Goodfellas

character. He can be flawed and amoral, but he has to have some compelling feature that will draw in the audience. For example, THE GODFATHER does this well. Even though all the main characters are gangsters, they are compelling and complex characters. GOODFELLAS also does this by making the main character charming and conflicted. In addition, Jack’s actionable goal is never well defined. He reacts to events, but he never really has any plan of action or goal. He’s not very proactive. The…

Perpetrators of Intimate Partner Violence Research has revealed intimate partner violence to be further multifaceted than once initially thought (Holtzworth-Munroe & Stuart, 1994). Traditional intimate partner violence management emphases on male perpetrators and female survivors. This is a theory that all violence is patriarchal, which I believe Johnson is using when defining the sub-groups of batterers. Based on this theory, the foundations of Johnsons control typology are grounded in the…

When asked about legalization, Bud Selig, the former commissioner of Major League Baseball, posed a weak rebuttal by citing Arnold Rothstein as a reason against legalization. Selig’s ideology is flawed in several ways. First of all, sports gambling has always been illegal in America, for all intents and purposes. Therefore, when Selig mentioned Rothstein it was a poor example because sports betting wasn’t legal when he fixed the World Series. Furthermore, it was easier to pull off such a caper…

Robert De Niro has made a career playing gangsters and hardened criminals in films like ‘Goodfellas’, ‘Casino’ and ‘The Godfather: Part II’, which is why it’s so resoundingly impactful when he plays a nice, emotionally susceptible man in films like ‘Meet the Parents’. Nancy Meyer’s has made a career capitalizing on subtle feminism and perfectly encapsulating periods in life. Anne Hathaway is one of the best actresses to ever grace the silver screen, and she’s never made a film in which her charm…

mirror how the gang would operate. Criminal gangs were organized and focused on making money not violence. As teens, they have close relationships with adult criminals that teach them along the way. If you have seen the film “The Godfather”, or “Goodfellas”, that is an example of a criminal gang. They organized structure with a ranking system so no one gets out of place. They work together with a common goal to make money and achieve the opportunity they could not get through the conventional…

not the first to utilize this technique, they certainly played a part in solidifying the long take within modern cinema. Some famous examples of its use in Hollywood cinema are in Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Birdman (2014) and Marin Scorsese's Goodfellas (1990). Oftentimes, the long take was only the result of a New Wave director’s unique sense of camera movement. Just as painters use their brush to stroke along a canvas, these directors would use their cameras to pan across a setting,…

movies or TV-series that he has seen. In S01E21 the group takes over the distribution of the much sought after chicken fingers in the school cafeteria, with Abed as the fry-cook. The plot quickly turns into a homage to popular mafia movies such as Goodfellas (1990), American Gangster (2007) and The Godfather (1972) as Abed’s voiceover says, “as far back as I can remember I’ve always wanted to be in a mafia movie”. What is notable with this episode is that there is a significant decline in pop…

Vertigo is a sensation of whirling and loss of balance, associated particularly with looking down from a great height. This feeling translates to the 1958 movie directed by Alfred Hitchcock titled Vertigo, which is based on the novel “D’entre Les Morts” by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac. The film is a romantic story of obsession, manipulation, and fear. In the film, a detective is forced to retire after his acrophobia, fear of heights, and accompanying vertigo causes the death of a fellow…

Business Ethics in Publishing Morality and ethics are often used to describe a person who knows the difference between right and wrong. Culture and environment also play a major role in how a person will deal with ethical dilemmas in his or her life. When a person talks about what ethics means to in his or her life, he or she will use his or her morals to describe their ethics. Most will cite either religious or personal values that they are taught as children because that is when people learn…

“Leave the Gun, Take the Cannoli” Film influences our lives in multiple aspects. New films are released every day; however, only a great film can make a lasting impact on society. In 1972, America was faced with national cynicism and an ever-changing cultural view, due to the Watergate Scandal, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Equal Rights Movement for women. Francis Ford Coppola made a bold move by producing a film called The Godfather, which detailed the inter-workings of the Mafia in a…