Goodfellas - Scorsese's Masterclass in Visual Storytelling

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This video essay reviews Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas (1990), particularly the cinematography and editing. Goodfellas is a masterpiece but this video explores why it is so engrossing from start to finish.
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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
2:46 Camera Tracking
4:46 People, Slow Mo and Zooms
7:27 Editing
Music used:
The Hours by Topher Mohr and Alex Elena
Cover Charge by Tracktribe
Like You Mean it by Dan Lebowitz
Uptown by Topher Mohr and Alex Elena
Confusing Disco by Birocratic
Cumbia City by An Jone
#goodfellas #scorsese #cinematography

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  • @JustanObservation
    @JustanObservation2 жыл бұрын

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  • @SuiGenerisAbbie

    @SuiGenerisAbbie

    Жыл бұрын

    This content is riveting! GoodFellas is one of my favourite films!

  • @tristramcoffin926
    @tristramcoffin9262 жыл бұрын

    Outstanding movie. Outstanding study of the movie, but that's just an observation.

  • @soaringbuddha7249

    @soaringbuddha7249

    2 жыл бұрын

    That’s clever 😅

  • @stenbiller99

    @stenbiller99

    Жыл бұрын

    Outstanding comment. Outstanding study of the comment of the study of the movie. But that’s just an observation

  • @profoundpronoun4712

    @profoundpronoun4712

    Жыл бұрын

    I couldn’t agree more

  • @kentuckyfriedchildren5385
    @kentuckyfriedchildren53852 жыл бұрын

    Thing with goodfellas is, there is literally nothing wrong with it. It's that good

  • @watermxrk

    @watermxrk

    11 ай бұрын

    Debatable

  • @jalenr.6542

    @jalenr.6542

    5 ай бұрын

    @@watermxrkSo let’s debate then. What’s wrong with the film?

  • @prod.kidmizu

    @prod.kidmizu

    5 ай бұрын

    My only slight problem is young Henry’s actor did such a good job, he made Liota seem a little boring after the time skip.

  • @c3s-way929

    @c3s-way929

    4 ай бұрын

    Fr I’ve watched it about 50 times and I’m still not bored of it

  • @elijahalbiston

    @elijahalbiston

    2 ай бұрын

    @@prod.kidmizu might just be you on that, I always heard people praise Liota

  • @EmptyGlass99
    @EmptyGlass99 Жыл бұрын

    I went to see this movie by accident in 1990. The one we wanted to see was sold out. My friends and I were so utterly engrossed that we left the cinema feeling like gangsters. A masterpiece.

  • @louballou8584

    @louballou8584

    8 ай бұрын

    I left the cinema feeling like I was going to get whacked any second. :-)

  • @fluentincinema7730
    @fluentincinema77302 жыл бұрын

    Still one of the greatest films ever made.

  • @Ahmed-vz7fd
    @Ahmed-vz7fd2 жыл бұрын

    It's one of the best movies of all time for me. You can watch this movie again and again and never get bored.This movie is a timeless masterpiece,with every new watch you understand the characters more, you discover something new about the characters, great acting ,great cinematography great soundtrack everything is just amazing.

  • @miqx1977
    @miqx19772 жыл бұрын

    Discovering your channel was one of the best things that happened in 2021. Keep it up.

  • @JustanObservation

    @JustanObservation

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you, that means a lot!

  • @peterismyfirstname2872
    @peterismyfirstname28722 жыл бұрын

    Yeah, I guess you nailed that one. Perfectly. Watching the movie in the theater I thought my heart was going to jump out of my chest.

  • @SpotCam
    @SpotCam2 жыл бұрын

    Goodfellas is one of my fav movies of all time, so excited to watch this vid! legit clicked AS SOON as I saw it

  • @jimlarose633
    @jimlarose6332 жыл бұрын

    I never comment on videos but this is really well done. I’ve watched probably 5 times and it’s nice to see what’s making me feel my feels.

