Good Fellas ....

Goodfellas ...
Another Martin Scorsese master piece. What is the funda behind Robert De Niro delivering his high octane performances again and again for Martin ? All of their associations have brought the best in both of them. Martin as usual delivers his best at what he does best, "The gangster movie". This movie is about the real life story of the Italian mafioso. (Why all the famous gangsters are Italian and mainly Sicilian ? Gotta research that ... may be another blog entry. :) )

The funniest moment in the movie
On their wedding day, with the whole new york mafioso present

Karen Hill : "The bag... , the bag with all the money ...
Henry Hill : "Oh! no, nothing would happen to that... " :) (At this point karen does not know about Henry's profession)

Martin has followed the real history and the book "Wise guy" by henry hill mostly in the movie with some creative liberty taken here and there. The only thing he did not even go into in this movie is about the affair between Karen and Tommy which happened in real life when Henry was serving his sentence.

The movie is just brutal otherwise. Great performances by all. Hats off to martin, who was denied one more Oscar for this movie... Atlast he was awarded Oscar with "The departed" for more than to erase the embarrassment of the academy. They did not want to commit the same mistake they did with Hitchcock. It is really an embarrassing detail to note that with 5 Oscar nominations and with all his movies in the top 100 all time horror/supense movies, Alfred Hitchcock never won the coveted award...