Goodfellas * FIRST TIME WATCHING * reaction & commentary * Millennial Movie Monday
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- Опубліковано 5 чер 2022
- Ray Liotta passed away and, like I do with every celebrity passing, I watch one of their top. rated films in their honor. You really can't go wrong with Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci.
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Stacks, the black man in the "cute little undies" that gets assassinated by Pesci, is none other than Samuel L Jackson!
Ya know for a moment I thought it was him but I NEVER got a good look at his face! So I never said anything. Samuel L Jackson is literally in everything!
@@awkwardashleigh Pesci's character when he was killed. The reason his mother couldn't give him an open coffin was simply because there was nothing in the coffin. To this day the body was never found
R.I.P Ray Liotta 😭
@@awkwardashleigh agreed 🍕
Samuel L Jackson, factually, has appeared in the most movies of any actor since 1991..
Martin Scorcese's actual mom plays Tommy's mom in the movie. She actually made the meal they're eating, and the painting she proudly shows off is her own actual work.
Also, his actual Dad is the old guy cooking in the prison.
Mama Scorsese also appears in son Marty's later film 'Casino', and also appears in 'The Godfather Part III'.
@@chrisdobbs9155 the onion guy
Wow, I knew that was Catherine Scorcese, but I didn't know she actually made the meal and did the painting. Very cool
@@mikeking7710 you can actually buy a framed print of that painting. Weird, eh?
Side note about Ray Liotta and Ashleigh's observations about his appearance...if you look at photos of him IRL, you'll notice he had acne scaring on his face. They made him look younger in Goodfellas by covering the scars on his face with lots of makeup, which they reduced as the film went on to show him growing older. The time frame of Ray Liotta's part in the movie is from the 1960s through Henry Hill's arrest in 1980...so Ray Liotta had to portray Henry from 21 to about 40 years old.
Hello to you from suburban Detroit.....
@@caravan5557 - Hello back! 👍
Okay, my turn. Hello to you from Western Washington!
I have one of Henry Hills paintings. He started painting after he retired from the mob. 3 stars???? Beans is cute as ever ,
When he was still so very young on a soap he had the same issues with his skin. He is always Joey Perinni in my head.
Re: Beans
"In ancient times, cats were worshipped as gods.
They have not forgotten this."
--Terry Pratchett
I Remember that quote! 😊
Also ….what happened to Bean’s diet?
Love catching a Sir Pterry quote in the wild.
As an Italian-American who grew up in Youngstown, Ohio, and was a teen in the 70s, I had to keep reminding myself that there really are people like you in the world - truly innocent on how the world works. My California raised wife was just as naive - until I took her to Youngstown. To put that into perspective, my wife and I were having lunch with one of her friends from the hospital - a female therapist who grew up on the streets of Compton. During the conversation where the friend kept talking about how rough it was to grow up in Compton (and being pretty proud of being so “tough”), she asked where I was from. After I told her, she LITERALLY got ashen and said she was sorry; she knew of Youngstown and it scared the heck out of her.
You said that you thought organized crime was something from the past; oh you sweet child! You are so precious.
Movie wise, this is either the #1 or #2 best mob movie ever made, depending upon with whom you talk. The basic story and events are true, but for entertainment’s sake some liberties were taken. And to not have audiences vomiting or leaving the theaters, most of who and what the real Tommy and Jimmy did was ignored, glossed over or sugar coated. As for Henry, he was a living example of 💩 - by anyone’s standards.
That man whistling on the TV screen was real. He was Al Jolson, a Lithuanian-American singer, comedian, actor, and vaudevillian. He was one of the United States' most famous and highest-paid stars of the 1920s and was self-billed as "The World's Greatest Entertainer". Although best remembered today as the star of the first talking picture, The Jazz Singer (1927).
And the song he is singing (and whistling) is called "Toot, Toot, Tootsie!"
oh yes, Newman mentioned him in hysterics in Seinfeld. (I haven't seen the episode, just the clip.)
"OMG, a young Robert DeNiro!" Actually, a middle-aged one, rather than the gray-haired one from Ben Stiller comedies--If you want a YOUNG, and creepy, DeNiro, another nudge for 1976's Taxi Driver, as mentioned in last week's Albert Brooks movie.
(And Chinatown was not a "Gangster movie", it was more a salute to the 40's Humphrey Bogart detective of "The Maltese Falcon". Speaking of which...)
It was Film Noir
Another way out film De Niro was in Bloody Mama , Ma Barker
Mean Streets DeNiros 1st of many movie collaborations with Scorsese. 1973
Check out Cape fear if you haven't seen it
“Mickey the WOP” W. O. P. is an acronym for “With Out Papers”. Referring to immigration status. The term was assigned anyone who tried to enter the country legally but without documents. But the term culturally stuck to Italians due to a mass migration from Italy to the USA at the time.
No.
Wet Old Pussy
Yes. That's 100% correct.
@@adamadams2753
He’s right.
That’s actually not true. It comes from the Italian word guappo, which means handsome and flashy. In Southern Italian, the “g” is silent, which gives it the sound of wop. Young Italians used to say it to each other humorously, but Americans started using it as a slur.
Ray Liota was always brilliant in everything he did; even in Old Dogs as the villain, but what solidified his versatility was the movie Corina, Corina. Its such a lovely heartwarming and hopeful film about two people coming together over the strong bond of caring for the sweetest little girl. He and Whoopie Goldberg have such great chemistry in that movie. Its still a favorite of mine to this day. RIP to an undeniable legend.
