Goodfellas: Context
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- Created on: 26-04-13 13:54
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- Goodfellas - Context
- Produced in the late 80s
- Reflection of late 80s consumerism
- Reagan era
- Myth of the American Dream
- Based on won experiences
- Scorsese had creative control
- Verisimilitude
- Equilibrium - rise and fall
- Batts death at the start breaks the equilibrium
- Henry betrays Jimmy - "Never rat on your friends
- Themes - family and loyalty
- Corruption and deception
- At the end Henry misses the gansgter lifestyle
- MOB=family
- Prison is represented as not being much of a punishment
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