  • @iTechmen1
    @iTechmen12 жыл бұрын

    Imo greatest movie of all time. Absolutely perfect and fun all the way through. I feel like any crime movie after this was influenced or tried to be like goodfellas

  • @errwhattheflip

    @errwhattheflip

    2 жыл бұрын

    I wouldn´t call it the greatest, but it´s damn near it.

  • @thomasmason6631

    @thomasmason6631

    Жыл бұрын

    Agreed except pulp

  • @stevenasaavedra
    @stevenasaavedra2 жыл бұрын

    @Just an Observation great take. Thank you so much. Though, just an observation (pun very much intended), I believe there may be 2 more freeze frames that may not have been accounted for: the one of Jimmy Conway tipping a teenage Henry, therefore introducing Henry to the world, introducing him to Jimmy Conway. The other is when the airline ticket is freeze framed that Lois I believe has to book for the drug deal and does over the phone “after all her ‘yea yea yea”, thereby sealing the fate of the botched drug deal.

  • @JustanObservation

    @JustanObservation

    2 жыл бұрын

    Just checked again, you’re right.

  • @replicacity92
    @replicacity92 Жыл бұрын

    Just saw this movie yesterday for the first time at the theaters, such a treat to watch on the big screen

  • @antoinepetrov
    @antoinepetrov2 жыл бұрын

    The most interesting video essay about Goodfellas I have ever seen.

  • @elichilton7031
    @elichilton70312 жыл бұрын

    An excellent essay on one of the all time greats. Kudos.

  • @epie6
    @epie62 жыл бұрын

    This movie is right up there with the sopranos tv series really 👌 it’s not really about anything, yet it’s about everything all people deal with in their lives .. love, hatred, injustice, violence, and mainly trust.. my two cents

  • @Artyom_P
    @Artyom_P2 жыл бұрын

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  • @VC-ps2vm

    @VC-ps2vm

    Жыл бұрын

    Can you please share the channel link

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    @jaw90952 жыл бұрын

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  • @jordachejordan90
    @jordachejordan902 жыл бұрын

    Today I was taught the definition of 'match cut.' Thank you.

  • @pab1381
    @pab13812 жыл бұрын

    Pesci tells the best stories in this film. Flawless and hilarious. Not many actors can do that.

  • @quinntoohey406
    @quinntoohey4062 жыл бұрын

    This channel is brilliant!!! Amazing analysis

  • @maxeyre2024
    @maxeyre20242 жыл бұрын

    This video really made me appreciate this movie even more. Great job!

  • @MatadorShifter
    @MatadorShifter2 жыл бұрын

    Scorsese was heavily inspired by Sergio Leone (among many others) - a well known master of visual storytelling

  • @theorderofthebees7308

    @theorderofthebees7308

    Жыл бұрын

    Oh thank you for that

  • @mikeywise3411

    @mikeywise3411

    5 ай бұрын

    who also coincidentally made his own gangster movie, once upon a time in america

  • @stonecold6521
    @stonecold65212 жыл бұрын

    Keep up the good work buddy. Your channel will grow quickly if you keep producing quality videos like this. Hope everyone comments and likes to help with algorithm.

  • @JustanObservation

    @JustanObservation

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thanks buddy!

  • @stonecold6521

    @stonecold6521

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@JustanObservation I rarely comment. Felt compelled. 😃

  • @DavidJaramillo.
    @DavidJaramillo.2 жыл бұрын

    1 of my fav yturbers this year

  • @JustanObservation

    @JustanObservation

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you I appreciate it!

  • @stonecold6521

    @stonecold6521

    2 жыл бұрын

    Agreed. His expertise needs rewarding.

  • @generichuman2044
    @generichuman20442 жыл бұрын

    Goodfellas is probably my favourite film. I love everything about it. The opening, shot choices, acting and the music are all faultless in my opinion. I think I could watch 10000 more films and never enjoy one as I much as I enjoyed goodfellas

  • @BigPurp9
    @BigPurp92 жыл бұрын

    I’ve just been on a big mob movie/series binge lately. Finally watched all the Godfathers and The Sopranos, but I had to rewatch my favourite Goodfellas again 🐐

  • @decem_sagittae
    @decem_sagittae2 жыл бұрын

    Great analysis bro. I can't believe you counted all those tracking shots and cuts.

