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Originally Posted by Severian
It's detached from the kind of "GoodFella genre" that he's created — Mean Streets, GoodFellas, Casino, The Departed, Wolf of Wall Street — so it's odd that it feels kind of like the definitive Scorsese film, even after all this time.
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I'd say Taxi Driver helped define a certain moment in American cinema (alongside stuff like The Conversation, Dog Day Afternoon, The French Connection, Annie Hall) more than Scorsese himself. When American Hustle was criticised (rightly or wrongly) for being too indebted to Scorsese, it was obviously referring to Goodfellas and Casino which I think were the moments where he first really established his own instantly recognisable style. Equally we all know the 'Scorsese' influence on The Sopranos has nothing to do with Raging Bull, or Last Temptation of Christ.
Arguments about his greatest or best film is another matter but in terms of definitive, I think it has to be Goodfellas.
Personally:
Definitive = Goodfellas
Best = Goodfellas
Favourite = Goodfellas