goodfellas Ending
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Published 2011-10-11
All Comments (21)
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Paulie and Jimmy staring at Henry like this really sends chills down to my spine. This movie is a masterpiece in every aspect
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I worry about you Henry. You may fold under questioning
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Pauly's look was sheer death stare
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getting up out of the chair and talking directly to the camera. genius direction.
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A lot of Scorcese movies end the same way, reflecting on how crappy regular life is
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Love how Henry's front door clangs like a jail cell door. This is his real prison.
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Paulie's death stare. Ho lee fuk.
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Here's the moral of the story: There's no good ending to being in the mafia. You either die by the bullet, die by your cellmate or die alone. Either way, once you reach the end of the road, you realize you've done nothing with your life but dishonest, dishonorable work and caused nothing but pain onto others. You realize all of it was just for another rank, a little more fame, a little more money. In the end, you're left with nothing
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Joe pesci shooting at the camera could also be a symbolism that if Tommy was still alive, he would have killed Henry for ratting them out.
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did anyone stop to think Henry is narrating the whole film to the court house ? lol
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Jesus their stares...
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What Paulie feared so much (dying in jail) became a reality.
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It's interesting that the movie never mentioned that apparently in court Henry was played a recording, of Jimmy ordering the hit on him. And that apparently Paulie supposedly had an affair with Henry's wife. Would have made this scene a lot different. Henry may have done the unthinkable but it wasn't out of cowardice it was out of logic. He knew his number was up and did what most sleight thinking men would have done in his situation.
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Also, it's a symbolic "whack" for Henry Hill. His way of getting killed off is living a normal life.
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Tommy died in 1979, Paulie died in 1988, Jimmy died in 1996, and Henry died in 2012.
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Stepping out of the witness chair and talking directly to the camera… signifies he’s not a part of that world anymore. Genius from Scorsese.
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I love that ending with the "my way" in sid vicious version
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Pesci at the end and the homage to "The Great Train Robbery" is soooo Scorcese. His style is gold alongside F.F. Coppola's Godfather.
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I love how abrupt the ending is; it embodies the quick, disorienting nature of Henry's life. He doesn't have to go to jail, but he's lost the insane high of his freedom to the routine if a suburban every-man. I love how some directors take a seemingly bland, uninteresting plot point ("Mean and reckless... He left the life...How boring".) and make it visually enthralling, forcing us to appreciate the gravity of the situation through aesthetics and style.
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Paulies face when Henry pointed him out is priceless.