You mean, _Wild Hogs_ 🏍
Ashleigh: "Awww! They got married! That's so special!!!"
Everyone watching: Welllllllllllll...........................
Henry was cleaning out his trunk because they’d just used his car to transport the body that they had to dig up and move six months after they first buried it. This is why the trunk stank so bad.
Right. and the original fresh kill was wrapped up in something so no blood spillage. He probably cleaned it out anyway originally too.
When Jimmy tells Henry the two most important things in life: "Never rat on your friends and always keep your mouth shut", those two things sound like the same thing to me.
You don't rat out your friends, and you don't brag about your deeds. Those are two different things. After the Lufthansa Heist, all the people who showed off were killed. And that's what the second rule means.
Pauly for instance publicly was the owner of a restaurant and nothing more. He didn't drove flashy cars. He didn't buy expensive furs for his wife. He kept his mouth shut.
RIP Ray Liotta. What an amazing actor. Whenever I was driving around doing shady stuff back in college, I was always looking out for helicopters because of Ray.
This is one of my all-time favorites. The famous "How am I funny?" scene came from a moment in Joe Pesci's youth, when he worked at a restaurant. He told a mobster he was funny, and the mobster got pissed.
Rest in peace Ray Liotta. 💔
"He's was a good fella, he was one of us."
Karen: ignores the parade of red flags waving down the street behind her hot rich new BF.
Ashleigh: Girl, you ain't gonna ask some questions about all that?
Karen's Mom: rants about same BF-now-hubby's flaws.
Ashleigh: MindYourBusiness!
That's because Ashley is part of the mob. You don't interfere with a man's marriage (unless it effect business). Like that dinner table scene from the Godfather where Connie's hubby yelled at her and Sonny was going to step in but his Mom old him not to interfere.
When Karen is visiting Henry in prison with their two young daughters, those two girls were Lorraine Bracco's real-life daughters. One of them is Stella Keitel, whose father is Harvey Keitel, aka Winston Wolf who also enjoyed Jimmy's 'gourmet shit' coffee in 'Pulp Fiction'.
If you liked this movie, try Casino. It stars Robert DeNiro, Sharon Stone, and Joe Pesci. It was directed by Martin Scorsese who directed Goodfellas. Like this move it is also based on real events.
No, don't try Casino. If this seemed slow, Casino, another great movie, will seem glacial. You should probably stick to movies with a running time of under two hours.
And the Irishman... another really slow but great mob Scorsese film with Robert and Joe
Has she done Scarface yet? One of the all time greats!
YES! Casino is so well edited and interesting.
Neah, Casino is also too slow for her
Ashleigh: I'm going to watch Goodfellas to memorialize Ray Liotta
Also Ashleigh: So that dude kicked the bucket.
All part of Ashleigh's down to earth persona.
My favorite moment was in the previous video where she said she was going to be reacting to "Goodfellas" in order to honor the memory of "Roy Lioyta." I'm sure there's some hardcore Ray Liotta fan somewhere who might take offense but I love that Ash is so casual and off-the-cuff. There are a couple of tryhard reaction channels I've watched who could take a cue from the vibe here. :)
While in Witness Protection Henry Hill operated restaurants and did some side stuff as a solo Wiseguy (involving meth). Due to his brushes with the law the FBI kept moving him around. He grew bored and after his wife took his kids from him, he wrote a very good cookbook/book. The recipes follow his life from a child (easy recipes) to full blown Italian-American fare, to stuff he cooked while in WP. He married twice more. He later decided he didn't need to hide as all the bosses were either dead or nobody cared they were rotting in prison so he started doing interviews (which are actually worth watching on UA-cam) and walked around as if no one would touch him. He was right. Henry Hill died at age 69 in 2012 from heart disease. His first cookbook, the one I have, is outstanding. Not only for the food but the stories between the pages, it's called "The Wise Guy Cookbook: My Favorite Recipes from My Life as a Goodfella to Cooking on the Run".
I'd say to check out "Blow", starring Johnny Depp and Penelope Cruz. Fantastic movie and Ray Liotta has a great supporting role.
IMDB describes Ray liotta's characters as sociopathic, a good example of this (although I know you're not crazy about planes) is "Turbulence"1997 - worth a look. And yes field of dreams
Great film
“John Q”, too.
EXCELLENT film. Saw it in the theatre.
"Is that a grown man that's just short or is that another child?"
In the nonfiction book this is based on, Henry described first meeting Tommy "He was one of those kids who looked younger than they were because he was always trying to look older."
And of course as an adult Tommy was 6 foot 4.
Another fact about the real Tommy, IRL he wasn't short at all, but actually tall, 6 ft 2. But the film did accurately portray his personality, he was a bully in real life.
The studio wanted Scorcese to cut that scene where Spider gets shot (to reduce the amount of graphic violence), but that scene's important 'cos it's what tips us and Henry off to Tommy being a total psychopath and, like you say, a liability. Before that, Tommy was still kind of likeable for the audience despite being violent.
The scene was necessary to show how dangerous Tommy was, that he didn’t just kill other gangsters but would kill ANYONE, even a kid, if they slightly insulted him.
I see the spider scenes as pivotal in the film. At the beginning of the movie when Henry is serving drinks to a bunch of gambling mobsters, it all looks glamorous and exciting because we're seeing through his youthful eyes. Spider is in the same position as Henry except we see the seedy ugly reality, just some guys in a basement playing poker and willing to kill you if you make a simple mistake. After that it's all downhill.
The real life Tommy was more extreme.
