Think you know Goodfellas? Think again, wiseguy.
To celebrate the film’s 25th anniversary and new remastered Blu-ray, here are 25 facts about Martin Scorsese’s mob masterpiece.
1. Already a veteran of gangster movies, Scorsese said he ‘never really wanted to touch on that world again’. That was until he read Nicholas Pileggi’s book, Wiseguy.
2. The film’s name was changed to Goodfellas to avoid confusion with the TV show Wiseguy and similarly named movie Wise Guys.
3. The film’s iconic ‘Funny how?’ scene was based on something Joe Pesci had witnessed with real gangsters years before.
4. The ‘F-Bomb’ is dropped over 300 times. Over half of them by Pesci.
5. He… Read the full story