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Name: Professor: Course: Date: Exploring and Critiquing Martin Scorsese’s GoodFellas One of the most distinguished films to watch that reshapes the genre of the motion picture was GoodFellas. Directed by Martin Scorsese, the movie receives nominations to be one among the most significant cinemas in the crime category. Ten years after, the National Film Registry under the wing of the United States Library of Congress considers the film ethnically, traditionally, and artistically noteworthy. In fact, many film creators attempt to equal, match, and produce similar genres relative to the content, material, and style, but GoodFellas gains its fame through series of critiques and reviews. Inspired by Nicholas Pileggi’s book called Wise Guy, Martin Scorsese’s GoodFellas remarkably discloses the future of the mobster motion picture and the sickening embrace of corruption, desire for money, and seduction of control. Although the film holds some restrictions of its portrayal, Martin Scorsese substantially elaborates the increasing and growing social conditions and crimes in the United States. The rendering of gangsters in Scorsese’s film tells the era of the modern criminals. In radical America, Scorsese endeavors to underline the crimes that endanger people in the society. It seems natural to consider that the film moves beyond its purpose of entertainment and pleasure and that it depicts realities (Friedman 3). Other critics say that films are reflections of the society and its standards and that they only want spectators to see and observe how people and their actions destroy their own lives (Castellitto 23). The presentation of wrongdoings and the choice of
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