@@colemannee9898 that’s a really good point.
so the stabbing in the first scene to make sure he is really dead didn’t give that away lol if you can still like someone after that, you’re telling on yourself
Henry Hill wrote a sequel to this called "Gangsters and Goodfellas: The Mob, Witness Protection and Life on the Run." (Awesome read! A sequel that must be made!)
In this book, Henry revealed that Tommy beat up Karen while Henry was in prison because Karen wouldn't have sex with him. Henry found out about this after Tommy was dead and wrote, "If I knew about this when Tommy was still alive, I would have whacked him myself."
The Sequel was already Made Watch My Blue Heaven which is already about Henry Hill’s Life in the Witness Protection Program
Fun facts: the guy working the pot in the prison “tomato sauce” scene was Martin Scorsese’s late father. The woman who played Tommy’s mom who gave them a late supper was Scorsese’s mom.
That whole "How am I funny" scene was improvised by Pesci. The look of confusion & fear on Liotta's face was genuine. Scorsese loved the result so much, it stayed in the final film.
wow yeah I can see why. That is the most anxiety producing scene I've ever seen. I can't even watch it anymore.
I saw the Family Guy take on this before I saw the movie. It did not prepare me for the anxiety.
"The look of confusion & fear on Liotta's face was genuine" -- well, not exactly. He knew he wasn't going to get shot!
"Made men" were the only ones allowed to rise through the ranks with the possibility of possibility of become the boss one day. They have the full backing of the family so any action taken against them is the same as going against the family as a whole. It's a big deal for someone who came from outside the family to become a made man.
Newsflash…
Chinatown wasn’t a mob movie.
Jack Nicholson played a detective uncovering government corruption.
Not a mob movie.
You should watch “Wild Hogs” with Ray. It’s a comedy. PS: the mint green nails look nice
YES!
The Animaniacs cartoon had a regular segment, Goodfeathers, with a trio of pidgeons based on these three. And every episode the one based on Pesci would do the "Am I here to amuse you?" bit and attack one of the other pigeons.
I saw this bit over and over again long before I saw Goodfellas and really understood what they were parodying
And the one being squinty like DeNiro and the other one constantly grinning and talking like Liotta.
That was one of my favorite segments, and I hadn’t even seen Goodfellas at that point. Love that show❤😂😂
"What am I? Some clown here to amuse you?". That entire scene in the restaurant was an addition to the script, based on a real life experience by Joe Pesci. Martin Scorsese loved the story so much, he added it to the movie. Classic film, classic scene.
It even won Joe Pesci an Oscar!
Nobody told Ray Liotta that he was going to do that, so his reaction was genuine.
@@shawnjohnson9763 I heard that it was a genuine reaction at the time the movie was first released and believed it for years. Imagine my disappointment years later when l saw Liotta interviewed and he said Pesci suggested it in rehearsal, it was based on a real life experience he had with a real mobster.
I heard that only Pesci, Liotta and Scorsese knew what the scene was, so Ray could flow with the story while you watched all the other goodfellas who knew absolutely nothing about what was going on get more and more uncomfortable.
A great movie with Liotta that's very underrated is Copland starring Sylvester Stallone. Liotta's supporting role in it is one of my favorites from him.
Definitely. Also his career jump-start role in Something Wild.
also "Narc" with him and Jason Patric.
"Something Wild" is the first movie I saw with Ray Liotta, and he great in it. That movie is a 1980's, quirky film that just screams the 80's. I loved it at the time...
Yeah, you never see or hear anything about that one. Of course you rarely see anything about Melanie Griffith these days. That's the movie that made me a Jeff Daniels fan.
The way Ray (the actor AND the character) makes his entrance in Something Wild is so effective. I was already loving the film and *BOOM* pure magnetic malevolence dances into view and I'm saying, "Who the hell is that? It's HIS movie, now ... right?"
YES!!! I was editing to see if someone in the comments had mentioned Ray's part in this film. It was also the first times that I saw him on camera and I was blown away by his role and presence in the movie! I knew from this small role he was going to be an an actor to keep an eye out for in the future, and I was not disappointed!
Goodfellas was 100% the right choice to honor Liotta. He's the freaking lead in it and it's a drop dead classic of the genre.
Field of Dreams is a fun movie, but Liotta is barely in it.
But it's a great pivotal character.
Ashley, the scene with Tommy shooting spider is necessary for character development. They’re not only showing who Tommy is. But who everyone else is in the way they react to Tommy. The dynamic of everyone and their lifestyle. That someone could get killed over a comment during a friendly card game in their world, and get away with it too.
16:04 there’s actually term for that. “Mob wife.” It’s become a stand-in term for people who turn a blind eye to horrible actions committed by organizations they belong to, but that they benefit from.
Ray Liotta (pronounced Lee-oat-uh) is one of my favorite actors of all-time. And Goodfellas is the gold-standard of cinema, in my humble opinion. Hope you enjoy it! ♥️
Lorraine Bracco is freaking amazing in just about everything & she adds so much to this movie.
I love her voice
she is such a talented actor!
The Sopranos crew initially wanted her as Carmella, but she accurately said that would be way too similar to her role here and distract people, so she played Dr. Melfi instead.
she’s adds nothing but a screaming stereotype. scorsese couldn’t write a nuanced female character if his life depended on it
She's also the crying sister to the guy they threatened to feed to the lions!
The guy whistling on the old black and white film is Al Jolson and that is the first "Talkie" made in Hollywood. The first Hollywood movie with sound. The film is the Jazz Singer.
You had an uncanny knack for stepping on almost every one of this movies most popular quotes. Kudos.
