 is that De niro screaming like a girl?
Yeah but some of it is also coming from the woman next to him
Hahahaha
That's the girl next to him
Fun Fact: Michael is played by Richard Romanus, the brother of Robert Romanus, who played Damone in Fast Times At Ridgemont High. Listen close -- they have the exact same voice!
New York was a nutshell back then.
This scene was filmed in Los Angeles.
That's correct. Even though some of Mean Streets was filmed on location in New York, much of it , especially the interior scenes was shot in L.A., perhaps at the Warner Bros lot in Burbank.@@TheKitchenerLeslie
in*
Fucked up Tony's car. You know he had to be pissed
That 1969 Chrysler Imperial can take a beating !
Its sad bc charlie is probably in trouble bc his uncle knows he was in the car with Johnny. Charlie deserved better
Yeah. Charlie deserves better life. With Teresa. Let Johnny Boy face his own problem. He is a grown up man, no longer a kid.. Charlie's protective measures is what made Johnny Boy stays immature until the end of the film actually
i like the music Scorsese used, what is it called.
I like the part when Martin Scorsese gets away with murder.
I had no idea, till i had seen the credits
WHAT SONG IS AT 1:20 IVE BEEN TRYING TO FIND IR FOR SO LONG !!!!!
GHOUL FORCE someone answer please
HazarEd O Marienariello (I Have But One Heart)
The sound effects on that car crash is questionable to say the least😂
there is a song before a min of this scene which is singing by Charlie for 10 seconds, 1:41:40 on movie, i can t get the italian words, any help?
The song, I believe, is called “O Marenariello”, the first few lines (as sung here) I believe are:
Oi’ ne’, fa priesto viene!
Aiutame a tira’...
Music at 2:55?
Live Cream vol 2. Scorsese used a lot of Cream in subsequent movies.
Never read so many stupid comments before! Ugh! The DUMBED DOWN POPULACE SHOWING THEMSELVES FOR WHAT THEY ARE. Read a few you'll see what I mean. Scorsese's first masterpiece and the idiots say the most idiotic crap.
ikr
Was that Martin doing the shooting?
Yes
MICHAEL disliked this
1:04 young Marty😁
Who’s the actor who says “Nows the time”
Richard Romanus
@@lucasdossantosabrami678 Fun Fact: Michael is played by Richard Romanus, the brother of Robert Romanus, who played Damone in Fast Times At Ridgemont High. Listen close -- they have the exact same voice!
What is the Italian song that was played before they got into Brooklyn I’m trying to find it on the soundtrack ?
Scapricciatiello by Renato Carosone.
What is the song name??? 1:14
O Marenariello
In this scene they sing it slurred, almost if they were too drunk to sing it, they don't pronounce some words very well. Also, Scorsese filmed it during a live party, some of the miscellaneous scenes in this movie was unscripted.
which brand car and model was Christopher driving when they got shot?
Gold car.......dodge coronet
Blue car .......chrysler imperial
I know a guy who looks exactly like Michael, and I borrowed money from him and never paid him back 🤣😂 It's funny because he ended up stabbing a kid over a woman, crazy huh?
Please pay him back
@@christinethuo6840 LOL, this was back in 2012, hopefully he's forgotten about it.. haven't seen him in years 🤣😂
Haha.."this movie looks like a film that came after"..
its a 71 imperial
poor imperioli
I cannot figure the last few minutes in this film. I understand narratively what's going on, it's DeNiro's... Acting?
Why he's making practically no effort to stop the bleeding, he looks like his putting his hand everywhere BUT where the hole is. More so, why the hell is he screeching like a banshee while climbing out the windows. The whole thing seems like they're purposely not going for realism.
You ever been shot in the neck before? Didn’t think so.
