When Goodfellas released in 1990, it wasn’t just another gangster movie. As Tarantino would four years later with Pulp Fiction, Scorsese set in place one of the new foundations of a completely different lexicon for crime cinema. Up to that point, The Godfather had been the blueprint, a near-monolothic influence on the genre that would continue to be hugely influential even after Scorsese dropped in his mobster hand grenade. But Goodfellas made it all feel more perversely seductive.
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