  • @LCR-iy6xq
    @LCR-iy6xq4 ай бұрын

    Such a sharp essay on a masterpiece. Glad you covered my favorite Scorsese film. Keep up the good work!!

  • @adamgthompson
    @adamgthompson2 жыл бұрын

    This was brilliant, thank you.

  • @mrbourru2104
    @mrbourru21042 жыл бұрын

    Very nice video, once again. Good job! 👍🏻

  • @bishoyromani4058
    @bishoyromani40582 жыл бұрын

    Amazing content man..keep it up.

  • @sonnysantana5454
    @sonnysantana5454 Жыл бұрын

    easy the visuals , the right music , the clothes and the best actors that love and enjoy their craft

  • @zwjeffrey
    @zwjeffrey Жыл бұрын

    Brilliant analysis. Thank you.

  • @charlbeaton3623
    @charlbeaton36232 жыл бұрын

    Insightful analysis. Brilliant

  • @tato4612
    @tato4612Ай бұрын

    Great video...thank you so much.

  • @tubbalcain
    @tubbalcain2 жыл бұрын

    Great breakdown, I love it

  • @khcdija
    @khcdija2 жыл бұрын

    Love your videos

  • @dieselfusion9964
    @dieselfusion99642 жыл бұрын

    Good stuff as always!

  • @Pancake_Icecream
    @Pancake_Icecream8 ай бұрын

    great film!! and great analysis too! subscribed!!!

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    @joaquincastel88912 жыл бұрын

    This channel is amazing

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    @johnablett66332 жыл бұрын

    Hell of a channel, man. Really enjoying your content.

  • @JustanObservation

    @JustanObservation

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thanks John!

  • @sage9453
    @sage94532 жыл бұрын

    Great video! Thanks!

  • @howardron543
    @howardron5432 жыл бұрын

    Will i have to watch Goodfellas again?... I guess so

  • @RussellTurner
    @RussellTurner2 жыл бұрын

    Great analysis.

  • @GrandSlamSilver
    @GrandSlamSilver7 ай бұрын

    10:32 - The Vertigo Effect. No one has ever referred to it as "The Jaws Effect".

  • @philhellmuth2771
    @philhellmuth27712 жыл бұрын

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  • @brucesewe6431
    @brucesewe64312 жыл бұрын

    Fantastic 🙌

  • @phillipnicola6213
    @phillipnicola62132 жыл бұрын

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  • @valtterimarsio5440
    @valtterimarsio54402 жыл бұрын

    Lets just have a moment and appreciate how detailed this movie is

  • @RodionRomanov
    @RodionRomanov2 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for the counts

  • @777Nny
    @777Nny2 жыл бұрын

    "The Jaws Effect"? I'm familiar with the "Vertigo Effect"...

  • @Beefnhammer

    @Beefnhammer

    Жыл бұрын

    The name I've always heard it referred to as is the 'Hitchcock Pull', mainly due to Vertigo as you mentioned. But its use in Jaws is fairly well known too.

  • @nightcrawler2717
    @nightcrawler27172 жыл бұрын

    One of the greatest movie ever made.

  • @cadillacdeville5828
    @cadillacdeville5828 Жыл бұрын

    One of my favorite movies ever 🤩

  • @ToddWCorey1
    @ToddWCorey1 Жыл бұрын

    My lord, this is fantastic stuff! You see things that go right over most of our heads! But it looks to me as though that dolly zoom is the camera physically pulling back while it zooms in, not the other way around. Am I wrong here?