@@I_Play_Vic20 no, but I was gutted 19 years ago, and have had plenty of experience with serious injuries. Regardless, you don't need to have the same exact injury to know that when someone is bleeding profusely that natural reaction is to hold it tight to staunch it. Just you don't need to be completely immolated to know when you burn yourself or touch something hot you immediately pull your hand back.
tim white You do realise people have different pain tolerances right? Like how a toddler will cry profusely when they scrape their knee, yet someone could get shot and hardly feel a thing.
DeNiro's screeching is just so fucking annoying holy shit bro hehe
"The whole thing seems like they're purposely not going for realism." It's expressionist, the same way that the film dives into slow motion when JUMPING JACK FLASH is on the soundtrack and everything is lit deep red - and De Niro's screaming would have been dubbed in afterwards, so it's clearly intentional. Scorsese might or might not explain it more deeply on a commentary track somewhere, but I always figured it's just another eccentric touch, the same as how the soundtrack flips to zero as soon as the hydrant is hit. But they weren't going for realism in this final scene, and it's not a documentary. Good question BTW.
Drive by (lol)
then its not for you.....only true Scorsese fans get it
Spoiler: they didn't die.😊
I dont understand this movie
Anthony then watch it again you mook
lldjwhyteell Mook, who's a mook? What's a mook?
Early Morning Tony I’ll show you a fucking mook *throws a punch*
hear some of the earlier words from charlie.. they confirmed themselves in the end
you know what johnny boy did right
Lampshaded by the scene when the bar owner said "A mook". Means that the whole film is to represent day to day life of a low rank gangster until the dangerous part of it. To shows that they are insignificant, there are no important events up until when Michael demand the payment
Mafia tube 😂
Hollywood had a heart attack one night. She fell into a coma. Just when the preist walked in, Marty Scorsese kicked the door down and said, WAIT!
Tommy boy deserved a worse death, he was making a mockery of Michael and insulting him.
Don’t u mean “Johnny boy”
Michael brought that on himself. He was an embarrassment, a two-bit punk pretending to be some big gangster. He should have stuck to hustling kids for firecrackers instead of trying to be a loan shark.
@@silversnail1413precisely, this film is about LOW LEVEL Mafia gangsters
@@silversnail1413Then again Johnny Boy is also an unstable mess of a person. Johnny blows up mailbox for no reason? Charlie does so many things to protect him, yet Johnny is being ungrateful af.
Do any L.A. people know where exactly this scene was shot?
New York city
other side of the country you mook
In the neck
@Trisagfm mook what's a mook?
the movie takes place in little italy, ny
i think those svene is when they drive to brooklyn or something
I saw this film once, and I have no desire ever to see it again. I just don't think it's very good either dramatically, or technically. I was never able to figure out what this ending means, that is the cross cutting to the different locations. Is he really saying that if you were born in Little Italy this ends up happening to you? That is baloney. What happened here is all due to the DeNiro character. Who is, in fact, a cliche character, although DeNiro really did bring him to life through his acting. So to me the film is actually reductive of its materials, not expansive. As far as the making of the film, I thought it was reminiscient of a student film, perhaps from NYU or USC, but still at that level.
Agreed.
Its the words from charlie that confirm themselves in the end
Stupid fn ending
thee worst movie ever
More like an early masterpiece, from a young director who was going to hit it big later.
@@EvilTerry35More like an bore, boring movie
@@joshpritt2146 if you're going to talk shit, learn how to write and spell first.
@@joshpritt2146wasn’t that boring
subjective
i loved it personally
trash movie
this movie looks like dead presidents
My least favorite Martin Scorsese movie.
fuck atta heeea..
Worst film of my life. I hate the Italian music when it starts at 1:16.
flicker
Hey, don't be angry at me, this is the worst movie.
Logo Film lmao
flicker man I serious, this is the worst film ever.
Logo Film whats so bad about this film then? I bet u havent watched alot of movies or u are too young to understand it.
@@stevenrodriguez9371 this is the worst film.
Really bad movie…from day one….a bad movie.
1:04 young Marty😁