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Watch one of the most iconic scenes from Martin Scorsese's classic film Goodfellas, where Henry Hill takes his date Karen through the Copacabana club in a single shot. This video also features the ...
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Oct 10, 2020 · Related: Goodfellas: What Happened To The Real Karen Hill After The Movie. The scene is widely known thanks to it being one continuous shot that follows Henry and Karen from the moment he leaves his car across the street from the Copacabana nightclub and all the way to their table right in front of the stage.
- Jimmy Decides to Kill Morrie
- Henry in Court
- Late-Night Dinner at Tommy’s Mother’s House
- Jimmy Finds Out Tommy Is Dead
- The “Layla” Montage
- The Ending
- Tommy Kills Spider
- The Pistol Whip
- Billy Busts Tommy’s Chops
- Henry Wakes Up to Karen Pointing A Gun at His Face
All throughout Goodfellas, Robert De Niro’s Jimmy Conway butts heads with Morrie, the wig shop owner who wants a cut of their loot for coming up with the idea for their biggest score. After finding out Morrie spent the money he owed Jimmy on a commercial for his store, Jimmy strangles him and makes his wig fall off. When Jimmy overhears Morrie idly...
Throughout the entire movie, Henry is told that ratting on his friends is the worst possible thing he could do. After Henry is arrested and becomes a federal witness, he’s seen in court, turning in all his closest associates. Ray Liotta delivers a powerful monologuedirectly to the camera that sums up the thesis of the movie. Having showered the sou...
Goodfellasopens in the middle of the story, with Henry, Tommy, and Jimmy driving Billy Batts’ corpse out to the woods to bury it. They stop off at Tommy’s mother’s house to pick up a couple of things and they accidentally wake her. She insists on feeding them, so they end up sitting down for a meal with her — all while Billy is bleeding out in the ...
Jimmy is standing outside a diner, talking on a payphone, when he learns that Tommy — one of his protégés and his closest friends — has been shot in the back of the head. He breaks down and starts slamming the phone against the wall of the phone box. Then, he starts kicking the phone booth and the whole thing comes crashing down. It’s unconfirmed i...
One of the most memorable uses of music in Goodfellasis the second half of Derek and the Dominos’ “Layla,” beginning with the soft piano riff. It plays over a montage of all the bodies being discovered. The massacre that eventually brings down Jimmy’s criminal enterprise begins to unfold as corpses show up in places like garbage trucks and xindustr...
At the end of Goodfellas, Henry Hill avoids jail by selling out all of his friends and going into witness protection with his family. In his voiceover narration, as the camera pans across an average suburban neighborhood to his new house, Henry explains that, while he’s not in prison, he still feels imprisoned, because he’s become just like everybo...
Tommy’s rivalry with Spider led to some really intense scenes, like the moment when Tommy ended up shooting Spider in the foot. In their follow-up meeting, Tommy made fun of Spider for wearing a cast. When Spider told Tommy, “Go f*ck yourself,” he sealed his fate. The other guys thought it was funny, but Tommy just opened fire. Michael Imperioli pl...
The first instance of Karen being enraptured by Henry’s criminal lifestyle comes when one of her neighbors attacks her and she calls Henry to pick her up. Henry asks her to identify which guy did it and then walks over to his driveway to confront him. At first, the guy acts cool, saying, “What do you want, f*cko?” but then Henry takes out his pisto...
The bar scene in which Billy Batts gives Tommy DeVito a hard time starts off funny, but it quickly becomes tense when Tommy’s offense begins to show. Billy doubles down on insulting Tommy: “Hey, Tommy, if I was gonna break your balls, I'd tell ya to go home and get your shine box.” The scene ends with the brutal murder of Billy at the hands of Tomm...
Rather than vindicate Henry Hill’s domestic violence and extramarital affairs, Goodfellassympathizes with his wife Karen. Just like we are, as viewers throughout the film, Karen was seduced by Henry’s lifestyle, only to find that the reality of it isn’t very glamorous. In one scene, Henry wakes up to the sight of Karen holding a gun in his face. It...
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Sep 12, 1990 · CUT TO: HENRY Approaching TOMMY who is carrying a large folded package under one arm. [TOMMY, followed by HENRY, walks over to the bar where JIMMY and BILLY BATTS are talking.
Sep 18, 2015 · The moment, of course, is the Steadicam sequence in Goodfellas that tracks low-level mobster Henry Hill (played by Ray Liotta) as he woos and wows his future wife Karen (Lorraine Bracco) by glad ...