RIP, Ray Liotta. 1954-2022.
He was one hell of a Goodfella.
16:17 That whole bit about the dog painting was the only scripted bit, the rest of the dinner table conversation was all improvised by the actors. Also shout out to Tommy's mom, who is actually Martin Scorsese's (the movie director) real life mother, Catherine. And his father Charles, is the cook at 20:33.
She also had a small role in Casino
@@BillyBones-ui9ck she cracks me up in that lol
@@BlackDiamond1967 I know right? Lol classic Italian mama
I actually met Henry once. Somehow, late in his life he ran an Italian restaurant in an old hotel in North Platte, Nebraska. Nice guy in that brief meeting. He even signed my DVD of this movie. 😁👍
Ray Laughing with the open mouth in the restaurant was a spot-on impersonation of Henry Hill's distinctive laugh.
Some other good Ray Liotta things: Something Wild, Cop Land, Blow, and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
GTA: VICE CITY! THE BEST OF THE BUNCH!!!
Pesci: "What? You mean the way I talk?"
Ashleigh: "Don't take it personal! Don't be sensitive!"
Me: {{Grabs some Popcorn}}}
"The mob was around in the 80s?"
The mafia is still around today. The reason it's mostly associated with prohibition is because the mob boss Al Capone believed it was good business practice to be seen benefitting his community so the average person wouldn't see him as a threat to the average citizen. (If two soldiers are filmed killing each other that's just war. If a soldier is filmed killing civilians that's a war crime.) So it was all PR. The reason the mob doesn't do this today is because it puts too much attention on you
Fun fact; Al Capone was one of the first people to lobby for quality regulation on milk production because his mother died from drinking tainted milk
Also the word is "Wop" not "Wap". It's a slur for a person who is Italian (please don't censor me UA-cam. I'm just posting the meaning)
Also the names end with an -ie/y because it's generally a hypocorism (pet name) used to show affection, the suffix making the name diminutive and feeling less formal
So Vincent becomes Vinny, Edward becomes Eddie, Victoria becomes Vicky
The shortening of names without -ie/y is done to be informal without being diminutive. So a Kenneth as a child may be called Kenny, but as an adult would go by Ken. The same applies to William/Willy/Will/Billy/Bill
Ashleigh "Mama Beans" Burton is an entirely legit gangster name if you're from Tennessee. You're not likely to see it in an urban area, but a lot of moonshiners weren't living in the cities
"What drug comes in the shape of a ball?"
It's called an 8-ball and it's a quantity of cocaine
Back in the late ‘80s, my sister and I had an apartment in River Forest, a Chicago suburb known for its huge mansions, several of them designed by Frank Lloyd Wright (we lived on the poorer side of town, near the El station). When I told a coworker where we lived, he told me to keep an eye out for American-made sedans parked on the street with men in suits holding binoculars inside. They’d be the FBI keeping an eye on the Chicago mobsters whose houses they were staking out. One Saturday, the Catholic Church down the street had media there covering a wedding, but it wasn’t the society reporters there, it was the mob beat reporters to get a rarely-seen mobster on film at his granddaughter’s wedding.
@@kathyastrom1315 that's why I'd like to name my WiFi "FBISurveillanceVan3" lol
The Mafia still exists but at nowhere near the level of power and influence before the passing of federal racketeering laws. For decades, Mafia leadership avoided prosecution by never *technically* committing crimes, only giving orders. Racketeering laws basically say that if you accept money from a known criminal source, you are also a criminal. This enabled authorities to put away the heads of the notorious "Five Families" and various successors who filled that power vaccum, culminating with John Gotti in 1992. After that, the families splintered and shrank and their stranglehold on various institutions like the police and the courts diminished. Currently, biker gangs are the largest criminal organizations in the US, running Meth, opiates, and guns.
@@chrisleebowers I think you've proved my point about attention not being good for business. You claim the mob is nowhere near the level it once was. But because it's clandestine precisely how are you judging that? It seems you are simply arguing if you can't see it then it's not a problem
"Racketeering" It appears you've never heard of money laundering. You can't argue dirty money if you can't prove it's dirty. This is why they refer to themselves as "legitimate businessmen"
If you think the mob doesn't still control the police and courts then you really need to look into the current practices of the Organized Crime Division. My cousin worked for the Federal Police in my country and he was brought into another country to help try and catch a guy because he had no local ties and so he was an untouchable
Where do you think the biker gangs get their drug supply and weapons? The drug cartels are a part of the mob
Also the "five families" are still active in New York. A business doesn't go under just because the CEO takes a vacation
Al Capone was an okay boss, but the problem was he couldn't keep a low profile. Those that wind up not keeping a low profile didn't live to a ripe old age. Capone, Bugsy Spiegel, Joe Colombo, Crazy Joe Gallo, Mad Dog Cole, Dutch Schultz, John Gotti. These guys couldn't keep quiet and keep a low profile, and they wound up dead. People like Myer Lansky, Carlo Gambino, and Joe Bonanno knew how to avoid attention. Those guys lived to never die from violence, or in prison.
1. The mob lasted pretty much through the early 90s and then was phased out by other ethnic organizations. The sopranos shows the last days of the mafia pretty good
2. Check out Casino.,
3. The long uninterrupted tracking shot at the night club was copied for the opening shot of Boogie Nights. ( highly recommend!)
Ray Liotta(pronounced Lee-Oh-Ta)was on the soap opera “Another World” as Joey Piretti from 1978-81. It was his first acting role.
