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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
i didn't like casino, as it was a repetition of a repetition of a repetition, but american hustle kept me laughing. casino-- so serious! american hustle-- bad wigs!
the progression/buildup is just like any narrative structure with a climax-- i don't think it's exclusive to goodfellas.
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But you have to (or should) admit that GoodFellas kind of perfected this narrative style. Criminals, hustlers, gangsters, gamblers... It's all been done at this point, and I feel like it originated with GoodFellas. That whole "look at how crazy our scene is... Man, we are invinci-- Oh, shit everything's unraveling" sort of story.
In Wolf of Wall Street it was Stockbrokers. In Boogie Nights (one of the earlier "GoodFellas-lite" entries, it was porn stars. In Entourage it was publicists and producers. On Rescue Me it was NYC Firefighters. (Hell, even Pulp Fiction kinda qualifies... though not all of it)
It's all a GoodFellas archetype, even if it's by Scorcese himself. In fact, he doesn't seem interested in doing much else after he finally got his Oscar. I suppose he's entitled.
I for one, haven't seen American Hustle all the way through. I can't speak to that specific film, I suppose. But I know that just about every review I read of it mentioned Scorcese.
I'd watch it if people started saying "it's kinda like GoodFellas" instead of "It's GoodFellas-lite" ... Yuck. Like, Diet GoodFellas? No thank you.