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Guise Goodfellas and \"Tough Guise\"


According to the film's cinematographer Michael Ballhaus, it was the "most violent scene" he had ever filmed: "There's so much energy in this shot. The violence is shocking, it comes out of nowhere" (Penn, 2010)

Guise Goodfellas and \"Tough Guise\"


Based on the non-fiction work Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi, Scorsese's Goodfellas was meant to be more than just another gangster movie: It was meant to be a real reflection of the glamour and the horror intertwined within the "tough guise" lifestyle. As Pileggi himself asserted, "There's no sense in making another gangster picture, unless it is as close as possible to a certain kind of reality, to the spirit of a documentary," and this spirit is realized in Scorsese's film (Vervis, 2007, p

Tough Guise: Violence, Media & the Crisis in Masculinity

Year : 1999

Tough Guise

Year : 2014