GoodFellas (1990)
Figures
Form & technique
- Henry Hill's voice-over narration
- The "Layla" piano exit montage showing dead bodies → Anempathetic Sound
- The wedding scene of Henry and Karen
- Tommy DeVito's "Funny how?" scene
- The frantic, cocaine-fueled final day sequence → Generic Transformation
- The abrupt silence after Tommy DeVito is shot
Tropes
- The freeze-frame technique → The Auteurial Signature
- The mundane, everyday details of gangster life
- Karen Hill's attraction to and complicity in the gangster lifestyle → The Patriarchal Bargain
- Henry Hill's final monologue in suburbia
- The initial depiction of women at the Bamboo Lounge → The Pleasures of Looking
- Henry Hill's half-Irish, half-Sicilian heritage
Films most connected to GoodFellas