  • @user-fp3de1ez8m
    @user-fp3de1ez8m4 ай бұрын

    Goodfellas is the best at least for rewatching. Godfather 1 n 2 are masterpieces But Goodfellas draws you into a bloody pulp, thrown in the back of the trunk - bleeding and pain meter hitting 10 on both planes of consciousness and unconsciousness, then the road journey ends with the reveal of one more devilish exclamation of stabbings and then thrown down to the ground with a rain of kicks all the while cursed at for being born to watch this classic movie... As the last dirt hits your face whilst lying in the makeshift grave with no name, the movie buries you in forever as the last credits past by and only then one feels like a masochist voyeur eager to experience the hellish nightmare again and again and again...

  • @jessicapinkman-hd4bw
    @jessicapinkman-hd4bw6 ай бұрын

    great movie👍

  • @isaacanderson5083
    @isaacanderson5083 Жыл бұрын

    10:36 Tracking out, zooming in

  • @curiousworld7912
    @curiousworld79122 жыл бұрын

    Bravo. :)

  • @peterismyfirstname2872
    @peterismyfirstname28722 жыл бұрын

    It was a while ago so I can't remember if I made a copy of Goodfellas with Sonic Youth mixed at low volume in the background or a mixed audio cassette tape with Goodfellas the 'Funny how?' scene dialogue over Sonic Youth. I wish I could find it. The last few minutes of the track 'Mote'? or 'Scooter And Jinx'? Chilling. ::::: At 4:26ish Karen impressed as can be, asking Henry what he does for a living and he says he's "in construction". She feels his hands a comments they're aren't any calluses on his hands, very smooth. He replied he was a "union delegate." Good one. I hope he got laid that night. Laughing with astonishment and respect for the writing and the acting, man! That was some magic! What a scene. Amazing restaurant and club. Thinking about how good the steaks are. (Respectfully on the sex language)

  • @connorklebs6432
    @connorklebs64322 жыл бұрын

    You should do a video like this for the Wolf of Wall Street, very similar styles

  • @TheRockGod

    @TheRockGod

    Жыл бұрын

    Same director!

  • @robynvann735
    @robynvann7352 жыл бұрын

    How he kept us hooked? It was a brilliant movie, brilliant cast and soundtrack...It’s the best gangster movie ever made. Now go get your shine box! Last day of 2021

  • @marasmusine
    @marasmusine2 жыл бұрын

    I liked the cloudscape at the end there, what is that?

  • @thejoking.madmen
    @thejoking.madmen2 жыл бұрын

    When made the movie so great is the way they made us love and adore the illustrations of a charming derange men, or group of men's. Paulie: ended with his true fear coming true that he'll spend the remainder of his life in a jail cell. Tommy: ended up discovering that his uncivilized mindset isn't worthy enough to become made, instead his actions only rewarded him with death. Henry: ended up realizing that within the mob he isn't considered as an associate of their, instead he was nothing more but a loyal servant that is ready to obey.

  • @arvindraghavan403
    @arvindraghavan4032 жыл бұрын

    Can u make an video about sopranos just like u did for breaking bad!

  • @jessicapinkman-hd4bw
    @jessicapinkman-hd4bw6 ай бұрын

    nothing was scripted since it's all based in reality

  • @pabloknapperodriguez219
    @pabloknapperodriguez2192 жыл бұрын

    In my opinion everything said in the Video is pretty accurate, but what triggered me immensely is you calling the Dolly Zoom the „jaws effect“. Even though Spielberg used it perfectly in Jaws (it is also one of my favorite dolly zooms throughout cinematic history) but if there is another name for it, it is the “vertigo effect” as Alfred Hitchcock was the first one to use it in his 1958 masterpiece Vertigo.

  • @JustanObservation

    @JustanObservation

    2 жыл бұрын

    I know, it’s known as both but Jaws effect seems more popularised

  • @epon1357

    @epon1357

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@JustanObservation also, you got the direction of the dolly zoom wrong; it tracks out while zooming in, which is why the background expands. Great vid nonetheless!