If you've ever seen classic Animaniacs, the characters the Goodfeathers are based on this movie. One of the voice actors does a very good Pesci impersonation because for the longest time I thought Joe Pesci voiced his corresponding pigeon.
Goodfeathers was awesome!!!!!!
Animaniacs, like Tiny Toons and Pinky & the Brain, one of Spielberg's Animation's obsessions with thinking that kids would laugh uproariously at the same corny 80's-LA industry-town movie/entertainment in-jokes that Spielberg and Warner boardroom execs did.
No one could do a Tom Arnold & Roseanne joke like Babs and Buster!
"you swarking too me?"
@@ericjanssen394 or Ruff and Rita doing
Rainman. The ANIMANIACS are sheer brilliance
Bobby, Pesto, and Squit.
The comedian performing at the end of the single-take is Henny Youngman. He started off as a vaudeville performer, and became a household name for much of the twentieth century, earning the nickname ”King of the One-Liners“. Henry getting prime seating to see Henny Youngman perform live with no notice is part of what makes the whole thing such an incredible flex.
And later, the guy in the old black-and-white movie on the TV (where Ashleigh says "that's not real") is Al Jolson. And yeah, Jolson was real, but he was pretty over the top even for his era.
When i was 16 years old, i went to a taping of the then-new Jerry Springer Show, in Chicago. (This was before his producers convinced him to go trashy because his ratings were terrible.) Anyway, he had Henny Youngman on for the entire hour. At the time, i couldn't appreciate who he was, but still enjoyed seeing him, and meeting him after the show. After performing stand-up myself years later, i reflected on the legend i had met in my adolescence.
Take my wife, please!
It was crazy having a living legend for a part in a 'modern' movie; reminded me of all the massive talent legends they had in 'Blues Brothers'.
@24:54 “not in the meat truck. I thought they were cool” I see what you did there 😂 🥶
Expecting someone who doesn't like The Godfather to automatically dislike Goodfellas doesn't make any sense to me. The latter's pacing is way faster and is more accessible to a female audience due to Karen's POV.
Yes. I don't understand how The Godfather is supposedly the best film ever made. I thought it dragged and felt meh about all the characters, not caring who lived or died.
I do, however, love Goodfellas 🙂
@@Debbie76, I don't think anyone saying "meh" will appreciate it, or really anything other than an episode of "Family Guy."
So to appreciate it, you have to be a patronising arse who thinks their taste in films somehow makes them superior to others. Got it 😏
I expect it, because she's a moron with terrible tastes.
Ashleigh: “Beans, you yellin’?”
Beans: [meow] “I love Ray Liotta, let me in!”
The one "really long shot" is pretty famous for that reason. Scorcese is a great film maker.
My grandmother, on my mom's side by, was born in Tennessee and later moved to south Arkansas with her mom and the rest of the kids after her father died. She ended up Illinois and married to a fresh off the boat Italian immigrant for reasons too long to get into. They settled in Joliet and had five kids mom being the middle child. Her two older brothers served in WWII.
I have lived in N. Central Arkansas Ozarks all my life. (Thank God) Whenever Goodfellas was on TV I would call my Uncle Gino in Joliet and tell him it was on and that I was thinking of him. He always got a huge kick out of that. Having met some of my cousins on that side of the family I'm not sure if the movie wasn't too far from reality.
Another good Ray Liotta film is The Rat Pack. True, it's a TV movie, but it was done by HBO. And the fact that he did his own singing to be Frank Sinatra is impressive.
You need to watch "my blue heaven" starting Steve Martin and Rick Moranis. It is a comedy version of Henry Hills life in witness protection.
"Arugula...it's a veg-e-ta-bull." I quote this movie all the time! 😂
YES! My favorite movie 🤘😝🤘
"Why do you need 25 copies of it"
"In case I want to read it more than once"
classic 🤣
"When I say I'm wichu, that means I AM WITH YOU."
It’s so interesting how this movie and My Blue Heaven were adapted from the same book.
Shit, I just suggested this movie to her too. I hope she watches it.
RIP Ray. He even made middling mindless movies like Turbulence be so much fun because of his performance
I saw Turbulence in an empty theater and it was so much fun!
@@jculver1674 hahaha, it's such a bonkers movie.
I saw Turbulence on one of the worst days I ever went on, lol. I should watch it again, I haven't seen it since.
I see that and raise you operation Dumbo Drop
@@shawnmiller4781 Now you are just pulling out the classics haha
"I ordered spaghetti and marinara, and I got egg noodles with ketchup." My favorite line from Goodfellas, describing one mafioso in the personal hell called witness protection.
So, you've seen Deniro as a mobster. But for Hallow-Beans, you really should see Deniro as a Monster. Kenneth Brannaugh's Frankenstein. Robert Deniro playing Frankenstein's monster. You'll never forget what you see.
I just got on UA-cam and saw you posted this video, and I started to tear up. I have a list of favorite actors, but Ray Liotta is genuinely right up there at the top. I've spent every day since the news of his passing re-watching his work.
I'm also in the process of trying out a new name, FTM, and I decided on Raylan. He certainly was an influence. BRB, going to cry.
The "one-shot" of them going into the copa cabana is LEGENDARY!!
Ashleigh noticed the three minute long shot entering the Copa! (AKA, "The Copa Shot.") It is one of the most famous tracking shots in the history of cinema. A great video talking about the making of the shot: ua-cam.com/video/JVDC95rprFs/v-deo.html)
Terminology lesson: Shots where the camera follow the action as it moves from location to location are called "tracking shots." This shot done so smoothly because of the invention of the "Steadicam," a camera that is on a big rig, sometimes worn my a cameraman, with a bunch of counter-balanced weights so you don't get the bounces and jiggles and the camera moves to follow the action.
