That silly restriction led to one of the most exciting single take shots in film history. “It took us all day to set the actors, hide the lights, time entrances and exits, and and have the Steadicam hit the focus marks,” Winkler wrote. A table is deposited in the front, just for Henry and Karen, someone sends over champagne, Henry lies that he works in construction, drum roll, and the camera moves over to famed comedian Henny Youngman, who greets the audience and delivers his catchphrase, “Take my wife, please.”Thomas Flight says his favorite 15 seconds of The Godfather consist of Michael Corleone lighting a...The 45th annual Toronto Film Festival will open with the Spike Lee film American Utopia, Lee’s...When Silence of the Lambs joined Netflix last month, to coincide with Netflix’s airing of the...Before Scarface launched a boatload of T-shirts, posters, memes, and dubious imitations of Al Pacino’s cocainized...After five more takes of the tracking shot, Winkler writes, they captured the shot perfectly, Youngman nailed his line, “and the crew applauded Henny Youngman.”In today’s Movie News Rundown: Oliver Stone looks back on Scarface, a film that threatened his...Dave Franco will play Vanilla Ice in a planned biopic called To the Extreme, named for...Was Felicity Jones’ The Aeronauts character, Amelia Wren, a real person?
They pass through the kitchen and into the dining room. Check out the fire hose – you see the same one on their way in and out of the kitchen. Pete is a rabid movie geek who enjoys everything from wild n' crazy exploitation/cult flix to big budget mainstream classics. It has always been my belief that Thelma Schoonmaker’s distinctive editing has had much to do with the iconography of Martin Scorsese’s films, but Goodfellas shows just how effective he can be without a single cut. As it stands, Goodfellas obliterates them both. The Copacabana shot demonstrates that a story may be told just as effectively through action as with words or dialogue. It also takes place at the height of his powers as a gangster in the early 60s. His other interests include: graphic design, cartooning and music.This is just one reason why I love watching Martin Scorsese’s movies because I always come up with different ideas of what the scenes might mean through the things that are shown but not stated outright.Apparently this simple looking but incredibly timed shot took several tries to get right (about 8 times) and was only done because they couldn’t get permission to shoot coming in the front entrance. As night fell, they began shooting and got six or seven takes that were “off just a bit either mechanically or dramatically.”In today’s Movie News Rundown: Decoding Netflix’s Top 10; Alicia Silverstone shares some memories on the...Olivia de Havilland, the last star of cinema’s Golden Age and a lifelong Hollywood rebel who helped...In today’s Movie News Rundown: Olivia de Havilland wasn’t just the last Golden Age star; she...Growing up in Iowa, Yes, God, Yes director Karen Maine remembers “feeling really guilty as a...Copyright © 2020 MovieMaker Magazine.In today’s Movie News Rundown: First-time director Dave Franco on the benefits of working with his...Tenet has been indefinitely pulled from Warner Bros.’ release calendar, driving a stake into the heart...In today’s Movie News Rundown: How to get more money for that movie you’re trying to...The iconic film Clueless is celebrating its 25th anniversary yesterday, and we’re totally buggin’ at all the...With his directorial debut The Rental set to be released this week, Dave Franco shared a deeply...You remember the scene: Henry (Ray Liotta) and Karen (Lorraine Bracco) arrive at the Copacabana, skip the line, head down a staircase and hall, and meet a bunch of, well, goodfellas. Audiovisual content: Property of the respective rights holders, unless otherwise noted.Editor-In-Chief of The Grindhouse Cinema Database/Furious Cinema contributor. All the doors are open to his crew and everyone knows and fears him. One of the interesting things about this scene which no one seems to spot is they walk into and out of the kitchen through the same doorway. To make the viewer think its a different door they move a stack of crates – it’s in front of them when they enter, and while they traverse the kitchen it’s moved into the entrance so it’s on their left when they leave the kitchen. However, I believe the best of them all is the famed Copacabana shot from "Goodfellas." Henry hands out dollar bills liberally. Published on March 22, 2020 The three-minute Goodfellas tracking shot that takes us into the Copacabana nightclub and proves Henry Hill’s bigshot bona fides is one of the most beloved continuous shots in cinema, inspiring similar sequences in … Scorsese’s love affair with long takes is no secret. In fact before the Copacabana scene, I would have placed the dressing room shot from Raging Bull on par with Touch of Evil’s opening as the greatest long form shot in history.
This single shot is equal parts thrilling and entertaining to watch. Basically they take a trip around the kitchen for no reason whatsoever…no, that is not one of the interesting things about this scene.Texts: FuriousCinema 2010-2019, All rights reserved. The shot is captivating as it feels like Henry is leading Karen not only into the club but down into the depths of his criminal world simultaneously.