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Beyond the Screenplay

Episode 133: Goodfellas

Beyond the Screenplay

Michael Tucker

Tv & Film

4.7626 Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2022

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

The BTS team discusses the film's frenetic pacing, the use of voiceover narration, the design of the central characters, and Ray Liotta's iconic performance.


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0:00.0

Hi, I'm Michael and welcome to Beyond the Screenplay, the podcast where each week we do a conversational deep dive analysis into a film.

0:14.4

Today we are talking about Goodfellas, the 1990 film about happy people doing good things.

0:20.1

The film is directed by Martin Scraise, screenplay by Nicholas Pilegi and Martin Scorsese.

0:26.9

I'm joined by the Beyond Screenplay team, Trisha Rand.

0:30.4

Hello, everyone.

0:31.5

Brian Bittner.

0:32.5

Hello, hello.

0:33.1

Hello, hello.

0:34.7

Like Anna called that.

0:36.1

Like my partner called it.

0:37.1

You were going to do it.

0:37.6

It's okay.

0:38.4

De-time Jimmy two times for you.

0:40.5

Wow.

0:41.4

Yeah.

0:42.4

Amazing.

0:43.4

Yeah.

0:44.4

And Alex Cayetos.

0:46.1

Hi.

0:46.8

Okay.

0:47.5

So before we dive into Goodfellas, I'm going to announce our next episode's topic, which is Thor Ragnarok. So if you

0:57.2

haven't seen it or you want to see it again, you have lots of time to prepare. And if you are a

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