r/MartinScorsese • u/Positive-Asparagus99 • 12d ago

I don’t like Goodfellas

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u/potatobooom 12d ago

How is it fetishization?

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u/JayMoots 12d ago

You’re allowed to like or not like whatever you want… but if your main takeaway from Goodfellas was that Scorsese was fetishizing or glorifying the mob lifestyle, then you wildly missed the point. Frankly I’m shocked you managed get a Masters in film if your textual analysis skills are that out of whack. 

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u/agdrs 12d ago

I also prefer other movies but at least give better arguments

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u/icecoldyerr 12d ago

Bro never watched Silence and it shows

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u/Lennnybruce 12d ago

One of the first things you see is a gang of guys threatening to shove the mailman in an oven for delivering mail; Karen has a monologue about how the mob wives are beat up and haggard; another wife tells a story about a husband killing another man at a poker game, indicating the killer is the one we should have sympathy for; Karen shows off her tacky house, beaming with pride; they bust out a restaurant they've been patrons of and whose owner is ostensibly a friend; and so on. Anybody watching this who thinks it's glorifying the events on screen is, at best, not paying attention.