Had a new potential girlfriend 25 years ago, & one of our first dates was to a club, where I was barely aquatinted with the owners, and when we drove up one of them just happened to be in the parking lot taking a smoke break. Rather than walking all the way around to the front, he called me by name and said to just come through the back which wasn't open to the public. We did, and when we got into the very crowded club, a couple of bar stools became vacant, just as we walked up, so we didn't need to stand or wait, like the "common" people. The timing was perfect. It was very similar to this scene in "Goodfellas" and made me look like a big shot, but was just a fortunate series of coincidences. Afterwards, it was "Score City"!.
Samuel L. Jackson's line about Jimmy's gourmet coffee (talking to Quentin Tarantino) was in 'Pulp Fiction', not 'Kill Bill'. He was in 'Kill Bill' too, but only in a very small role as the piano player at the wedding rehearsal.
GREAT intro!
I blissed out on that extra long "hello!"
If you enjoyed this, there's a movie that's a comedy that 'sort of' picks up where this movie leaves off. It's called My Blue Heaven. The character names have changed, but they're based on Henry Hill being in WitSec. Steve Martin plays the Henry Hill character, and it's a fun movie.
Those are two completely different movies. The only similarity is. Witnesses protecion
But it is one of my favorite movies
@@roryschweinfurter4111 yes, they're two totally separate movies. I think it's fun to say MBH picks up where Goodfellas leaves off because they're both based on Henry Hill (even though they changed the name of the character in MBH). GF ends with Henry going into WP, and MBH begins with Vinny/Henry going into WP. It's just a totally different style of storytelling (comedy/silly as opposed to drama/realistic).
Oh, also, MBH can't be a real successor to GF because MBH came out a month or two before GF.
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My points exactly
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Just an aside but wouldn't it be great if Mel Brooks made a gangster movie
He was also great playing Shoeless Joe Jackson in the wonderful film " Field Of Dreams". It's a beautiful film, that's not really about sports.It also stars Kevin Costner and the great James Earl Jones.
Oh, what a tear-jerker. Every time.
Great film and, interestingly enough, I believe that Ray Liotta NEVER watched it himself.
Yeah he's in it but for what like 2 minutes?
That is a gorgeous movie.
I want to make an edit where Shoeless says, "he's your father" then cut to a scene with Terrance Man with a voice clip of Darth Vader saying, "no, I'm your father".
"My Blue Heaven" (1990) starring: one of your future ex-husbands Steve Martin, and Rick Moranis, and Joan Cusack. A pure comedy, also inspired by the very same true story of this mob guy who entered witness protection! The same tell-all book inspired both films!
Funny how the time she finally says Liotta correctly, she calls him Roy.
This might sound too technical, but "Chinatown" is considered 'film noir', not a mob film. The main villain is a scheming rich guy, so he's more legitimate. Mob movies are about gangs and are more street level. Film noir is a French term for a type of film that's morally gray, frequently involves private eyes like Jake in "Chinatown" (but not necessarily), and often has a mystery to solve. "Chinatown" is a perfect example!
I would call it detective noir but yeah, not a mafia/mob movie.
I know what you mean and totally agree HOWEVER: I absolutely LOVE that of all the movies she has done on the channel, the one movie she associates it with is "Chinatown"! Not same genre, true, but same generation of actors and film-makers, even though one film is 1974 and the other is 1990. They're both period pieces, also. I like that she sort of pit them against each other at the end, and likes both for different reasons. Love it. I hope she hits more Jack and Bobby D (and lots more from that incredible era! Network! Bonnie And Clyde! The King Of Comedy! Paper Moon! Deliverance! American Graffiti! etc etc etc!)
Yeah, those 2 movies are not really equatable. And the fact that she gives it 3 stars out of 5 just blows my mind.
Anybody want to see Ashleigh check out some old-school noir? Like "Double Indemnity", "The Big Sleep" or (the gold standard, and confusing as hell) "The Maltese Falcon"?
@@dadoctah Touch of Evil. Kiss of Death. And I'd love Ashleigh to watch The Third Man, if for no other reason than to see what she makes of the music.
My favorite thing about Goodfellas is that is spawned Goodfeathers, the Animaniacs parody where they were all pigeons who perched on a statue of Martin Scorsesse (Yeah, the 90's were weird)
Oh my god, I forgot about that! 😆
I first saw Ray Liotta in _Field of Dreams (1989)_ in the theater, the year before this came out, and I'm really glad I did. I feel like not having ever seen him before in any other role helped me get invested in him as that character.
LOVE your reactions! One of my favorite movies Casino, is similar, and stars dinero (sp?) and Pesci. A review of that by you would make my summer.
The walking into the restaurant cut is something film students study & the rest of us just marvel at. One cut, seamless the whole way.
Wonderful shot, that one. One of THE best in film history.
I would not be surprised to find a college level class in just that shot, it's that iconic.
Billy Batts was killed because Jimmy was running Billy’s racquets and billy wanted them back since he was out of prison. His death was two fold, Jimmy kept the racquet for himself and Tommy got his revenge.
It's "rackets."
Maybe he was a big tennis guy ...
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I’ll sleep so much better knowing you caught my mistake.
We were split on the Christmas tree thing for awhile. What we did is get the tree that goes in the front window and has selective color ornaments, ribbons, etc. Then we got a smaller “family tree” that has all the ornaments the kids make and pick out. Really ends up being the best of both worlds.
