The movie that i watched was Goodfellas, wrote by Nicholas Pileggi and Martin Scorsese and also directed by Martin Scorsese. The film was released on the 21st September 1990 and starred actors such as; Ray Liotta, Robert DiNiro, Joe Pesci, the film was in the gangster genre having a estimated budget of 25 million dollars and on box office made 46 million dollars. Although personally i found it an excellent film, because of its themes and age restrictions it did not make a huge amount of money.
Having previously seen the Godfather trilogy i was excited to watch another gangster based film, i was a little apprehensive as i was unsure weather it was going to be a copy of the godfather and was hoping for it to be different. I felt that Nicholas Pileggi delivered a film which was was a more aggressive and violent take on the gangsters of america back in the 1960's/70's. The politics of how the mafia is run were kept short which i liked, as i preferred to see how each indivduals life went on rather then who is being paid to keep things quiet.
I did however want to see more of 'Pauli' i wanted to see how he ran things as mob boss and wanted to see him be more involved. As he dips in and out of the film i wanted to see him interact with 'Jimmy,' 'Tommy' and 'Henry' and didn't particularly like how they went behind his back to make more money.
I enjoyed watching how 'Henry' knew the bad from the ugly, it almost seemed like he was a good guy gangster, when 'Tommy' did something stupid he wouldn't laugh with them because he realized that it was unnecessary and shouldn't have happened. I felt like Nicholas Pileggi emphasized and tried to manipulate the audiences view on each character, for example as the audience we liked 'Pauli' and 'Henry (for the most part)' but we didn't like 'Tommy.' Throughout the film i was never sure of him and he constantly kept giving us reasons to hate him.
Looking through a media perspective i enjoyed the camera language, i cant forget that track shot of 'Henry' and 'Karen' I must have watched that single shot so many times, it was excellent. I wasnt particularly keen on the blood or wounds as they didn't seem to be that realistic, for example when 'Tommy' stabs someone in the back of the head in the car we saw a close up of the knife in his head but the stabs didnt seem realistic.
*SPOILER ALERT*
I did enjoy this movie i liked the action the violence of the film , however i was disappointed with how the film ended, i didnt like how it ends with 'Tommy' and his family just leave everything behind and are in the witness protection program whilst the remaining people get arrested and sent to jail. I felt like it was an anti-climax to the film, i was almost waiting for one last big thing to happen and in the end they all split up, i realize that it was based on a true story however it just didnt leave me satisfied at the end of the film.
I think that it was a very good film i was really impressed with many aspects of the film, perhaps a few things that i didnt like but i think that you can pick things out of any film. Overall to give it a rating out of 10 id give it an 8/9 i would recommend it and defiantly watch it again.
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