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Goodfellas

Goodfellas is a film of 1990 directed by Martin Scorsese. Based on the real life of the repentant Henry Hill and the novel Crime pays well by Nicholas Pileggi, the film was co-written by the same Pileggi and Scorsese. The title was changed because the original, Wiseguy, could be confused with a TV series of the same name.

Nominated for 6 Oscars in 1991, was awarded to the Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of mobster Tommy DeVito by Joe Pesci, the second collaboration with Scorsese, after Raging Bull (1980) and before Casino (1995). Considered one of the best films of director Italo-American has been repeatedly described as one of the best gangster movie of all time. In 2000 was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress of the United States.

Summary

Henry Hill is a teenager Italian - Irish, grew up in Brownsville, infamous neighborhoods of Brooklyn, New York. Protected as a child, thanks to its origins and its services, the powerful head of the family mafia local, Paul Cicero, Henry joined his gang specialized in theft and smuggling , the band known as the "good guys."

Flanked then Jimmy Conway and Tommy DeVito, Henry began his criminal career, realizing over time that the friends to whom you are connected are extremely violent, and often come to murder, especially Tommy, who gets to shoot a foot a young waiter for trivial reasons.

Meanwhile, Henry falls in love with a girl Jewish, Karen, and after a short time the bride. Their union will lead to the birth of two daughters. Young establishes a relationship with Janice Rossi, with which you see on the weekends. The even buy a house that will bring him and Karen on the verge of divorce. A friend of Janice, Sandy, would become the mistress of Henry, and help him to prepare packages of cocaine to sell. With the passing of years, despite the opposition of the boss Cicero, the band enters the lucrative world of drug trafficking, giving it a jump in violence to the whole group. Henry is then arrested and imprisoned (Thompson, 150).

The economic turnaround for the organization is in the early 60s, when you open the huge new airport in Queens, the JFK. With the knowledge that worked at the airport clan members steal trucks and goods of various kinds. In 1967, Hill and his associates steal $ 400,000 from the offices of the Air France. In 1978, manage to steal more than $ 5 million from the headquarters of Lufthansa. From then on began the decline of the organization. Conway does not want to share the proceeds of the robbery and starts killing them one by one accomplice, except Hill, DeVito and a few others.

The band is distorted as it stands when Tommy is killed to avenge the murder of Billy Batts after a fight in a bar; Batts was just released from jail and was a capo regime affiliated with another family and could not be killed without ...