  • @thejanitor9902
    @thejanitor99022 жыл бұрын

    Rip ray liotta

  • @witek688
    @witek6884 ай бұрын

    vertigo effect*

  • @verticalstance
    @verticalstance Жыл бұрын

    i just realized karen is tony sopranos psychiatrist

  • @Ryuasee
    @Ryuasee2 жыл бұрын

    Would love to see your spin on marvel movies, just for fun!

  • @iamaheretic7829
    @iamaheretic78297 ай бұрын

    😅

  • @stenbiller99
    @stenbiller99 Жыл бұрын

    I’ll bet directors study these analysis videos on their movies to learn more about themselves lol

  • @joevaccaro6655
    @joevaccaro66552 жыл бұрын

    Scorsese is a good director, no question about it. However, the success of Goodfellas is owed to Nick Pileggi. He did the research 🧐 and the writing ✍️. Pileggi is the reason why the movie is so non-fictional, which I think adds to the quality. The same for Casino, it’s a great movie thanks to Pileggi. And my opinion, I’d rather watch a movie 🎥 where Pileggi is involved in the production and not Scorsese like American Gangster than one where Scorsese is involved in the production and not Pileggi like The Irishman, which didn’t do very well.

  • @jesustovar2549

    @jesustovar2549

    2 жыл бұрын

    This, when Scorsese reunited with Nick Pileggi they really created two memorable masterpices in film, one of the reasons to say that Goodfellas is the best drama and crime film about gangsters, for me it's because the movie was based on a real story, one that many people didn't heard off until they saw the movie, this is one of the best ways to tell a story, I think many people who watched the movie forgets about this imporant detail even if it showed a the beggining, also in Casino. I read that during the filmmaking De Niro and Pesci talked with Pileggi about investigation material about the story, that gives it more authenticity, also the movie has a good lenght, 2 hours and 25 minutes, it's long but it really moves fast, also I didn't realize the significance and importance of the freeze frames until I saw this video.

  • @joevaccaro6655

    @joevaccaro6655

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@jesustovar2549 I do agree with you on the freeze frames. Something else Scorsese does well, and he does it better than Coppola, is that he brings the general public to a familiar place. He, at times, shows the common ground of mafiosi and legitimate italians, like the dinner scene in with his Mother. I think by Scorsese doing this he makes the characters more realistic and their world more up close and personal, every pleasant and ugly aspect. As matter of fact and not many people know this, he made a short documentary of his parents, who were both in Goodfellas, and he showed them just being themselves. It's called Italian American and I think it inspired some of the acting and the dialogue of Goodfellas.

  • @boagski
    @boagski12 күн бұрын

    Over rated. Scorsese doesn’t even write mob movies he adapted them yet gets all the credit. Has all the best actors. What did Scorsese do that was great

  • @quatreraberbawinner2628
    @quatreraberbawinner26282 жыл бұрын

    It's a great movie, but I would say it's not exactly a good example of visual storytelling, almost everything is conveyed through dialogue or narration

  • @Buugzy
    @Buugzy2 жыл бұрын

    It’s nice movie, I just wouldn’t say it’s the greatest.

  • @jothishprabu8
    @jothishprabu82 жыл бұрын

    Still don't like this movie despite its fancy camerawork and editing. I just hate all the Characters!!!

  • @miracleyacht__1538
    @miracleyacht__15382 жыл бұрын

    Am I the only one that didn’t like Goodfellas? Casino is waaaaay better

  • @billbillson2276
    @billbillson22762 жыл бұрын

    He's (Scorsese) an OK-ish director and he's certainly had his moments, but he's no James Gunn. Also is it just me or Robert De Niro an atrocious actor with all the range and versatility of a lamppost? Seriously dude's like a poor man's Steven Seagal.

  • @stonecold6521

    @stonecold6521

    2 жыл бұрын

    What do you want people to say when they react to your comment? I mean, people know you're not being serious as much as they know 2+2=4.

  • @ultor__
    @ultor__ Жыл бұрын

    R.I.P. Ray Liotta

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