This is far better than Field of Dreams to show the talent of Ray
One of the best movies of all time. I saw that Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci paid tribute to Ray Liotta upon learning of his death. Joe’s tribute in particular made me cry. He said, “God is a Goodfella, and so is Ray.”
Great movie, based on a true story. Henry Hill is a real character, his interviews and story are worth checking out. Ray almost always played a bad ass or psycho is his roles, RIP.
All these characters have interesting stories. Tommy was quite crazy in real life, and pretty much earned his early grave. They never did know what ultimately happened, but I recall a guest on the Howard Stern Show, a mobster whose name I forget, suggested that he didn't die as easy as was portrayed in this film. It was even suggested that John Gotti personally killed him.
It was Henry that used to go on Stern's show.
@@darrellwhitman2484 You’re right Henry Hill called into Howard Stern all the time
"as far as i can remember... i always wanted to be a ganster..." best opening lines in a movie lol
Ray Liotta also had a big role in Silence of the Lambs. Didn't end too well for him in that.
"Spider" was the same guy who played Christopher Moltisanti in The Sopranos; the woman who played Karen was Tony Soprano's psychologist.
Field of Dreams is a beautiful movie, Ashleigh. You should skip polls & just put it on the list of upcomings. You won't regret it
Absolutely. An incredible film.
but NOT a "Ray Liotta movie"..
@@scottwilson8039 Ray Liotta is absolutely a vital character in that movie.
@@drakocarrion no doubt but he's a supporting character that's on the screen for under 10 minutes. She was looking for a Ray Liotta movie, which is Goodfellas. Field of Dreams is a Kevin Costner movie
Casino is a great movie if you want to see more DeNiro and Pesci. Another great movie IMHO. I don't think you have watched it on the channel. This one is a classic and still holds up. Gets kind of cheezy towards the end, but still pretty good.
Also Raging Bull.
Yes, please!
"Goodfellas Goes To Vegas", practically a sequel, and a damn good one!
SO agree. Casino.
My most memorable Christmas’s were the 2 years grandma had a white Christmas tree with all red ornaments and lights.
"It insists upon itself." Quoting Peter Griffin's unpopular sentiment only endears you more to me, Ashleigh. Not that I agree with either of you, it still remains one of the funniest lines from that show. Best. Leo.
I always looked at that as a compliment to The Godfather, actually.
@@themoviedealers Robert Duvall...! Best. Mike.
Seth MacFarlane insists upon itself.
I also did not care for the godfather
@@Fryinberg I laughed so loud at that Family Guy moment. Mainly because I agreed with it! I enjoyed the movie. I just don't worship it. I agree with Ashleigh, it moved too slow for me. I enjoyed Godfather 2 much better.
"Goodfellas" was a Martin Scorsese masterpiece.
Oh my gosh Ashleigh's personality and enthusiasm...is just!!! 😍😍😍😍
Great watch Ashleigh, loved you're reaction. Interesting tibit, the actual dinner towards the end closed permenatly a few years ago due to a fire, it is right on Maspeth Ave and Rust Ave (on the corner, currently being used as a parking spot). Right in Maspeth, Queens, NYC. Sad ending to a storied spot.
Being made is like an inner circle of the family. The goodfellas, they were soldiers, guys you went to, to get stuff done but they always had a line that they could cross and get whacked. Being made woulda probably put him at Capo status, which means you’re in, you’re trusted for life, and it comes with a lotta respect. You’re somebody’s right hand man, that kinda thing.
Henry was an associate not a soldier.
No, a Mafia soldier (who is literally called *soldato* -- it's the same word in Sicilian dialect) is a made men. As the movie's narration states, a made man could only be killed by common consent of the Mafia's Commission (the combined heads of the various Mafia families). The *soldati* (aka wiseguys or goodfellas) are the lowest rank of the made men. The non-Sicilian criminals who worked under Paulie Cicero, which in this movie would include Henry Hill, Jimmy Conway, Stacks, Morrie, etc, or Sicilians such as Tommy DeVito and Frankie Carbone who had yet to be "straightened out" (inducted into a family) -- are called associates. In another mob movie, *Donnie Brasco* , the Bonnano family *soldato* Lefty Ruggiero (played by Al Pacino) explains to his protege Donnie Brasco that you distinguish between a made man and an associate by how you introduce him to other made men. If your colleague is also a made man, you introduce him by saying, "He's a friend of ours." In other words, you don't need to vouch for him, because he's already sworn the oath of *omerta* and is officially part of a family. If he's an associate, you introduce him as, "He's a friend of mine." In other words, he's not officially a Mafia member; he's merely your partner in crime, and you have to vouch for him to other Mafia members.
*Capo* (literally, "head") is the Sicilian name for a boss, the leader of a crime family. Next in line is the underboss, usually the boss's son (e.g., Sonny Corleone in *The Godfather* ). He takes over if the boss dies or goes to prison. Next in line are the *caporegimes* (in *The Godfather* they're Pete Clemenza and Sal Tessio), who are the middle management between the boss and the street crews. There's typically another level of Mafiosi, the crew bosses who run whatever level of local mob activity goes on in a specific neighborhood. In this movie, Paulie Cicero is the crew boss. Paulie undoubtedly answered to a Lucchesi family caporegime similar to Tessio or Clemenza (or, to use another example from *The Godfather II* , Frankie Pentangeli), and Paulie's immediate superior answered to whomever ran the Lucchesi crime family to which they all belonged.
