![]() ![]() In fact, Scorsese even left out a Hill crime that eventually became a national sports controversy: Boston College's 1978-1979 point-shaving scandal. ![]() The real-life Henry Hill’s crime resume is way too long to fit into a single movie-even one with a meaty 148-minute runtime. Some of Henry Hill’s most famous criminal escapades had to be left out of Goodfellas. It's also owing to Pileggi's background as a journalist and Scorsese's obsessive focus on details and realism that the movie stands out as a rare peak into the underworld. While the violence is shocking, the bulk of the film is about the characters's lifestyle, interpersonal relationships, who owes whom what, and the grand pursuit of materialism. ![]() Author of the original book and co-writer of the film, Nicholas Pileggi described Goodfellas as a "mob home movie" to The New York Times, selling the film alongside Scorsese as being about the pursuit of money and the particular way this group of people chose to make it. ![]()
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