Even though Jimmy and Henry were excited at the thought of Tommy becoming a made man -- and, thus, getting official mob protection for their collective activities -- the reality is that Tommy was only going to be on the lowest rung of the Mafia hierarchy (if he'd actually been made instead of whacked). He would still answer to crew boss Paulie, who himself was two or three levels down on the Lucchesi organizational chart.
I understand the first level of being made is holding the tittle of soldier, then capo, then underboss, then you can talk about becoming A don of an established family, or start your own, but it has to be agreed upon by all the syndicate.
@@kendane2001 No, *capo* is not a lower rank. The word in Sicilian (and in Italian in general) literally means "head," as in "the guy in charge." For example, a *caporegime* is a leader with genuine authority, the guy in control of an entire branch of the family who ranks just below the boss (not counting the underboss or the *consigliere* , neither of whom actually run anything). *Capo* is typically a shorthand reference to the don, the leader of a crime family; it's short for *capo dei capi* , or "boss of bosses." The capo of the most powerful crime family in the Mafia's Commission (as Vito Corleone was in *The Godfather* ) is the *capo di tutti i capi* , or "boss of all the bosses" (i.e., the first among equals).
@@gregsager2062 Thank you for staightening that out for me.
Your expectations of 'The Godfather' are what got you. If you look back at your intro to that movie you were clearly not in the mood for a dramatic, old-school movie. It's like being in the mood for a party telling jokes and then 'Schindler's List' is what you sit down to instead of 'Dumb and Dumber.'
Ray Liotta’s face is natural. His eyes are even more striking in person
The lines "As far back as I remember I always wanted to be a Gangster.." and "One day? One day some of the kids in the neighbourhood carried My Mothers groceries all the way home. You know why? It was outta respect!" are iconic, the imagery and Ray's perfectly paced delivery of the narration just added so much dimension to the story.
A highly underrated Ray Liotta Movies is one called "No Escape" (1994).
Ernie Hudson (Winston in Ghostbusters).
Lance Hendrikson (Bishop/Charles Bishop Wayland in Aliens).
Stuart Wilson (Hot Fuzz), who played the perfect antagonist to Ray's character, very like Alan Rickman in Robin Hood Prince of Thieves with a priceless delivery of comedic insanity.
Kevin Dillon (Entourage).
RIP Ray, thanks for the memories...
Ray was also in “Blow” with Johnny Depp which is a great movie.
Robert DeNiro is in tons of movies, should check out Casino. He also was in Joker, The Irishman, and tons and tons of movies.
Raging Bull and Taxi Driver are excellent films.
He was scary good in Cape Fear (1991).
And let's not forget Heat with Al Pacino.
There is a series on UA-cam ran by a guy who use to be an actual mob boss during this time period and he said he ran into the real version of Ray in prison. The guy had a kill on sight order on his head, but the mob boss pretended he didn’t see him because he didn’t want to get sent to a prison farther from home where his family couldn’t visit him regularly
If anyone who reads the above comment is interested in watching it, his name is Michael Franzese and among other UA-cam videos he makes one series called Mob Movie Monday which is excellent reviewing mafia movies from the perspective of someone who lived the real thing. He's even briefly name dropped in Goodfellas.
LOL, your face at Beans' comedic timing was FANTASTIC!🤣🤣
When cats sit in a doorway and refuse to go through after crying to open it, it is because they want YOU to go through first. They are waiting for you to come with them. Next time she does it, pick Beans up and go through the doorway and just hold and talk to her a little bit. That's what she really wants I guarantee it.
why do they want that?
@@rishaa682 They're social animals and are just trying to communicate. There could be any number of reasons.
I’m glad you finally got around to watching what is arguably Martin Scorsese’s best film circa 1990. Also this marked one of Ray Liotta’s performances of his entire career. I still can’t believe that Joe Pesci managed to win the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor. #Goodfellas #RayLiotta #HowAmIFunny 🎥🎬🏆 Rest In Peace Ray Liotta! 😢👏🏻
Don't you think Pesci was good enough to win the Oscar? Do you think they put him in the movie just to amuse you?
@@creech54 Definitely. I love that you went there with that Tommy nuance just like in that scene where he asked that famous line Funny How!? To think that this was his role right before Harry from Home Alone that was released within the same year in 1990.
@@timothymorris157 Yeah, Tommy and Harry weren't all that different, except that Harry definitely amused us.
@@creech54 He sure did, especially in Home Alone 2 Lost In New York which also features one of my all time favorite actors Tim Curry. I’m particularly fond of Clue (1985), Rocky Horror Picture Show (1977), and IT (1990 mini series).
Pesci stole the show in this one.
What a classic. Has so much re-watchability, and an endless supply of great quotes.
Just a little fun fact for you. Paulie (Paul Sorvino) in this movie is the actual father of Mona Lisa (Mira Sorvino) in the movie: My Cousin Vinny with Joe Pesci.
The film My Blue Heaven is what is essentially a comedic take on Henry Hills life after he moved to the suburbs in The Witness Protection.
Hey Ashleigh , I really enjoyed this reaction and your comments for "Goodfellas" very much. There was a movie with Ray and Johnny Depp titled "BLOW" I had put off watching that movie for years but when I heard that Ray died I picked that movie to see.... since I have seen "Goodfellas" many times . For me my favorite Ray Liotta movie is "BLOW".... that movie is also based on a True Story . Thank you so much for your reactions here.... and as always I love Beans special cameo's 😻
I haven't seen Blow yet, but Narc and Corrina, Corrina (two wildly different movies) are also great to see Ray's remarkable breadth of talent.